Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Short-Range Missiles: Soviet short-range missiles are solid-fueled, therefore can be fired more quickly than such liquid-fueled missiles as the U.S. Corporal. The Russians have mounted rocket launchers on vehicles with caterpillar tracks. In Red Square they showed a launcher for rockets 12 in. in diameter, mounted on a tanklike chassis. U.S. ground-support missiles are carried on wheeled trucks...
Only one major question was involved: Did the Gomulka government still command enough respect to bring voters out in large numbers for a national election? A year ago an impressive 94% of eligible voters turned out for the parliamentary elections to give Gomulka a solid vote of confidence. In the face of growing public disenchantment with the Communist leader, the regime nervously decided on a fair test. There were no vast Communist demonstrations; not a Communist flag, not even a picture of Lenin or Gomulka, was to be seen as the polls opened on the bright winter Sunday morning...
...three high school students do not take chemistry, three out of four avoid physics, seven out of eight get no trigonometry or solid geometry. Some 100,000 seniors attend high schools that offer no advanced mathematics, and 61,000 go to schools that offer neither chemistry nor physics...
...burning a hydrazine-based, exotic fuel called Hydyne, which gave more thrust than its motor's usual diet of alcohol. Stuck on its nose was an awkward-looking, cylindrical "bucket" mounted on a bearing so that it could be spun, and containing a cluster of 14 small, solid-fuel rockets, 40 in. long and 6 in. in diameter. Atop the bucket was a single, 80-in., solid-fuel rocket with the satellite proper forming its forward part...
MISSILE MERGER will bring together Reaction Motors, Inc. and Thiokol Chemical Corp., two of industry's fastest-rising pioneers. In $7,200,000 stock exchange, Thiokol, which specializes in solid-fuel engines for Nike-Hercules, La Crosse and Lockheed X-17 missiles, will absorb Reaction, a leader in liquid-fueled engines...