Word: soaringly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Draft calls will soar to 28,000 a month this summer, and the Air Force, for the first time, may get a share of the draftee manpower pool, according to Selective Service officials in Washington last night...
ELECTRIC power output, which recently hit a weekly record of 9,000,000,000 kwh, will soar 160% in the next 14 years, predicts Philip Sporn, president of American Gas & Electric Co. By 1968, the U.S. will be using power at the rate of 1,138,000,000,000 kw-h a year...
...amazed its critics with a phenomenal postwar building boom. In the short space of seven years, the big city has grown so fast that if all the new buildings were piled up, they would form a man-made mountain more than twice as tall as Mount Everest; Americans could soar 13 miles high in an elevator...
...these and other grim statistics as determined by the government's 1951 census, India's Census Commissioner and a top civil servant, R. A. Gopalaswami, urged his countrymen to do something about "improvident maternity." As things are now going, he estimates that India's population will soar to 520 million by 1981. "Every married couple can have a maximum of three children without creating a national problem," said Gopalaswami, "but we should realize that it is improvident on our part to permit ourselves to increase in numbers indefinitely without taking thought of how our children...
...Leagues. The dollars have been pouring in during the past three years. In 1949, Curtiss-Wright did $128 million worth of business; this year the figure will soar well over $400 million, and profits have more than tripled to $9,000,000. Roy Hurley has another way of figuring his company's economic health. With the new assembly line and better tools, each of the 20,000 workers at Curtiss-Wright's Wood-Ridge plant will turn out $14,000 worth of engines a year. Says Hurley, "That's just about what the auto companies like General...