Word: size
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Brazil had little to lose in the try. Roughly equal in size to the U.S., it was still a poor, nonindustrial, coffee-based country after World War II. Now Brazil has a spreading highway net, modernized railroads, more than $1 billion worth of new power dams, improved port facilities, even a $100 million new capital in the interior-Brasilia-that focuses the nation's eyes on the untapped west. Along with this public investment, a private industrial giant has grown up at the lively pace of the sambas that are played in some factories to keep production hopping. Samples...
...waist-length pigtail, goofy clowning and hillbilly charm, Comedienne Burnett seems to have escaped from a cartoonist's drawing board. Whether she is quaffing one goblet of mead too many, chewing the wax grapes in her corsage and spitting out the seeds, or opening her mouth to grapefruit size to bellow that she's Shy, Actress Burnett makes her musical comedy debut a choicely comic event...
...hydrogen-oxygen rocket of appreciable size has flown so far, but for a year Aerojet-General Corp. has been ground-testing hydrogen rocket motors at its Sacramento plant. Some tests have yielded more than 100,000 Ibs. of thrust. The treacherous new fuel burns cleanly and smoothly, and it is not as hard to store and get along with as some doubters feared...
Argonne's new facility contains a series of airtight compartments. Each will be equipped with miniature machines and filled with helium to prevent spontaneous combustion. The ingots of plutonium, about the size of a matchbox, will be handled by remote control, or through the 1,576 "glove ports," where the workers put their hands into long rubber gloves fitted to holes in the glass viewing panels...
...Johnson, 29, of the Navy's medical corps, was measuring the power density of microwave radiation from radar beams aboard the guided-missile cruiser Galveston. All at once he felt a slight burning sensation in his backside. Dr. Johnson happened to have a couple of neon lamps (the size of flashbulbs) in his hip pocket. With no wires or other connections, the lamps had glowed and heated up when he got in the way of radar waves...