Word: thousands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thousand Books. Tessai belonged to the Nanga (Southern) or Bunjin (Literary Man) school of scholars for whom art is a secondary accomplishment. To keep their amateur standing clear, they scorned the meticulous brushwork of the professionals. Tessai, who considered his calligraphy an essential part of his art. took up his brush only when the spirit moved him. Not until the final decade of his life did he decide that he had mastered his craft...
Everywhere the signs multiply that U.S. missilery is becoming a national effort. The work force of the missile family has increased recently to several hundred thousand; the work force of the ICBM alone has shot up from 7,000 to 70,000 within the past year. The armed forces will spend $6 billion on missiles next year-about 20% more than last year-and they are already phasing some missiles into the line in place of conventional equipment. In 1954 about 10% of Air Force procurement funds went for missiles; by 1960 the figure will...
...hemispheres embedded in the ceiling, so sensitive that they will register an intruder's breath and sound the alarm. In this room Schriever arrays his men before a "Master Milestone Chart" which lists the key achievement dates and key target dates in the progress of the ICBM. Eight thousand channels lead from all elements of the program to the master chart, and they reveal clearly, and often painfully, where the program is lagging. "The successes and failures of all departments get a good airing," Schriever says. "We try to take lessons from the success or failure of one department...
...best shown by Fisher's Vridar Hunter tetralogy, a four-novel Wolfean autobiography written during the Thirties, now reprinted in Cardinal paper-back edition. His objectivity is also shown in what is probably his most famous work--Children of God: An American Epic, a novel of almost a thousand pages which won the 1939 Harper's prize. Several years before the publication of Children of God, Bernard DeVoto had called the story of the Mormon migration the great American novel that will never be written. In his review of Fisher's novel, he acknowledged that the job had been successfully...
...John Huston, director of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The African Queen and Beat the Demi. And Huston, as nobody will be surprised to hear, has developed his unsubtly sensational theme into a big, slick composition that might appropriately be described as a rhapsody expressly composed for a thousand cash registers...