Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Liquid oxygen (LOX) is used as an oxidizer in rocket engines and in steel production. Liquid hydrogen has been proposed as the fuel for the supersonic transport and as the propellant in a nuclear rocket. In bubble chambers, it allows scientists to trace the path of sub-atomic particles. Gas companies are liquefying natural gas for more convenient and economical storage, and liquid nitrogen is now used to freeze the earth around excavations so that mud will not slide into the work area...
Died. Frank Perkins, 79, founder of the world's largest producer of diesel engines; after a long illness; in Peterborough, England. Inventor in 1932 of a fuel-injection device that gave higher diesel horsepower with much less weight, Perkins built his small shop into the giant of its field, with annual sales of $980 million when he retired 30 years later...
Striking at both dawn and dusk, Intruder bombers from the U.S.S. Constellation dug huge craters in the runway of the previously untouched MIG airbase at Cat Bi, four miles southwest of Haiphong, and set fire to its fuel supply. Hitting at two more new targets, Skyhawks and Crusaders from the carriers Intrepid and Oriskany blasted the Lach Tray and Thuong Ly shipyards, which are located within about 1.7 miles from the center of Haiphong. Though Haiphong's piers have been avoided for fear of provoking a confrontation with the Soviet Union, a confrontation of sorts took place when...
...supplies will not reach the war zone. For the third time in a month, they bombed a highway bridge only eight-tenths of a mile from Haiphong's heart, this time dropped the center span. Scratching another target from the dwindling list of forbidden objectives, they hit a fuel dump at Tien Nong, seven miles northwest of Haiphong. The storage tanks were believed to hold 700 tons of oil for North Vietnamese trucks and power stations. The estimate was probably right: smoke from the fire rose more than two miles into...
...Abreast Unseating. More difficult and expensive changes will be put into effect over the next two years. Fuel lines will be shrouded from electric power lines to cut down the possibility of fire: 75% of cabin lights will be designed to remain lit even though a fuselage is broken open, and cabin interiors will be built of "self-extinguishing" materials. Airplane manufacturers-who have, after all, been overcrowding cabins only because "high-density" seating is what the airlines demand-will have to prove to the FAA that all passengers can be evacuated from a new design in 90 sec., rather...