Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...field parties, ten gravimeter and 15 seismographic crews, 36 wildcat rigs. But so far he has not found a single economically operable well outside of Bahia, despite the fact that Brazil has some 1,350,000 sq. mi. of potential sedimentary deposits. The big snags are a mile of solid rock beneath the surface in potential oil lands and, above the surface, miles of red tape...
Struggle for Survival. Like the Taft family that owned it, Cincinnati's Times-Star for generations had been an institution: sober, solid and solvent. The Times and Star were merged in 1880 by Charles Phelps Taft, half brother of William Howard Taft. In the 1930s and '40s, the ruggedly Republican afternoon daily vigorously backed Senator Robert A. Taft (who inherited a 5% share of the stock), reportedly earned as much as $1,000,000 a year. Through World War II, the Times-Star generally outhustled Scripps-Howard's competing afternoon Post...
...after the war, sticking to its conservative coverage and soberly written stories, the Times-Star began to lose ground to the Post, which combined flaring headlines and flamboyant crime stories with solid crusades for clean city government. In 1951 the Post passed the Times-Star in circulation (153,230 v. 150,489). Struggling for survival, the Times-Star twice tried to buy the third and largest paper in town, the morning Enquirer ("Solid Cincinnati Reads the Cincinnati Enquirer"), which has a morning and Sunday monopoly. But in 1956 Scripps-Howard bought control of the Enquirer for $4,059,000 (TIME...
...Centralization.' " The sale (at an undisclosed figure) means that solid Cincinnati will have to read Scripps-Howard. But Scripps-Howard President Jack Howard, 47, insists that the morning Enquirer (circ. 205,461) will be free to compete as it likes against the new afternoon Post and Times-Star (first press run: 318,000). "There will be no 'centralization' of editorial policies," said Howard. "Down in Memphis, where we own the Commercial Appeal and the Press-Scimitar, it seems our people hardly speak to each other. They're ruggedly competitive...
Explorer IV raised the Army's satellite batting average to .750; only Explorer II was a dud. The launching vehicle was the old reliable Jupiter-C-a Redstone rocket as the first stage, topped with assemblies of small solid-propellant rockets. The propellant in the third and fourth stages had more punch, permitting the weight of the final satellite to be raised to 38.43 lbs., a gain...