Word: nickels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...building and population on Manhattan since 1623, combined with the creation of a modern transportation system, distinguished architecture, wonderful park and recreation facilities and our nationally renowned credit standing, we could not possibly afford to sell Manhattan for $24." No, concluded Lindsay: "We won't take a nickel less than $80." The Rough Rockers reportedly think that is a bit much...
Then I went to a nickel on it. I was the first one of the daily papers, in Boston, or any of the papers in the city, to go to five cents. Then there was a tremendous surge in the paper, went to 40,000, 50,000, hit 60,000 a week, paid circulation...
...Buehler was blessed with serendipity, the gift of finding something valuable without actually looking for it. Assigned by the Naval Ordnance Laboratory in Maryland to find a nonmagnetic and noncorroding material for tools that could be safely used in dismantling magnetic mines, he finally hit upon 55-Nitinol, a nickel-titanium alloy. During further experiments, however, he discovered that the alloy also had a strange and mysterious quality in the realm of science fiction: It had a "memory...
...transitional temperature of these structures and of all Nitinol alloys can be "set" anywhere from - 320°F. to 330°F., Buehler explains, either by varying the percentages of nickel and titanium or by substituting cobalt for some or all of the nickel. Instead of going to the trouble of assembling structures under the sea, for example, Buehler suggests prefabricating them out of Nitinol set below seawater temperatures, cooling and compressing them and then airdropping them-still cooled -into the water. Raised above their transitional temperature by the water, they would unfold and remain rigid on the ocean bottom...
...which would have a total of 53 stations where their batteries could be recharged. The floor of Caltech's minibus was covered with 20 lead-cobalt batteries, on top of which were pads where off-duty drivers slept. M.I.T.'s team borrowed a set of $20,000 nickel-cadmium batteries. Characteristically, the engineers used linear equations to work out a handicap system...