Word: equipment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...year would be met. There were 55,570 men already under arms, and recruits were pouring in at the rate of 4,500 a week. As fast as the Germans could accept them, U.S. tanks, self-propelled guns, 90-mm. antiaircraft guns, heavy machine guns and electronic equipment were rolling into German camps, part of a total $1 billion worth which the U.S. is giving the Germans to equip six of their scheduled twelve divisions...
Both United Air Lines and American Airlines were negotiating last week with Collins to equip their entire fleets with the alarms, at a cost of about $6,000 to $8,000 each. Within two years Collins plans to start installing the device, which will automatically alert the pilot when another aircraft comes within two miles, show him the position of the intruding plane through a system of lights. By 1959 Collins expects to have an improved model that will show the pilot which way to maneuver in order to avert a collision, may even do the whole job automatically...
HEAVYWEIGHT TRAINS, almost three times heavier than new lightweight trains now in vogue, will be put on the road by the Santa Fe. Despite lightweight hoopla, Santa Fe will spend $13 million to equip its El Capitan streamliner with 47 "hi-level" cars two feet higher than conventional coaches, will seat passengers on a deck eight feet above wheels...
Give a country a king who has become an international joke and scandal. Let it be ruled by a clique of entrenched grafters whose platform is to bleed the poor. Equip its army with inadequate and defective weapons and have its soldiers humiliatingly defeated in the field. Result: revolution. So goes the very recent history of Egypt, and so goes the theme of this first novel by Author Maarten Schiemer. The Cry of the Kite is a fictionalized account of how fat Farouk's restive Egypt became the spitfire Egypt of Soldier Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...doctor was appalled by his task. The islanders refused to pay bills or take orders. Some 300 Senans were seriously ill with bronchitis, rheumatism and TB; many of the children had whooping cough. What lie de Sein needed, L'Haridon pleaded to mainland authorities, was a modern dispensary equipped with X ray to spot TB cases, plenty of drugs, and a helicopter to remove serious cases to the mainland. Last week the mainland offered to equip a dispensary-but only if the islanders would pay their taxes. "No. never. We will never surrender." said Innkeeper Felix Guilcher...