Word: solid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...used to rust away; now comes the immortal aluminum can, which may outlast the Pyramids. Each year, the U.S. produces 48 billion cans, plus 28 billion long-lived bottles and jars. Paced by hardy plastic containers, the average American's annual output of 1,600 lbs. of solid waste is rising by more than 4% a year. Disposal already costs $3 billion a year...
...thoughts, as it were, by using a little penguin called Punk, who furnishes a kind of subplot. In the underwater cartoon, for instance, a waterlogged dove, bearing a soggy olive branch, tells Punk: "Oh, I just hate this job." Another cartoon shows a striking telephone employee uneasily eying a solid wall of computerized dialing equipment. Down in the corner of the drawing, a miniature repairman informs Punk: "This strike may not work. That machine is a scab." Oliphant admits to using this slightly puerile device to lure the comic-strip readers to his cartoon. "It's a form...
...from the slump that hit most of U.S. business last year, steelmakers' profits rose by 40%, while big gains were also recorded in aircraft (59%), building equipment (34%), textiles (30%), office equipment (29%), chain-store retailing (24.5%), rubber (21%) and Pharmaceuticals (17%), not to mention cement, up a solid 236%. Other increases came in tobacco, broadcasting, food products and electronics. Among the leaders...
...After a solid 11-2 match record, this looks like the Crimson's year. Last year Harvard had a 9-4 record and finished fifth at the Easterns...
Behind them, Tommy Wynne and Paul Oldfield will provide a solid core of experience for Harvard. Three new sophomores--Yank Heisler, Jack Purdy, and Joe Tibbetts--who have all flashed brilliantly through the regular match-play season--will be unknown factors for the other teams to worry about...