Word: disasterous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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"This ruling could be a real economic disaster for the pipeline companies." So last week said Willard W. Gatchell, general counsel for the Federal Power Commission, as the $1.8 billion-a-year natural gas pipeline industry began to feel the impact of a precedent-setting court decision. Handed down recently...
It is a whale (2 hr. 41 min.) of a story, and in the telling of it, British Director David Lean (Brief Encounter, Great Expectations) does a whale of a job. He shows a dazzlingly musical sense and control of the many and involving rhythms of a vast composition. He...
On the same track as the 5:18, just as crowded and already behind schedule, the steam-driven 4:56 from Cannon Street was headed out for Ramsgate and the channel coast. Overhead, on the viaduct that crosses the main lines on the southeastern edge of London, an electric local...
The week saw and happily survived the meeting of two overwhelming and unpredictable forces: the State of Texas and Soprano Maria Meneghini Callas. For a while it looked as if the encounter might end in a total disaster, but it turned out a triumph for both Callas and Dallas.
BRITANNIA CRASH, which killed all 15 of test crew aboard prototype of medium-range model, darkens future of Britain's big commercial turboprop. Cause of disaster is still a mystery, and drawn-out investigation on top of previous production delays (TIME, Sept. 23) is bound to discourage buyers.