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...Holman Cone is also an optimist this week, as much as it goes against his true spirit. That Disbursing grade ruined his sorrowful outlook on life for three full days; but he soon recovered and from beneath his overcoat and muffler he moans that he "broke down" his health to achieve this grade. He also shudders when he remembers that night he was forced to evacuate his quarters without benefit of slippers...
...antiaircraft fire, 20-and 40-mm., seemed a solid flame of tracer shells, converging on him from a cone formed by a hundred ships. When he was about half a mile away he caught fire, started to roll over. What looked like an engine or a large piece of engine flew out and ricocheted along the water. The plane hit the water. Chunks of plane sailed past our boat. A stream of flame shot past a hospital ship near by. Then the peril set in. Our own antiaircraft fragments started splashing around. I wished fervently that I had worn...
...great advantage of the jet engine is its simplicity. In contrast to the conventional reciprocating engine, the Bell P-59 motor has only four basic parts: 1) compressor, 2) combustion chamber, 3) turbine, 4) the cone-shaped jet through which the expanding gases that drive the plane are expelled. Because its operation, like a gun's recoil, is based on Newton's third law of motion (every action has an equal and opposite reaction), engineers prefer to call it the "reaction engine...
...action or just comfortably asleep all day), New Year's Eve was written off as a gross loss, but the final net profit for the period won't be determined until the results of those fateful mid-terms are publicized on or about 15 January. As Herman Homer Cone says, "It isn't the marks, it's the worry and uncertainty that slays...
...ground rumble and saw a great column of white smoke burst from the ground. He ran to the priest in the village of Paricutin, two miles away. By the time priest and villagers arrived, the crater was belching molten rock and lava. In a week it had raised a cone 500 feet high; in ten weeks, 1,000 feet. Then lava, erupting from the crater's top and sides, began to ooze over the countryside...