Word: liquidates
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...practical use of the process results from the similarity between the "dendritic crystals" formed and those produced when supercooled liquid metal solidifies. It is the crystalline structure of a metal that largely determines its strength, toughness, and brittleness...
...mile Lockheed Polaris, designed to be fired from surface vessels or nuclear submarines. Polaris' solid charge, a slow-burning chemical compound, makes Polaris the U.S.'s first "second-generation" long-range ballistic missile; the solid charge will be easier, simpler, faster to handle than present types of liquid fuel. Polaris, the first true pushbutton IRBM in sight, is lighter and smaller, so cannot pack as heavy a warhead as Jupiter and Thor. Its ultimate success will depend for several years upon 1) development of hydrogen warheads lighter than present models; 2) improvement of solid fuels to get more...
...powered 880 airliners (though sales have so far been disappointing). Stromberg-Carlson is bending its efforts toward new and better electronic computers that could open up vast new commercial markets for General Dynamics. And last fall the corporation worked out a merger through an exchange of stock with Liquid Carbonic, an international producer of industrial and medical gases...
...ENTRY in field of solid rocket fuels, Astrodyne, Inc., will be formed as joint subsidiary of North American Aviation, Inc. and Phillips Petroleum Co. Astrodyne hopes to produce fuels to outdo those used in North American's liquid-propelled engines for Atlas, Thor, Jupiter missiles...
...performances of the past weekend had many moments of purest comedy and tragedy. The pantomines, at their best, were like a liquid silver which filters through the fingers with a beauty that could be touched and felt, yet not held. For comedy there was "Walking Against the Wind," "Tug of War," and "The Tight Rope Walker." "Youth, Maturity, Old Age, and Death" was justly accorded awe-filled silence by the capacity audiences in Sanders Theater...