Word: layers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Developed by the David Clark Co. of Worcester, Mass., the suit has a loose outside layer of shiny, aluminized fabric to protect the inner layers and to reflect solar or A-bomb heat. Inside is a coverall of special, airproofed nylon material carefully fitted to the individual wearer's body. In its normal, pressureless state, it is flexible and reasonably comfortable (see cut). Cold air or oxygen can be pumped through it to cool the pilot if his cabin gets...
Astronomers at the observatory are reluctant to give an exact time for the rocket to re-enter the atmosphere, because they are not sure how the shell will reach the air layer...
Three huge derricks have gone up on a 17-square-mile triangle at Hassi Messaoud, and high-grade oil has been penetrated in a 450-ft.-thick layer at 12,500 ft. Estimated capacity of the field: 300 million tons (15 times France's yearly petrol consumption). It is planned to have 20 wells operating by the end of 1958. The excitement of bringing in the big "bear cats" does not disturb the calm of the bespectacled chief engineer, Christian Redron, who wears nothing but khaki shorts and sandals on a skinny frame burned to leather...
...Fuller placed the wood boy face down on an improvised operating table and made his incision with a sharp, small-bladed knife. Ultraviolet examination had shown that Golden Boy had already undergone an operation, and Fuller cut along the old, virtually imperceptible scar.* He cut carefully through a top layer of paint (probably put on 700 or 800 years ago), then through a layer of gesso, a layer of lacquer, one of bronze and finally of the statue's original gold. After 30 minutes he lifted out a 2-in.-by-4-in. rectangular section...
Vice President Edgar Schmued of Northrop thinks that B.L.C. (Boundary Layer Control) will be the next great advance in airplane design. It will be most useful in long-range airplanes, since Northrop's figures indicate that the range of any B.L.C. airplane should be almost double that of a "turbulent" plane of the same weight...