Word: reached
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American Petroleum Institute, General Motors planned to take the wraps off a still more advanced high-compression engine-the "19XX"-which answers the oilmen's objections. Like Kettering's, it has a 12-to-1 compression ratio, but it operates on 96-octane gas, within easy reach of refineries now making high-test gasoline (90-octane). G.M. has installed the engine in a 1951 Cadillac, put it through stiff road tests. Combined with a powerful new (and still secret) automatic transmission, the engine has already proved that it can cut gas consumption from 29% to 40%, depending...
Under the nose of two other Esso tankers, which had spent the day hunting survivors, the Virginia, owned by National Bulk Carriers, Inc., moved in after dark. Her men boarded the Greensboro while flames still flickered and began the slow tow to port. Last week the Virginia reached Galveston with its prize, and captain & crew got ready to put in their claim on the $2,000,000 tanker and about 100,000 barrels of oil cargo in six compartments which the fire failed to reach...
...week's end, a majority of the trustees, gathered in Manhattan for an emergency session, finally stepped in to call a halt to the whole tragic affair. Before they could reach a decision, they received one final shock: Rollins' idolized ex-President Holt died in Putnam, Conn., at 78 (see MILESTONES...
...Their leader, Sister Superior Maria Loretta, had spent 27 uninterrupted years in China's interior; all the others had served at least 18 years, and expected never to see the U.S. again. Their orphanage, hospital and teaching mission were tucked away in mountainous upper Hunan, far out of reach of electric lights and telephones. But not out of reach of Mao Tse-tung...
...earns 25 percent." He explained that Big Business makes profits to plough back so as to make bigger profits to plough back again--"this is the lifeblood, the circulation of capitalism." "Now, there's no place to plough it back. Capitalism has lost much," he said, "and it MUST reach out for what it has lost, or die. Revolution is the obstacle...