Word: motorized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...operations, he can now get around without a cane. Among his hit musicals: Fifty Million Frenchmen, Gay Divorce, Anything Goes, Jubilee, Red Hot and Blue. Having launched what may prove his biggest hit, he plans a new show for the same producers in the fall-but first he will motor on the Continent and cruise in the Mediterranean...
...about five miles a second) which would whirl it around the earth in about 100 minutes. Even the latest rockets do not carry enough fuel to get well above the atmosphere (some 500 miles) and settle into orbits. But atomic-powered rockets might theoretically do it. An atomic rocket motor might be one of the "components" that Forrestal's men are working...
...forward speed on its orbit, they would stand still in space for an instant. Then they would fall vertically toward the earth. The whole satellite could be brought down on a target in either of these ways by giving it a powerful push from its nuclear rocket motor. But unless the operation were done with wondrous precision, the bomb could as well fall on Moscow, Idaho, as on Moscow, Russia...
Born. To Henry Ford II, 31, president of the Ford Motor Co. (and grandson of the founder), and Anne McDonnell Ford, 30, granddaughter of Utilitycoon Thomas E. Murray: their third child, first son; in Detroit. Weight...
...Government has expanded into a complex array of domestic and worldwide activities. It now sprawls out in 23 departments, 104 bureaus, 460 offices, 631 divisions, 40 boards. Over the globe it owns more than 5,000 buildings (139 in Washington alone) and more than 1,000,000 motor vehicles, worth about $2 billion. Its records would fill six buildings the size of the Pentagon. Overlapping and duplication of effort abound. Example: a Columbia River salmon, swimming upstream to spawn, comes under the jurisdiction of twelve different federal agencies concerned with fish and wildlife...