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Word: verdeal (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1965-1965
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...Force is rushing to completion its $127 million Titan III complex on a long, skinny sandbar dredged out of the blue-green Banana River. When it goes into production this spring, the first stop on the assembly line will be in what Air Force spacemen call the VIB (for Verdeal Integration Building). There, in four identical 180-ft. bays, technicians will be able to assemble a quartet of the Air Force's versatile new Titan IIIC rockets. When one is finished and checked, a pair of railroad locomotives will pick it up between them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: New Look at the Cape | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

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