Word: crashes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weak, and incompetent persons bring themselves to ruin." Incompetent speculators lack, somehow, the sang-froid of an emotionless Baruch or the attributes of another successful pre-Depression speculator, Joseph P. Kennedy. Old Joe succeeded in the Great Bull Market of the '20s and magnificently survived the crash, suggested a friend, because he possessed "a passion for facts, a complete lack of sentiment and a marvelous sense of timing...
...vernier fuel and oxidizer, had begun leaking through a valve that had remained partially open. At the rate that helium was being lost, controllers feared there would not be enough pressure left to operate the engines during the final descent to the moon. The result would be a fatal crash landing...
Although the spongelike material fills the tank, it soaks up the fuel and capaci ty is not significantly reduced. The or ange polyurethane, by containing the fuel and its vapor, reduces the possibility of explosion or fire when the tank is hit by a bullet or ruptures during a crash. At the Air Force demonstration, a bullet fired into a fuel-and-foam-filled tank produced only a slight glow as fuel vapor escaping from the pressurized tank ignited outside. Foam has been successfully used for nine months in the tanks of HH-3E helicopters and other aircraft operating...
...memory for figures lifted him from laborer to Aramco construction boss in his mid-thirties, whereupon he quit to form his own company and with the late King Ibn Saud's patronage built $500 million worth of airfields, dams and highways throughout his nation; of injuries in the crash of his de Havilland DH-125 executive jet; near Khamis Mushait, Saudi Arabia...
...year is improved control over exhaust emission. Still left undecided is whether front-seat shoulder harnesses will be mandatory on all new cars starting Jan. 1. The National Traffic Safety Bureau had issued the order, but recently its members viewed a disturbing G.M. test film of a simulated car crash. At impact, the lap straps did not prevent the heads of dummies in the back seat from being thrown forward, causing them to bang against the heads of shoulder-harnessed dummies in the front seat. As a result, the bureau decided that further research into the controversial shoulder strap...