Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...SETAF's hands rest the vital early weapons of the Atomic Age: the rocket Honest John and the guided missile Corporal; the vast, complicated network of control panels and radar screens and radio beams that will aim and fire the supersonic Corporal at an enemy perhaps 200 miles away; the surprisingly agile 30-ton missile-carrying trucks; the truck-bed cranes called "cherry pickers" and the devastating wallop itself: atomic warheads. Today's army, SETAF is armed and ready for tomorrow's atomic...
With the return of prosperity. Alberta Social Crediters built a sound, conventional administration. In 1947 the discovery of vast oil deposits provided a new bonanza; the government cashed in handsomely from the sale of exploration and drilling rights, and from production royalties. The cash surplus rapidly outgrew the province's debt. This year Manning's government declared a cash dividend of $22, payable to every adult citizen who has lived five years in the province...
...electronics, born of radio, was force fed by military necessity during World War II, when widespread use of radar and sonar extended man's eyes and ears far into the skies and deep into the ocean. With peace came radar's civilian counterpart : a vast new TV industry that has already put 42 million sets in U.S. homes. But the great breakthrough in electronics came in 1948. Bell Telephone Laboratories discovered the transistor, which took over many of the functions of temperamental glass vacuum tubes. Along with other new semiconductors such as power diodes and capacitors, some...
...electronics more advanced than in the U.S. armed forces, currently the industry's biggest and most demanding customer. The electronics defense budget for the current year is $3 billion, more than any other single item except aircraft. The U.S. military establishment is rapidly becoming one vast electronics system, whose probing antennas and twirling radar reflectors are so sensitive that an upended card table floating off the Florida Keys was recently reported by a rookie radarman as "four unidentified submarines." Virtually every modern weapon depends upon electronics in some way, and the Army keeps track of its 100 million-item...
...contemporary Anglo-Saxon counterpart, with little of the latter's pointed if slightly aging satire. It consists for the most part of many very agreeable musical pieces linked together by a singularly loose thread of plot. This plot centers less on Orpheus, represented as a violinist with a vast distaste for Eurydice, than on Jupiter's attempts to get her away from the tender mercies of her kidnaper, Pluto, so that he may have her for his own tender mercies. Jupiter's efforts are complicated by a revolution on the part of the lesser gods, who are bored with...