Word: liquidize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time when the U.S. must have the power of instant retaliation, the weakness of the U.S.'s growing family of liquid oxygen ("lox") -and-kerosene-fueled missiles is that they cannot retaliate instantly. Time needed to fuel the Air Force's test-ICBM Atlas: a minimum 15 minutes after an hour-long countdown. Time needed to fuel the Air Force's test IRBM Thor, even using a promising but not fully tested method of "force-feeding": eight minutes. The U.S.'s lox missiles could conceivably be knocked out by the enemy before they could be fueled...
...promising answer to the problem is the Navy's 1,500-mile test-missile Polaris. Reason: it is fueled with a solid propellant. The Navy turned to solid fuels because it wants a missile that can be fired from submarines or surface vessels, and liquid-oxygen fueling is too complex for shipboard handling. Since solid-fuel missiles can be fired in the minutes needed to arm their warhead and make the final check on their guidance and control systems. Air Force Missile Boss Major General Ben Schriever is interested in Polaris, has a team of technicians sitting...
...solid fuel is by no means a proved item. Solid-charge missiles have less thrust than liquid propellants, cannot carry as heavy a warhead per pound of fuel. Critics of solid fuel argue that it requires a canister that can withstand great pressures, that solid fuel blasts off with a jolt that is rough on the missile's complex guidance systems; the Navy insists that it can control the blastoff, but it has not yet tested its technique on the missile. Another key problem: how to shut off the solid-charge propulsion at the precise point needed to drop...
...white missile standing stark against the sky, her nose a full 80 ft. above the ground. Dozens of helmeted workers swarmed about her base, and a man climbed up to tinker with valves and connecting lines. A moment later plumes of mist rose from the base as fueling with liquid oxygen began...
...thousand Harvard kidneys are safe from kidney stones, at least those stones brought on by a large consumption milk. William A. Heaman, Manager of Dining Halls, revealed last night that the Harvard undergraduate, contrary to his liquid-loving Yalie counterpart, drinks an average of two glasses per meal...