Word: ahead
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British thermonuclear scientists do not say flatly that they are ahead of their U.S. colleagues, but Dr. Thonemann, master of ZETA, points out that with a small thermonuclear doughnut it is hard to keep the pinch away from the walls for long. "You have to go fairly big," he says, "if you want to put up temperature and put up containment time too." The U.S. Atomic Energy Commission apparently agrees with this reasoning; it is building at Princeton, N.J. a very large thermonuclear device, a "Stellarator," which is scheduled to start operation...
...there is no doubt that demand for credit has fallen off considerably from the boom-time peaks, as industry has cut expansion and merchandisers have reduced inventories. Business loans at leading New York banks fell by $235 million last week; Chicago dipped $38 million, though both areas are still ahead of 1957. In Detroit, where layoffs have pushed unemployment to 12.4% of the labor force, bankers report that they have more money than business. Boston bankers say the same...
LOCKHEED ELECTRA turboprop transport, on order by nine airlines, looks better and better. Prototype, which flew 56 days ahead of schedule, has hit nearly 460 m.p.h. in level flight, 25 m.p.h. faster than expected, normally lands in 1,900 ft., well under guaranteed airport performance...
Salesmen were also instructed to get the ignition key of the automobile the customer intended to trade in. Some timid customers were not able to get their cars back, were forced to go ahead with the deal. Others recovered their keys and cars only to discover that good tires and battery had been switched for worn-out items. A long procession of witnesses testified to other ingenious ways in which they had been cheated. On the Rev. Bert D. Crouch, Caruso played all the tricks in his bag. Caruso's salesmen upped the price of Crouch...
...first commercial office opened in the Soviet Union by any Western country has been set up by America Abroad Associates in Moscow. Yet the U.S. Government is far from happy about this adventure into areas long tightly closed to Americans. The reason is that private U.S. enterprise moved in ahead of the U.S. Government and snagged the contract for the fair. Last week Manhattan Businessman Gottfried Neuburger, 50, the man who wooed the Russians and won, flew to Washington to try to soothe the Government's feelings and persuade it to enter the fair alongside private enterprise...