Word: skyrocket
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...production slumped to a piddling 5,317 tons. With new commercial uses, production is once more on the rise, reached about 106,000 tons last year. The aircraft industry is still the biggest user (29% Of U.S. output). At the exhibit was Douglas' needle-nosed Skyrocket, which has flown higher (79,494 ft.) and faster (1,238 m.p.h.) than any other airplane on record, and whose fuselage is fabricated from magnesium sheets. Other exhibits...
...Skyrocket, a swept-wing Skystreak. The Skyrocket was powered by a rocket engine with 6,000 lbs. of thrust when it set new altitude and speed records on Aug. 15, 1949. Lugged aloft by a Superfortress, the Skyrocket climbed to 79,494 ft. and screamed over Edwards Air Force Base at 1,238 m.p.h...
...NCAA rules on fouls are primarily responsible for the sudden scoring increase. The "one-and-one" rule on free throws which allows a player two chances to sink each foul has caused scores to skyrocket...
...announced the results of the flight: its XF-91, powered by a General Electric J47 turbojet and a Reaction Motors rocket engine, had become the first U.S. combat plane to fly through the sound barrier in level flight. (Other supersonic planes, e.g., the Bell X-1 and the Douglas Skyrocket, are experimental speedsters faster than Republic's XF-91 but not designed for battle.) The XF-91 had performed the trick with an extra push from its rocket motor...
Slapped, Ellis Arnall sounded another warning. The drought in Southern and Eastern states, said the former governor of Georgia, will cause food prices to "skyrocket." His lips were hardly closed before bald Secretary of Agriculture Charles Brannan baldly contradicted him. Said Brannan: The drought will not drive food prices up; its most serious impact has not been on food crops...