Word: pioneers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...radio voice of U.S. space probe Pioneer V grew painfully feeble last week...
...Teletype-lined room at Space Technology Laboratories in El Segundo. Calif, gathered a group of tense men. There was a chance that the big transmitter might malfunction and that in its failure it might silence completely its five-watt companion, leaving Pioneer V with no voice at all. Before being sent into space, the big transmitter had been tested rigorously. It had been shaken, spun, heated and cooled. It had survived all such tortures, but no test on earth could duplicate the hostile environment of space...
Space Technology Laboratories gave the first order, and up from Jodrell Bank flashed a preliminary signal. Traveling at the speed of light. 186.300 miles per second, it took 43 seconds to reach Pioneer...
...Certain Grandeur. In such Ryder canvases as his famous Toilers of the Sea, the genius of the dreamer comes through with its familiar brooding power. But when Bierstadt was confronted by a scene like Lake Tahoe, he displayed a certain grandeur worthy of the sweep of the pioneer country he painted. A month ago, a dealer offered $15,000 for a Bierstadt that went for only $2,200 in 1946. If Ryder remains the master, Bierstadt. too, is still a part of the permanent American gallery...
Dowling's City Investing was a pioneer in making factories airy, pleasant places to work, has built multimillion-dollar industrial parks at Edison Township. N.J., Elmira, N.Y.. Atlanta. When the Pennsylvania Railroad decided to build its Penn Center in downtown Philadelphia, it called on Dowling for the planning. He urged the road to sacrifice some office rental space in favor of setback buildings with fountains, air and light, convinced Pennsy brass that what was lost in footage would be made up in higher rent. When Pittsburgh was having trouble deciding how to go about redeveloping its gritty downtown...