Word: rigging
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...levels high, has 20 floors of office space above. The nine acres of floor space can be used for one gigantic show, or fenced off for smaller ones. A wide truck ramp leads up to the second floor; 49-ft.-long elevators, big enough to handle the largest trailer-rig on the highways, can carry exhibits to the top floors for unloading at display booths. The building has daylight lighting, complete air conditioning in all its display space, built-in floor connections for telephones, water, gas, electricity, radio and TV, and seating space for 10,000 people if exhibitors want...
Such success at the track sharpened Butcher Auteroche's appetite for live horseflesh. Last month he spotted another likely winner: a neurotic chestnut trotter named Fabliau, given to temper tantrums and the quaint habit of kicking his racing rig to pieces. After paying 80,000 francs for the horse, Auteroche spared him from the butcher's pistol, had him gelded instead. "The operation," he says proudly, "was a complete success. Fabliau is now so gentle he's a household pet. For company we've let him have a cow as a stable mate. I think...
...steel pilings, each 300 feet long, that are rammed 150 feet into the ocean floor. It cost $1,500,000, weighs 1,600 tons (as much as a destroyer), has air-conditioned barracks, a TV set, a food-packed galley, a helicopter landing spot, and is the biggest offshore rig ever built. Said McCollum: "The cost was awful. But now that we've hit one well off it, the second and third and fourth and fifth will start making it profitable. The big fields offshore will be highly profitable. If we'd missed on it, it would have...
...Washington's more bang for the buck"). Bevanite joined Tory in cries for an immediate reduction in the two-year draft.-The press was full of features about wasteful and frivolous practices in the armed services (the R.A.F. colonel who had his batmen dress up in Louis XIV servant rig for a costume ball...
...players which they label hifi, to the indignation of dedicated audio fans, who insist on buying components separately (the fanciest equipment stores feature elaborate switching panels, so that customers can compare components on the spot). It is next to impossible, the dedicated argue, to buy a real high-fidelity rig in one box-the limited speaker enclosure will probably cause a booming bass or fuzzy drum rolls, and up to half of the price goes for cabinetry instead of equipment. The best buys among the package units-perhaps not as hi as fi should be, but certainly better than most...