Word: space
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...decision will be made by taking a galaxy census in a large chunk of space so distant that the galaxies in it are seen on earth as they were 5 or 6 billion years ago. If the galaxies prove to be crowded closer together than they are in the section of space near the earth, the primeval atom will have won the contest-since, according to the cosmic evolutionary theory, the universe was much smaller 6 billion years ago and its galaxies were therefore closer together...
...steady state theory holds that the universe's matter was no more concentrated then than it is now. Its stars and galaxies change and develop, but the universe as a whole does not grow old. It had no beginning and will have no end, either in time or space...
...last year, and specialty store sales dropped $1,250,000. Impulse and mailorder sales-both directly responsive to newspaper ads-were down even more sharply. In desperation, some Manhattan merchants pasted ads in subway coach windows-at $2,000 a day for four displays in each car-or bought space in neighborhood papers, e.g., the Greenwich Village Villager, which was not affected by the strike. On 42nd Street, Stern's department store installed eight pretty girls in show windows to chalk sales specials on blackboards, got so much response that the girls may be used even after the newspapers...
Starting in January, stocks on the big board took off with a whoosh that by December sent the market up 37% and carried every average out into space. Coming in a time of recession, the market's amazing moon shot baffled most of the experts. But it was no mystery to the investors whose buying sent it up. In 1958 they could plainly see for the first time that the U.S. was blessed with a new kind of economy, different from any ever seen on the face of the earth...
...bringing great benefits to consumers. In 1958 the commercial jet age was born out of the Air Force bombers. In fiscal 1959 the U.S. will spend an increasing amount, as much as $5 billion, on electronic controls and gadgets of all kinds for the new family of missiles and space probes. Out of this vast spending already have come miniature electronic brains and controls for machines, and a whole new family of electric civilian devices. Transistors and other semiconductors are as useful in pocket radios and TV sets as in missiles...