Word: top
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rigs were punching the Alberta earth in search of new oil pockets ; but for the steel shortage, there would be twice as many. Also at work were 65 crews with seismographs and gravitometers, picking likely spots for the drillers to "spud in." In 1949, bills for oil exploration would top $20 million...
RIAS consistently stays on top of the news. By monitoring Soviet stations 24 hours a day, RIAS picked up the first flash of Jan Masaryk's plunge from a Prague window. That night, Heimlich's staff rounded up politicians and union leaders to join in a Masaryk memorial. Communists, uncertain of the party line, refused to appear, so RIAS broadcast a few moments of silence, explained that the time was reserved for the Reds...
...replied, "I'm pretty good, but my neck's still stiff." Once a month, to test Martin's heart, Dr. Young lugs a 30-lb. portable electrocardiograph up the stairs (the doctor grumbles good-naturedly that "they all seem to live at the very top or the very bottom...
...institution, Pittsburgh's Carnegie Institute of Technology, thought so. In the last year, reported Chairman of Admissions John M. Daniels, Carnegie's enrollment applications had dropped 40%. Said he: "It is a 'buyer's market from now on, and those colleges which insist on top-ranking students are going to have to go out and compete for them as we did in prewar years . . . The honeymoon is over...
...Washington's snowy Cascade Mountains last week, 14 crack ski jumpers mounted to the top of the runway at Olympian Hill to try for the Seattle Ski Club tournament championship. One by one they plummeted down the slide, took off into the cold air in the most spectacular sight known to sport. A couple of them landed as much as 285 feet down the slope. When it came his turn, slender, nervous Sverre Kongsgaard of Norway eyed the crowd of 4,000 far below. Then he shoved...