Word: shoestringer
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Compared to the atom bomb, the CWS project was a shoestring venture-well under $100,000 for bacterial-warfare research; $2 billion for the bomb. Bacterial warfare could be even more hideous than sudden atomic death. The mere existence of CWS showed how little man trusted man; how far man...
If this happens, even competitors would be willing to call it a production miracle. But most of them were still skeptical. Nevertheless, they were no longer calling it a shoestring venture. To the $22,000,000 which the Kaiser-Frazer Corp. had raised by a stock issue had been added...
The Long Second Half. Midway it may have been, in one sense, but it was less than midway in point of time or distance. The real march to Tokyo could not begin from Midway: it had to start from Guadalcanal, and disaster nearly overtook it. Nimitz hated to relieve Vice...
The story of its development is the story of small operators with shoestring capital and striking originality. A typical example is Mabs of Hollywood. Mabs Barnes, 35, a flaming redhead, ex-discus thrower and ballet dancer, was disgusted with the girdles and panty girdles on the market when she was...
But some of the small operators had solid though one-horse experience to back up their claims that they were up to the job. Within Colorado, over the American Hump, four shoestring companies this summer have successfully pioneered in operating feeders. None has had a serious accident.