Word: ring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Every few years the U.S. public is treated to an economic wrestling match in a big steel ring. First, the nation's steelmakers, usually citing wage increases, begin to talk about raising their prices. Then from the U.S. Senate come powerful protests; Republican Robert Taft led the crusade against one of the first postwar hikes in steel prices in 1948, and Democrat Estes Kefauver fought the last one in 1958 by rising to complain in 13 out of 14 consecutive Senate sessions...
...Open End discussion shows on Hollywood's much-publicized Clan and invite Frank ("The Leader") Sinatra to participate? Back from Frankie came a telegram stating his price: $250,000 an hour. Piqued, David fired off an answering wire: "Presume stipulated fee is for your traditional program of intramural ring-a-ding-dinging with additional fillip of musical lyrics mounted on TelePrompTer. Please advise price for spontaneous discussion." But Sinatra emerged the victor by a cable's length: "The $250,000 fee is for my usual talent of song and dance. However, now that I understand the picture...
...lower atmosphere puts almost half of its energy into shock waves that travel through the air, turning first into audible sound waves with a thunderlike bang, then into fluctuations of pressure. Microbarographs can detect this pressure wave more than 1,000 miles away. The U.S. has a ring of microbarographs waiting for interesting waves to wash down from the Soviet border. A clear reading from a microbarograph gives a good estimate of an explosion's punch...
...this could not be accomplished in time to save the railroads. The rail subsidy, claimed the commission, would serve only as a stopgap measure until the day when subsidies could be trimmed all around to equalize competition for everybody in the business of moving people. This had a plausible ring, but even those who favored the ICC plan found it difficult to believe that railroad handouts, once begun, would ever...
NONFICTION / 1. The Making of the President 1960, White (1) 2. A Nation of Sheep, Lederer (3) 3. Inside Europe Today, Gunther (4) / 4. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (2) / 5. The New English Bible (5) / 6. Ring of Bright Water, Maxwell (6) / 7. Russia and the West under Lenin and Stalin, Kennan (7) 8. America - Too Young to Die! DeSeversky »-' 9. The Spanish Civil War, Thomas (8) »-' 10. Nobody Knows My Name, Baldwin...