Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rocket enthusiasts have dreamed for years of "multistage" rockets with detachable sections that drop off, one by one, after their fuel is exhausted. Dr. Robert H. Goddard, U.S. father of rocketing, patented such a missile, but never succeeded in building one. During World War II, the Germans toyed with the idea. One of their antiaircraft rockets, the unsuccessful Rheintochter (Rhinemaiden), was pushed into the air by a booster that dropped off after rising a mile and a quarter. But no one shot a multi-stage rocket to really high altitudes...
Raises. G.M. grabbed the headlines with its cut only a day after Chrysler upped the prices on its 1949 models by 6.66%. In his annual report last week Chrysler President K. T. Keller explained: "Higher prices at this time are inevitable. No significant drop in labor costs or prices of materials is as yet even in prospect and much less in evidence...
...most studied estimate of the future came from Roy Wenzlick, the house-building industry's top economist. Said he: "You will build between 7 and 10% fewer dwellings than in 1948. I expect the total . . . will be 850,000." Wenzlick also predicted that construction costs will drop slightly in a few months, a little more later in the year, and then level...
Mother Is a Freshman (20th Century-Fox) is a featherbrained variation on one of Hollywood's most cherished myths: that U.S. Moms up to the age of 40 should be able, at the drop of a mink stole, to look and act like their teen-age daughters. The plot, as silly as a schoolgirl's endorsement of a beauty soap, is just about as inventive...
...poll showed 2 to 1 in favor of improving the quality of the food, not lowering the board rate, if prices were to drop...