Word: skonk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...these developments symbolize the nation's increasing effort to stop the poisoning of its air and water by industrial plants that often seem to rival Cartoonist Al Capp's highly pungent Skonk Works. They also emphasize the growing pressures on both industry and communities to spend heavily in an effort to speed up the attack. The Gov ernment estimates that 1) U.S. indus try will have to spend ten times its pres ent $100 million annually for treating waste water if it hopes to end industrial pollution of the nation's rivers; 2) communities will have...
According to the authoritative magazine Aviation Week, the All was trucked in pieces out of Lockheed's secret "Skonk Works" at Burbank, Calif., and assembled for flight testing at a hidden Nevada base called "The Ranch." When its secret could no longer be kept, the airplane was described misleadingly as an "interceptor." It is more likely to be anything but. It sacrifices everything for extreme speed at extreme altitude (probably above 125,000 ft.), where there is nothing to intercept...