Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ionized layers of air they have passed through. As the satellite spirals toward earth, very slowly at first, it will measure by its loss of energy the density of the air at the top of the atmosphere. It may even tell, merely by crossing the oceans at a known speed, how far the continents really are from each other-a question that still defies the more meticulous mapmakers. If the measurements are accurate enough, i.e., down to the last foot, it may answer in time the old geological argument about whether North America and Europe are slowly drifting apart...
...From World War II until 1953, our country's long-range ballistic missile program was as dead as the proverbial dodo. Meanwhile, the Soviets were going full speed ahead. In those eight critical postwar years, our government spent only $3.5 million on these weapons. That, my friends, averages out to about $437,000 a year. In only two years of the same period the previous Administration spent $50 million for peanuts. That's 60 times more for peanuts than for long-range missiles...
MISSILE SPENDING is picking up speed. Air Force will soon start letting $721 million worth of contracts for super radar system designed to spot incoming ICBMs, has earmarked $329 million to be spent from supplemental funds in current fiscal year. Prime contractor: Radio Corp. of America, with major help from General Electric Co. and Western Electric...
...Undertakers undertake. Best of the lot is Center Forward Bob Rooney, 27, a beat-pounding St. Louis cop. who was a crack high school football player and for five seasons a baseball farm hand for the Cardinals. Soccer, says Rooney, gives him the biggest boot: "It's the speed and the pretty pass work and the extra little amount of roughness. I'm talking about really topnotch teams, though. Most people in this country see sandlot games that just look like a lot of people kicking each other...
...Kraus was familiar with this effect, so when Sputnik I took to space, he went after it, antenna pointing like a hunter zeroing in on a duck. The satellite, moving at near meteor speed, and much bigger than common meteors, performed magnificently, leaving an ionized trail at each night passage. The trail reflected the time signal strongly for as much as a minute. The bursts of reflected waves came from just the right places and at just the right times to fit the satellite's slowly shifting orbit...