Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There is only one certainty about economic blockades: they bring out blockade busters. Britain's embargo on oil to Rhodesia is a case in point: it simply does not work. The reason, Britain charged last week, is that South Africa, despite strong British protests, is shuttling enough fuel into Rhodesia to keep the country running indefinitely. Rhodesians know how frustrated Britain feels...
...that pits liberal against conservative, for most of the state's liberals have either supported it, or out of personal loyalty to Donahue, remained discreetly silent. Finally, the bill is hardly a confrontation between rich and poor; it is a limited tax which exempts food, medicine, clothing, rent, fuel, utilities and other necessities and offers a credit to low income families...
...news conference in Mos cow, top Soviet scientists disclosed that Luna 9's instrumented, picture-taking payload stood only 2 ft. high and weighed a mere 220 Ibs. The remaining bulk of the 3,428-lb. craft that the Russians fired into space consisted large ly of fuel and the retrorockets that slowed Luna 9's final descent. In addition, the payload was detached from its rocket engines just before impact and hurled to one side, well away from the area that was disturbed by the fiery blasts of the descending retrorockets...
...them up, all right, especially on the day, weeks later, when he finally had enough fuel on board for an escape. Five airport guards tried to stop him by hanging onto the tail. He blew them off with a blast of prop wash and headed for Pakistan, but not before circling over the Delhi jail to drop a packet of cookies to his former fellow inmates. Flying low, he eluded the Indian Air Force jets that were scrambled to bring him back. After landing at Karachi, he declared to reporters: "The only violation of Indian law I have committed...
Behind these prime contractors, scores of specialists ranging from Aerojet-General (rocket fuel) to United Aircraft (jet engines) are pursuing prosperity with a diversity of projects. Nine allied countries fly Northrop Corp.'s hot twin-jet F-5 fighter, and the company is developing deep ocean bases for the Navy, building three broadcasting stations in Ethiopia, and teaching budgetary accounting to the Nicaraguan government. Comsat has just placed a $35 million order for 24 satellites with Cleveland-based TRW Inc. Martin Marietta last month won the first production contract, for $12,085,430, for the Walleye glide bomb...