Word: projects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While Hickey waited at Walter Reed, his ankles and body slowly swelling with accumulating fluid, researchers at the National Institutes of Health began experimenting on 21 dogs. Seldom has a surgical research project been pushed so fast. The dogs stood up well in the tests. The surgeons felt ready for Hickey...
...Project Vanguard, which will put the U.S. satellite in an orbit around the earth, is moving forward at a pace that gratifies its sponsors. There have been recurrent rumors of serious trouble, but according to Deputy Director Paul Walsh, nearly everything is on schedule. Ground tests of component parts have been successful, and soon the satellite-launching vehicle will start its flight tests. Each of the three stages will be flown separately before the whole vehicle is fitted together and shot into...
Secrecy always breeds rumors, and a widespread rumor in the missile business is that the Army hopes to toss a satellite into the sky ahead of Project Vanguard, which is administered by the Navy. Leader of this dark plot, according to rumor, is famed Wernher von Braun, chief creator of the German V2, now chief of guided missile development at the Army's Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville, Ala. Von Braun is said to believe that the satellitelaunching vehicle should have a more powerful first-stage rocket. The Army has such rockets, notably the mighty Redstone (range: 200 miles plus...
...suburban Virginia, five miles west of downtown Washington, hordes of first-day visitors flocked out to Seven Corners, a 33-acre, $25 million project which compresses the equivalent of four city blocks of stores into a split-level building within one block of the shopper...
...prospective beauty queen or an admirer may submit her application blank with a photograph attached, according to present plans for the project. However, no woman may be entered in the contest without her consent...