Word: engineeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Appointed 18 months ago, with Engine Manufacturer J. Irwin Miller of Columbus, Ind., as chairman, the 15-member commission included five physicians. Two of the best known: San Francisco's Dr. Dwight L. Wilbur, president-elect of the American Medical Association,* and the Mayo Clinic's Dr. James C. Cain...
What was going on at the Gens haberdashery shop? Every weekend for two years the Gens sons, Heinz, 26, and Josef, 23, carried construction materials into their shop near St. Severin's Gate in Cologne, Germany. Aided by friends, they carried out large quantities of earth. From the building...
Positive Control. A wealthy oil-industry lawyer and longtime aviation buff, Rachal figures that his aircraft business needs extra cash more than he does. The company was founded back in 1948 by Al Mooney, who raised a small amount of capital to build the "Mooney Mite," a durable, single-engine...
The newcomers began concentrating on the Mark 20, a prototype four-seater that Mooney (who soon left to join Lockheed Aircraft) had recently designed. The plane was noisy, but its wooden-wing construction enabled Rachal to price it low; by 1959, the company was turning out 180 of the 150...
As Apollo began to plunge back toward the earth from its peak altitude, its engine again fired, increasing its speed and ensuring that the craft would plunge into the earth's atmosphere at the 25,000-m.p.h. velocity that will be reached by a returning lunar mission. The maneuver...