Word: scrubs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fierce competition for supremacy in the market for giant jets, even the largest players have taken jumbo losses. Boeing Co. suffered severely when engines for its 747s were delivered late. Pan Am has had to scrub some 747 flights because of persistent bugs in the engines. Financially shaky Lockheed has sunk hundreds of millions into developing its TriStar jumbo jet, which is scheduled to make its first flight this week. Lockheed has 178 orders for the TriStar, far fewer than it needs to break even...
Grand Bahama Island is one of the few places on earth that makes the tinsel of Las Vegas and Miami Beach look old by comparison. Located 60 miles off the Florida coast, Grand Bahama until 15 years ago was little more than 550 square miles of scrub, coral and limestone. Since then, $1 billion in foreign investment, mainly from the U.S., has built a dozen resort hotels, retirement homes, an oil refinery, several industrial plants and an International Bazaar where tourists shop in Chinese pagodas and London-like mews. For those looking for faster action, there are casinos, including...
...Nirmala Bhavan (Home of the Pure of Heart) Secular Institute for girls in Kerala's Ettumannur district. In his zeal, however, Puthenpura may have oversold his audience. His recruits did not, as he claimed, "live like princesses" in Europe. Like novices everywhere, they had to wash dishes, scrub floors, and perform other menial tasks...
...young man, he had conceived of an airship with the possibility of freeing Napoleon from St. Helena. Most of his notions were more down to earth. With typical inventor's zeal, he sought to devise easy solutions to practical problems. When he saw his wife laboring over the scrub board, he invented a washing machine. In 1846 he published plans for a Broadway elevated railroad, preceding by two decades the first...
...plastic "greenhouse," into which ultra-filtered air flowed from above, fast enough to change the air completely ten times a minute. Within it, three surgeons, Doctors John Toma, Charles Bechtol and Charles Hutter, were dressed in space suits with helmets, like those worn by astronauts on the moon. The scrub nurse, who handles sterile instruments, was similarly attired. Their patient was Margaret Fales, 59, a credit manager, who had been so crippled that walking was unbearably painful. By last week Miss Fales was free of the pain that had driven her to surgery; her hips were a bit stiff...