Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...space and firing small rockets to correct its course, either by obedience to radio orders from the ground or under the instruction of its own inertial guidance system. After the course had been corrected, said the Soviet announcement, the rocket was detached from the station-most likely to keep it from interfering with the "station's" radio transmission-but it followed along on a very similar course. Unless the station has guiding apparatus of its own, the rocket will presumably follow it around the moon and back toward the earth...
...seemingly in genuous female and the obviously ingenious financier. In 1934, Use was ready to take over, and for years, she practiced the tough trade of running a movie studio; then the Red army moved on Berlin. Use escaped to Bavaria with only a handful of jewelry to keep her going...
...affecting U.S. business this year-and perhaps for years to come-was handed down last week by snow-mustached Judge Walter Jacob LaBuy. Framing the terms for the long-awaited divorce of Du Pont from its 23% control of General Motors stock, Judge LaBuy ruled that Du Pont may keep its 63 million shares (market value: $3.5 billion), but must give up its voting rights...
Anderson got strong backing from Per Jacobsson, managing director of the International Monetary Fund, who charged that dollar restrictions are now being used as "protectionist devices" to keep down foreign competition. To Anderson's great satisfaction, Jacobsson virtually signed the death warrant for dollar discrimination by promising that the fund would act on a tougher policy "in the very near future," thus launching a major new step for a freer world trade...
...return to the gold standard nonetheless want a price hike. They argue that the U.S. has artificially kept gold at a fixed price since 1934, while the prices of the world's goods and services have more than doubled, and that not enough gold has been produced to keep up with the world's economic strides. The freeing of gold, they feel, is a logical economic adjustment that would 1) step up production of gold, 2) increase the free world's purchasing power in dollars by some $20 billion (if the price were doubled), 3) bring most...