Word: track
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Heavy Industry. In Montreal, Canadian National Railways filed suit for $30,265 against two men for taking up two miles of railroad track and selling it for scrap...
...opening ceremony in the huge Sports Stadium indicates the arrational tones of the rallies. An expectant hush was broken by the Czechoslovakian motorcycle brigade, complete with flags, as it raced about the outer track, followed by briefly clad athletes and the Parade of Nations. The accompaniment was an excited running description from the loudspeakers, the periodic release of colorful balloon clusters, bombs bursting and dropping "peace and friendship" signs in every language, and finally the freeing of thousands of white "peace doves." The Austrians sardonically reported that the Soviet skyrockets finished off the doves...
...long-term (over five years) bonds. Since June, the Government has financed nearly $16 billion in the short-term market, ballooned interest rates, dried up much of the normally available money supply. The rush for the new issue proved that Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson was on the right track when he asked for removal of the ceiling so that he could price bonds higher to lure in new purchasers...
...three for the Crimson will be backed by Wes Hildreth, Don Kirkland, Dick Slansky and captain Eddie Martin, who is still suffering from the heel injury that idled him during track season last spring...
...labyrinth of telemetering. One electronic job led to another, and now J.P.L. products ride in nearly all U.S. satellites, reporting the magnetism, heat and cosmic rays encountered in the unknown reaches of space. Such information has grown so voluminous that J.P.L. has its own computer to interpret it. For tracking space vehicles far out in the solar system, J.P.L. has built a radio telescope 85 ft. in diameter in the Mojave Desert, which can track a vehicle 1,000,000 miles away...