Word: drags
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chute made of concentric rings of strong fabric 2 in. wide, and at first it was reefed by a band around it to lower the shock of opening. When the falling speed was reduced still more, explosive bolts freed the recovery package, the parachute was unreefed and its powerful drag pulled the package a short distance away from the hot shell of the nose cone, preserving it from heat damage. Then a small, tough balloon popped out of the side of the package and was inflated with compressed air. An automatic knife cut its air hose, allowing the balloon...
...knows how to gauge the productivity of such workers-or how much money they should get. On the standard measures, it often appears that white-collar employees drag productivity down. If only production-line workers are counted, productivity increased at an annual rate of 3.7% since 1947; if all workers are counted, the gain drops to 2.9%. Actually, says Wernick, the reverse may be true, since technical experts often make possible productivity increases. Moreover, how can industry measure the work of scientists who design a new machine or a new product that does not show up in the output figures...
...Pflimlin hastily called an emergency Cabinet meeting to deal with the second uprising against the Fourth Republic in twelve days. Early next morning Pflimlin's tape-recorded voice boomed out from the radios of France condemning the Corsican insurgents as "a handful of rebels" who "are seeking to drag us down the slope which leads to civil...
...drag of gravity forces (far more powerful than the earth's) from the rocket's acceleration piles tip a crushing impact on the spaceman, whose normal weight -say 150 Ibs. -multiplies to three-quarters of a ton. On the outer skin of his capsule, hurtling away from earth at 25,000 m.p.h., the friction of the atmosphere generates temperatures tip to 1,600°F. Beyond the atmosphere, the outside temperature drops to -454°F. -close to absolute zero -and gone is the atmospheric pressure that keeps man's organs from exploding like a blood bomb...
...recovering a capsule dropped in the ocean, as it might drop a returning spaceman. Then he will try again, with a capsule fired downward at 3,000 to 4,000 m.p.h. from a high-flying missile. Next he will try to recover an orbiting satellite, to prove that the drag and heat problems on re-entry have been solved. He will send up and recover bigger and bigger animals, with chimpanzees on the top of the ladder, only one rung below man. Says Dr. Stapp: "When we've done the whole thing with three consecutive successes, getting the chimps...