Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite serious problems in obtaining sufficient high-octane aviation fuel, the French seem determined to carry on. An abnormal number of tankers recently unloaded at Libreville. The cargo included long, rope-handled wooden boxes, of the sort France uses to transport ammunition. The cases were taken in a French army truck to the military airport, where several other boxes marked "Army Rations" were in evidence...
...important on the lunar-landing mission next year, when an Apollo spacecraft will dock nose-to-nose with a real LM before taking it into orbit around the moon. Finally, after the astronauts have jockeyed their craft some 8,000 ft. away, the S-4B will dump its remaining fuel into space. That action will generate just enough thrust to shove the S-4B out of the way and into orbit around the sun. Alone in space, the Apollo craft will continue coasting in powerless flight through the final leg of the moon trip, its velocity gradually decreasing...
...century was man ready to turn his attention from fanciful to actual space flights. By 1898, a deaf Russian schoolteacher named Konstantin Tsiolkovsky had calculated the mathematical laws of rocket motion and begun to publish scores of articles about space travel. His descriptions of earth satellites, liquid-fuel rockets, space suits, solar energy and the eventual colonization of the solar system, stimulated Russia's insatiable appetite for space travel...
Have Another. That sort of strategy would have appealed to the company's early champion, Winston Churchill. As First Lord of the Admiralty in 1914, Churchill got the government to bankroll B.P.'s tottering predecessor, the pioneering Anglo-Persian Oil Co., thus ensuring fuel for the Royal Navy through two world wars. An equally happy mix of politics and oil has been overdue for Drake, who will formally take over from ailing Chairman Sir Maurice Bridgeman in January. Last year's closing of the Suez Canal forced shipping costs up; then came the Biafran civil war, which...
...trucks are diesel-powered. At White Truck, for example, more than 80% of this year's production had diesel engines, compared with only 55% in 1960. Meanwhile, Ford, General Motors and International Harvester are working on turbine-powered trucks that would be feasible on turnpikes. The turbine consumes fuel completely and quietly, producing a low noise level and nontoxic exhaust. But since its high fuel consumption makes the turbine-truck economical only at full throttle, the rigs would have to drop the trailers at terminals just off the expressway. From those terminals, conventional trucks could haul the goods through...