Word: sec
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With such help, plus the advantage of one of the fastest aircraft now flying, Lieut. Gustav B. Klatt, 29, set a new 2,419-mile west-to-east record of 3 hr. 5 min. 39.2 sec., landed at New Jersey's McGuire A.F.B. Captain Robert M. Sweet, 30, flying nonstop round trip (4,838 miles), broke the east-to-west record (despite 40-to-150-m.p.h. head winds) in 3 hr. 34 min. 8.8 sec. When he blinked past his home base, Sweet clocked a round-trip record-6 hr. 42 min. 6.7 sec.-averaging 721.9 m.p.h...
...Vuillard, appraised at $25,000, was placed on the stand, there was a long-drawn sigh of delight, followed by a bedlam of bids as 18 green-uniformed bid callers and four assistant auctioneers tried to keep up with the rush that shot the price in 2 min. 15 sec. from a $15,000 opener to a Vuillard world record of $70,000. To the consternation of the mink-coated main-salesroom elite, the loudspeaker bids from lesser collectors relegated to the TV sets kept right up with the big money...
...directing a crew of experts who are examining a bookful of possibilities, such as tighter pension and welfare fund rules, strong laws defining conflict-of-interest deals, a federal commission similar to the Securities and Exchange Commission, that would protect the public interest against corrupt union activities just as SEC clamps down on abuses in business financing. Arkansas' Democratic Senator John McClellan will doubtless offer a series of proposals growing out of his labor-rackets committee investigation...
...rocket took off directly upward, and curved away from the vertical soon after firing. It had several stages, but Pravda, giving few details, said merely that when the carrier reached several hundred kilometers altitude and was moving parallel to the earth's surface at 8,000 meters per sec. (about 18,000 m.p.h.), the satellite proper was detached from its protective nose-cone and the burned-out rocket. The three objects separated slowly, following slightly different orbits...
...soon as the balloon took off, it was out of human hands. When it reached 80,000 ft., automatic controls would ready the telescope and point it at the sun. They would take about 8,000 pictures (f/200, 1/1000 sec. exposure). Then, their duty done, they would separate the observatory from the balloon and drop it to earth on a giant parachute...