Word: friction
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Main cause of friction between the drive and the Red Cross was the latter's refusal to believe that the P.B.H. campaign would not more than 1,000 pints during its three days last week. Just before the opening of the drive P.B.H. officials had to go to the regional blood director and pleaded for enough nurses and equipment to blood 1,450 people...
...very tip of the spearhead, cocky, harddriving, but an expert tanker, rides Staff Sergeant Steve Cochran, a Southern mountain boy who speaks as if his mouth were always full of grits and corn pone. The story, makes what it can out of Cochran's constant friction with his men, who are predictably slow to recognize his true worth...
...questions will be divided into the yes-no variety, and those requiring more detailed explanation. This questionnaire will be used as future reference for placement selection, helping to eliminate any unnecessary friction between employer and employee...
...Orders. He found them in the small turbines which patient Engineer Ramsaur had been perfecting since 1943. So that jet pilots could endure the heat generated by air friction at supersonic speeds, a way had to be found to cool their cockpits. Ramsaur's turbine provided the answer; by putting an engine's heat to work turning the turbine, it cooled the air by expanding it, shot the air into the cockpit. As rearmament got under way, Garrett began turning out a total of 700 accessory products. With the Navy order for the self-starter, Garrett Corp...
...quantity. The problem of building today's vastly more complicated planes has turned Douglas engineers, of necessity, into inventors who range far beyond aeronautics. For example, they had to turn out new type of refrigeration to cool the cockpit and entire fuselage of the supersonic X3; otherwise, the friction heat at 1,800 m.p.h. would kill the pilot and melt the metal. To whip the problem of windshield fogging at great speeds, they are helping devise a water-repellent coating which prevents fogging for long periods...