Word: climbing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Convair's delta-winged F-102 interceptor (the "Iron Dart"), slated for squadron service soon. Powered by a J-57, the rocket-carrying F-102 weighs as much as a DC-3 transport (25,200 lbs.), can climb to 40,000 ft. in less than five minutes, hit something like 1,000 m.p.h. in level flight at combat altitude...
...Nation, the New Republic saved a scorn it has never before used on its venerable competitor in a political campaign. A Nation editorial entitled "Should Liberals Climb Aboard?'', said the New Republic, "seems to say a Republican President, able to keep the more aggressive anti-Communists of his own party in line, can best move towards the peace abroad that is ours for the asking." Indeed the Nation said more: in an oblique flick at Stevenson, it warned that the problems of peace are now so touchy that the U.S. could not "tolerate much knight errantry." The Nation...
...Steady Climb. In detailing where the U.S. now stands, the President noted that "we have reached the threshold of a $400 billion economy." The rise of the Gross National Product goes like this...
...competitive in cost with conventional plants, and by 1980 atomic-power capacity may soar to 135 million kw., 20% of the nation's total. The panel's forecast for atomic-power equipment sales from 1960-80: $27 billion. However, the overall U.S. demand for electric power will climb so fast that conventional power plants will also expand...
...fortunate man, and not the least of the good graces attending his life is his sister Elizabeth. In her account of his youth, he seems a little like Frank Merriwell. Adlai could swim across large lakes (two miles in the creditable time of 1 hr. 16 min. 21 sec.), climb a Swiss mountain quicker than almost anyone (so the guide said), and play the mandolin. In her diary his sister recorded: "Today the girls [at camp] saw Adlai!! Tonight one of the girls fainted...