Word: ever
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ever since the dawn of atomic power, scientists have dreamed of converting nuclear energy directly into electricity. The potential is clear from a simple statistic: a single pound of uranium 235 has the same fuel energy as 1,500 Ibs. of coal. But present atomic power plants must go through costly intermediate steps: nuclear fission produces heat, the heat is used to generate steam, the steam drives a turbine, the turbine generates the electricity...
...quarter of last year," when they were 51? a share. Many a U.S. businessman echoed George Humphrey. The first wave of anxiously awaited first-quarter earnings proved higher than almost anyone had expected. The week's most general prediction for the nation's business: "The best year ever...
...food industries, the U.S. housewife continued to take good care of herself-and of the companies that serve her. Revlon, Inc.'s first-quarter earnings jumped from last year's 84?a share to 91?. Said Revlon President Charles Revson: "1959 should be the largest year we ever had." National Biscuit Co. expects first-quarter earnings to be about the same as last year, but looks for "continued improvement" in sales and earnings for the rest of 1959; General Baking Co. and Hiram Walker distillers both reported increased quarterly profits...
...Ever alert to the wiles of the West, the Soviet news agency Tass last week stumbled onto what seemed to it one of the biggest U.S. propaganda bloopers of all time. Tass could hardly contain itself at thought of showing up the Americans, delightedly prepared a news item for Soviet newspapers exposing the whole fraud. Object of Tass's excitement: the typical U.S. home that thousands of Russians will see in Moscow this summer as part of the first major U.S. exhibition in Russia (TIME, March 16). The six-room house, dubbed a "splitnik" because it will be split...
...American worker than, say, in showing the Taj Mahal as the typical home of a Bombay textile worker or Buckingham Palace as the typical home of the English miner." Furthermore, added Tass, with its mind on what such furniture might cost in Moscow's GUM-if it were ever available there-Macy's was guilty of "propaganda" in saying that all that luxurious furniture could be bought...