Word: travel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...activity. Not only had it been thought that the upper atmosphere was ten times less dense than the satellites proved it to be, but it was never suspected that the density varied with radiation. An IGY publication pointed out that these discoveries "will have a farreaching effect on interplanetary travel." They certainly will be important to the new X-15 rocket plane, projected to fly 400 miles above the Earth's surface...
...varsity wrestling team, rated as heavy favorites, travel to Amherst to meet the Lord Jeffs tonight. Amherst has a fairly respectable record this season but lost to Springfield, a team that the Crimson beat impressively last week...
...smaller high schools were eliminated, in states like the Dakotas, Alabama, and Mississippi, the children would have to spend a very large part of every day in travel," Hutchins explained...
...Olmsted, who launched a series of national ceramic shows in 1932, this year invited entries from ten European countries, Canada and Hawaii. Some $3,200 in prizes was awarded by a jury headed by Painter-Ceramist Henry Varnum Poor, generally considered dean of modern U.S. potters. The show will travel to five more U.S. cities in the next year, last week was on view at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum...
...most convincing argument against government intervention is the industrial lessons of the last few years. Booms in hifi, boating, photography, travel, frozen and gourmet foods, all come from relatively new things that tempted consumers to part with their cash. This is the real road to growth, the innovation of exciting and useful new products and industries that Government alone cannot start. It can only provide the incentive for business to improve itself. As Harvard's Slichter says: "You can't expand without demand for the product. We need less sales talk, less hot air and better quality...