Word: rods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Aggressive Acoustica is an example of how fast an ultrasonics firm can grow. In 1955 Acoustica's young (now 38) President Robert L. Rod set up shop in a boathouse, landed six contracts for some $8,000 worth of ultrasonic cleaners. Since then, Acoustica's sales have increased, on the average, six times every year. For the fiscal year ended last Feb. 28, sales hit $4,750,000, with earnings of 50? per share, v. 8? in 1957. Stock issued at $1 per share in 1956 was selling around $25 per share last week. To boost earnings this...
...recording studios. Throughout he has clung to a certain tough quality that can flash out as easily as his boyish smile. Recently TV Director Don Medford tried to define the key to Belafonte's dramatic magnetism: "Behind him is this hard core of hostility. Like Brando, Jimmy Dean, Rod Steiger, he's loaded with it." The quality lends a demon drive to Belafonte's career and immense conviction to his work. The minute he steps on the stage, he says, he tries by his manner to let his audience know: "I'll take no liberties with...
...first line of Rod Anderson, Tom Woman and John Wadman is rated as the "power" line, big and strong and hard skating. Woman did not start in the Yale game, and is a question mark tonight because of an injured nerve in his arm. Forced out of his goalie job by that injury and a broken jaw, the gutsy left wing is Dartmouth's third high scorer...
...Pillowcase. To capture the deadly black mamba, the wardens use a fishing rod adapted to pull a noose around the snake's neck; the snake is then gingerly deposited in a pillowcase. Dassies (shrill-voiced, rabbity creatures, distantly related to the elephant) and porcupines are deliberately driven into the water since, despite their small size, dassies bite when cornered and porcupines are armed with quills. Even in the water, it takes three men to outwit a porcupine...
...creeping totalitarianism, backed by powerful institutions, such as press, private enterprise, public opinion and arrogant wealth." Moreover, the Communist regime of East Germany may be regarded as "a tool of God which fulfills a definite function according to the Lord's plans: the function of a punishing rod...