Word: amounting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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These fears have failed to materialize, and despite its expansion, the HSA has not interfered with business in the Square. The corporation "has walked on egg shells in that area," as Monro phrased it. Consequently, the agency has received a fair amount of cooperation from local businessmen...
...press conference: "I repeat again what the meaning of this whole thing is, a nation's strategy is devised as an entity, as a unified thing. It cannot be ... the function of any separate forces of any kind ... It must be directed under unified control. The amount of supervisory control that is given to the Secretary of Defense ... is that amount which will make it possible for him to carry out a unified strategy effectively . . . and any retreat from that is, to my mind, retreat to a certain degree of defenselessness that is inexcusable...
...damage to men who live for a long time in a satellite. Van Allen figured that the radiation level inside the satellite might reach about 0.06 roentgens per hour. At this rate a man would receive in five hours his maximum weekly permissible dose of 0.3 roentgens. A small amount of lead shielding would reduce the dose to a supportable level. The crew of an outbound spaceship need not worry about the radiation belt. If moving fast enough to leave the earth, they would pass through it in about 20 minutes...
...tremendous amount of work must be done before even one man can ride an earth satellite said Dr. William H. Pickering, director of the Army's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. A payload of several thousand pounds must be placed on orbit. The re-entry problem must be solved in a way that will give the human passenger a fair chance to survive. Many new instruments and gadgets must be developed. "Granted that we have done all these things," said Pickering, "it seems to me that we should now ask the question: 'What do we gain by placing...
...moon, said Dr. John Barnes of U.C.L.A., it might be a good idea to test the treacherous surface from a safe distance. A nuclear bomb exploded on the moon would tell a good deal, but its radioactivity would contaminate the virgin surface. Dr. Barnes suggests that a small amount of chemical explosive would be enough. Once planted on the moon, it could be exploded by a signal from a moon satellite. The same satellite could capture tossed-up debris, and tell by examining it whether that part of the moon is a safe landing place...