Word: propel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...which did not start breaking even with diesels until 1940, today is the world's largest maker, has turned out 100 million diesel horsepower, more than the capacity of all the steam-generating plants built by industry during the same period. Burning low-cost oil, diesel engines today propel 49% of all U.S. merchant ships afloat, handle most of the. nation's roughest construction jobs, from road building to rock-crushing. Predicts G.M.'s Harlow H. Curtice: "Within ten years we shall have duplicated the efforts of the preceding 22 ... It took G.M. from...
...only an exploding A-bomb has provided enough heat to trigger off fusion. But it is theoretically possible. Bhabha suggested, that other far less violent triggers can be fashioned to produce fusion without explosions. For example, high-voltage linear accelerators have been designed to propel particles at high speeds through electrical fields to give them high energy but little heat effect; a low-voltage, high-current accelerator shooting more particles at lower speeds might supply the few millions of degrees required for fusion. Even ordinary TNT "shaped charge" explosions might do the triggering. Already, said Bhabha. Indian theoretical scientists were...
...commercial reactors were built over the years, all Asia would "leapfrog the conventional fuel systems" and hurry on to higher living standards with atomic reactors that would also "propel . . . Africa, Free Europe and Latin America into the 21st century . . . Dollars per se are no longer power . . . If we do not use industrial atomic energy to ... create vast new world markets for our products . . . we shall have doomed ourselves to an inferior competitive position, second to the Soviet Union...
...likelihood was that No. 12 would propel the world no closer to an acceptable settlement for Germany than Nos. 1 through 11 had done. But it neatly left the Kremlin little room to dodge in. Now, said the London Times, there will be "no doubt by whose wish it will be if the four-power conference on Germany does not now take place...
...atomized so that it would be utterly obedient to the Kremlin, it was Ulbricht, under the pseudonym Zelle (Cell), who proceeded to chop it into a confusion of small cells. Ulbricht plotted with the Nazis in the 1932 transport strike, which ruined the democratic Social Democrats and helped propel Hitler to power. He was among the first to flee Nazi Germany (although he tampered with his biography later to suggest that he had stayed for a while in Berlin to fight in the underground). He was the man to eliminate any comrades in Spain who had begun to doubt Stalin...