Word: weather
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fueling was stopped; the telemetering equipment had to be corrected. Forty-five minutes passed. The skies darkened, and the long, laborious countdown was stopped again for the weather. Again it was resumed, and again stopped as a rain squall splashed overhead. At last the red warning light blinked, and the workers cleared the area. The 40-man firing team had long since begun operations 750 ft. away in a sand-covered concrete blockhouse. A mile away, on the roof of a hangar, stood B. G. (for Byron Gordon) MacNabb, hardbitten, respected ("I'm just a slave-driving bastard") operations...
...meet this need for leadership that the President flew to the NATO conference in Paris last week at the risk of health and thus of his leadership in the longer range. But even as the President waved to cheering crowds from his open car in winter .weather, a symbol of past victories and present challenges, present and future problems stretched as far as eye could...
Cheerful voices pointed out that the heavy sag in employment from October to November-1,132,000-was largely the result of unusually wet, wintry weather that cut more than seasonally deep into farm employment. But with the steel industry operating at 69% of capacity, down from 102% a year ago, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce's Economic Research Director Emerson P. Schmidt predicted that 1958 would very likely see a recession "at least as severe...
...MILLION ORDER from Navy will help Grumman Aircraft Engineering Corp. out of cutback woes. The Long Island company is getting a $46 million contract to produce propeller-driven, all-weather, radar-equipped WF-2 Tracer early-warning planes and a $40 million production contract for transonic, needle-nosed F9F-8T jet fighter-trainers...
...frames impart the spiritual light of common things. And he can paint for the ear as well as for the eye; when suddenly the sound track fills with singing birds and a music of axles, bright September blows into the theater, tingling in the thoughts like merry harvest weather. Director Dreyer loves the human face ("A land one can never tire of exploring"), and he has chosen his faces with a sure insight. Best of all, perhaps, are the faces of the pregnant woman (Birgitte Federspiel) and her husband (Emil Haas Christensen), which make a simple, touching revelation: that they...