Word: salmons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Specks of Blue. When the rocket burned out. the Gs died down to nothing The blackness in Stapp's eyes turned briefly to yellow, and like a fleeting vision he caught a glimpse of the world. It was gone in a blur of salmon-colored light a the water brake took hold and powerful deceleration forces, up to 35 Gs, slammed him against his belts...
...though my eyes were being pulled out of my head-about the same sort of sensation as when a molar is being yanked an you feel the roots begin to give. I had great difficulty breathing because of the tightness of my chest strap. When the sle stopped, the salmon blur was still there." As a medical man, Stapp knew that th Gs had pulled his eyeballs outward an "impinged them against the eyelids." He did not know how far they had pulled, or whether the retinas had-been detached (which would have made him permanently blind). "After the sled...
Correspondents George Bookman and Mary Elizabeth Fremd began working with Government agencies in Washington. From Seattle. Bob Shnayerson reported the burgeoning picture of the Northwest from sockeye salmon to the timber boom. The general condition of Midwest business was reported by George Harris in Chicago. Fred Collins reported the automotive story of Detroit. Cleveland's progress as a major automotive and chemical center, the uranium-stock boom in Salt Lake City, the new skyscraper skyline of Denver, were parts of the big story that began to flow in to our New York editorial offices...
...Salmon & Aluminum. In Washington and Ottawa last week, both the U.S. and Canadian governments were enthusiastic about the new plan, praised it for its cooperative approach. Besides Mica Creek, federal and private dam builders have projects for 49 more dams with a combined potential of some 11,900.000 kw., enough to give the Northwest power aplenty. But on most of them, battles over who shall build the dams, water rights, etc. are blocking construction. One of the most serious fights is between dam builders and conservation groups. So far, conservationists have filed "major" objections to 20 projects, "minor" objections...
Sean O'Casey is a literary salmon who splashed out of a Dublin slum, leaped the rapids of poverty, and has never stopped swimming stubbornly upstream to spawn his silvery prose. Sunset and Evening Star is the sixth and final volume of his lively, third-person autobiography. With cantankerous, merry and garrulous gusto, the 74-year-old O'Casey evokes the great shades of Irish letters-Yeats, Shaw, Joyce-without fully clinching his eventual right to join them. But "bad or good, right or wrong, O'Casey's always himself," probably the world's greatest...