Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy's fondest dreams has always been the "true submarine"-an underwater vessel that never has to surface to charge its batteries, and needs no snorkel-like breathing apparatus. Last week there were some guarded indications that the true sub was out of the dream stage at last. Said Atomic Energy Commissioner Sumner Pike: "In an attempt to get useful power from atomic fission, we are engaged in the design and construction of a power plant for naval submarines. The design of two practical, though expensive, devices for submarine propulsion is practically complete, and one of them is partly...
...minister smiled expectantly at the three men and four women who were gathered around him in a parish house in Manhattan. "Well," he said, "anybody want to start?" A lanky, well-groomed young man with horn-rimmed spectacles and a crew cut spoke up. "I had a funny dream about Walter over there last night," he began...
...Dream Car. Buick's experimental "dream car," the two-seater convertible XP-300, was unveiled at Chicago's auto show last week. Designed by General Motors' Chief Engineer Charles A. Chayne, the car has an aluminum body only 39 inches high at the cowl (53.4 in. with the top up), blue leather seats, safety belts, padded crash board, hydraulic engine hood and jacks. The engine is a supercharged 300-h.p. V-8 which weighs only 500 lbs. (250 lbs. less than Buick's current 152-h.p. engine), and runs at high speeds on a mixture...
...refrigerators (it was Wilson who took the cumbersome coils off the top of the G.E. refrigerator, streamlined it, and made the housewife covet it) became some of the mainstays of G.E. Charlie Wilson made them-made more of them faster and better. It was a production man's dream...
...divorced Queen Farida, decided then & there that Narriman Sadek, the 16-year-old daughter of a civil servant, must be his next wife. Narriman's beau, Zaki Hachem, 27, Harvard-trained and a U.N. official, was swept out of his sweetheart's life. "A bad dream," he muttered. "I did not think such things could happen in the 20th Century." Then he lapsed into silence. No one heard how Narriman felt. Last summer she was reported shopping in Europe for a royal trousseau...