Word: suits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...argue, cajole, charm, browbeat rivals, but he survived all challengers. At his direction, the cartel held diamonds off the market to keep prices up; it forced dealers to take lots (up to $50,000) or get none at all. But Oppenheimer successfully fought off a U.S. Government antitrust suit in 1945 on the ground that it was American dealers who "cooperated" with him, not he who told them what...
...toughest problems of space navigation is to dress spacemen so they can live and function outside the controlled environment of their cabins. Even for high-altitude airplane pilots, protective suits are essential. Above 63,000 ft. (where the blood boils), the air is as bad as a vacuum for any pilot who bails out into it. Last week the Air Force showed off a "full pressure suit" that is an advance over its predecessors. But it would not by any means permit its wearer to take a stroll on the moon...
Developed by the David Clark Co. of Worcester, Mass., the suit has a loose outside layer of shiny, aluminized fabric to protect the inner layers and to reflect solar or A-bomb heat. Inside is a coverall of special, airproofed nylon material carefully fitted to the individual wearer's body. In its normal, pressureless state, it is flexible and reasonably comfortable (see cut). Cold air or oxygen can be pumped through it to cool the pilot if his cabin gets...
Unless something goes wrong, the suit stays relaxed, but if the cabin loses its pressure at, say, 150,000 ft., an 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...
...suit, You son of a bitch...