Word: aboard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hill hearing room to present a new service flag to the House Military Appropriations Subcommittee. Patrols of Army public-relations officers prowled Pentagon corridors, passing out word that, given the chance, the Army could develop a rocket motor to put a 15-ton satellite into space with a man aboard. The Air Force stood that sort of talk as long as it could, then leaked a story about using its Thor intermediate-range ballistic missile to put up a 1,000-lb. satellite as early as June. The Army promptly upped the ante to 1,500 Ibs.-and the Pentagon...
...extremely costly in fuel, but Dr. Schilt points out that landing on one of the small moons of Mars would cost practically nothing. The outer moon, Deimos, is about five miles in diameter, and has hardly any gravitation. The spaceship could drift toward it and, without expending fuel, come aboard as gently as thistledown. Then the crew would get a free ride around Mars, circling the planet every 30 hours and studying its surface from the fairly convenient distance of 12,500 miles. For a closer look they could shuttle to the inner moon, Phobos, which circles Mars only...
...Magco-bar), one of the world's biggest dealers in drilling mud, which uses aircraft to fly its "mud doctors" to out-of-the-way sites around the U.S. It has found that one man in a light plane can do the work of eight in cars or aboard boats, and the time saved often means keeping a valuable well from being wrecked. Magcobar's fleet: 17 planes, mostly float-equipped, which flew 7,200 hours last year at a cost of $144,000, far less than the business they brought...
Four days later, around the barns and in the clubhouse as well, Willie Hartack was a hero. He had climbed aboard Calumet's second stringer, Iron Liege, and won the Derby when Willie Shoemaker stood up in his stirrups on Gallant Man a few yards from the finish. As the 1957 racing season galloped on, Hartack went on to ride almost every champion horse of the year. When Hialeah opened its current meeting with a parade of eight of last year's top horses, the only compromise that would satisfy the owners was to have exercise boys in the saddles...
...leaves with its quota of victims. To postpone their fate a week, people are willing to pay huge sums. Women pay with their bodies, and Siegfried Cohn grandly takes his pick. Young Henriques catches on fast. Soon he is spying on the prisoners. He sees his own mother packed aboard, though he does manage to get her "a good seat between the water cask and the cask for excrement." He leads his own former students to their death, carries the girl he loved in his own arms to her place on the train...