Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London, Socialist Silkin smoothly explained, was smothering in its own amorphous bulk. To relieve congestion the Government planned a series of new satellite towns, each with its own factory, home and business districts divided by parklike "green belts." The population of Stevenage would rise from 6,000 to 60,000. It would lose the picture-book aspect it had worn since 1281, when it was chartered to the Abbot of St. Peter's, Westminster. Stevenage would be new, up-to-date...
This particular rocket was not allowed to rise as high as possible (some 120 miles) or to reach its full horizontal range (230 miles). Its only payload: a radar beacon, to make it easier to track, and an assortment of dummy instruments, for crash survival tests. But the Army has more V-25, most of them now being assembled by General Electric Co. from captured German parts. It plans to fire them one a week. They will shoot higher and farther, and will carry elaborate instruments to report by radio every detail of their performance...
...very uneven battle: 85%* of the American people wanted OPA continued. The N.A.M. and a lot of pressure groups did not. The result: our "patriotic" Congressmen voted 356-10-42 to cripple OPA. Let the people rise and give the Congressmen the proper alternative: either represent us properly or face the consequences on Election...
Bizet: Carmen (Rise Stevens, Nadine Conner, Raoul Jobin and Robert Weede, with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, George Sebastian conducting; Columbia, 10 sides). A pedestrian presentation, in which the best efforts are Stevens' Habanera and Baritone Robert Weede's bully Toreador Song. Performance: fair...
...thing out of Dante's Inferno, frothing with burning gas, squirting great cherry-red fountains from a shimmering pool of lava. Sometimes the lava overflows, oozes down the mountain; sometimes it blows a vent through the wall of the cone below the crest; and again it may rise in the crater well, put on incomparable pyrotechnics, then retire under a hardening shell...