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...walk from the Yard, lying between the Charles and Putnam Square on Massachusetts Avenue. It contains not only a factory, but also a retail sales room, for anyone in the market for a paper collar. Customers are infrequent, but just a few days ago a Royal Navy captain, whose cruiser was docked in Boston, ran out of detachables (still popular in Her Majesty's Service) and dispatched a jeepload of sailors to pick up a carton...

Author: By Robert M. Pringle, | Title: The Last Paper Collar Factory in the Country | 11/30/1956 | See Source »

...other 1957 entries last week: ¶ Mercury, which spent $100 million on design, engineering and tooling, has finally broken completely away from Ford with a new body of its own based on the experimental XM-Turnpike Cruiser. Mercury will be 5 in. longer, 3 in. wider and 4 in. lower than last year's model, is going in for upswept tailfins and higher horsepower, with a boost from 225 h.p. to 290 h.p. in the biggest V-8 engine. Some other changes: a pushbutton automatic transmission control and the auto industry's first air-cushion rear suspension, which...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Year of Decision | 10/29/1956 | See Source »

Nuclear fuel is a fine source of energy, one pound of U-235 producing as many calories as 1,500 tons of coal. A modest amount of U-235 could, so far as energy is concerned, propel a commodious space cruiser to the moon and back. But energy is not enough. A uranium-burning rocket motor would have no products of combustion to shoot out of its tail pipe, and without some massive material to jettison, the motor would have no thrust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Nuclear Rocket? | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...cargoes quickly moved out of the dock area. The French, less security-minded than the British, let it be known that a fleet of eight transports, with a capacity of 10,000 troops per trip, had been mobilized in Marseille and Algerian ports, while a task force of one cruiser and six destroyers was already at sea, escorting troop convoys from the Algerian port of Sidi-Ferruch to Cyprus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Buildup | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...ATOMIC CRUISER ENGINE for first nuclear-powered surface vessel will be built by Westinghouse Electric Corp. at a cost of $18.3 million. Engine is slated to go into light cruiser armed with guided missiles some time after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Sep. 17, 1956 | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

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