Word: diagramming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Take Notice. The Pentagon is trying to find new formulas. The Navy, which has shown how to move fast and effi ciently with its Polaris program, is developing a management-control system nicknamed "Mascot." Mascot's goal: to give on one giant diagram a clear picture of the function of each contractor and sub contractor, which ones have to be speeded up to keep the project on schedule, and what the effect of speedups or delays would be on costs. And in a contract recently signed with RCA for the SAINT satellite-inspection system, the Air Force stipulated that...
...first problem is the improvement of basic techniques for eliminating illiteracy, and the second is the elimination of mechanical illiteracy" among people at the educational level of "pre-Roman Anglo-Saxons," Bruner noted. He cited the importance of teaching the natives show to read a diagram and dig a ditch" in the overall picture of the development of the country...
...American Machine & Foundry annual meeting in Manhattan last week, stockholders strolling by a color cutaway diagram of the company's complex new automatic bread-baking machine were startled to see parts of the still picture seem to move. Before their surprised eyes the machine showed how it mixes bread dough, pops it into an oven, and shoots out golden-brown loaves. Shareholders at the giant American Telephone & Telegraph annual meeting in Chicago (see State of Business) were treated to another picture in which Echo satellites seemed to move across the sky bouncing radio waves back to earth...
...strengthen reinforcement, the student is fed cues such as the first or last letter of the answer. Gradually, the cues are withdrawn so the student can stand on his own. Medical students see labels on an anatomy diagram disappear in successive frames. Third-grade spellers may learn "manufacture" in six frames: 1) Manufacture means to make or build. Chair factories manufacture chairs. Copy the word here. - ™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™™ the word here: 2) Part of the word is like part of the word factory. Both parts...
...Astrojet gets its pep from a new engine: the Pratt & Whitney turbofan, which develops 17,000 Ibs. thrust. Basically, the turbofan sucks in a larger mass of air than regular jet engines to produce greater thrust with less fuel. A fan, set just inside the air intake (see diagram), pulls in the air. then blasts about 60% of it out through openings on the side of the jet pod to provide just under 50% of the engine's total thrust. The rest of the air is directed into the engine's burning chamber. The engine produces 20% more...