Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thrust. Using a set of formulas, he scales it up 50 times (perfectly feasible, he says) and comes out with a rocket that weighs 43,000,800 Ibs. and has 87,500,000 Ibs. of thrust, twice as much as is needed to lift it off the ground. According to a generally accepted rule of thumb, the payload that reaches escape velocity will be one one-thousandth of the starting weight: about 21 tons. This will be enough weight allowance, says Ritchey, to send a crew around the moon in reasonable comfort and safety. When better solid propellants come along...
...billion, and, as Ike promised beforehand, leave a budget surplus. But the black-ink estimate amounts to only $500 million, a mere razor's edge as sums in the federal budget go. And just to give the Administration some room to maneuver, the President asked Congress to lift the $275 billion statutory debt limit "temporarily" through fiscal...
Although he rarely composes any more, Trumpeter Davis recently sketched some music for a French movie entitled Lift to the Gallows ("about a man who has committed the perfect crime-until he got stuck in an elevator"). In Europe he is perhaps the most widely imitated modern U.S. jazzman. No matter how closely young musicians may listen to him, Davis hates to take a backward look at his work. "You always see how you would have done it different," he says. "If you play good for eight bars, it's enough-for yourself...
Easier moneymen argued that the economy needed a lift. Unemployment was still rising (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), notably in Detroit. Auto sales were sliding, and Detroit last week rolled out 18% fewer cars than in the same week of 1957 (but 57% higher than the previous week in 1958). Automakers slashed first-quarter production schedules by 13% from the total projected a few weeks ago. In the slowdown more than 9% of Detroit's work force was idle. General Motors has laid off about 6,000; Chrysler last week passed out 4,000 pink slips and more were coming...
...series of satellites that, by early 1960, would keep a 24-hour watch on every part of the earth's surface. By late 1960-provided the Government adopts the plan soon-Atlas would push a manned hypersonic glider (five times the speed of sound) into orbit, finally lift freight ships into space to provide living quarters for a new generation of space residents. Not content with this plan, General Dynamics' scientists also have their eyes, minds and scientific talents fixed firmly on developing spaceships (called "Probes") to explore outer space. Surveying such projects, Frank Pace is convinced that...