Word: jetted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Easy. Best way to spread airborne infection in a laboratory, the researchers found, is "an all-glass, direct-spray peripheral air-jet instrument," much like a perfume atomizer. In wartime, the same technique might be applied by airplanes spraying disease as they now spray insecticides over truck farms. The raw materials of bacteriological warfare are easy to stockpile, and it is not really necessary to kill wholesale. Causing civilian panic should be fairly simple and adequate...
...hazards of the air age is the risk of being roasted in a friction-heated cockpit. The fastest jet planes need refrigerating systems to keep cockpits bearable. But what if the cooler goes haywire while the plane is in flight? Air scientists have wondered what the pilot should...
...life of Spain. A number of translators have tried to reproduce his quality in English, and though Poet Spender and his collaborator have scarcely succeeded, they have at least picked some good poems to make the effort on. Among these lyrics are several as frighteningly alive as the jet from an artery...
...clogged with cars that none could ever move again. Only then would man be free of the monster. But would he accept his freedom? It seemed doubtful. It would be too easy to lay boards across the tops of a billion sedans and start all over again with jet propulsion, foam rubber wheels and special lighters for the motorist's neon-trimmed opium pipe...
Military airmen are watching the experiments closely. Jet engines (necessary for the new high speeds) have cut the range of bombers. The strategic bombing missions of World War III may have to use flying tankers, rising from forward bases and meeting the bombers part way to their faraway targets...