Word: cued
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...easy way of putting a small, artificial satellite into an orbit around the earth. The rocket would have three stages, he says, but the whole thing need weigh only 13,500 lbs., and it could be carried up 15 miles by a plastic-film balloon of 3,000,000-cu.-ft. capacity (180-ft. diameter...
...White House has 72 full-time maintenance and domestic employees, but, with 1,600,000 cu. ft., it is as big as 100 average homes, and its grounds cover 18 well-manicured acres. At $5,245 a year, the highest-paid staffers are the principal operating engineer, the foreman carpenter, the foreman electrician and the foreman gardener. The lowest-paid is the pantrywoman ($2,500). President Eisenhower's valet earns...
Beautiful Music. Now the 500 was really in his blood. He kept coming back, but for years his luck was bad. In 1931 Shaw showed up with a tiny (wheelbase: 104 in., piston displacement: 156 cu. in., weight: 1,600 lbs.) supercharged special, built by Augie Duesenberg. The sound of that little engine winding up, Shaw remembered later, "was the most beautiful music my ears had ever heard. With the engine turning 6,800 r.p.m., the supercharger was turning almost 38,000 r.p.m., and making more noise than a room full of women...
Gasmen scoff at the court position that FPC control will mean saving to consumers. They point out that more than 90% of the costs occur after the gas leaves the field. Phillips Petroleum Co., for example, now sells gas from the Texas Panhandle for 9.5? per 1,000 cu. ft. to Michigan-Wisconsin Pipe Line Co. which delivers it to Milwaukee for 35?. The Milwaukee Gas Light Co. then charges the housewife a whopping $2.13 the first 1,000 cu...
...chief correspondence investigator, the Hoover group wisely chose tall and talented Mona Sheppard, who has been trying for years to simplify and improve the style of Government letters, and to reduce the almost endless files (24 million cu. ft. of them in 2,000,000 file cabinets -enough to stretch in a single drawer from the Pentagon to the Kremlin). Among the task-force recommendations is a new correspondence style board with authority over letter-perfection in every nook and cranny of the Government. Likeliest candidate for chairman: Mona Sheppard...