Word: breakthrough
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...operate for months, perhaps years, without refueling; about 70% of its cumbersome, vulnerable train of oilers can thus be eliminated. Its carriers will still need huge aviation stores, which can be shuttled between stockpile and task force by high-speed nuclear supply ships (the Navy is nearing a breakthrough in high-energy chemical fuels that may give twice the range of conventional aviation fuels). Ships will be teardropped: stacks, made obsolete by nuclear engines, will be gone; forecastles will be rounded off; missile turrets may be mounted on elevators, kept below deck while cruising and run topside only for firing...
...after ten minutes Joslin kicked his first three pointer from 20 yards out to open the scoring. With Martin Lindsay getting the Crimson a large share of the set scrums, the threequarters (Rugby's backfield) had a good chance to gain ground. Only solid Yale tackling prevented a breakthrough, as Ash Hallett did a good job of fast passing in his first match at the pivot position of scrum half...
...major breakthrough toward equality of opportunity, Texas oil workers this year have succeeded in abolishing a discriminatory "dual promotion" system, under which Negroes were hired only as laborers and could not compete with white workers for operating jobs. At Beaumont's Magnolia Petroleum Co., the first company to scrap the old system, 32 Negroes have already stepped into operating jobs, while 13 whites have been hired as laborers...
...intensive study of the relationship between cancer and cigarette smoking, it was clearly a breakthrough. Searching for the element in cigarette tar that causes cancers on mice (and, presumably, lung cancer in man), U.S. and Canadian scientists had narrowed the field to an identifiable fraction...
Last week, in a flat technical report, the Air Force Cambridge Research Center gave ample evidence that the midnight phenomenon marked a fascinating new breakthrough in high altitude science...