Word: developed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mobile Platform. The faults of permanent platforms have stimulated inventors to develop a weird and wonderful craft: the "mobile drilling platform...
...even awe. Yet a number of his colleagues came before the security board, in answer to subpoenas, and testified against him. Among them was Dr. Luis Alvarez, professor of physics at the University of California, who was on the staff at Los Alamos during World War II (he helped develop the detonating mechanism for the atomic bomb). In September 1949, after the Russians exploded an atomic bomb, Dr. Alvarez and Dr. Lawrence decided to push for development of the H-bomb. Nearly all of the scientists they reached were enthusiastic and anxious to get the program going, Dr. Alvarez testified...
Under 1945 legislation, Congress had authorized the Army engineers to develop power, navigation, and flood-control features on a 100-mile stretch of the Coosa River between Montgomery and the Georgia state line. The money was never appropriated, and the Alabama Power Co., which already serves 520,718 people in the area, drafted its own plan. It offered to build five new dams (see map) along the Coosa, with flood-control features and provisions for future navigation improvement. Cost of the project: about $100 million for an additional 360,000 kilowatts of power...
Brilliant Engineering. General Dornberger's book is rather confused but highly instructive. It tells in detail how the V-2s were developed. There is no doubt about the brilliance of the rocket engineers who worked at the great Pennemünde base. They started from scratch, feeling their way in an area where virtually nothing was known. Many rockets failed, or exploded disastrously. The engineers had to develop instruments to find out why; they had to develop test stands and guiding devices and elaborate firing routines. Many of the rocket techniques still used today were worked...
...possibly East Germany or Czechoslovakia. Possibly they could meet the Chinese requests. But in meeting those requests, the Russians or Germans or Czechs would have to devote time and manpower and raw materials to the Chinese, thus affecting their own industrial programs. Under such circumstances, we think frictions would . . . develop...