Word: spites
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...automatic valve shoots oxygen into the suit from the airplane's supply. The inner suit blows up like a man-shaped balloon. Complicated pressure-and temperature-regulating gadgets go into action, surrounding the pilot with an environment in which he can stay alive in spite of the near vacuum that has developed in the damaged cabin. He has at least a chance to fly the airplane down to livable...
DIVIDEND PAYMENTS are rising in spite of worry over possible profits squeeze. In first nine months of 1957, cash dividends on New York Stock Exchange stocks hit record $6.4 billion v. $6 billion in same 1956 period. In all, 439 big-board stocks paid higher dividends than before, 430 paid as much, only 103 paid less...
...Stanford professor of Religion stated that "in spite of the Church's dedication to its traditions, it has been forced to assess its own claims by attacks from so-called heretics...
...spite of its speed (18,000 m.p.h.) a satellite is a sitting duck. Its motion on its orbit can be predicted precisely, days in advance if necessary. So if any kind of satellite makes itself objectionable to a nation that it passes over, a defending rocket can be shot up 'to meet it. A direct hit by the rocket would not be necessary. When it reaches the satellite's orbit, its warhead could explode into thousands or hundreds of thousands of tiny artificial meteors, any one of which packs enough energy to do a job on the satellite...
Pointing to the need for an anti-jaywalking law, Robert S. Kretschmar, executive secretary of the division said: "Jaywalking results in more pedestrian deaths and injuries than any other single action. In spite of all this, Massachusetts is the only state which does not have some type of pedestrian...