Word: liquid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Alamos' plasma thermocouple, the solid metals of a bimetallic thermocouple are replaced by a tiny (finch long) rod of uranium suspended inside a vacuum-sealed can that contains liquid cesium. The uranium is enriched with U-235. Around the cesium is a circulating coolant (see diagram). When the device is lowered inside a reactor, the uranium is bombarded by the neutrons generated by the reactor, causing the U-235 to fission and give off intense heat...
What separated the men from the boys was the definition of moderation. "To many Frenchmen," said the committee, "to drink moderately means to absorb two, three or four liters of wine a day." The Academy of Medicine suggested that one liter (1.0567 U.S. liquid quarts) should be enough, but the committee went further, urged that nobody exceed a liter...
...Majesty's government, diplomatically resigned to the high cost of quenching Washingtonian thirst, hoisted the 1960 entertainment allowance of Ambassador to the U.S. Sir Harold Caccia by $9,548 to a liquid $94,864. Allowance of Millionaire John Hay ("Jock") Whitney, U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's: a mere...
...Unprepared Pentagon.Despite this tipoff, the Pentagon was totally unprepared when the Times hit the streets at 10 p.m. with accounts of Argus that slipped on a few details (e.g., the project's rockets used only solid fuel, not liquid and solid as reported). Uninformed public-information officers on duty at the Pentagon had nothing at all to tell the clamoring press. Characteristically, Murray Snyder, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs (TIME, March 2), had warned a few top scientists to give only innocuous answers to newsmen. But the cry for information grew so loud that...
Last week's flight was like the first hesitant step of an infant who will some day grow into a record-breaking runner. Other, more confident steps will follow. Soon the X-15 will be carried aloft with a full 15,000-lb. load of liquid oxygen and liquid ammonia fuel. The emergency fuel-ejecting system and a dozen other complex gadgets will be air-checked. On another flight the X-15, probably with Crossfield at the controls, will be dropped to glide without power to earth. Then will come the first tentative powered flights, using only a fraction...