Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week in his annual Economic Report to Congress: "The pace now is-and in the months ahead will be-too fast for safety." Agreed the President's Council of Economic Advisers in a supporting statement: "Whatever additional gains in output and employment might be obtained during the inflationary boom would be paid for many times over in a subsequent bust...
Beyond the sound barrier, the main obstacle to commercial supersonic flight is the miles-wide swath of broken windows, cracked plaster, frazzled nerves and aching eardrums that might be left behind by sonic boom. Resigned to it, airlines are planning either routes over water and desert or subsonic speeds over populated areas. Either solution could cut deeply into the time-distance economies that could otherwise be gained by flying huge planes faster than the speed of sound...
...appears that operators of supersonic transports may have a happier choice. On the basis of preliminary experiments, two scientists at California's Northrop Corp. believe that the sonic boom may not after all be a necessary evil. Last week, at a meeting of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Aerodynamicists Maurice Cahn and Gustav Andrew suggested that an electric field projected in front of a supersonic plane might eliminate the boom, and lessen drag as well...
...Seeking clear water for picture taking, crewmen maneuvered the diving barge bearing Cachalot far out in the Gulf, where a modern Russian trawler with sophisticated electronic gear lurked near by with obvious curiosity about what was going on. The Cachalot was dangled beneath the surface from a 100-ft. boom while Martin, insulated by a hooded wet suit, tried to focus on it. When a wave swell, of which he in the ocean depths was unaware, caused his target to heave up out of camera range, he swam up after it, only to swim even faster the other way when...
...replacement for original equipment tires and is said by the company to have twice their lifetime. More expensive than the originals ($51 v. $34), the "Polyglas" brand will hit the market at the time tire replacements are being sought for cars acquired during the 1965-1966 sales boom...