Word: bumper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pretty well out of the orbits of the earth and the comets, and particularly try to detour around the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. But a collision with a meteor won't necessarily be fatal. "Most penetration," said Dr. Whipple, "could be eliminated by a 'meteor bumper,' a second skin of small thickness a short distance outside the true skin of the ship. Meteorites would explode on that bumper and lose most of their power of penetration...
Singular Clue. In Memphis, cops nabbed Robert Tabron as a car thief when they noticed that he was 1) driving around alone, 2) carrying a "Just Married" sign on the rear bumper...
...tall, feathery column of black spray shot into the air and a throaty roar echoed over the grainfields outside Edmonton. Within minutes, a bumper-to-bumper line of cars was moving out of the city along the westbound Jasper highway, heading for the new Acheson oilfield, seven miles away. There a crowd gathered to relish a familiar but stirring sight. Alberta's newest oil well was blowing in wildly, gushing up 200 feet and spitting blobs of copper-black crude for half a mile around...
...more aware of the sharp drop in the commodity prices than U.S. cotton men, who provide the raw material for thousands of consumer products. As a result of a bumper crop estimated at 17.2 million bales this year, cotton prices have tumbled from a March high of 46? to 35? a lb., 24% below ceiling and a hairbreadth above parity. Rather than sell at low prices, many cotton farmers have stored their cotton in warehouses, where they can get a loan price of 31? a lb., hope to drive the price up by keeping it off the market. In Washington...
...billion tax bill. The $74 billion tax bill is 3½ times what the U.S. spends for shoes and clothing, almost four times what it spends for shelter, almost 14 times what it spends for transportation. It would buy enough four-door Chevrolet sedans to stretch bumper to bumper four times around the world. It would provide for all U.S. medical care for eight years, or all U.S. education for a decade. It would build 200 Panama Canals...