Word: crash
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...missiles were a long period off, and that "I wish the American public would leave that out of their thinking." Your article went on to say that "because of the arguments-like Bush's-against it, it was not until May 1954 . . . that the Air Force launched a crash program to develop the Atlas ICBM...
...time of my 1945 statement, some eminent generals were telling the Senate that intercontinental ballistic missiles would be available in a year or two. My statement should be read with this, and the following, in mind: a crash program meant hardware and large costs. Reasonable men in development work do not enter this phase until the central problems are solved. At the time there was no known means of guiding such a missile successfully. There were also large problems on re-entry and on fuels. The fact that I was interested, and was encouraging such research, is illustrated...
...years of driving everything from midgets to 410-h.p. Fords, won close to $400,000 and all the big races except the World 600 in Charlotte, N.C., which he tried for again on May 24 only to wind up in the middle of a flaming, three-car crash that left him with third-degree burns over 45% of his body; of complications resulting from his burns; at Charlotte Memorial Hospital...
Flamboyant Stock Hawking. In Argentina's inflation-plagued economy, businessmen know bankruptcy almost as well as success. The commerce courts are clogged with tangled litigation; 1,780 bankruptcies were declared in 1962. But no other financial empire has fallen with as resounding a crash as Natin's. Only four years ago, Natin was the owner of a small company with the long name of Organization for Trade, Administration, Property and Real Estate Representation-or simply ONAPRI...
Although the pilot and Teddy's aide, Edward Moss, were killed in the crash, the Kennedy luck stretched far enough to cover his other traveling companions, Indiana Senator and Mrs. Birch Bayh. Strapped down by their seat belts, the Bayhs suffered torn back muscles, but they were saved from serious or fatal injuries. What puzzled the doctors, though, was how the Senator had been able to help Kennedy get away from the wreck. Once he got to the hospital and had time to realize how badly he had been banged up, Bayh was in too much pain to move...