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...reach 3,600 m.p.h.-twice the speed of a high-powered rifle bullet. Since such speeds cannot be maintained in the lower atmosphere, the X-15 will be carried to 35,000 ft. by a B-52, will then climb to an altitude of 100 miles. Burning liquid ammonia and liquid oxygen, its motor will develop 50,000 Ibs. of static thrust, and more power (500,000 h.p.) at full speed than the carrier Forrestal...
...merely touches water it will start a 5,000° F. explosion. Now Bell says it has actually harnessed this violence, even in small rocket thrust chambers. The chambers were specially designed laboratory chambers. Their metals are still classified, and so is the ingredient used with fluorine (possibly ammonia or hydrazine). Very special handling also involved unusual welding techniques, new storage tanks, refrigerated pipelines...
Director Prince's needling inventiveness has also helped make money for Armour, pushed its pharmaceutical and chemical divisions (Dial Soap, Chiffon Liquid detergent, anhydrous ammonia, soluble dried blood for plywood glue, etc.). But Prince wants 89-year-old Armour to diversify even more, recently said: "At Armour we're on the edge of a new era. I'm not selling Armour stock. I'm buying." Billy Prince hopes to usher in the new era himself...
...crawled with the activity of 3,000 men. The first natural gas was arriving through a 24-in. pipe from eastern Venezuela. With $60 million spent, construction was well along on the cracking and fractioning units that will turn the hydrogen in gas and the nitrogen in air into ammonia, the basic component of fertilizer. The chlorine-caustic-soda plant was nearly finished, will start trial production this month. Aluminum-hatted straw bosses supervised the building of a city on a leveled area big enough to house 100,000 people eventually...
...this with me, and I can't call them 'mister'-I am so used to calling them Bob and Billy and so on. Bob, he said to me, 'Wait until they try soap and water to clean that up.' Because, he said, 'Only ammonia will take it out and they will never think of ammonia. They will try soap and water and it will make it that much worse, and it will go into the cellar and it will ruin all of the flour that is stored there.' And he said, 'Wait...