Word: built
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that for a month had haunted U.S. parents: was the Salk vaccine safe? Answer: no, not under testing procedures so far used. Sebrell admitted that the safety tests originally developed for the 1955 Salk vaccine had proved to be "less than satisfactory," and also that the margin of safety built into the minimum standards was "no longer dependable...
...boxing manager who was so honest that to keep himself in coffee and cakes he also had to run a gymnasium that catered to hopeful fist fighters. (No spitting on the floor, put cigar butts in cuspidors.) There he developed a surefire system for picking winners. "Their built don't matter so much," Bobby Gleason liked to explain. "What they gotta be if they want to get along in this racket is a little stupid...
This summer the Air Force will evaluate a new jet target, the Ryan Firebee, which it hopes will help solve the problem. The Firebee is an ugly little pilotless airplane, built like a potbellied bug with swept-back wings. It is only 17 ft. 3 in. long, and its wing span is 11 ft. 2 in. But its belly contains a real jet engine with 1,000 Ibs. of thrust, which gives it maximum speed at sea level of 610 m.p.h. At 40,000 ft. it can fly for an hour and 20 minutes at 575 m.p.h. This...
Boeing, which has already built some 30 of the giant planes, and is turning them out at the rate of one a week, will speed up production at both its Seattle and Wichita, Kans. plants. Originally, Boeing had planned to roll the first B-52 out of Wichita early next year, build up to a rate of 2½ planes a week. Now it will get Wichita in high gear sooner, and build up to about 3 1/3 planes every week. Even so, it will still be months before the speedup shows in the number of B-52s in service...
...rocket ship which Bridgeman jockeyed to speed and altitude records (79,494 ft., 1,238 m.p.h.) in 1951 was the third stiletto-nosed, dull white Skyrocket built by Douglas for the Navy.* It could fly for three minutes under full power after it had been dropped from the bomb bay of a B29, but it took weeks to prepare for each 180-sec. flight, including replacing the 15 coats of lacquer burned off in every...