Word: speeding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deputy Defense Secretary Donald Quarles's office in the Pentagon last week a group of high-level Navy and Air Force officers got together to ponder a serious decision: whether the U.S. ought, in the age of the missile, to speed up a nuclear-powered airplane project, and, if so, what kind of plane, to perform what kind of mission, at what cost, and when. The Navy argued hard for a subsonic nuclear turboprop seaplane for antisubmarine warfare and long-range radar-warning patrol. The Air Force argued not quite so hard for a more advanced supersonic nuclear...
...flash estimate: $1 billion minimum), that new missiles would make the new atomic plane obsolete before it could fly. In 1953 Defense Secretary Wilson called the atomic plane "a shitepoke*-a great big bird that flies over the marshes-you know-that doesn't have much body or speed to it, or anything...
...wells through new irrigation ditches, turning deserts where the Colorado enters the Gulf of California into fields of cotton, plots of tomatoes and the purple traceries, of grapevines. Mexican and U.S. farmers, industrialists and businessmen are laying out factories, hotels, lawns, streets and truck gardens with assembly-line speed. The citizens of Baja California (estimated pop. 550,000) proudly argue that the new state's standard of living is Mexico's best, a boast bolstered by the fact that its minimum legal wage is the country's highest...
...velocity of about 10 ft. per second. The jumping muscle of the grasshopper, which weighs only one twenty-fifth of a gram, develops "the astounding power of some 20,000 grams per gram of its own weight," or ten times the power of human muscles working at top speed. Says Hoyle: "The only known muscles in the whole animal world that equal this power are the shell-closing muscles of the clam-but the grasshopper's muscles work far more rapidly...
...Sales in 1957 are expected to top two billion marks (more than $476 million) for the first time. This week, as Managing Director Heinz Nordhoff celebrates his tenth anniversary on the job, Volkswagen will roll out its 2,000,000th car. Other West German automakers are also picking up speed. Production in 1957 hit 1,210,000 cars, and almost half-585,000-were exported...