Word: soaringly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real life they do not exist. No man-carrying craft has even approached space-yet. Now, after a two-year study, the Office of Naval Research and Douglas Aircraft Co. (builder of the supersonic Skyrocket) have decided that an "inhabited" rocket airplane can be built that will soar to 750,000 ft. (140 miles) and land on the earth safely. It will not be a spaceship in the strictest sense, but the air that it will traverse at the top of its flight will be as thin as a laboratory vacuum...
Rockets Above. When a hurricane comes within reach of Wallops Island, Va., the Navy will stand by to give it the works with two-stage rockets, which will soar 100 miles above it and take pictures of its spinning doughnut. The rockets' recording gear will be parachuted into the sea. When the blow is over, the instruments will call for help with small radio voices, and Navy rescue crews will hurry to pick them...
Newly elected N.A.D.A. President Carl E. Fribley, who has been selling Cadillacs in Norwich, N. Y. since 1931, warned that if unfair business practices cut the number of franchised dealers in the country, cars will not be serviced properly, and accident rates will soar. Said Executive Vice President Frederick J. Bell, a retired rear admiral who also serves N.A.D.A. as a public-relations expert: "We do not want soothing syrup. We want action, and we are going...
...seven nuclear power plants now abuilding or blocked out "on blueprints will produce less than 800,000 kw. by 1960 v. some 160 million kw. from conventional plants. But by 1965 atomic power could be competitive in cost with conventional plants, and by 1980 atomic-power capacity may soar to 135 million kw., 20% of the nation's total. The panel's forecast for atomic-power equipment sales from 1960-80: $27 billion. However, the overall U.S. demand for electric power will climb so fast that conventional power plants will also expand...
Haydn:Trumpet Concerto (Vanguard). Haydn's normally high spirits soar, even higher with Trumpeter George Eskdale...