Word: blasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Supersonic Parachute. To rescue pilots from a supersonic bailout, Radioplane Co., a Northrop subsidiary, has devised a special parachute called the Skysail, packed tightly in a container that an air blast cannot tear open. When the pilot jumps, his hunched body slows down quickly. When his speed is subsonic (and the pilot is probably unconscious), the chute is designed to open gradually, distributing the shock over a longer interval than the standard parachute. Moreover, a special harness spreads the deceleration forces over a larger area of the pilot's body. If he is able to survive the hammer-like...
Shock Tube. Scientists working at top speed on the guided missile program were long baffled by a key problem: How could they figure out the effect of air blast on a missile plunging down from space at 18,000 m.p.h.? The best answer so far is a type of shock tube that was described this week by Avco Manufacturing Corp., and is now operating for the Air Force in Avco's Everett, Mass, laboratory...
Stating that "I have observed that an accident case worth $250 to some smalltown lawyer can be settled for much more with some legislator-lawyer," Kelley went on to blast those whom he termed "insurancecrats." "Insurance companies represent the most effective lobby in Massachusetts. Some of our friends leave us when we deal with insurance legislation," Kelley added...
...when his actual income was $57,497; in 1950 he declared $20,991 when his actual income was $43,-198; in 1951 he declared $30,956 when his actual income was $50,470. Congressman Lane acknowledged the news with no wounded cry of outrage, no angry blast of rebuttal. Instead, he slipped inconspicuously out of his Washington hotel and was available nowhere for comment...
Report Card. In Cleveland, a 13-year-old boy jauntily admitted in court that he lad fired a shotgun blast through the bedroom window of School Superintendent J. L. King, explained: "I just didn't like the guy, in school or any place...