"It's a Smaller World"
Magazine article
By: Newsweek
Date: October 20, 1958
Source: "It's a Smaller World." Newsweek, October 1958, 93–94, 96.
About the Publication: Thomas J. C. Martyn published the first issue of Newsweek in February 1933. In 1961, it was bought by the Washington Post Company. It's circulation is 3.1 million in the United States and over 900,000 internationally.
Introduction
The calendar year 1958 proved to be a most auspicious occasion for the development of the U.S. aerospace industry. In January, the United States launched into Earth-orbit its first satellite, the Explorer I probe. Later in the year, the advent of commercial jetliners transformed the passenger airline business. Indeed, in these two ways, the world became, in the judgment of Newsweek, a much "smaller" place.
A pair of innovative American aerospace...
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