Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pictures from the film, would be carried through space inside a three-stage "cosmic" rocket, launched beyond the earth's atmosphere by a winged, rocket-driven "spaceship." Once in an orbit similar to Sputnik's, the rocket would be refueled by another guided rocket, and then, accelerating fast enough to escape the earth's gravitational pull, would head for the moon. After the rocket landed, the tank would emerge and by radio control would roll across the moon's surface, televising the lunar scene and radioing back instrument recordings to scientists watching and listening on earth...
...Shadow Ministry. For Erhard and West Germany, the Korean war was a commercial opportunity. Without the necessity for fast rearmament, West Germany's reviving heavy industries were in a position to move into many foreign markets hitherto the preserves of Britain, France and even the preoccupied Americans. Erhard urged German firms to send their salesmen hotfooting after their old South American markets. Orders poured back into Germany, but in the wild scramble for raw materials, domestic prices rose alarmingly...
...Treasury's cash reserves were draining away so fast that they were not expected to last until the end of the year...
...last week became the largest single stockholder in Trans-Canada Pipe Lines Ltd., the vast and controversial enterprise that will bring Western gas to Eastern Canada. In Manhattan, Calgary Oilman Robert Arthur Brown Jr. bought the last of Tennessee Gas Transmission Co.'s Trans-Canada holdings, giving his fast-rising Home Oil Co. Ltd. a 12% holding in Trans-Canada (v. Texas Oilman Clint Murchison's 8%. and British American Oil's 5%). By buying out Tennessee at upwards of $25 a share, Bobby Brown replaced Tennessee's President Gardiner Symonds as the dominant figure...
Brown was known to be buying up Trans-Canada shares, but few suspected he had gone so far so fast. From Robert Brown Sr.. Bobby inherited the fledgling (250 bbl. daily) Federated Petroleums Ltd.−and his father's dream to become the biggest Canadian in the industry. Concentrating on buying up proven wens rather than on exploration, he had grown enough by 1955 to take over the 26-year-old Home Oil Co. Ltd., forming one of Canada's biggest independent oil producers. Home Oil managed to get 162,000 Trans-Canada shares in last spring...