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...missiles and missile launchers are racking up a business of $10 million a year. *Where Kin Tartars, defending the city against the rampaging Mongols, used both fire-powder bombs and "flying fire spears" which "burst forward with a sudden flame to a distance of ten paces and upward so that no one durst approach them...
...muscle by: 1) partly closing the coronary sinus to keep the blood in the heart muscle longer; 2) deliberately irritating the surface of the heart muscle itself and the lining of the heart sac by scraping them with an abrader like a spiked golf shoe; 3) dusting irritant asbestos powder inside the sac; and 4) stitching a piece of fat (from the lining of the chest wall) to the sac when he closes...
...flight. There is an enormous difference between an intercontinental guided missile and an "inhabited" spaceship or satellite. But the missiles, nevertheless, are excellent instruments of approach. Their rocket motors, thin-skinned tanks, delicate guidance systems, etc. can also be used for hitting the moon with a charge of flash powder. This is considered less difficult than boosting a heavy thermonuclear warhead-to a city-sized target 5,000 miles away, and some Air Force groups think that it would be worth doing as a demonstration of U.S. spacemanship. It is probable, however, that space flight will develop through halfway points...
...from vice president of Allied Chemical & Dye Corp., third largest U.S. chemical company in sales, to president, succeeding Fred J. Emmerich, who was made board chairman. Miller went to State University of Iowa as a chemistry student just before World War I, quit classes temporarily to work for Hercules Powder Co. in New Jersey, helping to develop a smokeless powder. Long hours of working with acid-burned hands convinced him that the front office was more to his liking. Back at college, he boned up on economics as well as chemistry, graduated in 1919 and took an administrative job with...
...homburged magnate in the back occasionally communicated with his home offiffice over his powder-blue telephones, played a record on his phonograph, or explained the car's features and cost: "No price set on it yet. This one cost about $80,000, but when they're in production they'll be available for under 30." The girl playing secretary seemed to be having fun juggling her set of telephones and picking out records for her boss. Her biggest job seemed just to smile, but she also answered questions...