Word: float
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tubercle bacilli can float through the air and cause disease in people who inhale them, why cannot weakened bacilli be transmitted the same way to achieve mass vaccination? This was the question that Dr. Gardner Middlebrook and colleagues at Denver's research-wise National Jewish Hospital asked themselves. Last week, after years of testing, they gave the National Tuberculosis Association a tentative answer: no reason...
...held companies to middle-class investors in a bold step toward denationalization (TiME. April 13). But markets are so thin that a little buying can send a stock to giddy heights. Four-fifths of West German corporate stock, for example, are locked in institutional portfolios. Companies are reluctant to float more because of heavy taxes. Daimler-Benz has 93% of its stock in the hands of institutions and other companies; in the past month, buyers of small amounts of floating stock propelled the price from $243 to $363 within ten days...
Defense Secretary McElroy, 54, who has long yearned to float back to Procter & Gamble (his last salary there: $285,000) to pick up the Cheerful chairmanship and rescue his bobbing stock options, re-evaluated his stand in the light of Quarles's death, said: "I will certainly be here in December." In fact, he will probably stay on the job until around February 1960, help present the defense budget to Congress...
...sledding holder of the world land speed record (632 m.p.h.), found himself in a jam when the plane's engine flamed out. No slouch in an emergency, Stapp ejected himself at "somewhere between 8,000 and 10,000 feet," back-somersaulted four times, then opened his chute to float to earth. His only memorable injury: a chipped ankle bone. His pilot, Captain Harry B. Davis, a Negro fighter-pilot veteran of the Korean war, was not so lucky, died after his parachute failed to bloom properly...
...General Tufte Johnsen, commander of the Norwegian air force's northern command, picked up the telephone. Calling him from California was an old friend, U.S. Air Force Lieut. Colonel Charles A. Mathison. The colonel's bizarre message: Be on the lookout for a recoverable capsule likely to float down from outer space at about 0230 or 0300, Spitzbergen time. Thus last week began one of the most incredible treasure hunts in the short, incredible history of space...