Word: constructible
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...estimates that the industry now handles $2.5 billion worth of non-aerospace business annually, including urban studies, pollution control and housing. For example, the Rohr Corp., a subcontractor of airplane parts, two years ago began studying rail-transit problems and has since won a profitable, $66.7 million contract to construct cars for San Francisco's new rapid-transit system. Railroads of all kinds are the projects most often mentioned as possible conversion targets for the aerospace industry. Says Dr. Richard Michaels, research director of Northwestern University's transportation center: "There is no way to make rail passenger service profitable with...
Most intriguing of all, light measurements by Pioneer's imaging photo-polarimeter will enable computers on earth to construct about ten pictures of the planet that will show features as small as 250 miles across. Although the resolution is not much greater than that achieved by terrestrial telescopes, the pictures will be shot from glare-free angles completely unobtainable on earth...
...Architectural Technology Workshop, located at 888 Memorial Drive near Peabody Terrace, houses design workshops and two classes per week in the Graduate School of Design. The building is part of the Treelands site and is slated for demolition in the plan to construct new graduate school housing...
Last week the irrevocability of Jewish control was pushed a giant step further. Israeli Housing Minister Ze'ev Sha-ref announced that the government would construct 19,500 apartments for about 100,000 people in three outlying districts (see map]. The government, Sharef said bluntly, is determined that Jerusalem remain "an emphatically Jewish city. This is a plan with a Jewish goal. This is a Zionist exhibition...
...revolutionary regime is becoming more and more dependent on the military support of the Soviet Union, which has some 500 advisers in the Sudan. Farther down the Horn of Africa in Somalia (see map), there are an estimated 325 Russian advisers. Last year the Russians began to construct a naval base at Port Sudan on the Red Sea, an installation that will be useful, once the Suez Canal is reopened, in the further expansion of Soviet naval activity in the Indian Ocean. Now the Russians are installing SA-2 antiaircraft missiles to defend the base...