Word: skeletons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before Labor Day is a time of fun in the sun in cool cottons and top-down convertibles, of air-conditioned havens in the city or breeze-cooled retreats in the country, of long weekends and skeleton staffs, of foaming beer, dripping ice cream, and dads in funny aprons presiding over barbecues. After Labor Day means back to work, back to school, back to the kitchen...
...Clock. The larger clubs, with many facilities and correspondingly high overhead, have had to fight hard to stay in the black. Boston's Algonquin Club is down to 950 members from its customary 1,000, is closed on Sundays during the summer months, and operates with a skeleton staff on Saturdays. Philadelphia's University Club, founded in 1881, filed a petition of bankruptcy in July. Many of the members will join the Penn Athletic Club on a special cut-rate basis-thereby, perhaps, saving it from a similar fate...
...thrust chamber. Too big to be tested at "Suzy," North American's test facility in the Santa Susana Mountains northwest of Los Angeles, it is trucked to Leuhman Ridge in the Mojave Desert. There, the test stand towers 275 ft. above the rocky ground. Tucked in its steel skeleton are tanks for lox (liquid oxygen) and kerosene, while stairs, cables, and many-colored pipes thread their way among the girders. The F-1 looks small in this immense structure, but it does not act small. After a careful countdown, a brilliant spout of flame bursts from its throat...
...remember that Skeleton whose hand's In mine, and I've been Through this fun house Before
...from their 1956 high of $76.5 million, and for the first half of this year the company reported a $1,200,000 loss. But Wall Street is convinced that Celotex's troubles are largely the result of stodgy management -and Walter is anything but stodgy. With sales of skeleton shell houses (which the buyer finishes) slipping because of fierce price competition,Walter recently branched out into semifinished houses-which will provide a readymade market for Celotex insulation, gypsum board and roofing...