Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have a clear idea where their money goes, and some would be happier for not knowing. A Texas farmer whose income jumped into six figures after oil was discovered on his land, recently visited Washington to find out "how my money is spent." He toured various offices in the vast bureaucracy, finally dropped in to see T. Coleman Andrews, Commissioner of Internal Revenue. After some talk, he asked how much Andrews collects in taxes every year. About $70 billion, said Andrews. The Texan, impressed, made a philosophic observation: "Well, Mr. Commissioner, ain't it a damn good thing...
Unlike his creature, Sergeant Friday, Webb can roar with laughter and talk with vast intensity and enthusiasm. He attracts all sorts of people. But he has few friends, almost no social life and is seldom seen in Hollywood nightspots. Nothing but an ailing script can keep him from sleeping nine hours a night, and he is hard at work every morning at 8 o'clock. In his spare time he stares at motion pictures, often "stopping them and backing them up" to engage in rapt inspection of every last optical effect and lap dissolve. In five years...
...found it easy to cash in on this vast and uncritical acceptance. NBC, which he now hates as the captive Grecian maiden hated the mustachioed Turk, refuses to pay more than a niggling $28,000 a program, although the network extracts a total of $3,000,000 annually from the show's sponsors (biggest contributor: Chesterfield). A few months ago, however, Webb finally found a way out of this financial dilemma; to the Music Corp. of America last year he sold the rights to 100 completed Dragnets and to 95 more which will be filmed in the future...
Last week, in a special series, the News told its readers just how far the three Rs have spread. "A teen-age reign of terror." it said, "has transformed New York City's public-school system into a vast incubator of crime in which wayward and delinquent youngsters receive years of 'protection' while developing into toughened and experienced criminals." What is being done about the rising rate of rape, assault, knifings, thefts and dope addiction? Says the News: largely because of a feeling that neither the Board of Education nor Superintendent William Jansen (TIME, Oct. 19) will...
Despite this real problem, the instrument-packed boat has contributed a vast amount in an almost unknown field--the science of currents. Working mainly around the Gulf Stream, the boat has charted and recharted its shifting course in an efforts to get at the forces that underlie all currents. The traditional problem of charting the Gulf Stream from a moving boat at sea is slowly being solved by some new, and fanciful instruments. One, the bathythermograph, measures the temperature continuously as it is towed behind the ship. The sharp temperature variation between the Gulf Stream and the surrounding water supplies...