Word: turning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that our mental hospitals are not only kept full but are brimming over when children are subjected to public terror and humiliation that they are too inexperienced to cope with and to rationalize the way adults have to. Have we delivered American childhood from the sweat shop only to turn it over to such Romanesque pastimes as the terrors and tensions of the Ottawa, Kans. brand of peewee baseball...
...with a reception in his Manhattan apartment, Mrs. R. with a tour of the F.D.R. home at Hyde Park. Khrush's favorite U.S. farmer, Roswell Garst of Coon Rapids, Iowa, placated photographers by trying on a coat given him by Khrushchev in Moscow last March, finally decided to turn his planned small country luncheon for the Khrushchev party over to a Des Moines caterer. Most overtaxed solo performer of all: U.N. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., assigned by the President to be Khrushchev's official host, ready to answer, parry or debate any of the unpredictable Khrushchev public...
...planemakers are not yet making money on their commercial jets, although the jets have proved to be enormously profitable to the airlines. Boeing has delivered 55 of its 7075, has orders for 197 in all. But it still needs orders for 50 more before it can hope to turn a profit, is losing $500,000 to $750,000 on each one it delivers. Douglas Aircraft last week won FAA certification for its DC-8, which will be put in service this month by United and Delta airlines. Even though Douglas has 143 planes on order, it needs to turn...
...shorter than the standard Ford, the body is 26.9 in. shorter and 6.8 in. narrower. There is also a big decrease in weight: the Falcon, at 2,366 Ibs., is nearly three-quarters of a ton lighter than the 3,758-Ib. average of other Fords. This in turn gives a good weight-to-power ratio for the 90-h.p., six-cylinder engine. The car has a cruising speed of better than 60 m.p.h., and, says Ford, it is capable of 30 miles per gallon...
That worthy is involved in a plot that would turn almost any sky to buttermilk. Out in the state of Washington, rich, square-shooting Stanley Weston is engaged to Marigold Wade, a rancher's daughter. But Marigold keeps putting off the wedding so she can continue a flirtation with her father's foreman, handsome Kurd Blanding. Along from Idaho comes Marigold's cousin, a young lovely named Lark Burrell, and Stanley soon realizes that he is falling in love with...