Word: field
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reason for legislation aimed at reforming labor. The public demand for Congress to vote tough curbs on labor unions is a direct result of the revelations piled up over the past three years by the Senate's Select Committee on Improper Activities in the Labor or Management Field, headed by Arkansas Democrat John McClellan. The McClellan committee uncovered plenty of corruption in other unions, notably the Bakery and Confectionery Workers and the Operating Engineers. But among U.S. labor unions, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America ranks first in size, money, power and sheer, shocking...
...looked good. Hearst's stable of 13 magazines, one of the relatively few consistent moneymakers in the empire, has grown by the addition of Sports Afield (1953) and Popular Mechanics (1958). With Avon (117 new titles last year), Businessman Berlin picked up a growing firm in a growing field...
...temperature required for a sustained reaction is, at a minimum, 50 million degrees. No conventional container could withstand such a temperature, so physicists surround the "plasma" of deuterium with a magnetic field whose lines of force are powerful enough to hold it. Then an enormous bolt of electricity is shot into the system to make the plasma particles move rapidly, thereby supplying the necessary heat...
Trouble is that when the big bolt strikes, the plasma writhes and twists, often breaks out of the magnetic field and dissipates its heat into the walls of whatever sort of outer container is being used...
...Force v. Navy. The Air Force still sees great promise in high-energy fuels for rockets and ramjet engines, intends to continue working on them at two small pilot plants. But the Navy has decided to abandon its work in the field entirely, convinced that boron fuels do not hold the great promise it expected...