Word: lowers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Poorest Boom." The new need is electricity to power the province's growth. Since 1946, British Columbia Electric Co. has quadrupled its sales of electricity; but even so, the populous lower mainland and Vancouver Island face the prospect of power shortages by 1962, unless some new developments are opened. One mighty project calls for tapping the swift-running Eraser River, which alone could provide enough power to meet British Columbia's needs for years to come. A second idea is to develop the Columbia River, dammed at nine points in the U.S. and nowhere in Canada. The idea...
...sophisticated descendant of the X-1 rocket plane in which Test Pilot "Chuck" Yeager first broke the sound barrier (TIME, June 21, 1948), it is expected to reach 3,600 m.p.h.-twice the speed of a high-powered rifle bullet. Since such speeds cannot be maintained in the lower atmosphere, the X-15 will be carried to 35,000 ft. by a B-52, will then climb to an altitude of 100 miles. Burning liquid ammonia and liquid oxygen, its motor will develop 50,000 Ibs. of static thrust, and more power (500,000 h.p.) at full speed than...
...that NSA relies on Harvard support for its prestige and will mend its admittedly mendable ways because of Harvard's withdrawal is a preposterous one. The same technique failed when Soviet Russia walked out of the U.N., and there is no indication that it increases in efficacy on a lower level...
...Bruno de Leusse of the French Foreign Ministry will speak on "France and Algeria" at 8 p.m. tonight in the Adams House Lower Common Room. Thursday, at 7:30 p.m. in the Chapel Room of Phillips Brooks House, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., professor of History, will address the Harvard Young Democratic Club...
...theory behind the big Treasury refunding launched last January, said Lanston,"was that it should be set up to appeal to the rife speculation existing throughout the country that interest rates were bound to move lower." To attract speculators and investors, the Treasury issued a 3½% longterm bond at par when the market yield on Government bonds was only 3^%. "This was equivalent to undercutting the market price by five whole points. Surely, the speculators weren't supposed to stand idly...