Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problems in jet-plane design are 1) its high fuel consumption, 2) its approach to supersonic (i.e., faster than sound) speeds. (The Navy announced last week that it was building a 750-m:.p.h. wind tunnel to test jet planes.) At high speeds, the jet engine is more efficient than a conventional engine; it uses little more fuel at 500 m.p.h. than at 400. But because the jet engine usually must operate at maximum capacity from the start, it has been relatively inefficient at low speeds. Moreover, to cut air resistance, the P-59 has extremely thin wings which have...
...only hurt the cause of the Southern Negro," according to Edstrom, "if you holler about social equality. That," he explains, "is a thing you can't legislate. I'm afraid that if we don't approach the problems in the right way," he warns, "we're going to have conflict, bloody conflict." The Courier-Journal has consistently campaigned for equal political and economic opportunities for Negroes, supporting several of their candidates in state and local elections...
...light blue underneath.) A Washington rocket expert of the Army Air Forces calculated that within its aimable target area-a radius of 25 miles-the chances of any individual's getting hit by V-1 are one in 15,000,000. Londoners have learned that at its approach it is essential to: 1) get away from glass, if indoors; 2) hug the ground, if outdoors (see MEDICINE...
...Australian economist gave an empirical approach to the problems of "Administrative Controls in a Free Economy" during his four lectures here. Demonstrating the complete failure of unregulated private enterprise to provide equilibrium, Copland advocated a series of government controls...
Despite its weak sales approach, SWPA succeeded admirably in discounting two popular myths...