Word: muching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overall measure of farmer unrest was totted up in dollars and cents last week by the U.S. Agriculture Department: primarily because of a drop in hog and chicken prices, total farm income fell much faster in 1959 than predicted only a month ago, will fall 15% below 1958 to about $11.2 billion, and will probably slide another 7% or more...
...will have to bring his own food, water, shelter and tools. But once established, there is ample reason, within the achievements already reached or within sight, to be sure that he can learn to live there. Compared with the planets and stars, the moon probably has a mineralogical composition much like the earth's. In this recognizable state, man could live by means of today's technology, crude as it is. He could, suggests Air Force Lieut. Colonel S. E. Singer in the Air University Quarterly Review, store the sun's abundant heat energy (daytime heat...
...present and the past. Even so, it is well to recognize that progress is not always attained in terms of today's conventions and reasonings. Man first tried to fly by flapping birdlike wings, but modern aircraft do not use this principle; nor do modern railroad cars bear much resemblance to the horse-drawn carriage prototypes. There must be a somewhat visionary or even fanciful approach to the future as well as a conventional one." New approaches to knowledge are as out of this world as the moon itself. Its airless environment and its fantastic temperature range make...
...mere mention of the Vice President's name drew storms of applause. A huge photomural of Dick Nixon's face (flanked by the images of Dwight Eisenhower and Abraham Lincoln) stared fixedly down at the challenger. Rockefeller's speeches drew respectful attention, but they were not much help. For his themes, Rocky stuck to above-it-all international problems, and his formal speeches were so high-flown, as Scripps-Howard Correspondent Albert M. Colegrove reported, that they "orbited right over the heads of his audience." (Sample: "The concept of the self-sufficient nation-state cannot...
...injunction that adjourned all union business meetings until the insurgents could exercise those rights. Result: Provenzano's forces caved in, last week signed a court stipulation postponing the election until mid-January, giving insurgents a fair chance to run a slate against the strong-arm regime. Without much of a court fight, Landrum-Griffin paid its first dividend...