Word: progresses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meeting of the American Rocket Society, a 90-ft. Titan missile stood outside the building; often discussed at the meeting were other liquid-fuel rockets. These types are dominant in the U.S. and probably in Russia. Their great advantage: they work. But also discussed at the meeting was the progress being made in solid-fuel rockets...
...find its source as fast as possible. Italian-born Dr. Goffredo G. Gensini buttonholed a visitor, Radiologist Charles Dotter from the University of Oregon. Dr. Dotter sterilized the G string of a guitar, punctured the main artery in the woman's thigh. then-watching the steel's progress under the fluoroscope-worked it up into the aorta, the body's main artery. When it was close to the heart, he slipped a thin polyethylene tube over the dangling end, worked this up the artery, using the steel string as a guide, then withdrew the guide. Radiopaque...
Gathering in Canberra last week to celebrate their tenth year in office, the leaders of Australia's Liberal Party looked upon their nation's economic progress with warm and prideful eye. Said Prime Minister Robert G. Menzies: "The whole face of the land is being changed. No other country of comparable size or population in the world is so busy building its future." On the same day, a crowd of 1,400 in Sydney watched the opening of a $3,300,000 plywood factory spreading over 14½ acres of onetime swampland; McCulloch Motors Corp. of Los Angeles...
Some milestones of progress...
...meeting, delayed 30 minutes due to the lack of a quorum, also featured progress reports from two long range Council committees...