Word: matches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reluctance of the more sophisticated leaders to entrust their nations' future to the Communists, partly to the inability of Soviet industry to deliver the quality and quantity of goods promised. But the Soviet industrial machine is expanding. It will take the West's best united efforts to match its challenge...
Fertilizer & Match Heads. Some states and cities have already taken action, but teen-age rocketeers are hard to discourage. While liquid-fueled rockets are top fashion with amateurs, only a few of them are built. They are too complicated and expensive. But news has got around that respectable rockets can be made out of metal tubing closed at one end and filled with a slow-burning solid fuel...
...rocket fuel is really safe, even the scraped-off match-head material that is popular with subteen-agers. When the fuel burns, it generates gas inside the rocket. If the gas is allowed to escape too easily, its pressure remains low and it generates too little thrust to get the rocket off the ground. If it is confined too much, its pressure rises too high and makes the rocket explode...
...light a rocket with a match. Do it by remote control behind a barricade...
HIGH DIVIDENDS are in sight for 1958, will probably match last year's record, predicts Standard & Poor's. For the year, it expects a "moderate" drop in after-tax profits from the $20.5 billion estimated for 1957. But S. & P. also figures that many U.S. companies will now be able to give a bigger share of their profits to stockholders because they will have less inventory and expansion costs...