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Word: liquidates (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...propellant for a whole family of missiles. This week word leaked that Thiokol is the hottest candidate for the whopping contracts to produce the propulsion systems for the Army's Pershing missile (TIME, April 7) and the Air Force's Bomarc, which will be converted from liquid to solid fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSILES: Up on Solid Fuel | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...General Corp.). Though Thiokol's first-quarter sales are off a bit because some of its military contracts ran out and one plant was damaged by fire, Thiokol expects a 50% gain for all of calendar 1958. Reason: solid fuels are far simpler and safer to handle than liquid fuels that require a maze of tanks, valves and pumps, and they show the greatest promise for powering missiles until the atom-powered engine comes along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MISSILES: Up on Solid Fuel | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...Liquid Blonde." For the man in the street who hungers for the stars, Space Journal is designed to fill a vacuum between the trade publications and scientific magazines such as the American Rocket Society's Astronautics and Jet Propulsion. The new issue ranges from space-travel's past-a piece on Massachusetts-born Rocket Pioneer Robert H. Goddard (1882-1945)-to such futuristic items as an estimate of the cost of sending mail by rocket to the moon ($25 a letter). It even offers a relaxing bit of science fiction ("The liquid blonde girl came toward him, smiling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Space Salesmen | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

MISSILE TURNABOUT by the Army, which previously researched and developed its own tactical missiles, will give Baltimore's Martin Co. job of developing Pershing solid-fuel rocket (range: about 800 miles) to replace liquid-fuel Redstone (range: 200 miles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Apr. 7, 1958 | 4/7/1958 | See Source »

...twelve-year-old son, Jimmy, in a white-trimmed green ranch house. One day in February his wife called him at the office. "All the bottles in the house,'' she announced excitedly, "are blowing their tops!" Six screw-top bottles (containing nail polish remover, peroxide, rubbing alcohol, liquid starch, bleach and holy water) located in four different rooms, had opened and spilled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Long Island's Poltergeist | 3/17/1958 | See Source »

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