Word: midair
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ride to their Navy shipyard jobs on North Island. "I'm Pat Brown!" cried Candidate Brown, reaching for workmen's hands as if they were gold nuggets. One, two, three workmen hurried past, heads down, clutching their lunch boxes, leaving Pat's hand dangling in midair. A ferry attendant came up, told...
...nose cone capable of carrying a hydrogen-bomb warhead, and it was powered by three engines that burned simultaneously from the moment of ignition and generated more than 350,000 Ibs. of thrust. Atlas score, so far in nine launchings: three successful limited-range (600 miles plus) flights, six midair failures...
...glitter to the interior. Stone hung a mesh of thousands of sparkling, gold-anodized aluminum disks from the lower spokes of the roof. The hub, a tension ring 63 ft. across and weighing 25 tons, is dramatically suspended in midair and open to the sky above the central pool. To give the structure the maximum look of lightness, a trellis of light steel straps was used to hold the 42-ft.-high plastic walls rigid against the wind. Says Stone: "I'm not given to flexing my structural muscles publicly. But you can't say this building doesn...
...scientists' success is the fact that not one but at least four bomb-lugging U.S. aircraft have crashed without nuclearexplosions-one between Dayton and Cincinnati, one at Travis Air Force Base near San Francisco, one near Albuquerque, and one over the St. Lawrence River in a midair accident in which the accident-proofed "nuc" was jettisoned safely without explosion-and quickly recovered by a search crew...
Money-Sucking Sands. On his way to India, Graham not only picked up two more $100 checks from pilots in midair, but planted some free-enterprise seeds along the way. In Athens he left $10,000 with a committee of bankers for local loans, another $6,200 in Istanbul and $10,000 in Beirut. Already approved are loans to a Greek furniture company, a Turkish spring-clip factory, a Lebanese cement contracting business. He landed in India with $220,000 left in hand and a lot more enterprise in mind...