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...well under a Republican administration, did even better under the New Deal. His political fences are always carefully tended. Pan Am Vice President Pryor, onetime Republican national committeeman from Connecticut, knows his way round G.O.P. circles in Washington. On the Democratic side, Pan Am has Vice President J. Carroll Cone, onetime Army pilot and all-around air expert, who campaigned and raised money for Truman before Philadelphia and helped keep his native Arkansas from going over to Dixiecrat Thurmond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: Clipper Skipper | 3/28/1949 | See Source »

Others are studying aerials, and how their shape and size affect the waves they send. Antennas with a cone-shaped top, for instance, behave much differently from those with a ball-shaped...

Author: By John J. Sack, | Title: Physicists Twirl Atoms, Aim Radio | 3/25/1949 | See Source »

Last week, Elizabeth was wearing a saucy cone of green felt on her head to conceal the place that was shaved during the operation. She was well enough to board a plane for home. She was bright and cheerful; there were no signs of nervous symptoms. She would have a long rest; then, if the operation had been a complete success, a new future...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Chance for Elizabeth | 11/29/1948 | See Source »

...Healy, the actor who adopted a chimpanzee and a pygmy "with a head like an inverted ice-cream cone" and would never explain the chimp other than by saying solemnly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cabaret Philosopher | 11/15/1948 | See Source »

Another system would require a plane of odd design, putting the cockpit in the rear just ahead of the tail surfaces (see drawing). When the pilot wanted to bail out, he would detach the whole tail-and-cockpit. The plane would fly on, while the tail cone pulled a parachute from behind the pilot's seat. When it had slowed the cockpit to a safe speed, the pilot could bail out with his own parachute...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A Way Out | 11/1/1948 | See Source »

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