Word: skies
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Like sleet out of a grey winter sky, gloomy economic reports pelted out of Washington. The December industrial-production index drooped 7% below the level of December 1956. Personal income fell off in the steepest monthly drop since the alltime peak of last August. Year-end unemployment edged up 200,000 to 3.4 million to make it 5.2% of the labor force, the highest December rate since the recession year...
...signal sent out 24 hours a day by the National Bureau of Standards' station WWV near Washington, D.C. In daytime the signal reflects strongly from the ionosphere, but at night the ionosphere is less effective, so the signal gets much weaker. When a small meteor streaks across the sky, it leaves behind it a trail of ionized air that acts as a small reflector. The ionized air increases the strength of the Washington time signals for a couple of seconds...
...eight fragments failed to show up. Next day three more were gone. On Jan. 9 a single fragment spread its little ionosphere for Dr. Kraus to record. It appeared again on Jan. 10, but on Jan. 11 Dr. Kraus searched the sky in vain...
...scientists are giving the top of the atmosphere a going-over from a dozen different angles. Cameras photograph the aurora (caused by particles from the sun), and other sensitive instruments measure the faint glow of the night sky. Radio experts keep track of the yearly, daily, hourly and minute-by-minute changes in the layers of electrified air that are so important to long-distance communication...
...their oppressed brethren, and the Tzarist general staff is composed of dunderheads and tools of women. Bullets cannot touch the heroic leader, and his heroic troops stem the Turkish hordes by hurling rocks and corpses. A Bulgarian captive breaks away from his captors and, standing silhouetted against the night sky, cries "We will gain our freedom," and hurls himself into the abyss below...