Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accelerating its program to develop an atomic-powered plane, announced "greater strides during the first six months of 1955 than in any earlier half-year . . . with the promise of nuclear-powered flight considerably brightened." A-plane reactor work is under way at Oak Ridge, Tenn., Evendale, Ohio and Fort Worth, Texas; new facilities will soon be built at Middletown, Conn. "Construction of the aircraft nuclear propulsion test area 'for testing aircraft reactors ... is nearing completion...
...last week, with Mark Twain - based on the cry of the man with the lead-line on a towboat. This song, and many another in Belafonte's repertory, represents a draft on a treasury in Washington, D.C. that to many a scholar and singer is more important than Fort Knox...
...earnest desire" expressed by his father, brisk, self-assured Silliman Evans Jr., 30, will be come the new publisher of one of the South's liveliest and most powerful papers. His brother, Tennessean Reporter (and vice president) Amon Carter Evans. 21, named for the late publisher of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram (TIME, July 4), will become a full-time executive. But much of the day-to-day responsibility for the Tennessean (circ. 112,947) will remain in the hands of Editor-Vice President Coleman Harwell, a meticulous, imaginative newsman who joined the paper 28 years...
When some Texas grocers complained earlier this year of price-slashing by Safeway Stores Inc., the Justice Department assigned five antitrust investigators to look into the chain's operations. The outcome: a federal grand jury in Fort Worth last week charged that Safeway's price cuts (10 Ib. bag of sugar: 69?) were an attempt to monopolize the retail grocery business in Texas and New Mexico cities...
...small nuclear power station that can be taken apart and airlifted to its destination, will be in operation by 1957, it was announced last week by Alco Products Inc. Alco and Manhattan's Stone & Webster Engineering Corp. will start building the $2,096,753 plant this year at Fort Belvoir, Va., where it will be used to train Army engineers in atomic power-station construction and maintenance. The reactor, housed in a vapor-tight steel shell, will turn water into steam, light 600 houses. A single charge of atomic fuel will run the reactor for 18 months...