Word: steel
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...industrial economist William F. Steel addressed the Eighth Annual World Development Conference, a two day symposium at the Kennedy School discussing the role of small scale enterprise in development. Seminars on development today will follow last night's speech...
Handling an SOB once it has escaped can be quite a fascinating exercise. President Truman let one loose after Columnist Drew Pearson blasted Aide Harry Vaughan; Pearson promptly promoted a new fraternity, "Sons of Brotherhood." Kennedy, SOBing during the 1962 steel crisis, blamed his father for having told him that big steelmen fit the description. Canada's Prime Minister John Diefenbaker stirred some trouble after an Ottawa meeting when his staff claimed that notes Kennedy left behind revealed that the President had SOBed Diefenbaker in the margin. Kennedy claimed he couldn't have done that because he did not know...
...gained all the trappings of a large-scale military operation. Security forces sealed off the township borders, army troops were stationed on every access road, and armed forces patrolled the township's streets. Overhead, police and army helicopters hovered protectively. At the approaches to neighboring white suburbs, truckloads of steel-helmeted troops stood at the ready...
...second after booster ignition, just as the shuttle began to lift, first a white and then a black puff of smoke gushed from a joint between two of the 149-ft. rocket's four segments. At 59.8 seconds, high in the sky, flame burst through the booster's steel casing, apparently at the same aft joint. In another 13 seconds, the external tank that fueled the orbiter's three main engines exploded in a catastrophic, fatal fireball...
...from leaking, they are designed to keep the rocket's exhaust gases from escaping through any gaps in the joints. These are especially vulnerable under the immense forces generated at lift-off (the entire shuttle bends momentarily in what engineers call "the twang," and the nearly half-inch-thick steel casing of the boosters balloons slightly above and below each joint). In the Challenger disaster, the exhaust gases had apparently burned through a protective putty (signaled by the white smoke) and jetted past both O rings, presumably because they had not seated properly in their grooves at blast...