Word: smaller
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real estate for the space age, have longed for years to see Venus occult a bright star. But such events are extremely rare. Venus looks big because of sunlight reflecting brightly from its faintly yellow cloud deck; actually, to earth-bound observers its disk is never larger (usually much smaller) than a golf ball seen from a distance of 500 ft. As the tiny sphere creeps slowly across the star field, it occasionally covers a faint star, but not once since the invention of the telescope 350 years ago has it covered anything like Regulus, a star of the first...
...came close to admitting that it had been a big flop: "It was like a flea crawling on an elephant. New York is so big that it absorbs almost anything. It's like China in that respect. Our type of crusade makes a far greater impact on a smaller city , . . Perhaps if we try it on a borough-to-borough basis, New York can be reached...
...same time, the hydro gen is heated to a temperature (about 2,000°-3,000° C.) just below that of the reactor, expands enormously, and blows out of the nozzle in a high-speed jet. Hydrogen is essential because its molecules are the smallest known, and the smaller the molecules in a gas jet the bigger its propulsive push...
BIGGEST ANTITRUST WAR of the year will be waged against food industry giants, for gobbling up smaller companies. FTC complains that supermarket chains have acquired 1,678 stores in past four years (v. only 560 stores in six years before that). Eight of FTC's largest merger cases involve groups of supermarkets, dairies or food processors. Among them: Kroger, National Tea, National Dairy, Borden, Pillsbury...
Along the highway, giant manufacturers such as Raytheon, RCA, Avco and Sylvania are hard at work on missile and space systems. Smaller firms make components and instruments-some of them so tiny that a week's production fits into the rear of a station wagon. Many of them are so sophisticated that even company brass are hard-put to explain how they operate. From 128's small companies come devices that can read print optically, or probe space to guide a missile...