Word: ings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...expenditures for plant and equipment apparently stopped declining in the third quarter, will start climbing in the fourth quarter. The Department polled industry, found capital outlays are expected to be at the same annual rate in the third quarter as in the second, $30.3 billion, seasonally adjusted. Spend ing is expected to rise in the fourth quarter to $31 billion, some three to six months before forecasters had expected the turnabout to come...
...barometric switches, four radar rigs inside Little Boy measured the fall. After 15 long seconds, Little Boy began listening for the faint echoes of its own radar signals to earth. On the igth echo-800 ft. above the rooftops of Hiroshima-a powder charge sent one uranium mass bullet-ing through a hollow shaft into the other mass. In one fifteen-hundredth of a microsecond, fission began. In that dreadful instant a city died, and 70,000 of its inhabitants...
...Mills). "Beverage of Peace." In U.S. journal ism the junket has become an institution ranking somewhere between the Christ mas office party and the free pass to the ball game. In earlier times, newsmen were expected to pay for the hospitality with stories on the sponsored event -the open ing of a new hotel or service, the dedication of this, the initiation of that. Lately, the sponsor is content if reporters go home thinking warmly of his product...
...book's leading characters are, on the face of it, five heroes and one coward. Major Thomas Thorn-stocky, undistinguished, middle-aged-is the coward. Dur ing his first skirmish, he had crept trembling into a culvert. Partly in deference to his dead father, a crop-thwacking cavalryman, Thorn was not court-martialed. Instead, with thickly sabered irony, he was exiled from his outfit to become a writer of awards for the Medal of Honor. Without cynicism, Commanding General John J. Pershing (in an imaginary conversation) explained to Thorn the pressing need for medal winners: with U.S. entanglement...
Critics charge that the message in contemporary juveniles is one of tame social "adjustment" and of a vast, undifferentiat-ing tolerance. "Love thy neighbor." they say, has been replaced by "Love that minority." Books by the hundred set out to show that "the little Zulu or heathen Chinee is absolutely like you and me." Sociologist David Riesman analyzes Tootle as appropriate for bringing up children "in an other-directed mode of conformity": a story about a locomotive that learns to stay on the track like other docile little engines, instead of wandering happily in the fields. In Play With...