Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...price of a sneak bombing attack on the U.S. was climbing higher. Last week the Air Force announced that the protective radar screen around the U.S., begun 15 months ago and carried forward under priority orders for the past year, would be finished, in 1951, would stretch out to include Alaska next year. Still needed: more & better-equipped all-weather jet interceptors, many more civilian airplane spotters to back up the radar...
...Synthetic. E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. announced a trade name, "Amilar," for its newest synthetic, which resists mold and mildew, launders easily and, unlike nylon, will not stretch. Amilar has been tested in such items as window curtains, sewing thread, suitings, may be mixed with wool in many materials...
Directors have already briefed faculty members and students on their roles in the film. Lecturers will reiterate the same series of five sentences while the cameras are turning. This procedure will insure at least one good stretch of film with synchronized sound track. Students meanwhile will maintain "interested" attitudes...
...morning coffee break had become as deeply entrenched in U.S. custom as the seventh-inning stretch and the banana split. Clerks, secretaries, junior executives and salesgirls had come to consider it an inalienable right of the American office worker. In the face of that terrible, soft insistence, the fuming employer could only take his finger off the unanswered buzzer, jam on his hat, and follow along after the crowd to the coffee shop. As a matter of fact, he kind of liked a cup himself...
Jobs & Lobbies. The main St. Lawrence bottleneck is a 120-mile stretch from Montreal to Ogdensburg, N.Y., where there is now a system of locks and canals providing a channel 14 ft. deep. Under the 1941 agreement, this would be replaced by a 27-ft. channel (deep enough for 80% of the world's shipping) through construction of seven new locks. Additionally, five dams would harness the International Rapids to spin 36 turbines at Barnhart Island. The project would cost Canada $412 million, the U.S. $523 million. It would take six years, provide 15,000 jobs, consume...