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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Evident Virility. More profitable by far than any other industrial development is Jamaica's great tourist boom. Before World War II the island was little more than a cruise-ship stop. But postwar air travel has increased the traffic far beyond the island's capacity to handle it. A burst of hotel building at Montego Bay and Ocho Rios has raised Jamaica's hotel space to 3,000 first-class rooms priced up to $50 a day (double room, American plan) during the winter season. Even so, hotel owners turn down hundreds of applications every winter week...
...pattern looked encouraging for the theory. On the day the radioactive material rose above the Nevada desert, there was a powerful wind waiting aloft to carry it eastward. The most probable route would take the atmospheric tracer across the U.S., the Atlantic, Europe, Central Asia and China. It should travel about 1,000 miles a day and should reach Japan in about the right time: two weeks...
Three Crimson teams will compete for post-season honors this weekend as the squash, wrestling and fencing squads travel to intercollegiate tournaments...
Britain's Ministry of Supply released the first films of British ground-to-air guided missiles in action. Shot at the trial range at Aberporth, Wales, the films follow the launching and flight of the experimental missile, which reputedly can travel at 1,000 m.p.h. at heights up to 60,000 ft. The missiles are fueled with alcohol and liquid oxygen and presumably controlled by electronic computers on the ground. The filmed sequence, shown last week on NBC, starts (bottom left) as the missile heads skyward, powered by wraparound booster rockets, which begin to fall off (upper left...
...reception has been just as warm. In the first week 13 of his 14 paintings were sold. But even with money in his pocket, Cloar this time is going back home again. He says: "For the first time in my life, I don't want to travel any more...