Word: bulking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fuel Unlimited. Any competent power engineer can think up other variations. Probably the final design, weight, bulk and power of the nuclear engine will be determined by such factors as the temperature that its metals can endure or the heat that can flow through them. One factor that the designers will not have to worry about is fuel economy. The fuel (uranium or plutonium) that starts the engine running will last almost undiminished throughout any flight that the airplane is likely to make...
...accompanying map how they are spotted in the world's news centers. Twenty-seven news bureaus, all but three of them (Singapore, Beirut, Panama) permanent offices, are the bases from which 69 TIME correspondents range out to cover the most important stories. These correspondents supply the bulk of the material for any issue. Branching from this staff, sometimes reporting to it but more often reporting directly to the editors, is a network of 225 string correspondents (119 in the U.S.). They are mostly top journalists on local papers, and they keep the editors posted on events likely to make...
...Employers Reinsurance Co. last week had some gloomy news for its stockholders. In the first six months of 1951 the company lost $2,687,519. Main reason: skyrocketing claims for auto accidents. All over the U.S., casualty insurance companies are feeling the same pinch. In New York, where the bulk of nationwide auto liability insurance is written, casualty insurance companies went $120 million into the red on auto policies between 1946 and 1950. Their deficits last year totaled $11 million, in 1951's first half were still growing...
...Heirs. Who will get it all? Said Hearst's personal lawyer this week: "As will be shown by his last will and testament when it is filed for probate, he leaves the bulk of his estate for the benefit of his fellow Americans-for charitable, religious, educational, literary, scientific and public purposes." Other probable beneficiaries: his five sons; his widow, Mrs. Millicent Hearst of Manhattan, who never divorced W.R. though they were estranged for the last 29 years of his life...
...marriage, the promise and threat of mystics - judgment, the these were all military part of a tradition, the beautifully toleration and balanced the sufi machine which made converts faster and more smoothly than Christianity ever did in its most blessed days. In most areas where Moslems conquered Christians, the bulk of the people eventually be came Moslem.* Where Christians conquered Moslems few of the people embraced Christianity...