Word: targetable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sometimes inventors draw a bead on one target, score a bull's eye on another. Sacramento's Aerojet-General Corp., prime contractor for the Polaris missile's propellant, found that when the solid fuel was molded, bubbles tended to form, caused trouble in firing. To find the bubbles, the company had to haul the finished rocket motor to a giant X-ray laboratory, spend two to three weeks taking pictures. Aerojet's radiation experts went to work, found they could do the job in hours by slipping in a radioactive cobalt pill, using photon-counters...
With its warm-water ports on the Persian Gulf, Iran has been a target of Russian imperialism since the days of Peter the Great. Its attraction for the Communists in the Kremlin is even greater than it ever was for the Czars. The world's fourth largest exporter of oil, Iran, as a member of CENTO (formerly the Baghdad Pact,), is an essential link in the defensive tier along Russia's southern border. The U.S. has poured more than $800 million into Iran since World War II. By bringing Iran under its influence, Russia would knock...
...raider is not a U-boat at all, but a heavily armed surface vessel well disguised as a merchantman. The raider, the Atlantis, flies whatever flag is convenient, and carries its sham to the point of decking seamen out as female passengers-wigs, parasols and all. When a target is sighted, the Atlantis steams close by, runs up the swastika and lowers the false packing cases which hide its guns. The raider's captain, played by Van Heflin, is a gentleman who, in his student days, rowed against Cambridge, and he tries his best to fight a decent...
...satellite's skin against the heat generated by rapid descent through the earth's atmosphere. The capsule, with its canine passengers, was ejected automatically, floated down separately. Both satellite and capsule, said the Russians, landed astonishingly close-within 6.2 miles-to a pre-selected (but still secret) target area. Soviet physiologists rushed to the scene, hastily broke open the capsule and examined its inhabitants, pronounced them "alive and well." In a laboratory, the dogs munched jellied candy, the mice ate cookies and the flies buzzed angrily around the jars in which they had been imprisoned during flight. Said...
...jets, struggling desperately to halt the satellite's violent gyrations, began draining precious fuel. Battle figured Discoverer's fuel supply would be so low by the 17th circuit-when its instrument package was to be cut loose-that the capsule could not be aimed at the programed target area. He sighed: "We're dead." Battle's pessimism was premature. When its erratic wobbling was corrected, Discoverer XIV's tanks still held 1,000 lbs. of gas pressure -more than enough to launch its capsule directly at the target, a plot of ocean 390 miles southwest...