Word: turn-around
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Smith-Corona's turn-around year of 1956 got under way when the University of Pittsburgh's Chancellor Edward H. Litchfield joined the board, and Smith-Corona acquired the Kleinschmidt Laboratories, a small, hustling outfit specializing in communications systems and related research. Bud Mead, who was executive vice president of Kleinschmidt, became vice president for operations for Smith-Corona and began to shake up the company. He mechanized assembly lines, closed antiquated production facilities, and built a new $2,000,000 factory in South Cortland, N.Y. Mead estimates that the company's typewriter-production capacity...
...first half. Pete Kelley and Gary Borchard contributed the majority of the Crimson's early points with outside jump shots. Meanwhile, Harvard's shifting 2-1-2 zone effectively contained Dartmouth ace George Ramming. Ramming waited nearly seven minutes before breaking into the scoring column with a turn-around jump...
...beyond Coco (takeoff position on the runway). SAC does not fly cocked aircraft. Reason: any change in a plane's ground alert status is regarded as "uncocking" and lessens the alert capability. Alert planes returning from a practice mission would be in no shape for a real-life turn-around to actual war missions: if they were in the landing pattern when the klaxon sounded the real thing, they would have to be refueled and their crews would need rest. These planes are front-line sentries; to take them into the air would be like ordering front-line combat...
...Pacific Northwest lumber industry, in a price recession since July, noted a turn-around in buying for 1960 construction. Price of the most popular grade of plywood jumped $4 per 1,000 bd. ft. in the week...
...intercontinental range (at least 5,000 miles). Radar-checked and ground-controlled, it whizzed southeast down the Caribbean along the 5,000-mile U.S. test range that extends -by agreement with Britain-from Florida to Ascension Island in the South Atlantic. Its flight plan: to proceed to a "scheduled turn-around point" on the range, come about and return home...