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...time of the Civil War, however, the overseers discovered on a tour of the library that "of the Statutes of the United States there is no copy in the library, nor a tolerably good atlas, nor the works of Wordsworth, nor the lives of Judge Story or of Doctor Channing or of the Chancellors of England." Immediately they raised money to buy more books for the library. This was the beginning of the end for Gore Hall...
...Three strategic intercontinental missiles, for long-range striking power, are under accelerated development. "These are the Navaho, the Snark and the Atlas, . . . Such missiles [as the Atlas] approaching a target present the enemy with an incredibly-and almost hopelessly-difficult defensive...
What was the high-powered team hired to do? Convair was mum. But there was no doubt that the experts would help Convair design air frames for nuclear-powered planes and aid in building Atlas, the intercontinental ballistic missile...
...their galleys 4,000 miles south to the Zambezi River to fetch myrrh, frankincense and gold. The eleventh of Hercules' twelve mythical labors-to fetch the golden apples of the Hesperides-suggests to him that the Greeks may have sailed into the Atlantic by 1400 B.C. The giant Atlas, who gave Hercules such a timely hand, may have been "the gigantic snow-capped Peak of Teneriffe on the Canary Islands," and the apples the hero plucked were perhaps the golden-yellow fruit of the Canary strawberry tree. Though Author Herrmann considers it only "possible" that America was reached even...
...million more than in 1949. And with a record-breaking $39.5 billion worth of construction scheduled in 1955, industry leaders are embarking on big expansion programs. Lehigh Portland Cement Co. of Allentown, Pa. is spending $15 million to boost its annual capacity by 3.000,000 bbls.; Universal Atlas Cement Co., a U.S. Steel subsidiary and the biggest producer, is spending an estimated $20 million on its Buffington plant in Gary. Ind., which will be the largest new production unit built in the past 15 years; New York's Lone Star Cement Corp. will spend $14 million. Other companies that...