Word: develop
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...suggestion to ban the big, controllable tests. In addition, he suggested that all powers "voluntarily ban, for 'four or five years,'" the low-yield underground tests that could not be monitored. Meanwhile, the Soviets would support the U.S. call for an all-out drive to develop seismic methods to detect such elusive blasts. For all its pitfalls, the bid seemed to contain two Soviet concessions: that small tests would not have to be banned permanently, and an admission that the control system needs to be improved...
What Bill Tunner wants is a fleet of swing-tailed jet aircraft that could lift fighting troops or 20 tons of freight nonstop over 4,000 miles. With a new type of big turboprop cargo plane that MATS wants to develop, Tunner says he could haul for 4? to 5? per ton-mile what now costs 23? on the C124 Globemasters. But MATS is in the sniping sights of the civil airlines, which last year got $85 million worth of business from MATS. (The total military business with the airlines last year, including movements of military people under travel orders...
...landing craft No. 36 from its moorings in the Russian-held Kurile Islands, north of Japan, and driven it out to sea. The four aboard had been unable to catch any fish, made no attempt to trap sea birds, failed to maintain a system of regular watches or to develop a distress signal to attract passing ships (three passed on the horizon without seeing them). Even worse, they had apparently made no attempt to ration their food and had eaten it all in the first 16 days. But the ultimate test of survival technique is to survive, and on that...
Under the eyes of the indifferent Germans, Cousteau worked with a brilliant engineer named Emile Gagnon to develop a lung that would automatically feed him safe compressed air so that he could swim with both arms. To be safe, a diver must have air in his lungs at the same pressure as the surrounding water. With less pressure, his lungs may be crushed; with more, they may expand until they rupture. To survive. Cousteau required a device that gave a diver air at pressures that matched the changing weight of water as he sank and rose...
Fear on the Reef. Cousteau could scarcely wait for the war to end to develop his new discovery. He sold the French navy on the virtues of the Aqua-Lung, soon got leave for government-backed oceanographic work on the 360-ton Calypso, a converted minesweeper from the British Royal Navy. Aboard the Calypso, Cousteau gathered the material and shot the films that were to bring sudden fame to diving and himself. The Silent World, written originally in English, was published in the U.S. in 1953, sold more than 486,000 copies (worldwide sale: 5,000,000). His 86-minute...