Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deus ex Machina. His wartime success got Jack a job in Hollywood shortly after he came home. RKO and later 20th Century-Fox put him under contract but rarely got around to putting him in front of a camera (he did once play opposite an unheard-of starlet named Marilyn Monroe). In 1947 he was hired as the summer replacement on NBC-Radio's Jack Benny Show. His fresh, natural style was a success, and in the fall American Tobacco put the Jack Paar Show on the air on ABC. It lasted until Christmas Eve. In his radio days...
...odds against success are great.They begin on the ground, where the Thor rocket has yet to prove its reliability. The probe should be launched only during the four days of the month when the moon is in the best position for tracking; if the rocket fizzles on the launching pad, another attempt must await the same short period next month. Even if the probe does get off on schedule, the perils of imprecision mount as the vehicle soars closer to the moon. The margin for error at the rendezvous point is about 30 minutes, and the slightest miscalculation...
...space will repay the sweat and strain. If it soars just 2,500 miles above earth, it will top all artificial satellites, and its instruments will be snooping in regions unknown to man. A probe that got within 50,000 miles of the moon would be an enormous scientific success. Its instruments could record meteorite density, perhaps reveal whether the moon has an atmosphere. Even more important, it could tell some of the secrets of the source of earth's magnetism, and of the thickness of the radiation belt that earth satellites have already probed...
...thus presented a White House mandate to the Civil Aeronautics Board, which has been dawdling over a general passenger-fare investigation since the spring of 1956, is not scheduled to complete it until next March. "By that time," noted Quesada in a covering letter to the President, "the success or failure of major segments of the equipment program may well have been determined. The CAB must examine the carriers' proposals promptly...
...management contract to run Studebaker, plus an option to buy 5,000,000 shares of stock at $5 a share (which runs out this November), plus the chance of merging Studebaker into Curtiss-Wright if it could cut Studebaker's huge losses. But Curtiss-Wright had no success. Fortnight ago Studebaker reported that its losses in the first six months of this year soared to $13,314,165, almost double the losses in the same period last year...