Word: compound
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be nice to use pure hydrogen, but this is impractical because hydrogen is a gas that cannot be kept in the liquid state without extreme difficulty. Next best is to "liquefy" hydrogen by making it combine with some other element to form a conveniently liquid compound. Kerosene is such a liquid, but it contains too much low-energy carbon...
Cloud of Poison. But boron hydrides are bad actors. Besides being poisonous, they have a reputation for exploding spontaneously for no apparent reason. This disadvantage may have been overcome, but it is more likely that the best boron-containing fuels are compounds of boron with carbon, hydrogen and perhaps other elements. There is a long list of such compounds to choose from. A boron-carbon-hydrogen compound would not be quite so powerful as a straight boron hydride, but it might be a pleasanter playmate...
...patient's blood into a plastic cylinder and deliberately bubbling, almost foaming it, with a stream of oxygen. Then, to get rid of excess bubbles, he let the blood settle slowly in a slightly inclined cylinder and a helical reservoir, both coated on the inside with an antifoaming compound long used by brewers. The DeWall oxygenator, coupled to two standard commercially available pumps, won quick favor in many surgical centers. It is now-with minor local modifications-the type most widely used in the U.S. (see diagram), though some surgeons still refuse to bubble blood...
...bomber and Lockheed's F-104A Starfighter. Yet the four-jet B58 Hustler is far from quantity production, and the F104 program may be slowed down (TIME, Feb. 25). Curtiss-Wright is little better off. The company has big commercial orders for its 3,700-h.p. Wright Turbo Compound piston engine, but was slow to push into jets, has only one big seller in the relatively low-powered (about 7,000-lb. thrust) J65 engine for subsonic Navy and Air Force fighters and Grumman's lightweight supersonic F11 F-1 Tiger...
Rockets & Light Planes. To compound the troubles, few U.S. enginemakers have been quick to jump into the new field of rocket power. Though both Curtiss-Wright and General Electric, now building the first-stage rocket motor for the Vanguard satellite project, are hurrying to catch up, most of the contracts so far have gone to new companies in the field. North American Aviation's Rocketdyne Division currently has 10,250 employees and contracts to power a fleet of big missiles, from the intercontinental Atlas to the Army's 200-mile Redstone. A second newcomer. California's Aerojet...