Word: ups
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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At 7 a.m. (X minus 3 hours), a truck drove up and began pumping alcohol into the Viking II. Then came men in plastic suits to fill it with strong, corrosive hydrogen peroxide. The last fuel to enter the tanks was "lox" (liquid oxygen).
In Public Health Reports, Dr. William H. Sebrell outlined the campaign's goal: not only to prevent goiter, but to spread the word that iodine is essential to bodily health. The thyroid gland takes up iodine from the bloodstream and uses it to form a hormone, thyroxine. In turn...
By last week, the judges had made up their minds which were the best paintings in many of the shows. Although a lot of the wall space went to Sunday and between-chore painters, the prizes with few exceptions were won by full-time artists whose work showed little signs...
Red Bomb. At X minus 15 minutes, a bomb set off a cloud of bright red warning smoke. The gantry crane had been wheeled away; the rocket stood slim and alone. Just before X minus ten minutes, a man jumped up on the launching platform and pulled the safety plug...
From the great valley, telescopic and radar and camera eyes were focused. Radio intercoms, film recorders, telemetering devices, electronic computers, machines that still have no names were tuned up and throbbing eagerly.