Word: speaking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first opportunity was at his press conference last week, and he made careful plans to speak out. But the first question on the subject sharply illustrated the pettifogging nature of much of the talk about budget cuts. Asked William McGaffin of the Chicago Daily News: "Would you be willing to do without that pair of helicopters that have been proposed for getting you out to the golf course a little faster than you can make it in a car?" At the question Eisenhower showed more anger than most Washington correspondents have ever seen him betray. His face bleached, and then...
...plant in Smyrna, Del. (pop. 2,346), Farm Fertilizer Manufacturer Warner W. Price, Jr. decided to speak his piece to the Interstate Commerce Commission about the proposed 22% boost in railroad freight rates. Price got off a letter to the ICC opposing the increase, but he soon found that to get the ICC's full attention he would have to spread out letters like a farmer covering the north 40 with Price products. The ICC wanted him to send exactly 62 copies of his letter -24 for the ICC Secretary, 25 for the Washington lawyer representing the railroads interested...
...speak quite openly, Mr. Premier. The Norwegian people . . . might have to pay dearly for the bases which are built in Norway with foreign money, if the NATO strategists' plans are carried out. It is, of course, a natural right and duty for any state exposed to attack to make sure that the bases which are set up for the purpose of attack be liquidated at once. No one can expect anything else. The blow which would be directed toward destroying the aggressor's bases would inevitably hit much greater areas. One hydrogen bomb [can destroy] a radius...
High B.T.U. When engineers speak of fuel, they mean any material that yields energy as a result of chemical reaction. This definition excludes nuclear "fuels." e.g., U-235, but it includes thousands of lesser energy-yielders. Petroleum hydrocarbons (gasoline, kerosene, etc.) are the commonest aviation fuels only because they are plentiful, convenient and relatively cheap. Many other chemicals yield more energy. Hydrogen has the highest heat of combustion (52,000 B.T.U.* per lb.), but carbon is rather low (14.500 B.T.U. per lb.). Hydrocarbons, which contain both carbon and hydrogen, are therefore intermediate. Kerosene burned in jet engines yields only about...
Down & Out in Paris. Though Hartung, at his father's insistence, continued his academic art training, dabbling in mathematics on the side, he had by 1922 already stumbled on the secret of letting the line speak for itself. Set against monochrome backgrounds, it could float as joyously as a ribbon on a June breeze, take on the tension of coiled springs, jam up in anger, ascend in triumph or struggle behind the heavy, heavy black grillwork of despair. But for decades Hartung's new-found language spoke only to himself and a few fellow artists. Between...