Word: shipboard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cows on Shipboard. Borden's founder. Gail Borden, set up the company to condense milk after learning that some transatlantic ships carried herds of cows to keep passengers supplied with fresh milk. In 1875 the company moved into fresh milk, lapped up so many smaller dairies in the late 1920s that it was soon the biggest U.S. milk distributor. It did not spread far beyond milk products until the mid-1930s, when it developed its own synthetic resin glues for plywood, furniture and. eventually, automobile brake linings. After World War II, it moved on to other chemical products, including...
...Long Island's Gyrodyne Co. of America, Inc., the 1,600-lb., all-weather, buglike aircraft can lift off a destroyer, reach sonar-detected subs as far as 15 miles away, unleash two homing torpedoes and land back on the ship-all at the electronic command of shipboard officers. Called DASH (Drone Anti-Submarine Helicopter), the system is designed to strike submarines before they get within torpedo range of the destroyers...
Since the 1960 Betting and Gaming Act legalized off-track betting in Britain, every day is Derby Day for Britain's multitudinous gamblers. With wagering booming to $56 million a week, few have won more than Bookmaker Mark Lane, 45, who took his first bets in a shipboard pool as a World War II Tommy. When the shooting stopped, Lane set up as a bookmaker to take track bets on credit in London's East End. Since then, he has opened 16 bet shops, plans to start four more. Seeking expansion capital, Lane last week became the first...
...France, in addition to French food, has two swimming pools, eight bars, two cabarets, a teen-age center with jukeboxes, a shooting gallery, dance floor, soda fountain, children's dining rooms and nurseries. Television sets in the smoking and reading rooms pick up closed circuit programs of films, shipboard news and French lessons. Special dog kennels provide hydrants for American dogs, milestones for the French. There is a sports center, a huge hospital (operating room, delivery room, five recuperating rooms), the world's "biggest seagoing air-conditioning system, 1,300 telephones and a thalassotherapy room where passengers...
ASPAU, with the cooperation of the African-American Institute, the Council on Student Travel, and the Experiment in International Living, assists in the selection of students and arranges both shipboard orientation courses and a month-long stay in an American home for the successful applicants...