Word: launchful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Navy's Polaris-nuclear-submarine network, geared to launch missiles from underwater stations at 1,500-mile range; estimated cost: $7 billion...
...missiles could be launched only "with the consent of the British government," he pointed out, and cited Opposition Leader Hugh Gaitskell's own statement that "there is no essential physical difference between the launching of missiles, which do not have to be manned, and the launching of bombers with hydrogen bombs, which have to be manned." He added: "If Russia, with her incomparably larger forces, were to launch an all-out attack, then the Western Allies would have the choice of striking back with nuclear weapons or submitting to defeat and occupation." The Victory-for-Socialism Laborites leaped...
First step, said Putt, one of the Air Force's topflight aviator-engineers (Carnegie Tech, Caltech), will be to use existing ballistic missiles to boost Sputnik-type satellites into orbits. The Thor can be fitted with upper stages that will launch a satellite weighing more than one ton, said Putt, and the Atlas (none has flown full range yet) can launch a two-ton satellite, or better...
Lunar Outpost. It would not be difficult, according to General Putt, for a modified Thor to carry a radio transmitter to the moon and to mark the surface with a visible spot. "If this project were started in the next few weeks," he said, "first launch to the moon would be made this year...
...runs 110 pages--a gamut of essays, poems, short stories, reviews, and even a play. The editors launch the issue with a benign note to the effect that they intend to publish writers more interested in art than market...