Word: error
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your March 3 prompt reporting of the [House Government Operations Committee] hearing, there is an error in your reference to our Parliament and Marlboro brands. I refer you to the report of the hearings where you will note that both the new high nitration Parliament and Marlboro are among the top three popular-price brands in low tar and nicotine delivery according to the Government's accepted figures. These brands were re-engineered late in 1957 and by February of this year were further reduced in tar and nicotine delivery...
...Minnesota's Humphrey, Libby assured him that the Atomic Energy Commission's mistake was "entirely inadvertent." After questioning AEC officials, Capitol Hill's Joint Atomic Energy Committee issued a bipartisan verdict of acquittal. Declared North Carolina's Committee Chairman Carl Durham: AEC made an "honest error...
...Marlene Dietrich) is an enchantress who has come full Circe and now finds herself with nothing to her name but a title, Marquise Maria de Crevecoeur (Lady Heartbreak). She thinks he's rich, he thinks she's rich, and it all makes a pleasant little comedy of errors until suddenly the script makes an error that is not funny in the least. It introduces an American millionaire (Arthur O'Connell) who does almost nothing for the next hour but spin the wheel of a 155-ft. yacht that used to belong to Kaiser Wilhelm II, goggle...
...missileer must know his own geographic position within a fraction of a mile. Land-based missile crews can set their guidance systems for the target on the basis of their known position. But how, traveling hundreds of feet below the sea, could the Navy subs fix position accurately? An error of a few hundred yards at launching point could mean a wide miss of the target 1,500 miles away. Advances in celestial navigation and radio astronomy systems helped, but the big answer came from two scientists who developed a gyroscopically oriented navigation system called SINS (for Ship...
Control by Blow-Off. To hit a distant target accurately, a long-range ballistic missile must be steered in the right direction and must attain the right speed. If it is traveling 23,000 ft. per sec. (15,600 m.p.h.), an error of I ft. per sec. in its top speed will make it miss its target by 500 yds. So when the desired speed has been reached, the thrust must be cut off accurately in a small fraction of a second. This is not too difficult with liquid-fuel rockets, whose thrust can be cut by shutting...