Word: chartes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quotas-despite his free-trade convictions-as a result of an Office of Defense Mobilization report that "the nation's security" was being endangered by the flood of cheap foreign oil. Crude imports have risen by 500,000 bbl. a day in the past five years (see chart) while daily U.S. production has gone up 1,100,000 bbl. But crude imports were scheduled to hit a record 1,200,000 bbl. daily this month, or 16% of U.S. production (v. the 12% limit set by the quotas). As a result of the foreign competition, Texas producers are selling...
...made research staff in the U.S. Weather Bureau. To launch Los Angeles' National Weather Institute in 1945, Weatherman Edward B. Derr merely paid $40 for a set of 15,000 surplus weather maps going back to 1905. By using the old maps and current Weather Bureau bulletins to chart climatic patterns for his customers, and by using his weather-wise head in the bargain, he now grosses well over $1,000,000 annually, has a staff of four meteorologists (salaries: around $10,000). "We make the future out of the present," says Derr, "and the Weather Bureau gives...
...been one of the world's busiest statesmen. At a Commonwealth Conference in London, Tory Diefenbaker plugged hard for brisker Canadian-British trade, proposed that his fellow chiefs of government meet next in Canada; back in Ottawa, he presided over sessions of his brand-new Cabinet to chart Canada's new political course. Last week, in his first breathing spell since he took office, John Diefenbaker flew to home town Prince Albert (pop. 21,000), Sask. and a heart-warming homecoming from his constituents...
...satellite will not be tracked by radio alone. Optical observations are needed to chart the orbit accurately, and the satellite moves so fast that the big, slow-moving telescopes of professional astronomers have little chance of holding it for long. So teams of amateur astronomers, organized into "Operation Moonwatch," will spot the satellite with widefield, low-power, low-cost telescopes...
...pilot has little to do. He tells the 67 the position of the take-off point (in latitude and longitude, from his chart) and the course to his objective. Then he flies the airplane so that the course-error needle reads zero. It will take him any place in the world. It will even tell him when a slight change of course or altitude has found a more favorable wind. A common experience for Navy pilots flying with the 67 is to take off from San Diego, navigate across the continent by watching a single needle, and come down through...