Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cold -just right." Most of the Government's economists now see a modest increase in the gross national product of 4% or $50 billion (to some $790 billion) for next year, an indication that the economy has lost much of the steam that has kept it percolating since 1961 at G.N.P. growth rates of close...
Keeping Mum. Russia's activity is bound to revive the debate about whether the U.S. should go ahead full steam with an anti-missile missile system of its own. More than $2 billion has already been spent to develop such a system built around the Nike-X missile, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff are unanimous in favoring its full deployment. Secretary McNamara, on the other hand, has steadfastly balked at the more than $30 billion that the antiballistic missile system would cost. He has claimed in the past that the program would not be effective without a shelter...
...rapidly widening gap between production and demand is already helping to drive up rents in some cities, and there is worry in Washington that actual housing shortages may appear by mid-1967. When the pent-up market finally makes itself felt, the resulting housing rebound could well pump new steam into the whole U.S. economy...
...heat of impact and the resulting steam penetrated deep into the moon and formed a pool of molten material that later solidified as the crater floor. The hot lunar material and huge chunks of rubble floating in it, says Kuiper, created the volcanic structures that can be seen in Orbiter's picture...
FAREWELL TO STEAM by David Plowden. 154 pages. Stephen Greene Press. $8.95. An elegiac account of an age defeated by oil and jet engines-the lake and river steamboats and the great locomotives that opened up the continent...