Word: starting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Opening night of the crusade netted 704 decisions for Christ-a record for the start of any Graham campaign in the U.S. The first week brought 2,613 to the Inquiry Tent. "It takes us about two weeks to get established in a city," says Billy. "Then more and more people begin to come. And the thing that brings them isn't the preaching. It's the fact that all through the city more and more people are going to be hearing from people who have found God here in the Garden. And people want God. So they...
...total of 16 racing cars scrambled into the start of the 105-lap, 205-mile Grand Prix of Monaco. Only four laps later Britain's Stirling Moss, Peter Collins and Mike Hawthorn somehow escaped uninjured from a three-car pile-up on a barricade of telephone poles. All afternoon the accidents continued, but no one was hurt. Only five cars finished. Still, World Champion Juan Fangio had to push his Maserati to the limit to cross the line in 3 hr. 10 min. 12.8 sec., a scant half-minute ahead of Briton Tony Brooks's Vanwall...
...spending an initial $1,000,000 right after World War II on its Rocketdyne Division, pumping in another $26 million, since then for five plants and test facilities, North American won contracts for the Atlas ICBM power plant, the engines for the Thor and Jupiter intermediate missiles. From a start of five men in 1945, North American's Rocketdyne Division has expanded to 10,500 employees, and its sales of some $165 million (18% of North American's total) last year led the industry. Aerojet General is running a close second, sold $145 million worth of rocket engines...
Liquid v. Solid. Watching the figures soar, dozens of big companies are hurrying into the field to share the bonanza. General Electric, after a start in small rockets, is now producing the big (100,000-lb. thrust) first-stage rocket for the Vanguard earth satellite. Curtiss-Wright is producing small antitank rockets for the Army, is working on a throttle-equipped" rocket engine for planes and missiles. Bell Aircraft, Hercules Powder, Phillips Petroleum, General Motors and many others are developing new engines and materials to fuel them...
...start toward making agriculture competitive with industry in research, the commission recommended that the present $16 million utilization research budget of the Agriculture Department be tripled, with much of the money being used to farm out promising research projects to private laboratories. The commission also recommended federal incentives, such as fast tax write-offs, to encourage investment in industries using farm products...