Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While the space age seemed to be moving in, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission was able last week to make some solid news. The AEC reported that it is accelerating its program to develop an atomic-powered plane, announced "greater strides during the first six months of 1955 than in any earlier half-year . . . with the promise of nuclear-powered flight considerably brightened." A-plane reactor work is under way at Oak Ridge, Tenn., Evendale, Ohio and Fort Worth, Texas; new facilities will soon be built at Middletown, Conn. "Construction of the aircraft nuclear propulsion test area 'for testing...
...Democratic tradition of a solid South runs deep in the heart of Texas. Only twice-in 1928 (Hoover) and 1952 (Eisenhower)-has the state gone Republican in a national election. But during the long Roosevelt reign, party rebels rose like bluebonnets in the spring. An anti-Administration faction formed as early as 1936, and in subsequent presidential years there were others: in 1940 those who opposed a third F.D.R. term, in 1944 the "Regulars," in 1948 the "Dixiecrats," and in 1952 the "Shivercrats." Of all these infidels, only the Shivercrats committed the cardinal party sin: they helped send a Republican...
...free nations hold fast to their essential purposes, which are entirely peaceful and protective, they now have real hope of seeing the Russians translate their smiles into something more solid. Only if the democracies give way now is that hope likely to be dashed...
...Kaganovich (1918), Molotov (1919), Mikoyan (1920). The official Soviet biography makes Bulganin a proletarian, born of a "worker's family," but his father was probably a clerk, and sufficiently beyond the proletariat to be able to send his boy Nikolai to technical high school, where he got a solid grounding in math, physics and German...
...heavy first stage of the rocket could consist of four clumsy but efficient, solid-propellant boosters. Since air resistance is low at that altitude, their unstream-lined shape would not pay much penalty in drag. The second stage would be a smaller, liquid-fueled rocket (1,300 lbs.), and it would carry in its nose the final rocket (200 lbs.) that would be the satellite...