Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though the Tiger has only flown a few times, the Navy is so impressed that it has already given Grumman a $40 million experimental and production contract for an estimated 40 to 50 planes. The company cannot say when the first production model will roll off the lines. But Grumman, which had its famed World War II Hellcat in Navy squadrons before the roof was even on its Bethpage, L.I. plant, managed to turn out the Tiger prototype in just 15 months, has designed it specifically for fast, easy production...
Having picked over the AEC bill's 104 pages in one long day, the House was ready to vote the bill's final passage. But the hour being late, it recessed for a weekend's rest before the roll was called...
...fateful day Lounger Bernstein was persuaded by his wife to paper a wall. "It was easy," says he. "They make wallpaper with glue on the back, and all you do is dip the stuff in water and roll it on." Bernstein soon bought himself a $12.75 home-carpentry set and nailed up a shelf. "Did a good job, too." In quick order, he reversed a bothersome living-room door, made a plywood table for his son's electric-train set, laid a tile floor in the bathroom. "Great stuff-it's got suction cups on the bottom...
...Negro National League, until he quit the game in 1948 (at the age of 37). Willie was only 14 months old when Willie Sr. began teaching him the game. Every afternoon the father would come home from the steel mill where he worked, get out a rubber ball and roll it across the floor to Willie. "I'd roll it 30 or 40 times, until I got tired," he remembers. "Willie never got tired. As soon as I stopped rolling the ball, he'd start to holler...
...lives up to its promise, Bill Allen and his Boeing team will have another winner. But they will not ease up on the throttle. Last March, when Air Force Chief of Staff General Twining flew to Seattle for the roll-out of the first-production B-52A, he turned to Allen just before the big plane poked its nose through the hangar doors. Said Twining: "The minute that airplane rolls out -forget it. Do what you have in the past. Start thinking about the next one, a better one, a bigger one, a faster one." Bill Allen's answer...