Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were qualified successes, reaching 71,000-and 63,000-mile altitudes before falling back to earth. Last week's shoot, bossed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, worked almost exactly as planned. The launching vehicle was a Chrysler-built Army Jupiter beefed up with extra fuel for extra range. Mounted on its massive shoulders were 15 small, solid-fuel rockets arranged to fire in three stages (see diagram). Perched on the nose of the final rocket was the gilded cone itself, Pioneer...
...nation on the American continents, and population, despite an infant mortality rate of 20%, keeps going up by 4% a year. But Lemus, an efficient President, has completed the best road network in Central America. Now he would like to raise $190 million in public and private funds to fuel an ambitious "ten-year plan" designed to diversify agriculture, build schools, houses and light industries...
...bullet-shaped Juno II is a modified Jupiter intermediate range ballistic missile topped by three stages of spinning Sergeant rockets. The whole assembly as it left the earth was 76 feet long and weighed about 60 tons with its fuel...
DIESEL TAXICABS are catching on in New York, Washington, South Bend and San Francisco as cabbies switch to West Germany's Mercedes-Benz because of durability and lower fuel costs...
...atomic power, on the theory that private firms have neither the money nor the know-how to go ahead fast enough. AEC's new plan still leaves the job largely to private industry, but there is one major concession. AEC, which now contributes only toward research and fuel costs of privately built plants, would offer private industry up to 50% of the cost of building prototype reactors, plus more money for research...