Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cheerful voices pointed out that the heavy sag in employment from October to November-1,132,000-was largely the result of unusually wet, wintry weather that cut more than seasonally deep into farm employment. But with the steel industry operating at 69% of capacity, down from 102% a year ago, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Economic Research Director Emerson P. Schmidt predicted that 1958 would very likely see a recession "at least as severe...
...cause of the strike lay deep in the troubled heart of modern unionism, where skilled laborers and craftsmen are fighting for their due in a world of monolithic industrial unionism. The Motormen's Benevolent Association, made up of 80% of the subway motormen, had been fighting the domination of the city's transit system by a powerful professional Irishman, Transport Workers Union President Mike Quill, and the determination of the mayor's Transit Authority to deal only with politically powerful T.W.U. Last year, when the motormen challenged Quill in a fight, a state supreme court enjoined M.B.A...
Belgium's plan for the inevitable march to self-government for Africans lies in education and economic opportunity for the blacks. The multiracial, Catholic-run Lovanium University will graduate its first Negro lawyers and engineers next year. At Luluabourg, deep in the heart of the Congo, black cadets are training at the colony's first military academy. Nowhere in Africa is there such a solid, well-paid class of native technicians. Congolese pilot river and lake steamers, run locomotives, do 90% of the repair work at the big military base at Kamina. But Africans are still segregated...
...knows more about surviving at the South Pole than Siple (TIME, Dec. 31, 1956), the obvious man to establish the first year-round colony in the world's deep freeze. As a Sea Scout, he went to the Antarctic 29 years ago with Admiral Richard E. Byrd, has spent four winters there since. As it turned out, Siple's buoyant personality proved as valuable as his scientific knowledge. He ran a surprisingly contented camp despite the little group's isolation, and the wearing, jet-black night of winter that was four months long. Siple's formula...
Working under Rear Admiral George J. Dufek, commander of Operation Deep Freeze Three, Linehan set off three blasts of TNT in a 48-ft. crater not far from Paul Siple's camp. (The crater had been made by an air-dropped tractor that dropped too far too fast.) The sound wave took .4 seconds to reach solid rock beneath the ice and return. Linehan calculated that the bedrock is 903 ft. above sea level. Over this is "very dense" ice 8,200 ft. thick, topped by a 20-ft. belt of "hard" ice. In turn, the hard-ice belt...