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Economist. In London, convicted of shoplifting, Archibald Parfitt asked the magistrate for "all possible leniency," explained: "There is an upward trend in the nation's prosperity, and I wish to share...
...long, 6 ft. in diameter. Upon launching, a long lanyard from the plane to the rocket jerks free, firing the first stage directly ahead. After first-stage burnout and separation the second stage fires, guided by a new type of system devised by Martin Co.. then arcs upward at a 45° angle. Before reaching the top of its arc, it releases the nose-cone, which follows a ballistic curve to the target over the horizon...
...suffering for years from the original impression he created here as a gabby, to-hell-with-the-consequences liberal . . . Hubert Humphrey is still a pretty glib and cocky fellow, who looks like a cross between Bugs Bunny and Jimmy Cagney, but the Senate has amended its opinion of him upward in the last six years." Democratic Elder Stateswoman Eleanor Roosevelt said that Humphrey comes closest of all top Democratic presidential possibilities to having that "spark of greatness" that the next U.S. President will need.* And from California's Congressman James Roosevelt came word that Mother knows best...
Investors' optimism was based on facts. The synthetics market has fluffed up in recent months (see chart). In cottons, a fresh burst of heavy orders has many mills booked solid through the first quarter, is bound to turn sales curves upward beginning this month. The price of the industry's bellwether grade of unfinished cloth has climbed well above April's 12-year low, has advanced 7% in recent weeks. Prices have jumped as much as 12% for industrial textiles used in such things as cars and shoes...
...below the present surface. Beneath it, porous rock accumulates steam like a kind of natural boiler. A well only 1,000 ft. deep taps this reservoir. Some of the steam is "juvenile," coming from water that was trapped in the deep interior when the earth was young and rising upward through the deep faults. The rest derives from surface water that has trickled down through cracks and been turned to steam by heat from below. When the steam gets to the surface, its pressure is about 190 Ibs. per sq. in. and its temperature about...