Word: lateness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...million Ibs. thrust, enough to send big payload to the moon, will be built by North American Aviation's Rocketdyne Division. Under new Army contract, company will put together a cluster of eight engines, using Thor and Jupiter components. Engine will be ready for tests by late 1959. Rocketdyne also won recent Air Force contract for 1,000,000-lb.-thrust engine (TIME...
Into Manhattan's apparel district last week hurried 2,795 out-of-town buyers, biggest number ever for a September week, all clamoring for quick delivery of new orders. Shelves were bare back home because the buyers had ordered cautiously last June (TIME, June 30), and the late summer surge cleaned out stocks. Retailers believe the pickup will grow stronger in the fourth quarter. The National Retail Merchants Association polled 225 members with total yearly sales of more than $2.5 billion, found that 52% expect second-half sales to rise an average of 4% over the year-ago level...
Full House. While oil companies, hotels and airlines started their own credit cards years ago, the fast-growing new market for a broad new type of card was pioneered in 1950 when Lawyer Ralph E. Schneider, 49, Hollywood and Broadway Producer Alfred Bloomingdale, 42, and the late Frank X. McNamara founded Diners' Club. They built up a roster of 17,000 restaurants, hotels, motels and specialty shops that were glad to pay them a 7% fee for the business of their 750,000 members...
With a brilliant eye for contrast, he leaves these "resurrected" to describe a nearby cemetery where 8.000 mummies are on view, dating from the 16th century to as late as 1920, and including priests, professors, young virgins, even "an American consul with a big black mustache." The book is at its best in an account of how New York City's Mayor Vincent ("Mr. Impy") Impellitteri returned to his native village in 1951. With no blasphemous intent, Levi describes the visit in the way some of the simpler Sicilians might have seen it-as the story of the Saviour...
Sack Bencher. In Wellington, N.Z., during a late session of Parliament, Chairman of Committees Reginald Keeling rebuked Opposition Member Dean Eyre, said: "Will the honorable member please speak more quietly, for some members are sleeping...