Word: propellant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bedeviling problem facing space scientists is the difficulty of building the enormous chemical rocket engines needed to propel the ever growing payloads the U.S. wants to hurl deep into space. Last week the problem came closer to solution, not with the development of a big new chemical rocket but with the Air Force announcement that the U.S. had for the first time successfully tested an ion rocket engine in space...
Barry spent most of his week at his Washington apartment, where he began to tinker with the machinery that would propel his $15 million campaign for the presidency. Among other things, he decided to kick off the campaign with a mid-August speech in his "lucky town" -Prescott, Ariz., where he launched both of his successful Senate campaigns...
Back to the Store. Those who cherish the G.O.P.'s image as the party of Lincoln are also alarmed. They fear that Goldwater's managers will cynically seek to inflame Negro-white tensions in the hope that a civil rights explosion would propel their man into the White House on a tide of segregationist votes. As it is, Goldwater will get few Negro votes. "Some Negroes are Republicans because of their conservative philosophy," says Dr. Lee Shelton, Negro vice chairman of Georgia's Fulton County Republican committee, "but none are anti-Negro. That's what they...
...Meyer-Drake Offenhauser engine. Force-fed by fuel injection, the Offy gulps methanol (wood alcohol) at the rate of one gallon every four miles. It has only two gears-low and high-and four cylinders, but it turns out 100 h.p. for each cylinder, and it can propel a racing car at 180 m.p.h. In 29 years of rattling its pistons in the Indy 500, the Offy has lost only three times; every car that finished the 1962 race had an Offenhauser under its hood...
...three pistons that propel the economy-consumer spending, businessmen's spending and Government spending-are all pumping once more in unison. Production, profits and purchasing power are running at records. The reports from autos, steel and retail sales are bullish. On Wall Street the stock market has come back to within 15 points of its all-time 1961 high of 734.91. The business pickup has been greeted by every name, from the grudging "seasonal upswing" to the barely restrained "boomlet" now used in an advertisement by staid Standard & Poor's. The economy's performance...