Word: target
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Despite the errors, the broad, long-term predictions have been far closer to target today than they were in the pre-World War II period. Major reason is the ever-increasing range and volume of information on the econ omy. As chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, Arthur Burns has greatly speeded the flow of vital statistics from marketplace to slide rule; e.g., housing trends, long forecast by the volume of construction starts, are now tracked months earlier on the basis of mortgage applications. Burns helped devise two of the profession's widely used yardsticks...
...would have the meaning "contained in Webster's New International Dictionary (Unabridged)." *To prove Nike's prowess, the Army last week fired a Nike battery for newsmen at White Sands, N. Mex. The results were-at best-debatable. In one shot at a 500-m.p.h. aerial drone target, Nike registered a direct hit. In six other shots the Army said Nike scored shrapnel hits, claimed "kills" in each case. One Nike suffered an electronic brain storm and blew itself up. * Won after Leviero was the recipient of some other leaked documents: the notes of the Wake Island conference...
During predawn darkness in the mid-Pacific atomic proving grounds, the B-52 intercontinental jet bomber Barbara Grace roared upwards from Eniwetok Air Base, the big bomb in its belly. A fleet manned by 13,500 men stood 39 miles off target-Namu Atoll at the northwest edge of Bikini Atoll-while the big B-52 climbed to an altitude of 40,000 to 50,000 ft. Suddenly a fireball flared through the dark-silver-white, creamy-white, orange, red, boiling outward to a three-mile diameter at a speed of hundreds of miles per hour. Along the horizon spread...
Republican Williams' target was a pudgy bull's-eye he has blasted before, onetime Bootlegger and Numbers King William G. ("Big Bill") Lias, whose badly distributed 360 lbs. cause him to resemble the false-bottomed gasoline truck he devised in the '20s to haul West Virginia moonshine. Forsaking crasser occupations, Lias in 1945 bought Wheeling Downs, a half-mile track on an island in the Ohio River at Wheeling. He soon raced into trouble: the U.S. sued him for unpaid income taxes that, compounded by penalties and interest, totaled more than $2,500,000. Immigration authorities, ignoring...
...FARES will get their first overall investigation from CAB. Under congressional pressure, CAB will check to see if fares it okayed for 13 domestic trunk lines are too high. A better target for CAB: international air fares, which in some cases are more than 200% higher than domestic routes over comparable distances...