Word: disposall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More important to the U.S. than waste disposal and space sickness, however, was the question of where it stood with Russia in the race to the moon. The most pessimistic view was taken by Britain's Sir Bernard Lovell, director of the Jodrell Bank space observatory: "I think that...
This week the U.S. promises to make public the details of its tin disposal program. Washington officials contend that the market will be able to absorb the sales from the stockpile because world production has fallen an average of 26,000 tons short of demand in each of the last...
Since the first of the year, the Administration has moved to ease the stockpile burden. It set up a Cabinet-level committee to review the program, last April eliminated the veto held by five Government departments. The Administration has drawn up a long-range disposal plan that it hopes will...
The third system at the astronaut's disposal, fly-by-wire, uses the jets and fuel supply of the automatic system, but is controlled by the hand stick. Instead of opening the peroxide valves directly, fly-by-wire works them through a set of electrical actuators. It is faster...
Living Off Inventory. Steel users are currently living off the huge inventory of 17 million tons that they piled up last winter as a hedge against a possible strike by the United Steel workers. The auto industry, which consumes one-fifth of the nation's steel, has enough at...