Word: ballast
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...balloon hung steadily in the eye of the storm. Whenever it rose above a predetermined level, an automatic mechanism released a little of its buoyant gas. Whenever it sank too low, another gadget dropped a bit of ballast. Gentle breezes spiraling inward kept it always close to the storm's calm center...
...April. Output was up in all major categories with increases ranging from four points in both industrial goods (machine tools, aircrafts, etc.) and consumer durables. Even more meaningful was the news on personal income. Though total personal income has held remarkably stable throughout the recession, serving as a needed ballast for the whole economy, April's rate for wage and salary disbursements had still dipped to a worrisome low of $232 billion, down $6.1 billion from 1957. In June the figure climbed back up. The total: up $3.3 billion to $235.3 billion. If Social Security and veterans' payments...
There are approximately 126 little magazines in America today--small circulation, less advertising, and long editorial introductions. North Beach and Greenwich Village provide the bulk, with the ballast variously composed of universities, small Southern towns, and writers' colonies in Arizona and New Mexico. Most of the little magazines are part of a post-war inflation for the avant garde. In the general confusion which gave culture the Beat, Silent, Sad, Brown, and Breathless Generations, art and intellectual vomit (the boundary has been transgressed) have prospered if not much improved...
...bulk cargo and 95? a ton for general cargo. A modern C-2 freighter carrying 4,000 tons of bulk cargo (ore, grain, pulpwood. scrap) and 4,000 tons of packaged merchandise would pay $5,955 for a one-way passage; a profitless trip in ballast would cost only $475 in tolls...
...into the sky in a first-class launching. But, said the Defense Department, it "failed to complete its full flight because of technical difficulties." Thor, on the other hand, was eminently successful. For the first time, the Air Force fired its IRBM complete: nose cone, full guidance gear-and ballast in the nose to simulate the weight of its warhead. Thor flew a little under 1,200 nautical miles, landed within less than two nautical miles of its preselected target point. Thus Thor proved to be the leading IRBM in the U.S. arsenal; indeed, its manufacturer, Douglas Aircraft, already boasts...