Word: tunneling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Skipjack is the result. After tests in a wind tunnel much like those for an airplane, the Navy settled on a length of 252 ft.-almost 70 ft. shorter than the Nautilus-a 31-ft. beam, and a blunt nose that makes her look more like a blimp than a ship. A tall, thin conning tower, which the crew calls a "sail," rises out of her rounded, whalelike back to give roll-stability and carry the forward control planes...
...lost with the cooling, reheating, and subsequent sitting in the steam table or on the serving line. It is significant that the plans for the renovation of the Leverett dining area include proposals to prepare more food directly in the pantry. Leverett residents, at the tag end of the tunnel, have often suffered with less palatable food then other Houses due to the great distance from the Central Kitchen. Centrality intrinsically lowers the quality of served food, since reheated dishes can never taste as well as food brought directly to the serving table from the kitchen...
Though the government insists that the $12 million spent on the Valley came mostly from voluntary gifts, Spaniards know better. Shopkeepers complain that government collectors had told them either to put up or shut down. Other Spaniards, traveling the nearby highway, grumbled about the tunnel five miles from the Valley that never got built; it was supposed to replace the treacherous mountain pass on which dozens of motorists lose their lives each year. While the big monument had all the men and machines it needed, nothing was available for the tunnel...
...dividends, pours 85% into the company to expand research and development. Last year he spent $3,700,000 for a new advanced research lab that includes a 12.5 million-watt radiant heating unit to simulate the fantastic heats of atmospheric reentry. This spring a new $5,137,000 wind tunnel will be finished to help solve the problems of flight at speeds up to 4,000 m.p.h., temperatures from -65° F. to 660° F. and altitudes up to 125,000 ft. McDonnell's race for space is not just for business reasons. Says Mr. Mac, with something...
...walls began cracking again. As some workers straightened, there was suddenly an enormous sigh that forced a windstorm through the miles of galleries, and the whole slope of Rosenburg Hill caved in. As 400,000 tons of stone and earth crashed into the caverns, the three tunnel mouths spouted out flying stone and dust like miniature volcanoes. Screaming men and women ran bloodily from the caves, dragging with them other workers who had been knocked unconscious. Groping through the thick fog, slipping on the wet clay topsoil, they screamed for help. The village priest and the schoolteacher spread the alarm...