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But the main reason for putting Vanguard into a separate, low-priority compartment was that the Pentagon wanted to keep the satellite project from interfering with the U.S.'s top-priority program of military ballistic-missile research. For eight lost years after World War II, the U.S. had spent...
Tornado Alarm. To predict local tornadoes, which often come up too suddenly for the Weather Bureau to forecast, Tornado, Inc., of Oklahoma City, will soon market a barometer with an electrical contact point that sets off an alarm buzzer when atmospheric pressure dips to a dangerous level. Battery-powered signal...
A Minute's Wait, the longest and best of the lot, is a back-thwacking, shillyshally riot of slapstick. A train-a gruesome Irish hybrid of the Toonerville Trolley and a Long Island Railroad local -pulls into Dunfaill for a minute's stop. Its motley passengers immediately spill...
Somebody Knows Me. For the bowlers themselves, the trip to Texas was a worthwhile gamble. When all the rolling is done, they will share 7,743 prizes totaling $227,652. For the spectators it was always a good show. The list of top teams read, as usual, like a roll...
Compressed air previously stored in the compartment surrounding the combustion chamber rushes through the open ports, scavenging out of it the burned gases and pushing them, still at high pressure, into the pipe that leads to the turbine. At last the increasing pressure in the bounce chambers stops the pistons...