Word: wheelbarrows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wheelbarrow to Millionaire. The magnitude of modern road building and the steadily rising cost of new equipment (up nearly 70% since 1947) have made it harder for the smaller contractor to survive. Says Talbot Bailey, vice president of Oakland's Fredrickson & Watson Construction Co.: "There used to be a time when you could just take a wheelbarrow and start out in this business-and work up to be a millionaire. Those days are gone forever. You need a lot of capital today." In the '30s a mile of concrete road could be laid...
...fire-fighting rocket is almost as simple as a wheelbarrow. It has a metal tube packed with solid propellant and feathered with four fins. The working parts come packed in a cylinder of strong waterproof cardboard which can be attached as the "warhead" and filled with water or chemicals. When fired from a simple launching rack, the rocket flies more than a mile. When it hits, its liquid cargo splashes in fine spray, drenching a 50-yd. circle. Rockets carrying 10 gallons cost about $35 each. California and U.S. forest fire fighters are interested. They do not hope...
...felt differently about the Green Mountain boy": the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, named in his honor and originally endowed from his estate, put on a high-toned medical symposium to mark the 150th anniversary of its benefactor's birth. The facts that Brigham once peddled oysters from a wheelbarrow and was arrested for selling liquor illegally were little noted. He was praised for having made a fortune in the restaurant business and in real estate, but most of all for having specified in his $1,300,000 will that after 25 years the residue of his estate should...
Labor Last. Everywhere, the Russians solicited advice from the visitors, carefully noted their suggestions. So acute is the shortage of labor and hand tools that in one steel mill the Americans saw women carrying heavy materials on a pallet instead of a wheelbarrow. Smith said he told them: "If you were to take the steel from a single giant crane and use it to turn out good wheelbarrows, picks and trowels and then teach people how to use them, it would help you very much...
Only three weeks after the death of M.I.T. Freshman Thomas Clark during his Deke fraternity initiation (TIME, Feb. 27), the University of Texas (enrollment 15,500) ran into some hazing trouble of its own. Wearing burlap bags, Delta Sigma Phi pledges had been ordered to drink mineral oil, play wheelbarrow, i.e., walk around on their hands while someone held their feet, push brushes across the floor with their noses. One boy was put to bed with a severely upset stomach. Another was hospitalized. Paul Earney, 24-year-old ex-paratrooper, spent a week in the hospital as a result...