Word: fueled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accommodate huge computers, oil-well rigs and helicopters. Another major growth area is space-age sealants: G.E. is selling sealants, developed for the seams of spacecraft, for use in caulking bathroom tiles; General Motors is sealing windshields and rear windows with a product made by Thiokol from solid rocket fuel...
...most heat-resistant material-pyrolytic graphite-but it languished until researchers began to coat nose cones with it to resist high re-entry heat. Next month California's Super Temp Corp. and Tar Card Co will begin marketing $8.95 tobacco pipes lined with pyrolytic graphite. The fuel cell, which generates power by converting hydrogen and oxygen into electricity and water, was a laboratory curiosity until General Electric put it in Gemini. Now General Dynamics is using the fuel cell to produce electricity aboard a one-man submarine, and Allis-Chalmers is using it to power experimental spot welders, golf...
...People's Wars." In contrast to Western efforts to damp the fires, Red China was gleefully pouring fuel on them. Cheering on Pakistan, Peking accused India of "aggression," aroused fears that it might repeat its 1962 invasion of India. The Chinese thus effectively immobilized at least half a dozen of India's 20 army divisions, which remained grimly in place along the northern border...
...Transcontinental Trophy Dash for propeller-driven airplanes, piloting his P-51 Mustang from Clearwater, Fla., to Reno, Nev., in 6 hrs. 28 min. 37.9 sec. for an average of 373 m.p.h. Weiner covered the seams of his plane with tape to cut down wind resistance, stopped just once for fuel, landed at Reno with only 11 gal. of gas to spare...
...from 102 countries will gather to discuss what is probably the world's most fascinating, most widely, talked about?and most misunderstood?subject: money. Ever since the ancient Lydians set up the first effective monetary system, money has been at the heart of men's lives and business, the fuel of their ambitions, the symbol of wealth and power in almost every society. It has not only made possible but helped to create the vast and complicated structure of modern civilization. Adam Smith called it "the great instrument of commerce," but few who have tried to define it over...