Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third panel will devote its time to "The Atomic Horizon in Latin America." Chairman of this group will be Walker Cisler, president of the Detroit Edison Co. and a real private-enterprise pioneer in the field of commercial atomic power. Others on this panel will be: former AECommissioner Eugene Zuckert (who will talk on atomic energy as a new potential for investment); William P. Gage, president of Grace Chemical Co. (who will speak on atomic energy and agriculture); J. Carlton Ward Jr., president of Vitro Corp. of America, and A. C. Monteith, a vice president of Westinghouse Electric Corp...
Last week the voyagers aboard the Atka saw the sun set-it just dipped below the horizon for a few hours-for the first time since they crossed the Antarctic Circle. It was a sign that the brief, flowerless antarctic summer was coming...
...Maritime Board and American President had been working on the deal for several years, came to terms last summer on the first step-replacing eight ships at a cost of $65.8 million (TIME, Aug. 9). But each saw a farther horizon. The board wanted the whole fleet modernized while American President was more immediately interested in getting a Government subsidy for operating over Trade Route 17 (Atlantic Coast through the Panama Canal to Malaya and Indonesia). Finally a bargain was struck. If American President would agree to replace its entire fleet over a ten-year period, the Maritime Board would...
...after Hiroshima, men began speculating on a future when two or more nations would be able to blow each other up. The appalling prospect formed a rim on the horizon; imagination would not penetrate beyond it. But when horizons are closely approached they always disclose new horizons farther...
...horizon was not cloudless. Industry planned to spend about 5% less ($20.7 billion) on new plants and equipment than in 1954, largely because of a 40% spending cut by automakers from the record $1.3 billion new-model outlay in 1954. Some industries, e.g., textiles and coal, were still in trouble. The farm problem was still tremendous. Though Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson won a notable victory in his fight for flexible supports-and farmers, like investors, seemed willing once again to take a chance-the surplus commodities held by the Government totaled $6.6 billion at year...