Word: frontier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...safeguards as "cotton-woolling" the blacks.* Sir Godfrey is sure that his plan will be accepted. One advantage of a united Rhodesia: if Prime Minister Malan detaches South Africa from the Crown as a Boer Republic, Britain will still have a strong bulwark on Malan's northern frontier...
...prose when he sums up: "Within the limits of their equipment and opportunity . . . there is one claim which can be made for the Australian bushrangers, without fear of contradiction on the facts. Australia's Wild West period was as wild as. if not wilder than, the corresponding frontier phase in the United States of America...
...popular and "unclassified" version of Wernher von Braun's proposal can be found in Across the Space Frontier (Viking $3.95). Von Braun, who wrote one chapter, leads off with the statement: "Within the next 10 or 15 years, the earth can have a new companion in the skies, a man-made satellite which will be man's first foothold in space...
...other philosophy is that there are no static frontiers for business. To keep it ever expanding, a corporation needs the domination of a man like Avery Bullard, who is willing to devote his life to the corporation. In the end, the new president of the Tredway Corp. is a man out of the same mold as Bullard. Yet he realizes, which Bullard did not, that the presidency may turn him into a kind of machine with no soul beyond the corporation. Nevertheless, he can't resist the challenge of the job and the temptation of the ever-expanding frontier...
Jacobsen doubts that the U.S. will ever run out of oil. Oilmen estimate that of 2,400,000 square miles on the earth where oil may exist, only 1% has ever been explored. One huge, virtually unexplored such frontier is Alaska. On all such virgin horizons, Explorer Jacobsen cocks his questing, tireless...