Word: rocketeers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second session of the Democratic 85th Congress ran in a remarkable time. Its life was shaped by Russian Sputniks and rocket diplomacy. Middle East turmoil, U.S. economic recession, election-year politics-by its own generally responsible leadership, and, above all, by the firmest treatment Capitol Hill ever got from Dwight Eisenhower. Last May, after a slow start, the President came out swinging for his program and especially for three legislative "imperatives": 1) defense reorganization, 2) mutual security, and 3) reciprocal trade. These are the grades Congress might give itself on demands of the President and passing the tests of Year...
Against Russian rocket-rattling and economic recession, mutual security and reciprocal trade measures were more vital than ever. Yet recession gave congressional reactionaries an excuse for a savage fight to "protect" U.S. industry and to kill "giveaways," meaning foreign aid. In general, Congress wrote a responsible foreign relations record against heavy pressures from the irresponsible...
...should have tried to be a missionary, like Albert Schweitzer. Some of television's unseen but much-heard word merchants think he would have made a fine gag writer. Walter Winchell plainly thinks he should have been put into an ablative nose cone on a one-way rocket trip to the moon. Sponsors of late movies think he should have stayed in daytime television, and all across the land, people who like to go to sleep early think he should have stood in bed - and given them a chance...
Weighing the size of Russia's Sputniks, U.S. experts have surmised that the Russians may have a massive, single-chamber rocket engine for which the U.S. has no match. The U.S.'s most powerful engine develops only 150,000 Ibs. of thrust, is made by Rocketdyne Division of North American Aviation, Inc. for the Thor and Jupiter (the considerably larger Atlas uses a cluster of engines). Last week Rocketdyne was starting work on an Air Force contract for developing a monster engine with 1,000,000 Ibs. of thrust...
Such an engine, said Rocketdyne, will be the first designed deliberately for true space flight (the current U.S. lunar-probe projects plan to use a combination of existing military rocket engines). The big, single-chamber engine has major advantages. When more than four engines are clustered together, their pumps, fuel pipes and other auxiliary apparatus become uncomfortably complicated. If one of the many engines fails, the whole launching ends in disaster...