Word: stretch
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...never out from under pressure. I don't think I could take it for a week. The possibility of violent death for them and their families is something they've learned to live with like a man learns to sleep with a sore arm." The Big Stretch. Marshall must stretch all the way from an understanding of this simple horror to the labyrinthine subtleties and the well-yoked ambiguities that form the mind of Mr. Justice Felix Frankfurter. He must stretch from his hatred of inequality to a recognition that much of the opposition to Negro equality...
...lived so long with the cold war (and the slight defrosting of Geneva's elusive spirit) that there was a tendency to forget that trouble began when Lucifer fell, not when Lenin rose. There were some really first-rate messes around the world that could not by any stretch of the and Communist imagination be blamed on the Communists...
...flying suit and flight helmet, climbed the narrow ladder into the belly of one of the Vulcans, and took off in a whoosh of jet exhaust. The Prime Minister directed the huge aircraft as far as the English Channel, took over the controls for one long stretch, then landed at an airport near his home in London. "Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful," said Eden scrambling out. "It was as smooth as a magic carpet...
Instead of fighting each other, Billion and Heberlein got together, agreed to sell their yarn (trade name: Helanca) together in other countries, put profits in a joint account. But Helanca was not alone in the U.S. for long. Soon U.S. companies developed their own stretch yarns -Agilon, Ban-Lon, Chadolon, Shape-2-U, Fluflon and Superloft-and the whole industry bogged down in patent suits and licensing disputes. Burlington Industries, biggest U.S. textile company, was itself attached for patent infringement by Heberlein, and many other textile men were reluctant to invest money in any process that might soon...
...licensing. By last week, Patentex had taken over 51 domestic and 47 foreign licenses. The industry was ready to produce-and to promote. Led by Nylon Manufacturer du Pont, more than a million dollars worth of advertising has been scheduled for the fall to create a bigger demand for stretch yarn and its many new products...