Word: lows
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shining low in the north and the weather (10° F.) was balmy for Antarctica when Britain's Dr. Vivian E. Fuchs and his band of tractor-borne scientists paraded into Scott Station on the Ross Sea. The New Zealanders manning the station greeted them with a brass band: a trombone, washboards and garbage-can lids. Sled dogs howled a mournful welcome, and Americans from the nearby headquarters of Operation Deep Freeze presented a cake iced with the flags of Britain and New Zealand. Said bearded "Bunny" Fuchs: "We did what we set out to do." What...
Tricky Return. Return to earth will be the most ticklish part of the flight. The pilot will have the help of special flight instruments, and his object will be to meet the atmosphere at a very low angle to minimize speed and heating. The temperature of some parts of the structure is expected to reach 1,000° F. If the temperature rises too high, the pilot may point the nose upward to get into thinner air and let the ship cool off. Gradually the X-15 will lose both speed and altitude. When it has lost enough of both...
Before the N.H.S. was launched in 1948, optimists estimated that it would cost $490 million a year; of this, $355 million would come from general tax funds, the balance from individual contributions of up to about 20? a week. But the estimates proved woefully low...
...work after World War II, when its shabby flatware industry was nearly defunct. The first few small orders from occupation forces for stainless-steel flatware helped keep its 15,000 people alive. Then in 1949, some U.S. cutlery companies saw in Tsubame a wonderful opportunity. The U.S. companies wanted low-priced stainless steelware to undercut the high-quality product that Europeans had begun shipping to the U.S. They sent technicians to Tsubame, supplied it with equipment, orders and credits When U.S. silverware makers also be gan feeling hot European competition against their plated tableware, they too joined in building...
Operators of dry-cargo tramp steamers are in even tougher shape. With transatlantic shipping rates at a postwar low ($3.10 per ton for coal v. $16 per ton a year ago), many shipowners are going $10,000 to $20,000 in the red on each voyage. And like tankermen, Greek tramp operators are busy laying up vessels, have already mothballed about 20% of their ships. Altogether, the Greeks control a 5,500,000-ton fleet comprising half the world's tramp tonnage...