Word: liquidly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...experts would probably concentrate on getting maximum production from China's steel furnaces. Alloy steel and other critical materials not available in China would still be flown in over the Hump. The Americans would also try to increase liquid fuel production against the day when U.S. trucks would roll again up the Burma Road...
...consensus: V-2 is probably propelled by alcohol or gasoline and liquid oxygen. It has a warhead with about a ton of explosive, a supply of compressed gas (perhaps nitrogen) to force the fuel into the combustion chamber, and fins to keep it on a set course. It is believed to carry at least seven times the weight of its explosive in fuel. It probably has a series of jets, operated in succession to keep the rocket going on its long course (and perhaps helpful also in steering). One plausible reconstruction, by Martial & Scull, Manhattan industrial designers, indicated a steering...
...Passchendaele, Canadian Historian George M. Wrong wrote: ". . . perhaps the most hideous fight in the whole war. Hundreds of horses and men were drowned in the liquid...
According to a sectional diagram in the London Daily Express, a radio control unit is mounted immediately behind the warhead. Then come hydrocarbon and liquid oxygen fuel chambers, a centrifugal compressor, a combustion chamber, and a set of tail fins 10 ft. long...
...through the body with a ray detector-something like watching the movements of a dyed member of a school of fish. One of his findings: a given water molecule, after drinking, usually stays in the human body about 13 days. For example, in urination, an individual expels not the liquid last drunk but the older accumulations in his body's reservoir...