Word: liquidizer
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...problem by using hypergolic fuels (unsymmetrical dime-thylhydrazine and inhibited red fuming nitric acid) that ignite spontaneously as soon as they come in contact. After the first stage burns out, a small charge of solid propellant flares up and generates gas that runs a turbine and pumps the liquid fuels into the Agena's combustion chamber. They start burning immediately, giving 15,000 lbs. of thrust...
...last week at a cost of $23,574, it was Reeves's rebuttal to Federal Trade Commission charges that his agency had deceived TV viewers by shaving phony sandpaper in commercials for Colgate-Palmolive's Rapid Shave and by doctoring Standard Brands' Blue Bonnet Margarine with liquid drops that were billed as "flavor gems" (TIME, Jan. 25). Reeves's ad was addressed, in 84-point bold type, to Earl W. Kintner, FTC's mild-mannered but sharp-minded chairman. It looked as if long-haired Rosser Reeves was taking a swing at the judge while...
...plant for production of rocket engines filled with the rubbery solid fuel that was Thiokol's first contribution to rocketry. It has grown into 84 smallish structures scattered over miles of desert, but it still reflects the basic simplicity that is solid fuel's chief advantage over liquid. The liquid-fuel rocket engines that push the Thor and Atlas must be static-tested with their flames shooting downward, which requires massive, well-anchored test stands to resist the upward thrust. Their liquid fuel and oxidizer call for pumps, tanks, valves and tubing. Instruments watch every part of their...
Heat to Cure. The plants that make Minuteman boosters are also reflections of solid-fuel simplicity. There is little machine work; most of the engine's comparatively few parts come prefabricated. Biggest part of the job is filling the casing with fuel, which is a secret liquid plastic compound mixed with crystalline potassium perchlorate to supply oxygen. The mixing is done in a plant that is mostly underground. A crane running on rails sets the empty booster casing upright in a square hole. Then an odd-looking little building mounted on rails moves over each casing and carefully pours...
...flavor gems" used by Standard Brands to show that its Blue Bonnet margarine is as good as "high-price spread" (oleo lingo for butter) are actually drops of a nonvolatile liquid substituted just for the demonstration...