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Re: "Unobtainium"

In message <36602BA9.16FBD4AA@ix.netcom.com> John Larson writes:

> If I'm not mistaken, the word was used by the great Mark Donohue
> describing the 917-30, although it may have been one of the factory
> support people, in an interview in Porsche Panorama.

It's from an old whimsical piece about the funding of research and
deelopment projects, and (I think) dates from the 1950s.

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