Word: domes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instructor sitting at his control console decides where the mission shall start. By setting the apparatus, he can fly the desk-bound students anywhere he pleases in the northern hemisphere. As the simulated bomber heads for Alaska. Petropavlovsk or Greenland, the chicken-wire dome with its pinpoint stars wheels and tilts slowly just as the real stars would seem to do from the observation window of a real bomber...
...Arctic. At the instructor's command, each student climbs the spiral stair that leads to the platform inside the dome. He glances up at the simulated stars and selects the ones he thinks will guide him best. He observes their position with a sextant, just as he would on a real airplane, and hurries back to his desk to figure out his position over the Canadian tundra or the frozen Polar...
...Financier Andrew Mellon, hoped to avoid. He wanted to build no personal monument but a palace for Everyman, which would be a lasting glory to the nation. The neoclassic building cost Mellon $15 million, is as palatial as any structure to be found in the Western Hemisphere. Its central dome was modeled on the Pantheon in Rome. The rotunda and windowless exhibition wings are constructed of over 40 kinds and shades of marble, from "Istrian Nuage" (Italy) to "Vermont Radio Black," and enclose five acres of exhibition space. There are fat-cushioned couches for the foot-weary, and fountain courts...
With a cultured snort at reports that he would soon perform in a Las Vegas pleasure dome for $35,000 a week, British Playwright Noel Coward, in the U.S. ostensibly to browse around Broadway, showed a bittersweet regard for the prospect of such easy money: "I keep on getting offers, and what I am offered is often trebled by the press, which gives me a lovely false feeling of prosperity." But Las Vegas nonetheless holds a certain attraction for Coward, who has long lived opulently by his wits: "They do pay the most extraordinary kind of money...
These rockbound bubbles of salt, one or two miles across and sometimes taller than the Rocky Mountains, are the famed salt domes of the Gulf Coast. In the eyes of the oilmen, they are lovely things. As the salt pokes through the sediment beds, it bends and breaks them and drags them upward, forming many pockets to trap the oil that has formed from marine organisms buried in the sediments. Best of all, salt domes all but shout, "Here we are!" To an oil geologist using the proper instruments (gravimeters and seismographs), a deeply buried dome stands out like...