Word: steams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...eliminates high-pressure vessels and piping. Another advantage is that the fuel need be only slightly enriched in costly U-235. The designers of the reactor believe that it can produce electricity at 7 mills per kilowatt-hour, which is much cheaper than the current cost (16.8 mills) of steam power in the Anchorage area...
...already talking up another boost. The -auto industry, setting its sights on a near-record 7,000,000-car year in 1957, may drive consumer credit to new peaks. An increase in defense production, which generates spending power with no corresponding increase in consumer goods, promises to put new steam under prices. But Bill Martin is confident that the boom can be controlled, that the rise in the cost of living can be checked without bringing on a recession. Says he: "I have faith in the future of this country. We are growing as we go along the road...
...plan for daily exercise, he will be under close medical scrutiny and a Spartan regimen laid out by a board of 21 physicians. A 7 a.m. phone call will awaken him for 7:30 breakfast. Then he will bend, stretch, stoop in 30 minutes of calisthenics, plunge into steam and Finnish baths, face up to an "iron virgin"−drenching device which bombards the body with water from high-pressure jets. And after throwing medicine balls, punching bags, lifting dumbbells and a 30-minute rest in the "recovery room," he will sit down to a calorie-controlled luncheon...
...mink-trimmed whatnots are only the smallest part of the luxury market. To U.S. economists, the amazing fact about the new luxury market is the broadening and democratization of both the market and the luxuries themselves. Gone are the days when luxury meant a private railroad car, a steam yacht, a Newport château. From an emphasis on the ostentatious things that go with ceremony, luxury has focused on the convenient gadgets that make life easy for the many...
Picked for the Job. Harry Truman's appearance has been carefully timed. His role will be vital because, in the era of moderation, a lot of steam has gone out of the Democratic Party. To the party of the common man, an Illinois squire and a New York millionaire have presented themselves as candidates, and the squire has won the lead. In the party that thrives on its never-say-die struggles for power, Estes Kefauver withdrew in the name of "unity." While they approve of moderation, most good Democrats hunger for that old spirit...