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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...laboratory curiosity, is being produced in considerable quantities as a rocket fuel. Liquid hydrogen is tricky stuff; it boils at minus 423° F., only about 37° above absolute zero. If it is not stored in elaborately insulated containers, it quickly turns to hydrogen gas, and a small amount of the gas makes a dangerous explosive mixture with the oxygen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Problem Fuels | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...liquid hydrogen's virtues more than make up for its faults. When it is burned with liquid oxygen, the combination gives 40% more thrust than an equal amount of kerosene and oxygen. This improvement has a disproportionate effect on a rocket's efficiency, would more than double its payload...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Problem Fuels | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

Dreadful Poison. Plutonium must be handled as if it were thousands of times more toxic than the deadliest poison, which it is: it is strongly radioactive, and if a microscopic amount of it gets into the human body it causes dreadful damage. Exposed to air, it oxidizes quickly, and the oxide floats off as a deadly, impalpable dust. If it is machined in air, the shavings burst spontaneously into flame, giving off clouds of deadly smoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Problem Fuels | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...that the city pays them only $16 a day for care of indigent patients, though it budgets $28 a day in its own hospitals. On July 1 it will begin paying $20, and the hospitals promised to use the extra funds to raise nonprofessional workers' pay. It will amount to $6,000,000 a year, far short of what is needed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Hospital Strike | 5/25/1959 | See Source »

...reduction in the amount of copy would provide more space for informal pictures of typical Radcliffe occurrences which have meaning for everyone--fire drills, gym classes, library lines, cookies-and-milk at exam time, thesis writing. Hopefully, a compromise can be reached between copy and photographs, and the "Social Life" section in this year's book offers a good example of such balance...

Author: By Martha E. Miller, | Title: The Radcliffe Yearbook | 5/20/1959 | See Source »

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