Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...space, a nuclear explosion will behave very differently. Its gamma rays will not be absorbed; traveling at the speed of light, they may do damage to humans and to delicate electrical apparatus-including missiles-miles away. Just behind them will come fast-expanding concentric shells of radioactive beta particles (electrons), alpha particles (charged helium nuclei) and neutrons. Bringing up the rear will be the hot gases of the ball of fire, which will expand indefinitely. Some of the residue of an explosion above the atmosphere will presumably shoot out of the solar system. But the amount of lethal fallout...
Died. Peter Collins, 26, sports-car racer, one of Britain's three top speed drivers (with Stirling Moss and Mike Hawthorn), winner of the British Grand Prix (1958), the French Grand Prix (1956) and the Belgian Grand Prix (1956); when his Ferrari crashed in the German Grand Prix; near Adanau, Germany...
...economy picked up some speed last week, but there were still rough spots on the road to recovery, and enough danger signs in rising prices to warn that excessive speed could mean renewed inflation. Items...
...Detroit automakers reversed longstanding policies last week hoping to speed sales during the 1959 model year...
...orders 25 of the planes will be a new type, the Convair 600, designed specifically by General Dynamics' Convair Division to meet Smith's demanding requirements. The 600 is expected to be the fastest jet (cruising speed: 635 m.p.h.) on the commercial airways when it gets into the air in 1961. The other 25 planes just ordered will be smaller, lighter versions of Boeing's transcontinental 707. They will cruise at 601 m.p.h., have a range of 1,850 miles, go into service in 1960. Previously ordered by American: 25 long-haul Boeing 707s, 35 short...