Word: montes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ancient, half-ruined village of Mont Louis in the French Pyrenees, a great, flat mirror, nearly 40 ft. on a side, stares all day at the sun, turning automatically. Facing it is a parabolic mirror almost as big, into which the flat mirror throws reflected sunlight. The combination acts as a gigantic burning glass which can melt 130 Ibs. of iron in an hour. The fierce spot of concentrated sunlight can bore holes through aluminum oxide (the material used to line electric furnaces...
Whistle-stopping at Havre, Mont., the President charged that Ike had been slow to recognize the Soviet threat after World War II. "His advice," said Truman, "carried great weight and it therefore did a great deal of harm." (New York's Governor Tom Dewey countered this charge in a television show-see below...
Johns Hopkins Science Review (Mon. 8:30 p.m., Du Mont). First of three programs on "How Will We Conquer Space...
JAMES E. MURRAY U.S. SENATOR FROM MONTANA GREAT FALLS, MONT...
...this development program is the turbulent Missouri River, longest on the continent, stretching 2,465 miles from Three Forks, Mont. to the silt-choked mouth which empties into the Mississippi River, ten miles above St. Louis. Besides other names, many unprintable, the Missouri has been called "the most useless river there is." Government engineers, pointing up their hopes of a harnessed watershed, call it the River of Gold. Farmers who live by its banks and have fought its silt-laden flood tide year after year call it the Big Muddy...