Word: stepped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...boarding house of Hotel Magnate Conrad Hilton was Cineminx Eva Gabor, sister of Hilton's ex-wife Zsa Zsa, whose former husband, Cinemenace George Sanders, had recently moved out with his new bride Benita Hume, widow of Cinemactor Ronald Colman. Eva, it so happens, is a former potential step-aunt of Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor (through Liz's first marriage to Hilton's playboy son Nicky), thus also ex-step-great-aunt, two marriages removed, of another guest in the Casa, fledgling Cinemogul Mike Todd Jr., son of Liz's third husband and, naturally, Hilton...
Last week's flight was like the first hesitant step of an infant who will some day grow into a record-breaking runner. Other, more confident steps will follow. Soon the X-15 will be carried aloft with a full 15,000-lb. load of liquid oxygen and liquid ammonia fuel. The emergency fuel-ejecting system and a dozen other complex gadgets will be air-checked. On another flight the X-15, probably with Crossfield at the controls, will be dropped to glide without power to earth. Then will come the first tentative powered flights, using only a fraction...
...small (200 ft.) diesel-electric boat with extra-powerful batteries and a fat, well-streamlined hull. The Albacore's purpose was to use battery power extravagantly in short underwater spurts and find out what a true submarine could do. The performance was so good that the next step was obvious: to combine a nuclear engine with an Albacore hull...
...imports show. The U.S. Government warned that it will police oil prices; if prices rise beyond levels set by OCDM, the U.S. will let in more imports. Further victories by the protectionists could well bring price controls on many another industry and take the U.S. a long step toward peacetime price controls for the whole economy...
...soon from grand juries sitting in Omaha, Chicago and other cities, is that labor unions are entitled to exemption from the Sherman Act under the Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act only so long as they confine themselves to negotiating higher wages, or other legitimate labor objectives. When they step over the line and begin to use labor union power to fix prices and allocate markets, then the Justice Department intends to wheel up the big guns of the Sherman...