Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...breakthroughs came at an awesome rate. Raborn needed a reliable solid fuel, for liquid fuels are both too volatile and too bulky for shipboard use. Aerojet-General Corp. and Thiokol Chemical Corp. brought out solid fuels with a wallop ("as simple," says Raborn, "as the comb in your pocket"). Even so, solids presented a big problem: how to cut off burning with the split-second precision necessary if the missile is to land on target. (Liquid oxygen can be shut off mechanically with a valve.) The solution: a design called a retrorocket that automatically blasts portholes in the fuel chamber...
...least vocational. Recommended basic curriculum: "English (literature, composition, grammar) throughout the four years; two years of history ; a year of plane geometry and one year of elementary algebra; a year of biology and at least one year of a physical science; an opportunity to elect trigonometry and solid geometry and a second year of physical science; music and art as electives; physical education and other nonacademic offerings properly subordinated to the academic. This, or a similar program, should be the basic curriculum for any high school - academic, business or vocational...
...feel very unattractive to men, but since so many of them want to pay me ... I guess I can't be all that unattractive." Largely because of their uncertainty about father and mother. 15 of the 20 had homosexual relations. None of the girls had any capacity for solid friendships, sought out friends who were unstable because of similar emotional conflicts. Yet they desperately wanted to conform in some outward respects: one joined the D.A.R. and the United Daughters of the Confederacy...
...companies have canceled plans to build big (70,000 tons and up) supertankers. Most shipyards are still booked solid into 1960. But the rest of the ship market has all but collapsed. Tanker charter rates have been cut more than 90% in one year, and prices for used ships are just as bad. "A year ago," said one ship broker, "it was impossible to buy a T-2 tanker for less than $4,250,000. Now it's impossible to get $1,000,000 for such a vessel...
...make it miss its target by 500 yds. So when the desired speed has been reached, the thrust must be cut off accurately in a small fraction of a second. This is not too difficult with liquid-fuel rockets, whose thrust can be cut by shutting off the fuel. Solid-fuel rockets cannot be controlled in this simple way, but other effective ways have been developed. One of them is to blow off part of the nozzle, or the pressure-wall, when the right speed has been reached...