Word: slowed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ease shipping slow-ups, Canada's St. Lawrence Seaway Administration last week dismayed millions of U.S. and Canadian small boat owners by barring pleasure craft less than 20 ft. from the Canadian locks, i.e., every lock from Montreal to Lake Erie except two U.S. locks near Massena...
...Pressed for specifics, he allowed: "The parks looked as if they had been turned into a bedroom." Still an ambiguous witness, he served up some advice for all young folks: "The new generation is better acquainted with Jayne Mansfield's statistics than they are with the Seventh Commandment . . . Slow down! Sex is a great thing-so long as it is not misused." Then, after he sipped tea with Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip at Buckingham Palace, Sightseer Graham was at last pinned down by an insistent reporter just as he was boarding a plane for Moscow. What "embarrassed...
Airplanes are fast, but they use a lot of power to keep a payload in the air. Surface ships carry a lot of cargo, but water resistance keeps them slow. Last week Britain's Saunders-Roe, Ltd. (aircraft) demonstrated a hybrid craft that is neither ship nor airplane, but has some of the advantages of both. Called the Hovercraft, it moves a little way above the surface of land or water, supported on a nearly frictionless cushion...
Until last week, the most nagging worry of the recovery was the relatively slow drop in the rolls of the unemployed. After the jobless held at about 7% of the labor force through most of the recession, the figures dipped below 6% in November, then stayed between 5% and 6% throughout the winter, causing the experts to wonder if they might not hover there indefinitely. The May breakthrough proved the experts happily wrong, particularly since the best news came from the manufacturing industries hardest hit by recession. At a time when factory employment normally stabilizes as producers start slowing down...
Dull orange underside and shaded slate topside, the world's biggest submarine this week poised for its slow, stern-first slide into the Thames River at Groton, Conn. The submarine George Washington SSB(N) 598-longer than a football field (380 ft.) and, at 5,600 tons, almost twice the weight of Nautilus-would carry with it the U.S. Navy's highest hopes for the future. It is the first of the submarines designed around the Polaris ballistic-missile weapons system...