Word: units
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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William D. Roberts has designed another of his handsomely symmetrical two-level unit sets, complete with the celebrated gallery of ten ancestral portraits...
...consultant and chairman of NATO's aeronautical advisory council. Just before World War II, the Air Force asked him to work out a way to help overloaded bombers take off from short runways. Von Kàrmàn's solution was the famed JATO rocket-booster unit. The only trouble was that the company lacked the capital and the production know-how to follow through on its big military contracts. For those it turned to Akron's General Tire & Rubber Co., which poured $4,000,000 into the tiny, brainy company (in return for 50% stock...
...stands some 15 miles northeast of Sacramento, Calif., spewing smoke, steam and mud over the revetments. Suddenly the test director shut off the liquid fuel that had produced an awesome 300,000 lbs. of total thrust from the two biggest rocket engines ever developed in the U.S., the main unit for the 5,500-mile Titan ICBM. "O.K.," said the director to a visitor, in the silence that followed. "Now you can go over and see the solid-propellant guys...
...Chris Finkbeiner made hay in Warren, it was Lee Ward ("He'd be a cinch if Lee was his last name") who hit pay dirt in Jonesboro, simply by taking on Orval Faubus in a tough, plain-talking speech. "The real reason why Orval Faubus occupied a local unit of government with armed troops," said Candidate Ward, "was revealed when he made substantially this statement: 'I have got to use the National Guard at Central High School to ensure my election to a third term as Governor.' And there you have the whole integration issue...
...year's assistance in the school office, library, or audio-visual classes yields one-half unit of credit. Once, students received credit for assisting teachers with grading papers and checking roll, but this is now discouraged...