Word: space
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...library will have twice the shelf space necessary at present, thus allowing for expansion. Eventual plans may include special rapid loan service, a closed-circuit television system, and novel centralized cataloguing, Esterquest said that the lighting plans and study-stalls in the new building will be like those in Lamont...
...activity in missiles, rockets and outer-space vehicles has spawned a whole galaxy of new magazines. Last week a team of space journalists announced that they will try to establish still another publishing constellation. Erik Bergaust, 33, editor of Missiles and Rockets (paid circ. 23,091), and four of his top associates are leaving Wayne Parrish's American Aviation Publications to form their own publishing house...
...billion a year to an estimated $7 billion. Operating on the Wayne Parrish rule that each $1 billion industry segment deserves its own publication. Bergaust decided that "the business is big enough for us all." This week he will offer a five-day-a-week industry newsletter called Space Business Daily (cost: $125 a year). Later he expects to launch other publications in the field of space-age ground support, electronics and propulsion...
...human species seems headed for space, where the practical pickings are few and exceedingly hard to pick. Much more profitable, many scientists believe, would be a vigorous attack on the earth's own oceans. They cover more than two-thirds of the planet's surface, contain the bulk of its life. But most of their dark bottoms and middle depths are not so well known as the visible surface of the moon...
...York Stock Exchange suspended trading in Jacobs stock for failure to file financial statements. Last week SEC suspended over-the-counter trading in Jacobs and Bon Ami. When space was booked in Guterma's name on a plane to Ankara, SEC quickly obtained a warrant for his arrest, said that losses to investors would reach many millions. Picked up with him was a longtime financial associate, Robert J. Eveleigh, who was found in a Manhattan call girls' apartment fortnight ago when police raided...