Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...category "classical music," in the usage of the recording industry, may stretch all the way from Wanda Landowska to Wladziu Valentine Liberace. Within that range, the smaller companies count as a bestseller any disk that sells more than 15,000 copies, while with the larger outfits a hit record may approach half a million (the industry guards exact sales figures with almost paranoid intensity, with each company claiming that all others are cheating). Here, in order of popularity over the last decade, are the top five classical LP sellers of the leading classical companies...
...Deputy Defense Secretary Donald A. Quarles is becoming Washington's newest scapegoat for its defense troubles. Scientist-Engineer Quarles (Western Electric and Bell Labs) is being blamed for enforcing former Defense Secretary Charlie Wilson's stretch-out and cutback policies with too little protest and too much relish. On Capitol Hill, within a fortnight investigating committees of both House and Senate have been critical of Quarles. In the Pentagon, he is in disfavor with the Navy (for criticizing super carriers), with the Army (for refusing it medium-range missiles), and with the Air Force, although...
...ride out the storm last week. Capital President David H. Baker and Chairman J. H. ("Slim") Carmichael flew to London, hoping to stretch out payments on their Viscount fleet. In addition. Capital is economizing everywhere, may trim its 8,000-man payroll by 10%. Yet its main hope rests with CAB. Barring subsidy, it wants a healthy fare increase. Without it, Capital may eventually be forced to shut down or merge, possibly with Northwest Airlines...
Anti-Prohibitionist (illegal beer and hooch) Roger ("Terrible") Touhy, 59, in stir since 1933 for the Chicago snatch of Con Man John ("Jake the Barber") Factor, drew closer to freedom. Illinois' Republican Governor William G. Stratton cut Touhy's 99-year stretch to 72 years, thus making Terrible eligible for springing in August...
Protecting the flanks of North America are DEW line extensions far out to sea, maintained by relays of radar-equipped Navy destroyer escorts and WV2 Super Constellations. These mid-ocean lines stretch from the Aleutians to the mid-Pacific and from Newfoundland to the mid-Atlantic. Backing them up will be chains of underwater "listening" lines, now being built parallel to the coasts, to detect and intercept missile-launching submarines several hundred miles out at sea. In addition, a ground DEW line extension is also under construction across the arc of the Aleutian Islands; other holes are plugged...