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Spring is here early this year as the temperatures will zoom into the super 50's. Regretfully, however, there will also be occasional rain (spring showers) which will turn into snow tonight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Weather | 2/5/1962 | See Source »

...they join because, under company-union contracts, they have to in order to get jobs. In last week's U.A.W. walkouts, bored pickets paced perfunctorily, showing little of the zealot enthusiasm of the 1930s. In the past 20 years, the average hourly wage of a steelworker has zoomed from 90½? to $3.82, and the pattern has been followed in other major industries. But with the zoom, the zip has gone. Says an Electrical Workers' official in Colorado: "Our members used to ride to work on a bicycle and eat cabbage for lunch. Now they own a home...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: The Personal Touch | 9/22/1961 | See Source »

...houses by working on them himself. So impressed was Valley National that it backed him on more houses, and in 1952 helped him move into commercial building. Two years later, at 31, he was worth a million, chiefly in land parcels north of downtown Phoenix that were soon to zoom in value...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Real Estate: The Achievement Addict | 6/9/1961 | See Source »

...mighty repast of oysters, turtle soup, roast pheasant, champagne and all the trimmings, plus an 85-lb. birthday cake doused with his favorite brandy. Churchill's birthday moved New York Times Correspondent Sulzberger to recall how he recently remarked to Sir Winston in Morocco that men might soon zoom to other planets. "Oh, no!" cried Churchill. "Why would anyone wish to leave this earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 12, 1960 | 12/12/1960 | See Source »

...breaking flight, Lockheed and the Air Force worked out a new flight plan. They decided that the F-104C should climb only to 40,000 ft., where the air is still dense enough to give the jet maximum thrust. When the plane hit full speed, Pilot Jordan was to zoom upward at a climb angle of between...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Records Regained | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

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