Word: pers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Able rocket, lifting cleanly into an overcast sky with steadily increasing acceleration. Two minutes and 40 seconds later the second stage fired smoothly, then the third. Out from the sides of the globular pay load unfolded four strange paddles. As the "paddlewheel satellite" tumbled through space at 171 revolutions per minute, 8,000 solar cells in the 20-inch-square vanes picked up the sun's energy to charge the chemical batteries, send messages back to the earthlings. Seventeen minutes after launching, its first radio signals beeped to the tracking station in Manchester. England. By 1 o'clock...
...lies in supplies, of which Hassi Messaoud alone consumes 2,400 tons a week. Almost everything but water (which is mercifully plentiful underground) has to be flown or trucked into the camps from Algiers. A truck driver on the Algiers-Edjelé run, accustomed to six or seven blowouts per trip, and to having his truck frequently immobilized by sandstorms for days on end, says: "Every time I reach Edjelé, I collapse more or less where I stand, and swear I will never make the run again...
...sellers' market of prosperity. Rising demand from industry and consumers has increased delivery time on new orders and created scattered shortages for freight cars and trucking rigs. It has also brought a short supply of labor in many skilled trades and slowed the rate of gain in output per worker as the number of jobholders has increased. "Under these circumstances," forecast the bank, "it appears likely that any substantial further increases in demand may exert additional upward pressure on prices...
...since the end of World War II. General Motors' Chairman Frederic G. Donner reported that corporate sales of $3.3 billion in the second quarter were the second best in history for that period (best: igss's $3.4 billion). G.M.'s first-half earnings climbed to $2.08 per share, v. $1.17 in the same period last year. Westinghouse Electric Corp. showed how well it had stepped up efficiency under President Mark W. Cresap Jr., raised second-quarter earnings to a record $1.12 per share, through operating economies that overcame lower sales. For the first half, Westinghouse earned...
Other half-year earnings (per share...