Word: majority
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though, it was three lonely men who risked their lives and made the voyage. And in the course of that first soaring escape from the planet that was no longer the world, it was the courage, grace and cool proficiency of Colonel Frank Borman, Captain James Lovell and Major William Anders that transfixed their fellowmen and inscribed on the history books names to be remembered along with those of Marco Polo and Amundsen, Captain Cook and Colonel Lindbergh. In 147 hours that stretched like a lifetime, America's moon pioneers became the indisputable Men of the Year...
...change in the gold price remains highly unlikely, if only because it would do nothing to solve the basic imbalances in the major nations' currencies and economic policies. But moneymen are talking more and more about the need to revalue many currencies at once and to expand the world's monetary reserves by quickly creating a form of "paper gold," the so-called "Special Drawing Rights." To do this, they may decide to hold the first monetary summit meeting since the existing system was set up in 1944 at Bretton Woods, N.H. More likely, they will take less...
...Steel, which in past years often seemed more interested in conserving cash than investing in modernization, has lagged behind some of its competitors in adopting the industry's two major postwar innovations: the basic oxygen process and continuous casting. When Blough took over in 1955, the company had sales of $4.098 billion and earnings of $370 million. Profits reached a record high of $419 million in 1957, but then began dropping off fairly steadily. Last year sales were $4.067 billion and earnings were down to $172.5 million. So far in 1968, the company has increased both sales...
...last great underdeveloped markets for air travel reaches from the U.S. across the Pacific-to Japan, Australia, Southeast Asia and the islands in between. No major Pacific routes have been awarded by the U.S. Government since 1946, and airline executives have been lobbying long and hard to get more. The first leg of the air race ended last spring, when a Civil Aeronautics Board examiner recommended that the international business be divided up among five carriers. The final decision was up to the White House, which last week finally put an end to the marathon...
...bestseller. In Dubious Battle, dealing with an apple pickers' strike in California and the workers' exploitation by both capitalists and Communist organizers, further established his reputation, and Of Mice and Men, his fable of strength and weakness, solidified it. After 1940, however, Steinbeck produced only two major works -East of Eden and The Winter of Our Discontent-and neither equaled in power his work during...