Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Passes. The most spectacular work is done by supersonic jets flying at palmtop level. This is always dangerous-today s jets are so fast that they may crash into a mountain before their pilots even sense trouble. During a low pass, everything blurs into meaningless streaks, like a fence a few feet from a speeding car Landmarks disappear. Objects to be photographed sweep under the plane and are gone in a fraction of a second...
...disappointing year largely because it had been overbilled to begin with. In January President Kennedy's economists extravagantly predicted that the gross national product would spurt ahead 10% during the year. But the great growth fallacy exploded in the spring as overpriced stock markets suffered their worst crash since 1937, and unemployment (mostly of the unskilled) rose to a level previously unknown in a period of prosperity. Businessmen began muttering about, and taking precautions against, a recession dead ahead. But in fact by the end of the year most economic barometers were on the rise...
...Crash Damage. Partly out of fear that the market was in some intuitive way telegraphing a recession, businessmen be gan to act as if a recession had already begun. They put off decisions on building new plants or buying new machines, and chopped away at their payrolls. U.S. Steel cut its work force by 10%, and for the first time since the Depression sliced into its executive ranks to fire 1,000 supervisors. Manufacturers cut their stockpiles to the bone, and inventories were reduced to their lowest level in relation to sales in seven years...
...years, Rover was shunted aside in favor of crash programs to develop conventional rockets in a hurry. More recently, the project has been getting additional cash. In fiscal 1961, Rover got some $42 million; last year the figure was $89 million, and this year it is running at some $200 million. Put to Kennedy at his news conference was the question of whether his trip had persuaded him to seek even more money to speed up Rover. His answer: "We are going to let these tests go on of the reactor. These tests should be completed by July. If they...
Even if new variants are spotted promptly and pharmaceutical companies put on a crash program, it still takes four to six months to produce a vaccine. By then, an epidemic may have run its course. And the vaccines now in use are of such dubious potency that they have protected only a disheartening 50% of Army recruits. Making the vaccines more potent is probably not the answer; there would be a greater risk of more severe reactions to the inoculations themselves...