Word: cab
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Navy has described the torture chamber which it will build at Johnsville, Pa. to test the effect of the hops, drops and altitude changes of high-speed airplanes upon the human body. The Navy's gadget is a gigantic merry-go-round with a cab twelve feet in diameter at the end of a 50-foot horizontal arm. When the arm is revolving 48 times a minute, the cab will circle at 173 m.p.h. At this speed everything inside it will be subjected to "a centrifugal force of 40 "Gs," much more than the most rugged man can stand...
Pouring on the Gs. In the circling cab, the human guinea pig will be strapped in a seat mounted on gimbals, so that it can be locked in any position. The air he breathes can be pumped away to simulate altitudes up to 60,000 feet. As the Gs begin to multiply, a television tube will stare him in the face, flashing his tortured grimaces to a screen in the control room. Elaborate instruments will study his fluttering heart; an electroencephalograph will record his troubled brain waves. An X-ray motion picture camera will photograph the slithering of his internal...
Last week in London a U.S. team headed by CAB Chairman James M. Landis achieved one. Henceforth the U.S. and Britain, according to a joint Anglo-American statement, will follow the basic principles adopted at Bermuda-i.e., to sign no bilateral agreements that do not include the five freedoms...
...best time now: almost ten hours); 2½-hour flights between New York and Miami (present time: 5½ hours). Pan Am does not expect to get the first of the six Rainbows ordered ($1,200,000 apiece) till late next year. But it may take the slow-moving CAB that long to answer Pan Am's shrewd request...
...most U.S. companies. But most of the trouble was peculiar to the airlines: 1) unprecedented expenditures to expand routes, increase personnel and buy new equipment; 2) a $5 million drop in airmail revenues; 3) "no-show" passengers, who are costing the lines an estimated $8 million a year (CAB is expected to approve a penalty on "no-show" passengers soon...