Word: leys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that ambitious and ill-fated building project, the Tower of Babel, they have thought up endless projects to improve the universe, and an astonishing number of them have become reality, from the pyramids to Grand Coulee Dam. From those that have not yet come true, popular-science Writer Willy Ley has compiled a new book, Engineers' Dreams (Viking; $3.50). In it, he tells some of the projects modern engineers might accomplish-if they could get rid of political, social and economic...
...Tunnel. Ley leads off with the tunnel under the English Channel. The first proposal (1802) was ahead of its time, but practical. Work began at both ends in about 1880. The English pilot tunnel (6,500 ft. long) had electric lights and hand-drawn cars in which Gladstone, Disraeli and Queen Victoria rode on sightseeing trips. Then the British War Office, aided by the London Times, killed the channel tunnel. England, they warned, would be an island no longer; some enemy might grab the tunnel and pour troops through it. By 1884 the British stopped digging, and nothing has been...
...Mirror's publisher, Virgil M. Pink-ley, ex-U.P. general manager for Europe, knew what to do about that. He turned its front page around and set out aggressively to give the Mirror a crisp, sensational style ("All news stories are written too long, including those in the Mirror"). Los Angeles, said Pinkley, "needs a fighting newspaper [and] the Mirror is anyone's fist in a good fight." The paper picked its fights carefully, more often to woo new readers than for any lofty civic motives. Mirrormen breezily campaigned against everything from "black-market baby rackets...
William Swanson, Marshal of the the Law School's third year class, announced the elections of Sydnor I. Davis, Frank E. Ley, and Cecil R. Warner to the Executive Class Council. The previously announced members were elected by the School, but the Council elects these members to complete its ranks...
Other scientists in the Collier's project are Dr. Wernber von Braun, German rocket expert and present U.S. Army guided missiles chief: Dr. Joseph Kaplan, professor of Physics at U.C.L.A.: Heins Haber, of the Air Force's department of space medicine; and Willy Ley, a founder of the pre-war German Rocket Society...