Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TAXES. The 10% tax on rail and bus tickets would be eliminated; on plane tickets, it would be halved to 5%. The Government would impose new taxes of 2? per gallon on jet fuel and barge fuel, which would help to defray the Government's costs of dredging waterways, building airports and running the air lanes-and also help to quiet the railroaders' complaints that their competitors enjoy many indirect subsidies. Direct subsidies to the nation's small "feeder" airlines, now amounting to $68 million a year, would be stopped...
...Power, fuel and steel were in short supply. The foreign-trade deficit was running close to $300 million-a year. Tens of thousands of featherbedded employees jammed deficit-ridden state enterprises...
...failures before they get a success, U.S. missilemen were jubilant when the giant Titan II climbed off its pad at Cape Canaveral on the very first try, lit its second stage exactly on schedule and flew a flawless course to the target 5,000 miles away. No big liquid-fuel rocket has ever scored such an immediate triumph...
Moment's Notice. What makes Titan II unique is a storable fuel that requires no lox (liquid oxygen) and enables the missile to be ready to fire at a moment's notice. Lox, which is used in the Atlas and Titan I, is cheap and an efficient oxidizer, but its extreme cold ( - 297°F.) and its eagerness to boil away make it troublesome and unreliable. Instead of this chemical bad actor, Titan II uses nitrogen tetroxide as an oxidizer and a mixture of hydrazine and UDMH (unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine) as fuel. Both are liquids that can be stored...
...elders, he launched the company on a $250 million spending spree, designed to buy new technical and executive skills as well as new businesses. Within the next decade, a series of eight acquisitions put Grace into sealing compounds, plastics, resin coatings, chemical catalysts, synthetic rubber, oil refining, and nuclear fuel processing. Sales to chemicals-hungry industry and agriculture leaped as Grace grew into a complex giant with 60 plants in 18 nations from Australia to Italy. Grace has also invested over $8,000,000 in Libyan oil concessions and predicts the venture will eventually account...