Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unemployment benefits, with the low-seniority, generally unskilled Negroes getting the worst of it. The monthly relief bill runs to $740,000, triple the year-ago outlay. Unemployed workers in debt for cars, furniture and appliances usually find that stores and finance companies are willing to stretch out the payments, but even so, repossessions in the Wayne County Common Pleas Court ran to 1,061 in the first three months of 1958, 18% ahead of last year...
...operations that eventually restored almost complete vision through bottle-thick spectacles. Against dwindling sight and funds, Gunther, a hunt-and-peck typist, had his typewriter equipped with outsize keys, used ever stronger eyedrops that enabled him to read and write only for two hours at a stretch. Says Jane: "The house was littered with magnifying glasses...
Sphere of Nothing. When the rocket reaches the orbit, the nitrogen inflates the balloon and pops it out of its container. When all the gas has left the capsule, the balloon is erected into a sphere 30 in. in diameter. The pressure inside it (.2 lb.) is enough to stretch the wrinkles out of the aluminum film and make it mirror smooth. After doing this job, the nitrogen escapes into the vacuum outside. O'Sullivan wants to get rid of it because the balloon may be punctured by a meteor, and a jet of gas escaping from it might...
Chicago Paper Manufacturer Paul Butler surrendered 230 of his 3,800 acres for the Northern Illinois Toll Highway, including fox-hunting runs and part of one of his eleven polo fields. He got $2,000,000, considered that hardly adequate for a stretch of choice land. In the Los Angeles suburb of Westchester, Aircraft Mechanic Roger Ransom will probably lose the back tenth of his lot to the San Diego Freeway. He has been offered $900, considers that hardly adequate for the spot where his orchard was going to grow. Some 15 miles west of Santa Rosa, N.Mex., on widening...
...races 70 yds., then lags as if his safety valve had popped. Wags in the press box contend that he is a ham who hates to leave the grandstand. And it is a heart-stopping fact to bettors that he begins to run again only when he rounds the stretch turn and heads for the crowd again. Says Co-Owner Tom Ross: "I swear, he counts the house...