Word: solider
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make pump-fed engines much more powerful than they are now, and "the reliability of a single liquid-fuel engine is so low that even the most optimistic may quail at the idea of grouping more than a few turbopump systems into a clustered stage." Rocket engines using a solid propellant fire perfectly almost every time; they can be used in large clusters with expectation that all of them will do their duty...
...clusters will not be necessary, Dr. Ritchey says, because solid-fuel engines (unlike their liquid-fuel rivals) can be stepped up in power almost indefinitely. To show how this can be done, he starts with the semisecret Recruit rocket, which burns solid fuel, is 9 in. in diameter, weighs about 350 Ibs. and has 35,000 Ibs. of thrust. Using a set of formulas, he scales it up 50 times (perfectly feasible, he says) and comes out with a rocket that weighs 43,000,800 Ibs. and has 87,500,000 Ibs. of thrust, twice as much as is needed...
TENNESSEE GAS Transmission Co., nation's longest pipeline system, will go into manufacturing of solid rocket fuels and solid-propellant rocket engines. It is closing deal to swap $6,000,000 worth of stock for control of Grand Central Rocket Co. of Redlands, Calif., which is building third-stage rocket for Vanguard earth-satellite...
Economists are particularly aware of the need for improvement in inventory figures, think that they can be misleading because methods of reporting differ widely, and some companies do not report fully for competitive reasons. Inventories are now dropping but the figures give no solid indication of how close manufacturers are to the bottom of their supplies and when they will have to start buying again-both vitally needed facts on which to judge an upswing in the economy...
...President's repeated statements of good intentions and solid faith do not solve the crying need for action. The President's power is weakening--in his last term, he faces a Democratic Congress and a disillusioned nation--and he does not seem adequate to the pressing need for major decisions. If executive leadership is not forthcoming, and there is little precedent for it, the task of unifying the defense command, providing for a more adequate warning system and shelter system, and hastening the missile and satellite programs moves by default to Congress. Unfortunately, Congress has shown no real leadership...