Word: spun
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nylon production, it built a $17 million plant at Camden, S.C. whose product may partially eclipse nylon itself. This fiber is Orion, a cousin of nylon but far stronger, more resistant to sunlight. The U.S. textile industry is already using it in men's summer suits and spun hose, women's dresses, auto tops and a wealth of new decorator fabrics. (But Du Pont will get stiff competition from Union Carbide's Dynel, an Orion-type fiber...
...incline was steep. As the wheels of the two locomotives spun on the slippery rails, smoke poured from the stacks, swirled about the passengers. In the caboose, still sticking out of the tunnel, a brakeman heard strange noises coming from the freight cars ahead, realized something was terribly wrong, ran back down the track to Balvano. When he arrived, Assistant Stationmaster Giuseppe Salonia-told by the next station that 8017 had not arrived-was trying to figure out where the train could be. Rescuers rushed to the tunnel in a locomotive. From inside came the sound of the stalled engines...
...sanctuary for some of North America's rarest wild birds. Some went there to evade U.S. justice, some were shoestring promoters brewing or forgetting get-rich-quick schemes, and some were merely fugitives from an over-mechanized world, attracted by such tall tropic yarns as Porter himself later spun under the name of O. Henry.* As a group, they answered philosophically to the name of Tropical Tramps. Since World War II, their ranks have been swelled by scores of footloose veterans...
Just Wait. Department stores generally stuck close to their original prices, on Christmas goods, largely because they were selling out of big midyear inventories. "But just wait until we do our next buying," warned a Chicago executive. "We'll really be hijacked then." Already, Decca records had spun up 10?, Mohawk carpets 10% (the seventh raise, because of wool price increases, this year); some appliances, e.g., dishwashers, were going up about...
...test this conclusion, Swearingen himself sat in the aisle seat. When the window blew out, the inner seat rose in the air, spun around and tried to ram itself through the window. Swearingen's body jerked slightly as the air clawed at it. He insisted that he was in no danger, but other CAA men testified that "he couldn't light a cigarette for five minutes afterward...