Word: jumped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tarpaulin on the desert floor and began breathing pure oxygen. In just five hours, red-haired Jet Pilot Joe Kittinger, father of two children, holder of the Distinguished Flying Cross for his historic balloon ascension to 96,000 ft. 2½ years ago (TIME, June 17, 1957), was to jump toward the earth from the fringes of space in the longest parachute leap in history...
Acorns & Juniper Berries. With 208 babies being born every minute, the population of the world is expected to increase by about 49 million people in 1959, may well jump from the present 2.8 billion to more than 6 billion by the turn of the century. And because the first impact of modern medical techniques on a primitive society is a startling drop in the death rate, the bulk of this explosive population increase has occurred in the underdeveloped nations: the combined population of Asia, Africa and Latin America has increased by 600 million since 1936, is expected to jump another...
Plant expansion will bound back to the 1957 record rate of $37.8 billion and could show a "startling" 30% jump to a rate of $43 billion by the end of the year, said William F. Butler, vice president of the Chase Manhattan Bank...
...Industrial production has tripled to $10 billion, with a 162% increase in steel (to 3.2 million tons), 133⅓% jump in electricity, a 100% jump in cement. In washing machines alone, Australia's appliance makers have gone from 6,500 units in 1948 to 181,400 last year...
Actually, De Beers turned out the first synthetic diamonds in 1958, but it kept this a secret while it hustled to get a jump on G.E. on patents. It filed provisional patent applications all over the world, including the U.S. where G.E. had no patent. The Defense Department had placed a secrecy ban on the G.E. process, only lifted it last September. The ban prevented G.E. from receiving a final patent that would have made their process a matter of public record...