Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they could prevent fires. The airlines, the military, the FAA, CAB and NASA are all hard at work on just that problem. They are developing a "very promising" jellied fuel that burns slowly and does not leak from ruptured tanks. The Pentagon and the FAA are experimenting with "tough wall" tanks made of nylon and polyurethane; when a tough-wall helicopter was slammed against a jagged rock at 100 Gs, the crash left only a one-eighth-inch crack. Airlines are also experimenting with a fire-resistant foam, which would automatically flood the fuselage after a crash and protect...
...time has come for doctors to reflect on it, says the A.M.A., because the entrenched practice can be fatal. The University of Minnesota's Dr. Justin J. Wolfson recently reported a case in which an eight-day-old baby died because the thermometer had pierced the wall of its rectum. Actual perforation of the rectum appears to be rare, says the A.M.A., but "injury to the rectum by the thermometer is not uncommon. Severe bleeding, ulceration, abscesses, hematomas and scarring have been reported." Autopsies indicate that rectal injury may occur in more than 6% of patients...
...lacking. Though performing-arts centers are shooting up as fast as prefab bungalows, many orchestras must play under less than ideal conditions. The New Orleans Philharmonic, which performs in the Municipal Auditorium, often has to compete with the roars from a wrestling match on the other side of the wall; concerts in St. Louis' Kiel auditorium are punctuated with cheers at Hawks basketball games. In the mobile musicians' market, it is almost axiomatic that the best orchestras are those with the biggest budgets. Facing up to the demands of the modern orchestra, the Minneapolis Symphony hired a young...
...have covered the inside wall of the shell with dirty drawings...
...first capital investments in France. Then De Gaulle's government, describing the American companies as "monsters" trying to turn France into an economic slaveling, put on restrictions deliberately aimed at discouraging U.S. investment in France. Last year only 30 U.S. firms cared to penetrate De Gaulle's wall. Because of French obstacles, General Motors put a new, 5,000-job auto-assembly plant in Antwerp instead of Alsace. Phillips Petroleum shifted a proposed polyethylene factory from Bordeaux to Belgium. Ford is about to build a new production complex a few miles across the French border in West Germany...