Word: 1960s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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EVEN before Sputnik, Soviet scientists were freely predicting successful space flights to the moon by the early 1960s. Since the launching of their satellite, the timetable has been confidently pushed up. HOC IE CIIVTHHKA−I VHA (After Sputnik, the moon), the Russians proclaim, hinting that an unmanned rocket try at the moon might be planned from a Soviet launching site in the near future, perhaps to coincide with the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution on Nov.7...
...engines have grown into a major industry with annual sales estimated at $450 million, a work force of 25,000-plus and a product line that ranges from small $50 JATO rockets to huge $250,000 missile engines producing the equivalent of 1,750,000 h.p. By the mid-1960s rocket engine spending will probably top $1 billion annually and go on climbing as the U.S. needs ever faster and higher flying weapons beyond the capabilities of conventional jet or ramjet engines, like those on Boeing's Bomarc missile (see below...
...1960s, when the big crop of World War II babies comes of age, vastly expanding the U.S. labor supply, the secretary shortage should solve itself. But meanwhile, businessmen would do well to reassert hiring standards, loosen up on age restrictions. If they fail to do so, they may have forgotten how good a good secretary...
Looking over the show, Sylvania Electric Products Inc. President Don G. Mitchell told U.S. camera fans that they can soon expect even more wonders. Said he: "The camera of the 1960s will use electronics to adjust the lens, cock the shutter and wind the film. You will be able to take motion pictures on magnetic tape and play them back through your television receiver...
...electricity annually by 1963. This would carry Western Europe into the age of atomic power just about as fast as the Soviet Union (whose hoped-for goal is 2,500,000 kw-h in 1960) and considerably faster than the well-electrified U.S., whose goal for the early 1960s is only 1,000.000 kw-h a year...