Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the supers arrived backstage, it was one vast, dim-lit confusion. Stage hands frantically moved sets in every direction. A huge flat nearly smashed through the curtain. Soldiers, gypsics, street urchins, and buxom factory girls scurried aimlessly around the stage...
There are vast, almost cosmic, differences between Boston and Abilene, Kans. But they both like...
...times as powerful. The fission bomb will act as a detonator, starting the explosion of "fusion" ingredients such as heavy hydrogen and lithium. The end product of the fusion reaction is likely to be rich in free neutrons, which can enter almost any material, make it radioactive and create vast amounts of radioactivity...
...newest and fastest-growing sources of new capital in the U.S. economy is the vast program of private pension funds. There are now 20,000 separate corporate plans covering in million workers, or 17% of the whole U.S. labor force. Their assets this year will reach $19 billion, and they are growing at the rate of $2 billion each year. By 1960, pension funds will have estimated assets of $35 billion and new contributions will be pouring in at the rate of $6 billion annually-30% of all savings available for new investment. For businessmen, the big problem...
...vast areas west of Kansas, the Republicans showed a net loss of only one House seat. Two G.O.P. incumbents were defeated-but so was California's Democratic Representative Robert Condon, who last year was refused AEC security clearance to witness an atom test. He lost to Republican John Baldwin Jr., a quiet young (38) lawyer who campaigned almost exclusively on Condon's security-risk record...