Word: j
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...GORDON J. SEVERSON FAIRBANKS, ALASKA...
...Convair's beige-carpeted board room in San Diego. Gathered there were Convair officials and the Pentagon's Roy Johnson, chief of the new Advanced Research Projects Agency. Subject of the discussion: Sputnik III. Said Johnson: "We've got to get something big up." Replied J. Raymon Dempsey, manager of Convair's Astronautics Division (since named a vice president): "Well, we could put the whole Atlas in orbit...
...Kansas' Sixth District, where the margin of Incumbent Republican Wint Smith over Democrat Elmo J. Mahoney was so narrow (233 votes) that the committee recommended an investigation of Mahoney's charge of irregularities...
...billion annually, a new record, and industrial production was back up to 142 on FRB's index, only four points below the alltime peak. Where to in 1959? As usual, the forecasters see clearly for six months: a gradual, continuing recovery without explosive boom. Says Louis J. Paradiso, chief statistician for the Commerce Department: "1959 will be moderate. The graph will go back to saucer form. The momentum of the recovery will show a very good rate of increase in the first half, with the second half showing no acceleration...
...Steel will average 79% of capacity in 1959, says Jones & Laughlin's President Avery C. Adams. He figures a steady rise to 91% of capacity in the second quarter, total production of 115 million tons, "and J. & L. will do better than these rates...