Word: stream
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...iron was French, the limestone Belgian, the coke came from Holland and Germany. Yet the stream of molten metal, tapped last week by Italian workmen in the Luxembourg town of Esch, was steel that belonged to Europe-solid and symbolic evidence that the Schuman Plan dream is at last reality. Six nations, producing 20% of the world's steel, would henceforth pool their outputs, eliminate tariffs, surrender control (but not ownership) of their basic industries to a supranational High Authority, headed by a dapper Frenchman who hopes to forge not merely an industrial colossus...
Weather Pen. Much of the world's weather is affected by the "jet-stream"-a narrow, wandering wind that blows at high altitude, often as fast as 200 m.p.h. (TIME, Oct. i, 1951). Weathermen have been keeping track of it with sounding balloons, but the process is slow and expensive. Last week Meteorologist R. E. Falconer of General Electric Research Laboratory told about an electrical gadget that can tell when the jet-stream comes within 200 miles of Schenectady. The gadget "feels" the air for positive or negative charges, then writes its findings with a pen on a moving...
...were recently captured. One was a cocky, 19-year-old Marine machine gunner, Pfc. Joseph B. Brit Jr. of Long Beach. Calif., who had been captured during the Bunker Hill fighting on March 26. Brit said he had parried a few Red attempts at indoctrination by asking a stream of diversionary questions. "I guess," he grinned, "they thought I was a real card." His bouncy demeanor was far from typical (see below...
Anyone who has ever stood in a trout stream and felt the compelling pull of fast water on his waders, or felt the blood-rousing strike of a hungry bass, is apt to be a confirmed fisherman forever after...
...freshman heavies, both racing M.I.T. and B.U., begin the mile-and-three-quarters stream course at 5 p.m. and 4:30 p.m., respectively...