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...Nitrogen-producing equipment only slightly damaged. ¶Similar capacity for producing petroleum products, rubber, bearings, electric power, electrical and electronic equipment, wood products, precision and optical instruments...
...consensus: V-2 is probably propelled by alcohol or gasoline and liquid oxygen. It has a warhead with about a ton of explosive, a supply of compressed gas (perhaps nitrogen) to force the fuel into the combustion chamber, and fins to keep it on a set course. It is believed to carry at least seven times the weight of its explosive in fuel. It probably has a series of jets, operated in succession to keep the rocket going on its long course (and perhaps helpful also in steering). One plausible reconstruction, by Martial & Scull, Manhattan industrial designers, indicated a steering...
Contrary to appearances, the soil of the hot, jungle-lush islands is often far from rich, lacking especially nitrogen. G.I. farmers must use more than three times the normal amount of fertilizer, spooning it on a little at a time so that it will not all be washed away by the heavy rains...
Their four points called for the elimination of Germany's synthetic oil and synthetic nitrogen plants, the stripping-down of steel production by 50%, the destruction of the Nazi aircraft industry...
...light that even when blinded it infallibly finds a dark place to hide in. It can get along on so little oxygen that it lives for hours after its breathing tubes have been sealed; it is the only known creature that can live without vitamin A or C or nitrogen. Its voracity is the most catholic in the insect world-it eats paint, bedbugs, hair, grease, wallpaper, gold lettering on books, its own cast-off skin...