Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...give its 14 divisions more mobility and firepower, the Army will get large quantities of armored personnel carriers, 51-ton M-60 tanks, self-propelled artillery and a new super-jeep. The Army will have an increased tactical atomic punch, with assault missiles ranging from the 500-mile, solid-fuel Pershing down to the Davy Crockett, which can be carried by two G.I.s. The Marine Corps will increase in size from 175,000 to 190,000 men, get two new battalions, two new helicopter squadrons, and more A4D attack bombers and all-weather F4H fighter bombers for close air support...
Missile Deterrent. The U.S. will continue to rely on liquid-fuel Atlas and Titan intercontinental missiles. The bill will complete the Air Force's 13-squadron Atlas program (with a total of 135 missiles), allow for twelve squadrons of Titans (with a total of 108 missiles). But the future of strategic deterrence clearly belongs to two solid-fuel missiles: the Navy's submarine-carried Polaris, and the Air Force's Minuteman, which can be fired from concrete "silos" buried in the ground, eventually will also be carried on special trains roaming at random through...
...plutonium 238*, a rare isotope of plutonium that gives off enough alpha radiation to heat itself as it decays. Thermocouples transform this ever-renewed heat into 2.7 watts of electricity for two of Transit's four transmitters. The little generator weighs only 4.6 lbs., but its plutonium fuel, with a half life of 90 years, is expected to supply power for much more than the five years during which an operational transit satellite is expected to function...
...million worth of pine a year with little effort, soon will produce all its own pulp and paper. But the Amazon's magnificent hardwoods (300 varieties v. 70 in the U.S.) rot on the forest floor, and its 600 varieties of palm trees, source of fiber, sacking, fuel, cattle feed and oils-stand unused...
...first major U.S. maritime walkout in six years was strange indeed. It tied up 222 ships on all three coasts, threatened fuel shortages in the East and food shortages in Hawaii, and left frustrated federal mediators awash in a sea of conflicting charges and demands. Ranged on one side of the dispute were the owners of 850 of the nation's 941 merchant ships, negotiating in three separate groups-East Coast, Gulf Coast and West Coast. On the other stood 50,000 working seamen and 30,000 unemployed seamen, represented by two big unions and three smaller ones...