Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...science than science fiction. In the summer of 1954 Von Braun and a dozen other space enthusiasts from the services and industry gathered in the Washington office of Lieut. Commander George Hoover, U.S.N., to talk about launching a satellite. Von Braun proposed to slam a 5-lb. chunk of metal into orbit with the brute force of a souped-up Redstone; the Office of Naval Research kicked in $88,000 for work on an instrumented satellite, and Project Orbiter was born. It was shortlived; a panel of scientists sailed into the picture to recommend that the U.S. satellite become...
Cessna 150, an all-metal two-seater designed as the company's first real move into the lowest-price brackets to compete with Piper's fabric-covered Super Cub for the pleasure-flying market. Cruising speed: 115 m.p.h. Price: around $7,000, some $2,000 less than the cheapest four-place Cessna...
Junketeer. In Lille, France, Abel Pauchet, 36, a part-time scrap-metal collector, was held by police for cutting a 15-ft. section out of the Lille-Tourcoing telephone cable...
...slide that Kennecott's President Charles R. Cox called a "debacle." Three weeks ago Kennecott set the pace for domestic producers by dropping its price from 27? to 25? per lb., lowest in five years and down 46% from the record 46.7?^ in March 1956. On the London Metal Exchange, where world prices are set and fluctuate with daily sales, copper closed the week at 20.4? per lb., 4.6? below the U.S. market...
...Such blockage could, in turn, cause infection of the middle ear. A fortnight ago Joke (pronounced Yo-ka) went to Utrecht's City and Academic Hospital, 25 miles away. Doctors decided to destroy the diseased, swollen tissue with powerful gamma rays from a radium "needle"-actually a blunt metal capsule, 20 mm. by 3 mm., on a long, flexible shaft. One doctor pushed this up Joke's nose until it curved down into the nasopharynx. After eight minutes, he took the gadget out, put it in its case and sent Joke home...