Word: motors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...escape into outer space, Lewis pointed out, requires an initial speed of 6.95 miles a second (25,020 m.p.h.). This requirement cannot be dodged by running the rocket motor slowly over a long period; that would only waste energy by forcing the ship to carry heavy fuel to a greater height...
...Tsien's rocket liner would be 78.9 ft. long and 8.86 ft. in diameter, with a loaded weight of 96,500 Ibs. It would have small wings and a ramjet as well as a rocket motor. Its maximum speed, 9,140 m.p.h., would carry the ship 1,200 miles on an elliptical course outside the atmosphere. As it curved down toward the earth, it would meet the air again and turn into a non-powered glider. Coasting through the air for another 1,800 miles, it would land at 150 m.p.h.-not much more than the landing speed...
...boom's new families were living in trailers; many were sleeping in automobiles. Drillers, riggers, roughnecks and roustabouts packed the juke-joints and short-order cafes (dry Snyder has no bars). Trucks hauling oil derricks half a block long kept the courthouse square grey with dust. With new motor courts, hotels, office buildings and theaters abuilding, bug-eyed citizens of Snyder were predicting a population of 30,000 by next year...
Like many U.S. companies with subsidiaries overseas, Ford Motor Co. has had more than its share of headaches from its foreign holdings, less than its share of profits. A complicated corporate setup has not helped. Much of the stock of eleven European and Middle Eastern Ford companies is owned by the Ford Investment Co., Ltd. of Guernsey, in the Channel Islands, a company which in turn is owned by Ford Motor Co., Ltd. of Britain, in which the U.S. company has a 59% interest...
Thus Detroit's Ford Motor Co. has had little direct voice in running the subsidiaries on the Continent, has been unable to control their manufacturing and sales methods, has been paid no profits through the Guernsey company since it was founded...