Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...research men to find a way of bringing methane to Chicago by water transport. The result, twelve years and $50 million later: a method of shipping liquefied methane that promises to bring handsome new profits to Business Wizard Prince and to open untapped markets for the low-cost fuel in countries which do not have their own gas fields...
...supposed to make sure that the reactor is used only for peaceful purposes. The transfer was first approved 13 months ago by John McCone, then chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, and was reaffirmed a few weeks ago when the AEC signed an agreement to supply the uranium fuel. The deal made last week's headlines only after Texas' Republican Senator John Tower heard of it and protested. It was, indeed, hard to see why the U.S. should be handing over a reactor and fissionable material to Communist Tito, who has done nothing for the U.S. recently except...
...Needs Me?" The fuel of a free society is people freely pursuing some consuming interest, be it physics, poetry or plumbing. Nothing is more joyfully consuming than motherhood, but the proportion of any woman's life spent in motherhood is dropping fast. In 1890 the average woman lived 14 years after her last child turned 21; in 1961, between earlier marriage and longer life, the same period spans 30 years...
Besides reducing the need for expensive new hydroelectric plants, the gas find improved prospects for development of New Zealand industry, previously stunted for want of a cheap domestic fuel source. Some New Zealanders even launched into heady talk of using the gas to generate the power for electric furnaces that could extract iron ore from the hitherto useless mineral-laced sands of Taranaki province. But in the short run, what raised New Zealand's hopes the most was Holyoake's report that the Kapuni gas carried with it a substantial quantity of light oil which...
Thiokol Chemical Corp. was launched into aerospace by a chemist's accidental discovery that its synthetic rubber made the best solid rocket fuel. Thiokol has since branched into liquid fuel, did $172 million in sales last year...