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* The Squalus, fresh from the Portsmouth shipyard, plunged 240 ft. to the bottom off the New Hampshire coast when water suddenly filled a compartment. Twenty-six men died in the flooded section, but others remained alive behind a watertight hatch. They sent a smoke bomb and a yellow buoy carrying...
One struggles up a ramp that is like a staircase leading to the fourth floor of a building-the TU-114 is around 40 ft. high when standing on the ground. Inside the hatch, cabin follows cabin: a crew compartment; a large compartment empty of everything but a few suitcases...
More spare fuel tanks were installed in the rear compartment, where the remaining 32 passengers sat. At peak capacity, a TU-114 can carry 220 passengers, although normal seating is 170. But on the Moscow-Havana run, the figure is about 50. which must make it the costliest per capita...
Philco got into trouble when sales of its consumer goods fell off so sharply that they were no longer enough to offset the heavy costs of developing computers and other new products. Philco's plight interested a young Ford executive named Charles E. Beck, now 41, whose assignment was...
Dr. Bernhard works in an 8 ft. by 10 ft. compartment of the chamber, with an assistant surgeon, an anesthesiologist and a nurse. After an operation, the patient and surgical team are decompressed even more carefully than current Navy practice calls for; the process of surfacing from a "dry dive...