Word: pumpings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...orbit 800 miles above the earth. As soon as SNAP's scientists were convinced that the proper orbit had been attained, they sent a signal that told the reflector mechanism to reduce neutron leakage. Slowly the nuclear reaction started; heat built up in the core, and a magnetic pump circulated the metallic coolant at 1020°F. through tubes in the skin of the support structure. The inner ends of 2880 pellets of a germanium-silicon material were heated while their outer ends were kept comparatively cool by heat radiation into space. The germanium-silicon combination is "thermoelectric...
...research teams at Brookhaven National Laboratory on Long Island and at the University of Washington in Seattle. The doctors insert two plastic tubes in the patient's forearm, one into an artery and the other into a vein. With the patient's own heart serving as the pump, his blood is led into a loop of tubing and carried behind a lead shield. There, it is subjected to massive bombardment-with isotopic radiation by Dr. Eugene P. Cronkite at Brookhaven, or with X rays by Dr. E. Donnall Thomas' group in Seattle...
...slight tapering by year's end. To head off inflation and help to reduce the balance-of-payments deficit, the Federal Reserve Board is slowly tightening credit. Budget Director Gordon disclosed last week that, in 1965, the combination of higher federal spending and further tax cuts will pump an additional $8 billion into the economy, while increased prosperity will boost the federal tax intake by $6 billion. That will make for a net $2 billion federal stimulus to the economy, most of which will take effect in the year's second half...
...Pauley Petroleum got 10% with a bid of 98.277%, and Richfield and Standard of California together scooped off the remaining 10%, including one sector on which they will turn back an unprecedented 100%. The oil companies, which normally pay royalties that range around 50% on the crude that they pump from the ground, will make the money to offset the high royalty payments through profits on the sale of refined products. They will also retrieve development costs before paying the royalties and, since many of their refineries are practically within sight of the field, save on transportation...
...group of New Jersey civic leaders is just back from a visit to Brazil's underdeveloped north east state of Alagoas, looking for ways to help Brazilians help themselves. In one village the North Americans promised assistance for ten self-help projects, starting with a powerful pump for an irrigation well. Arthur Byrnes, assistant Alianza director for Brazil, explains: "This program is small in terms of dollars. But it is reaching the people directly, bringing about immediate results, and that makes a great difference...