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Word: ruggeder (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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As he whistled southeastward out of Oakland, Calif. in his T-33 jet one day last May, Air Force Lieut. David Steeves, like any pilot, could survey the earth beneath him with something of detached contempt. Traveling at better than 500 m.p.h., he seemed almost motionless in space. Just behind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: The Bad Earth | 7/15/1957 | See Source »

Emergency at G.M. With its share of the auto market down to about 41% so far this year, General Motors will spend between $500 million and $600 million, probably more than any other company, to make sure that it does not miss igsS's style parade, as it did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Onto 1958 | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

The tendency of empire builders is to grow cautious with size and success. But Ernest Tener Weir, who built his National Steel Corp. into a $675 million empire, never seemed to have a cautious moment. In defense of the free-enterprising society that gave him his chance, he loudly fought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TYCOONS: The Rugged Individual | 7/8/1957 | See Source »

Another "observation" of Martian life needed no telescope. Dr. Hubertus Strughold, chief of the Air Force's Department of Space Medicine, wrote a book a few years ago about Mars as an environment for living organisms (The Green and Red Planet, TIME, Aug. 24, 1953). His general conclusion was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Life on Mars? | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

Each day at dawn an explosion of sound reverberates through the hills above California's Carquinez Strait, 30 miles up San Pablo Bay from San Francisco and the Golden Gate. At the sandy tip of a new superhighway pushing across the hills from Richmond to the industrial town of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONSTRUCTION: March of the Monsters | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

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