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Twenty-five thousand miles an hour is more speed than a single rocket can make, but long before World War II, the space men thought of a trick: the multi-stage rocket. This is a "beast"* that shoots upward with a smaller beast attached to its nose. When the fuel of the mother rocket is gone, the second rocket fires and begins its flight. It is already moving fast, so the energy in its own fuel gives it greater speed than a single-stage rocket. A three-stage rocket will do even better...
...down 10,281 ft. before it gave up. Then in 1946 Amerada got interested. In buying a block of leases it got some that Standard had let lapse on the area known as the Nesson Anticline (see chart), a gently sloping dome of rock. (The surface anticline, i.e., an upward fold of porous rock, often indicates a similar undergound dome under which oil frequently is imprisoned.) With the first batch of leases in its pocket, Amerada sent brokers all over the area, leasing more thousands of acres of land. Says Jacobsen: "When you make a big play, you have...
...value as a working enterprise. The one exception: big ranches in the Western grasslands, where steer prices have dipped about 7? a pound, now bring 20% less than a year ago. Farm real estate men like Don W. Reed of Painesville, Ohio thought farm prices would continue upward in 1953, but at a slower rate...
Wrote Columnist Barry Gray in the pro-Stevenson New York Post: "[We] put our hands under our chins and press upward to bring our countenance back into a semblance of normalcy." The dominant feeling among Democrats was surprise. The abundant talk in the last few weeks before E-day about a switch to Stevenson had not prepared them for what was, in fact, an overwhelming switch to Eisenhower. A New York grocer named Vincent Goluch took it hardest, turning in five false fire alarms the morning after election (as he turned in the sixth, police arrested him). In San Antonio...
...Republican Party, the gains in the 1952 congressional elections were more than numerical. The line on the quality chart pointed upward...