Word: feeding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liquid hydrogen (LH2). While lox boils off at a difficult -290° F., LH2 boils at -423° F., thus requires extreme pressurization to keep cool. Moreover, in weightless space, LH2, like mercury, tends to gather into a ball or spin off into tiny globs; simply to feed the fuel from tank to engines, the second stage was equipped with three fast-burning rockets that exerted enough G force to start the LH2, flowing. All went smoothly, and after 7½ minutes of burn, Saturn was 170 miles...
...INDIA Volunteers will work with individual private producers, state poultry farms and cooperative markets to improve feed and poultry production and distribution. They will also work in teaching nutrition and food preservation...
...threat of starvation is a constant companion of India's 480 million people, many of whom live at a bare subsistence level. With the problem looming even larger than usual this year, the free world last week rallied to feed its hungriest member before threat turns into reality. The U.S., which has already started moving 4,500,000 tons of grain to India, granted a $100 million loan for economic aid. Burma and Thailand agreed to sell more of their rice to India. France, West Germany and Japan started sending powdered milk and vitamins for children and nursing mothers...
...acre as U.S. land, largely because of primitive farming implements and practices, lack of pesticides and fertilizer, soil exhaustion and uncertain water supply. Besides, India's burgeoning population-12 million new mouths per year-has simply outstripped the country's ability to produce enough food to feed...
Grazing animals apparently pick up the infection from contaminated feed or water, after which the vibrios settle quietly in their genitalia and cause no discernible illness in adult animals. They have been detected in many seemingly healthy stud bulls and are transmitted to the female in mating. Then they attack the placenta and kill the fetal animals, causing them to be aborted...