Word: beaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frames and her 20-ton keel were skillfully transformed into a racing yacht under such rigid security that outsiders are still uncertain about all her essential statistics. But her 44 ft. on the waterline come close to the dimensions of all the cup defenders; so does her 12-ft. beam and her 70 ft. of overall length. Her sails are of Terylene (British equivalent of Dacron), and her running rigging is of the same material (with each rope dyed according to a quick-handling color code-blue, green, white, red or yellow). Below decks, even her plumbing is of synthetic...
...even as the Navy hailed Independence as the biggest warship in the world (the liners United States and America would fit beam to beam on her flight deck), opposition was strong in Congress against the Navy's overall carrier doctrine. Part of the opposition comes from supporters of the Air Force's Strategic Air Command, who believe that supercarriers put the Navy into the Air Force's business of strategic nuclear attack. But the most effective fight is coming from Navy types who contend that too much money is going into carriers that are vulnerable to both...
...Since there are 80 million drivers, there are 80 million experts on cars-and naturally, on the industry that produces them. Thus Detroit has become the center of a vast family argument. Everyone has something to say about the 1958 cars. Some of the charges are right on the beam; others are wildly exaggerated. President Eisenhower shot a thinly veiled barb at the industry. Senator Estes Kefauver, no man to watch the votes go by, loudly proclaimed that he, for one, was not buying a car because everyone knew that prices are too high. Drivers who have never peeked under...
Flat Tube. Britain's government-sponsored National Research Development Corp. has patented a video system that cuts the depth of a TV tube to only 5 in. The secret is a new method of guiding an electron beam to the screen more accurately than before. Theoretically, such tubes will eliminate many costly controls, cut prices of future color receivers, make a TV set flat enough (about 7 in.) to hang on a wall...
...Boeing's Bomarc is just moving into full production. This week the Air Force will give Boeing a production-letter contract for about 100 Bomarcs and ground-support equipment. The Army has long deployed around U.S. big cities its operational point-defense missile Nike Ajax, a beam rider with a range of about 25 miles, but Nike Ajax can easily be deflected by enemy countermeasures. The Army is meanwhile well along on the experimental Nike Hercules, a more sophisticated, solid-fuel missile with an atomic warhead. And the Army is also developing a specialty item, Raytheon's solid...