Word: strips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such statistics will soon seem modest, for more planes are on the way: last week two squadrons of sleek, barracuda-like F-4C Phantom fighter-bombers swooped down onto the new 10,000-ft. jet strip at Cam Ranh. A third squadron of the 1,500-m.p.h. fighter-bombers is now en route to South Viet Nam, as is an F-100 squadron, and by the end of next March Washington plans to double-to 1,200 planes-the strike force available to U.S. field commanders in the South...
...fast-growing market for fiber-tipped pens, now dominated by Japanese imports, Scripto has just introduced a Dacron-tipped version called Scriptip, which it hopes will out strip its competitors by providing a greater ink supply and a finer, longer-lasting nib at a lower price (39? v. 49? for most others...
...industry, the byproducts of a cleanup often offset part of the costs. Los Angeles County's oil refineries strip smelly hydrogen sulphide from crude oil, convert it to 450 tons a day of marketable sulphur. Boston Edison Co. mines vanadium from its oil-fired smoke, exports it to Belgium. For the nation, air and water cleanups mean a huge saving in dollars as well as in health. An air cleanup alone would save $11 billion a year that is now wasted on extra cleaning, painting, corrosion and damage to crops and property...
...argued: "The ultimate issue is whether the general assembly may require members of the opposite sex to wear clothing in the presence of each other except where the persons are joined in a family relationship." If the court decides against them, the nudists have an obvious last resort - a strip...
...people of Handshoe Hollow are in no sense comic-strip characters -though to bemused social workers their ways often seem as anticly unreal as those of Snuffy Smith or Moonbeam McSwine. While they have few worldly goods and little interest in acquiring more, most mountain folk of Southern Appalachia cling stubbornly to an ar cane way of life and the bucolic virtues-hardihood, close-knit family ties, fierce independence of outside authority-that were the models of an earlier America. With federal funds coming in, no one in Handshoe Hollow goes hun gry any more. Nor are the pappies very...