Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wins a surprising amount of praise, though no large body of critics will yet agree that any one of them is a "master." Mastery, of course, has nothing to do with trends or experiments, only with individual achievement. Every master in the history of art stands alone on the rock of his own time...
Into the rail station at Peoria, Ill. last week slithered the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad's answer to the annual $700 million deficit of U.S. passenger trains: the Jet Rocket, a light, low train modeled after the Spanish Talgo. Built by ACF Industries, Inc., it is the first of the new lightweight trains to be owned by a U.S. railroad. It begins regular Chicago-Peoria passenger runs this week...
...Rocket has enough economic advantages over standard trains to make Rock Island hopeful of turning a profit on passenger operations. The four-car train, with a General Motors diesel locomotive, cost $788,000, with a per-seat cost of $2,300 v. $3,800 for conventional cars. The steel and aluminum train weighs 451,000 Ibs., slightly over half the 807,000 Ibs. of Rock Island's 20-year-old Peoria Rocket. Thus, the locomotive need develop only 1,200 h.p. v. 2,000 h.p. for conventional engines, makes the 161-mile Chicago-Peoria run on $10 worth...
Help for Enterprise. Such an approach does not guarantee smaller government. As the economy expands, the emergencies, and the problems of regulation and housekeeping, become more complicated (and the 1957 budget shows that the Federal Government is growing, much to the surprise of the original rock-ribbed Eisenhower budget-cutters). But the Eisenhower approach does guarantee that big government will not become an end in itself-its main concern with the economy is seen as encouraging an atmosphere of individual independence and enterprise in the growing economy around...
...level, nine-man citizens' committee that put together the report was New Mexico Publisher (the Santa Fe New Mexican) Robert M. Mc-Kinney, 45, who was tapped for the job because of his longtime friendship with Senator Clinton Anderson, Joint Committee chairman. A corporation director (Rock Island Railroad, International Telephone & Telegraph) and cattle breeder (Aberdeen Angus) but no scientist, Bob McKinney set his task forces to work ten months ago, organized 15 discussion groups of specialists, launched 50 special studies, interviewed 327 top experts in science, industry, agriculture, medicine...