Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wardroom when he was suddenly engulfed by water. "I swam to the surface," he recalled, "and found I was still in the wardroom. I got out through a slit in the side and found myself in the ocean, with its surface covered by a six-inch layer of fuel oil." Ten men trapped in the forward section finally forced open a jammed escape hatch and, as they scrambled free, heard men behind them screaming to get out and thrashing in the water-filled hold...
...Real Fuel. All this seemed redolent of flackery, and the Beatles were certainly well publicized. But no press-agent can light a blaze like that-he can only strike a match here and there and pray to the pressagents' god. The Beatles are being fueled by a genuine, if temporary, hysteria. In every part of the U.S., teen-agers are talking about little else, and superthatch Beatle-size wigs are being sold by the hundreds of dozens. But part of the Beatles peculiar charm is that they view it all with bemused detachment. If they are asked why they...
...sold by the poorer nations -in Latin America, Asia, Africa. From 1950 to 1960 their share of world trade declined from 30% to 20%, and their imports expanded much faster than their exports. On top of that, a world commodity glut held down prices of their exports-mostly food, fuel and fibers-while prices rose for the increasingly complex machines that they import. Because of the switch to synthetic goods and new efficiencies in manufacturing, the industrial nations are buying relatively less natural rubber, textiles and metals. The commodity-producing countries are trying to industrialize, but production costs in their...
...four center engines are immovable and canted outward to reduce the yawing effect if one of them should cut out. The four outer engines are on gimbals so they can be switched from side to side to give directional control. They get their kerosene and liquid oxygen fuel through flexible tubing, from nine tanks interconnected so that if one engine fails, the others will use its share of fuel and burn longer. Backing up the engines is an incredible array of pumps, valves, gas generators, high-pressure tanks and cables. Saturn SA-5 is as complicated as a crewless ocean...
Saturn's second stage, built by Douglas Aircraft Co., is even more sophisticated because of its uncomfortable fuel, liquid hydrogen. Space engineers admire LH2 because it provides better than one-third more thrust than kerosene, but it is hell to handle. It is so light (7% the weight of water) that it requires enormous tanks, elaborately insulated to keep the hydrogen from flashing to vapor. A long list of new materials had to be developed that would not lose their strength at the chilling touch...