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...needed in the cold-war economy of 1952. In any case, the Administration's controls were a mockery; price and wage bosses went in & out of office so fast that most civilians hardly knew-or cared-who was in charge. The tremendous flood of industrial production, plus a bumper farm crop, kept prices stable and checked inflation. By year's end. commodities were down 12½%, almost back to their pre-Korea level...
Poor Neighbors. In spite of imaginative efforts to make the planets sound attractive, scientists consider earth's neighborhood rather slummy. But the space planners are optimistic. Colonists on the airless moon, they say. could erect Plexiglas domes and fill them with any atmosphere they liked. They could grow bumper crops in the unfailing sunlight, could extract metals and oxygen from the rocks. Arthur C. Clarke in The Explora, tion of Space argues that man might thrive under such conditions better than he does on earth...
...extra-tough items, such as rolls of film in thick-walled steel cylinders. Parachutes, even if made of steel, do not open until the rocket is falling so fast that the first brush of air resistance burns them up. The highest-flying rocket so far (the two-stage "Bumper WAC Corporal," which rose 250 miles) came back to earth with its steel fins partially fused. The recovery men shudder at the thought of what would happen to Von Braun's returning crews. Their red-hot spiral around the earth may be theoretically possible, but even a slight mischance would...
...make an investment of this kind unless you have confidence," said Chrysler Corp.'s President Lester Lum Colbert. "Tex" Colbert referred to the money (an estimated $25 million) that he had spent on the 1953 Chrysler line, which was unwrapped last week. Restyled from bumper to bumper, the new eight-cylinder models are priced slightly below 1952, the six cylinders slightly above...
After raising a bumper catepillar crop one summer. Walcott realized that the oak season would soon be over, leaving nothing to feed the baby caterpillars; hence the idea of frozen caterpillar food originated...