Word: oxygenated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Apollo, North American takes on one of the most monumental precision jobs in industrial history. As now conceived, the spacecraft will actually be three units joined together. The forward unit-the command center-will house the three-man crew. The middle unit will be the service com ponent, providing oxygen and electricity and containing an auxiliary booster rocket for the take-off from the moon. The end unit will house the landing gear and decelerating rockets to lower the craft to a gentle moon landing...
After it pokes out its cannon to meet threatening danger, the bombardier simply opens an internal valve and forces some of the stored fluid into a small, strong-walled combustion chamber, where it is "ignited" by enzymes from glands lining the chamber. The peroxide quickly decomposes, giving off oxygen gas at considerable pressure-and shooting out of the cannon a loud, offensive discharge that makes the bombardier the insect kingdom's biggest...
...less than $100,000. Though there has been some recent improvement, small-business failures struck a 29-year high in August, and have been running consistently higher than in previous years. The trouble is usually attributed to undercapitalization. In a business dip, capital is to a business man what oxygen is to a submariner-and many small businessmen simply lack enough to stay alive...
...gaudy tour of Cocoa Beach, the community nearest Cape Canaveral, enraged the citizens of Cocoa Beach but showed the rest of the country the phenomena that spring up around the space age's launching pads: beatniks swinging as if hooked on liquid oxygen, splashy motels by the mile, a real estate agent selling outback lots for $1,595 an acre, a wiggly blonde singing in a nightspot about her A-O.K. flight in a rocket with her spaceman. Then he switched to Britain's cheap-jack sex-and-crime newspapers and an abrasively candid interview with Cecil...
...Products & Chemicals Inc. of Trexlertown, Pa. is riding the crest of a liquid oxygen wave as the major supplier for missile engines, last year did 63% of its $49 million sales with the Government. The company became expert at handling the extremely cold LOX through its sales of small commercial on-site generators...