Word: specializes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rose a Senator who had recently beheld the wonders of the universe with Washington's keenest political eye. As the opening order of business. Senate Majority Leader Lyndon Baines Johnson moved consideration of a senatorial first step into space, to wit, his own resolution, establishing a Senate special committee on Astronautical and Space Exploration. Under Lyndon Johnson's sure hand the motion carried 78-1; Louisiana's Allen J. Ellender, who opposes all new committees on principle, saw no reason to make an exception for outer space...
...reportedly raped in the school basement. Later a hoodlum from the outside punched a policeman on the school grounds, and two other hoodlums, also from the outside, assaulted the school's recreation director. As a result of these incidents, Principal George Goldfarb, 55, was twice called before a special grand jury investigating juvenile delinquency in the schools. He was supposed to appear a third time last week...
Because of such dogged reporting and special services, Women's Wear Daily (10? an issue, $12 a year; circ. 47,215) has long been required reading for those who design, make or sell clothes for the American woman. Macy's alone takes 112 subscriptions. So influential is Women's Wear that a four-line story on a back page about a dress that is selling well will bring dozens of inquiring phone calls from retailers around the country. Women's Wear does its level best to wield its power impersonally, never disparages any style, and like...
...launching vehicle that put it there was a special, four-stage version of the Army's test rocket, the Jupiter-C. Its first stage, which contributed most of the push into space, was the familiar, well-tested Redstone, fitted for the occasion with slightly longer fuel tanks, and burning a hydrazine-based, exotic fuel called Hydyne, which gave more thrust than its motor's usual diet of alcohol. Stuck on its nose was an awkward-looking, cylindrical "bucket" mounted on a bearing so that it could be spun, and containing a cluster of 14 small, solid-fuel rockets...
...year earlier) gave the world's biggest oil company its first yearly earnings dip in five years. Healthy fourth-quarter gains were run up by International Business Machines ($2.17, v. $1.86 in 1956), which had a record profit year, and Westinghouse Electric Corp. ($1.11, excluding a special tax refund, v. $1.07). Though the earnings trend was down, such surprisingly strong showings in the face of the business slump gave hope to investors that in 1958's first quarter, many companies may feel the recession less than expected...