Word: agee
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aged on the Grapevine. But the A.P.'s rocket was already burning up. After a phone conversation with its Moscow Bureau Chief William Jorden, the punctilious New York Times warned that "the rumors be treated with the greatest caution." From Washington,* the U.P. filed a detailed story on the State Department's wholly logical explanation for the spaceman stories: they had apparently been inspired by an Orson Wellesian rocket opera broadcast Sunday by Radio Moscow. Next day, in an intercontinental missive to editors, the A.P. said its two Moscow staffers (Bureau Chief Harold K. Milks and Roy Essoyan...
...have it within our power to eradicate from the face of the earth that age-old scourge of mankind: malaria." So said President Eisenhower last week in his State of the Union speech (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). By latest estimates, two-fifths of the world's 2.6 billion people are subject to the disease; each year 200 million suffer from malaria, and 2,000,000 to 2,500,000 die of it. In the 60 years since the discovery that the disease is transmitted by mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles, men of medicine have had periodic fevers of hope about...
Frank Pace, a lean man with worry-free eyes, had a lot of other things on his mind that morning, as befits a man who manages a missile-age empire-and who reached that top post in four short years. An Arkansas-born wonder boy. Pace was U.S. Budget Director (under Harry Truman) at 36 and Secretary of the Army at 37-two jobs that prepared him well for the presidency of General 1 Dynamics, a Arm that does 85% of its business with the Government...
Monopoly on Brains. Under the leadership of this seasoned team. General Dynamics is heavily betting on research-or what Dr. Krafft Ehricke, Convair's astronautics expert, calls "wandering in the tomorrows"-to put it on top of the new atomic-space age. This year the company will invest $15 million in research into everything from desalting of sea water to astronautics. Though it can hope for no profit for years, it has sunk $15 million into its General Atomic Division for basic research rather than have it manufacture reactors that may soon be obsolete, thus hopes to develop better...
...calls "a monopoly on brains,'' now employs about 22,000 engineering and scientific personnel, pays them top salaries, e.g., $25,000 to $27,000. As a further inducement, General Dynamics lets its scientists delve into the most abstruse and uncharted fields with freedom, aware that in an age of rapidly changing technology the most basic research may prove valuable-perhaps even indispensable-for some new project. But Pace realizes that profits cannot be put off forever. Says he: "When our scientists begin to see a light, the planning people must show them how that idea...