Word: superweapons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boeing Co.; of pneumonia; in Seattle. Starting as a draftsman in the company's two-story frame factory in 1917, the shy, University of Washington-trained engineer became Boeing's president in 1933 and served as chairman from 1939 until 1966. Determined to create a "superweapon of the air," he spurred creation of the first B-17 Flying Fortress in 1935. By the war's end 12,731 Flying Fortresses had been built for the Allies and had dropped more than 640,000 tons of bombs on Europe alone. Its sister ship, the larger, more powerful...
...thicker vaults. Chicago's First National Bank has put in vault doors that weigh 87 tons each, the world's heaviest. Doors that size carry a heavy price: $300,000. Most equipment men concede that given enough time a burglar can crack any safe. He has a superweapon: the burning bar. Developed for demolition work, it is a long pipe filled with a magnesium compound that cuts through almost anything...