Word: poundingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...powerful and efficient rocket fuel. For use in rockets, liquid hydrogen is changed to its gaseous state, mixed with an oxydizing agent and ignited. Its explosive energy is greater per unit of weight than that of any other fuel now in use: one-third more thrust for each pound of liquid hydrogen than for the same weight of kerosene-oxygen fuels. "The difference in performance of liquid hydrogen over any other rocket fuel," says Norman C. Reuel of North American Aviation's Rocketdyne division, "represents the difference between man orbiting the earth and getting to the moon...
Exploration of the massive exmental hall was limited to a area where the roof has been of 200-pound concrete which were left dangling thin wires by the blast. Integrators will move into other of the structure as workmen the remaining blocks. That expected to take more than...
...Chancellor is determined not to see any such handwriting. He pointedly avoided any mention of devaluation in Washington and shunned the word crisis to describe the pound's troubles. Callaghan swapped political stories with Lyndon Johnson for 45 minutes, talked about the pound's situation with Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler, weighed in with Washington's moneymen in a round of dinners, luncheons and conferences. He also dined privately in Manhattan with 30 financial and business leaders. "Short of something cataclysmic," he said, "there is no reason why we should be in trouble...
...sterling crisis, predicted that last year's $2.5 billion deficit will be sliced to $850 million and that a surplus will be reached by the fall of 1966. He clearly feels that Britain's austerity measures have not yet had a chance to work. He stressed the pound's strong reserve backing: $2.8 billion in gold and currency buttressed by a $1 billion standby credit with the Federal Reserve System and the Export-Import Bank, plus a $1.2 billion Government-owned portfolio of U.S. securities that Britain is gradually converting into bonds and time deposits. Callaghan sought...
...specific, economically sound projects in other Arab countries. For their part, wealthy Kuwait residents have invested $1.5 billion of their own outside the country, own $350 million in real estate in Beirut alone. The government has another $1.2 billion on deposit in foreign countries, but has done the pound no favor by cutting down its investments in Britain by 50% (to $252 million) in the last two years...