Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Another worrisome problem, the apparent breaking away of two sheet-metal sections (photographed by highflying jets) early in the flight, was apparently solved when NASA investigators decided that the objects were probably thick sheets of paint that had not been properly bonded to Saturn's metal skin...
...setting a life pattern, he drifted between such random diversions as studying Serbo-Croatian and founding a record company to preserve the music of early New Orleans jazzmen. Inevitably, as the son of the late syndicated columnist Heywood Broun, he became a sportswriter "with a crust of adjectives as thick as barnacles on a pearling lugger."* Then, at 30, bored with the "non-Aristotelian inevitability of August doubleheaders," he decided to take a fling at acting. "I brought to the stage," he recalls, "a keen sense of Thackeray, Dickens and Trollope-and none of Stanislavski...
Year-Round Passage. During its first full-scale tests on Lake Ontario, the Alexbow, attached to a 65-ft. barge pushed by a 1,320-h.p. tug, cleared a 30-ft. channel in unbroken blue ice 14 inches thick. It also knifed 180° turns as though the ice were butter. Running at speeds from 21 to 31 knots, the tug accelerated easily in thinner ice because there was no friction along the sides of the barge - the Alexbow had thrown all the troublesome chunks clear...
Since the trials, Alexander has refined his Alexbow. Pushed by a 2,500-h.p. tug, he says, it can now tackle ice from three to four feet thick. He also proposes a detachable version that could be fitted to any vessel, and a plow that could be built onto the bow of a ship during construction. "There is no question in my mind," he says, "that one day icebreakers will no longer be used. Cargo ships themselves will do the ice-breaking." In a prelude to such an era, two Alexbow-equipped barges will be driven...
...best news his company had heard in months: United Air Lines had decided to buy 30 DC-10s at a total price of $465 million, and had taken options to buy 30 more of the huge three-engine planes. The order put McDonnell Douglas back into the thick of the fight for the international airbus market which is expected to reach at least 1,000 aircraft worth $15 billion in the next decade...