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...fuel must have been burned to give Little Curly her ride. The loaded rocket, with its fuel, structure, instrumentation and payload, must have weighed considerably more than 1,000,000 Ibs. To lift it off the ground at reasonable speed must have required a rocket motor (or a cluster of them) with something like 1,500,000 Ibs. of thrust...
...Kamakovsky is an engineer in the local Famus motor factory. (The name "Famus" was coined from the English word "famous," Lorenz learned.) The engineer's position is one of the top five in the strategic industry. His full title is Ing. Kamakovsky Evon--the Ing for engineer, and Evon, his given name, is written last...
...Henrik David Bohr, one of the fathers of atomic fission. President Eisenhower went to Washington's National Academy of Sciences to address the meeting as Bohr received the first Atoms for Peace Award, a gold medal and a $75,000 tax-free "honorarium" put up by the Ford Motor...
Erhard is not the sole motor of Germany's booming enterprise. Skinflinty old Finance Minister Fritz Schäffer, fighting stubbornly for his pfennig-pinching budgets, and Central Bank Boss Wilhelm Vocke. keeping alert hands on the nation's interest rates, have helped immensely in preserving the federal republic against inflationary dangers. But Erhard created the proper climate, bulled away the obstacles. Keeping clear of technical intricacies, he preaches the wider doctrine of expanding productivity, the Soziale Marktwirtschaft that might be translated loosely as "free enterprise alive to social responsibilities." It means, he once remarked only half jokingly...
...Dearborn. Mich, headquarters, Ford Motor Co. gave the press a quick preview of the 1958 models that the U.S. will see for the first time next week. As promised, the new Fords have plenty of changes to show for Stylist George Walker's $185 million restyling: flashy new grilles, a lower-and longer-looking body, and a bigger, more economical V-8 engine that Ford hopes will cut gasoline bills as much as 15% (TIME, July 8). One major surprise: Ford will discontinue its famed two-seater Thunderbird, replace it with the long-planned four-seater model that...