Word: sonics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sonic Barriers. Largely as a result of Wallace's advocacy, the "farm problem" of today is vastly different from the cruel paradox of the Depression, when farmers went broke amid bounteous production. Today, despite ever more plentiful crops, the efficient farmer is assured of a decent living, contributes his buying power to the economy and his output to the hungry of the world. He may be part of a "permanently subsidized peasantry," as Charles Shuman, president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, insists, but he stands tall on his land...
...below its original cost. Craig himself designed the car's aluminum and fiber-glass body; the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. agreed to foot most of the bill (about $200,000) and supply tires guaranteed to 850 m.p.h. Breedlove named the car Spirit of America-Sonic I, obliquely announced: "I'm not going to try to break the sound barrier-unless I have...
...that case, he says, property owners may properly claim invasion. But "no recovery will be allowed for the mere annoyance caused by sonic booms, even though the annoyance may be severe enough to occasion a decline in property values...
...Doctrine. Lawyer Spater argues that Causby and Batten should continue to be controlling decisions in the coming age of "sonic booms" caused by aircraft operating at supersonic speed...
...sees it, sonic booms cause ground damage only when supersonic aircraft negligently accelerate at low altitudes...