Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...China an estimated $4 billion in credits, including 291 industrial projects. They have given China a small experimental nuclear reactor and a cyclotron-but no atomic weapons. The Russians provide all China's jet aircraft, much of its heavy military gear. Nearly all of China's aviation fuel is still brought by rail from the Soviet Union, creating a strategic dependence on Moscow for a prime material...
...towering intellects, Atlas-like bodies and shriveled souls. The American people are fiddling and playing around while the world burns and crumbles down around them . . . Life can be sweet, smooth and sassy, like our modern cars, but if we have lost the key, or if there is no fuel in the tank, we can't go any place . . . Like an aircraft in a storm, we have lost contact with the control tower; we are circling, ever circling, with our moral visibility zero...
...disposal, Polich invented dozens of classroom de vices to illustrate the latest engineering and electrical developments for 32 courses. Instead of the standard black board sketches and one-dimensional charts, he mounted cutaway engines on huge boards, indicated power flow by beads, lights and liquids. A model of the fuel-injection system for diesel engines spouts real flames; the school also has a huge cutaway bulldozer that actually works with most of the moving parts exposed to view. "A chart of a missile system in static form would send a student back to Kentucky," says Polich. To help keep...
...protect it against enemy attack, the Titan must be stored underground, and requires a complex of elevator platforms, guidance antennas, fuel-storage and loading systems, and interconnecting tunnels. Once the alert comes, the missile is fueled in minutes and readied for firing. When the word is given, massive doors open at ground level and the Titan begins to emerge, rises until it is ready to blast off on its 5,500-mile journey...
...direction. The computer has been told in advance what course the missile should follow to hit a selected target. If the actual course and speed deviate from this course, the computer makes corrections. When the missile has reached the correct top speed, the computer cuts off the rocket fuel. An error of one foot per second at this point means a miss one mile from the target...