Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...launching March 5. Explorer III, weighing 31 Ibs., carried a special tape recorder that would enable scientists to measure cosmic rays more efficiently (see SCIENCE). As it turned out. its orbit, coursing an ellipse from 110 miles at its perigee to 1,735 miles at apogee at a top speed of 18,850 m.p.h.. was less than Army scientists had hoped for-and as much as 700 miles inside the Navy's grapefruit-sized Vanguard. Early calculations showed that Explorer III might last for only a few days. Later, as the missile scientists labored over their instruments, corrections...
...period, three months. For it was only that long ago, in the shadow of the Sputniks, that the U.S. was wringing its hands over the Russians' rocking successes. In that brief time, the nation's burst of determination and speed had erased the shadow. Now, like jaded newsmen at Cape Canaveral, the free world shrugged off its excitement by heading not for the telephone...
...publishing amateurs: President George J. Merrick, 24, a junior executive in an engineering company and Vice President Richard T. Heagy, 26, an English major at Vanderbilt. One quick reform: a boost in page-ad rates from $200 to $1,200. Now that the magazine is aloft and gathering speed, its young staffers are even talking of selling 1,000,000 copies an issue by the end of 1958 Says Space Salesman Heagy: "It doesn't hurt to aim high...
CHRYSLER SHAKE-UP REPORTS, buzzing in Detroit because company's output this year is off 60% and heavy first-quarter loss is expected, picked up speed when two forward-looking vice presidents quit last week: No. 4 Man James Cope and West Coast Plant Boss Robert T. Keller, son of former President K. T. Keller. But President L. L. Colbert denies persistent reports that he will move up to chairman and that Veep William C. Newberg will become president...
...Brakes. In Minnesota, eager Salesman Kenton Hicks, hearing of a deal he could close 126 miles away in Brainerd, rented a car, left Minneapolis at floorboard speed, was arrested in Robbinsdale, then St. Cloud, then Little Falls (each time for doing 100 m.p.h.), did not get to Brainerd...