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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mirrors. The pumpkin papers were only one week's catch; as a Communist courier, Chambers had delivered probably thousands of such documents. The secrets were often transmitted in strips of microfilm concealed between the glass and the backing of dimestore hand mirrors, and carried overseas by Communist couriers. Crew members of the Hamburg-American Line helped out; later, after Hitler came to power, the films were sent via the French Line. From 1935 to 1938, Chambers had two sources in the State Department (so far only Hiss has been named publicly). At one point, four "high sources" in Washington...
Weightless World. An inhabited satellite would be a strange place for the crew. Their cabin would have to be pressurized and protected against the sun's heat, cosmic rays and meteors. Since it would be "falling" freely, the crew would not feel the earth's gravitation any more than do the passengers of a freely falling elevator. Their bodies, tools-and food would have no weight except that caused by the feeble gravitation of the satellite itself. No one knows whether human bodies would function under such conditions. One proposed solution: making the satellite spin. This would produce...
United Airlines last night reported from Seattle that Boeing Field was closed down due to weather fully 15 minutes before the take-off of the ill-starred DC-3 that crashed late Sunday evening causing the deaths of 11 Yale students and three crew members...
...Yale newspaper, which telephoned Seattle, reported that the chartered DC-3 carrying 27 New Haven-bound students and three crew-members was from five to ten feet in the air when one wing dipped and touched the runway...
Four days later a C-54 tried again, this time releasing a glider and two-man crew for an air-ground pickup. Twice the tow plane managed to snare the glider on a pickup line. Both times the glider broke through the icy crust and bogged down in the snow; the pickup line snapped. The glider's crew joined the nine stranded men on the icecap. More food and clothing were dropped, along with heaters, fuel and a collapsible plywood shelter. The shivering airmen burrowed into the snow, rigged a canvas roof overhead as protection against the gale...