Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mills now remains in operation, Huntsville thrives as never before on an $81-million-a-year Army payroll. Where once Huntsville extended a mile in each direction from its yellow brick courthouse, it now covers 40 square miles, with gracious antebellum homes, squalid Negro slums, and $15,000-per-unit development homes for Redstone's 16,000 employees. In 1950 there were 8,807 telephones in Huntsville; now there are 25,678. Building permits totaled $2,500,000 in 1950; last year the total was $10,767,000 (not including the $20 million building program at Redstone itself). Memorial...
Result: U.S. industry is not getting the experience it needs. Says Westinghouse Vice President Charles H. Weaver: "We should accumulate 100 units of operating experience by the end of 1964. But by the end of 1957, we had accumulated only about one unit of experience. And it will not be until 1962 at the earliest that we start getting any substantial operating experience...
Died. Ernst Heinkel, 70. German airplane pioneer, designer (with a propulsion unit developed by Wernher von Braun) of the world's first (in 1939) rocket plane (the He 176) and jet-propelled aircraft (the He 178), a shrewd mastermind of Luftwaffe production whose farseeing predictions and plans were thumbed down by Hitler and Goring; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Stuttgart, West Germany. Denazified in 1949, Heinkel made motor scooters and midget cars, recently announced plans to go back into big-time planemaking with Willi Messerschmitt...
...this premium because under the contract the farmer follows expert advice on breeding and feeding, gets leaner pork, which brings higher retail prices and competes better with beef. With marketing risks removed, farmers can deliver more pork-on-the-hoof. Packers have shown hog-raisers how to take a unit of 33 breed sows, breed eleven of them every two months and over a year deliver 500 hogs to market in six marketings as opposed to the old rate of two per year. Thus, they smooth out seasonal peaks, and avoid gluts that have caused the Government to step...
...once described A Farewell to Arms as "my Romeo and Juliet" and the novel does resemble Shakespeare's play in its sentimental confusion of the pathetic with the tragic. Hemingway's Romeo is an American boy who is serving, as Hemingway himself did, in a Red Cross unit attached to the Italian army during World War I. His Juliet is a volunteer nurse in a British field hospital, set up in a small town where the Alps begin to rise toward Austria. They meet, they fall in love, he is sent to the front. A mortar shell catches...