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...thrust chamber. Too big to be tested at "Suzy," North American's test facility in the Santa Susana Mountains northwest of Los Angeles, it is trucked to Leuhman Ridge in the Mojave Desert. There, the test stand towers 275 ft. above the rocky ground. Tucked in its steel skeleton are tanks for lox (liquid oxygen) and kerosene, while stairs, cables, and many-colored pipes thread their way among the girders. The F-1 looks small in this immense structure, but it does not act small. After a careful countdown, a brilliant spout of flame bursts from its throat...
...remember that Skeleton whose hand's In mine, and I've been Through this fun house Before
...from their 1956 high of $76.5 million, and for the first half of this year the company reported a $1,200,000 loss. But Wall Street is convinced that Celotex's troubles are largely the result of stodgy management -and Walter is anything but stodgy. With sales of skeleton shell houses (which the buyer finishes) slipping because of fierce price competition,Walter recently branched out into semifinished houses-which will provide a readymade market for Celotex insulation, gypsum board and roofing...
...have listened to farmers, economics professors, political science Ph.D.s, and sundry others purported to know this skeleton of abundance in our bureaucratic closet from its skin-game out. Never has it been so clearly and dispassionately presented...
...Canton reported that 800,000 of the city's population of 2,000,000 are being transferred to farm communes in an effort to increase agricultural output. Heavy industry in Kwangtung has come to a virtual standstill as plants have either shut down or are operating with only skeleton forces...