Word: standardized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Murphree goes to the Defense Department from the presidency of the Esso Research and Engineering Co., research subsidiary of Standard Oil Co. (New Jersey). Since 1930 he has directed research and development programs. Before that he was a chemical engineer, small-town schoolteacher and all-Southern football tackle at the University of Kentucky. His background provided exactly what Wilson was looking for in his missiles chief: high technological skill, proven administrative ability, a talent for getting along with people, experience in a big organization...
...calm, low key persuasiveness should help him at the Pentagon, but Wilson points to something else in Murphree's background as an equal asset: a quarter-century of effective service in the vast Standard hierarchy. Such a man, Wilson reasons, should not "get frustrated too quick in this big place." Then, with characteristic Wilson candor, the Defense Secretary made Murphree's position of authority clear. "I think if he gets into a jam between the services," Wilson said, "I will be in it with...
...packed tightly in a container that an air blast cannot tear open. When the pilot jumps, his hunched body slows down quickly. When his speed is subsonic (and the pilot is probably unconscious), the chute is designed to open gradually, distributing the shock over a longer interval than the standard parachute. Moreover, a special harness spreads the deceleration forces over a larger area of the pilot's body. If he is able to survive the hammer-like initial blow of the supersonic air, he is figured to have a good chance of getting to earth alive...
...totally unplanned. Theoretical Physicist Feynman has established only two course rules: "Questions can't be prompted by some other Caltech course, and they have to be prompted by some natural phenomenon." In 18 months Feynman's gifted students, mostly sophomores and juniors, have pushed far beyond the standard range into subjects, e.g., quantum mechanics and relativity, that normally belong to the graduate years...
BIGGEST OIL REFINERY in Germany will be built near Cologne by Standard Oil of New Jersey. To be ready by 1959 at a cost of $119 million, refinery will have an initial capacity of 3,000,000 tons of crude oil annually, will build up to 5,000,000 tons by 1961, some 50% of West Germany's total current capacity. Project also involves six 36,000-ton tankers, plus a 150-to 200-mile pipeline from North Sea ports to Cologne...