Word: overhead
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Taxis are fewer than before the war, due both to petrol rationing and raids, but I've always been able to get one. On Oct. 4, I taxied from Blackfriars to Harley Street during a raid. Suddenly the guns went into action overhead. My driver turned to me and said: "Madam, the raiders are overhead, would you care to take cover?" "Not unless you want to," I replied. He withered me with a look and drove on. This is the rule, not the exception...
...young lieutenant commander could learn the unforgettable lessons of his first command. On each one of these pitching, rocking sea horses, bluejackets could learn the strange, good-humored, hell-for-leather technique and attitude of the destroyerman; young officers, at duties on deck and below, or hanging to the overhead in wardroom bull sessions, could become Navy-the good, hard...
...cautiously as they could. They ploughed their profits back into debt retirement or new plant, drove good bargains with the Government in answer to its demands for industrial expansion. When the boom ends, this caution may help Business to face a buyer's market with efficient plant, low overhead-may ease post-war adjustments. But the engine of industry did not speed up because of confidence burning within. It was sped up from without by the energy of wartime economy. Not moneymen but politicos had started it, and supplied the power to keep it going...
...cost $60,000,000, is the world's most expensive subway mile for mile. As an engineering feat, it is probably the most complex in railroad history. Within its short 2.2 miles, contractors burrowed under or over six other rapid transit tunnels, had to hold up the heavy overhead Sixth Avenue El (since torn down) and most of the buildings along the route with piles driven down to bed rock. The cut & cover method (trench-like excavation covered with wooden flooring) necessitated digging through a tangle of telephone cables, power lines, water mains, gas pipes, pneumatic mail tubes, sewer...
...States, Colorado has an Unfair Practices Law. Passed in 1937, it prohibits merchants from selling goods at less than cost. The Colorado Food Distributors' Association, formed at a mass meeting of Denver grocers to enforce it, has for two years defined "cost" as wholesale price plus 9% for overhead...