Word: steeper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy told how Test Pilot Tom Attridge was trying out the 20-mm. guns of a Grumman F11F-i fighter off Long Island. He put the airplane into a dive, speeded up to 880 m.p.h. and fired a four-second burst (about 70 rounds). Then he went into a steeper dive and fired another burst. As the last bullets left his guns, something struck and shattered his windshield. Pilot Attridge thought he had run down a bird. He headed for the Grumman base at Peconic River, but before he got there, his engine died. He crash-landed half a mile...
...Steeper tuition and a record high endowment couldn't save Yale from dipping into red ink. Tuition went up to $1,800 a year, and the endowment reached over $150 million in June, but operating expenses of over $22 million upset the budget...
Tepper is not sure what starts an atmospheric wave; often an advancing mass of cold air seems to be the cause. But once the wave gets going, its front gets steeper and steeper and the air in the wave may rise more than a mile in a few minutes. This causes a sudden rise of barometric pressure that shows as a sharp jog on the chart of a specially sensitive barograph...
Transports & Jets. Last week President Wallace opened the throttle for an even steeper climb with a new line of big civilian planes, helicopters and light military jets. The new items...
...insured automobile owners in the U.S. have been well braced for another steep rise in liability-insurance rates. Costs of auto repairs have shot up, insurance adjusters' salaries have risen with the cost of living, and court and jury awards for damages have been steeper and steeper (TIME, Aug. 27). Last week auto owners learned how steep the rise might be. Insurance companies are drawing up new rates, effective starting next month, which will be about 20% higher for the whole U.S. On accident-ridden Manhattan Island, where minimum coverage already costs $115 a year, the increase will...