Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flying at 600 m.p.h., the blast is shooting backward in still air at 700 (1,300 minus 600) m.p.h. The engine is still wasting too much energy merely stirring up the air. To approach the normal propulsive efficiency of a propeller plane, a jet plane would have to fly faster than sound. But one arresting compensation-for the jets-is that some day they may fly even that fast...
Brute Plane. The only airplane, so far as is known, to fly faster than sound is the rocket-propelled X-I (TIME, Jan. 5). But the X-I is not a real operational airplane. It is very small and heavy, made largely of metal plates nearly half an inch thick. It carres no useful load except the pilot, some instruments and fuel for two minutes of flight at full power. It smashed through the transonic speed band by sheer brute force, not aerodynamic virtuosity...
Pampered Legs. At 23, Mel Patton looks fragile enough to be bowled over by the smell of locker-room sweat. But he has run the 100 yards faster than any man living or dead-in 9.3 seconds (an unofficial world's record). In the chow-line last week, a husky teammate yelled at him: ''Step aside and let us weight-men in. No fuss, now-you're the one man around here I can lick." Patton, grinning, yelled back: "Better be careful, Moose, I gained a pound last week...
...some 300 corporations reporting, only eight were in the red at midyear. More than 70% of the rest showed gains over 1947. As expected, the oil industry kept its lead by pumping out profits even faster than it pumped up record supplies of oil. Gains ranged from 33% for Jersey Standard (to a record of $210 million for the first six months) to 143% for Atlantic Refining (to a record...
...speedy coverage of both conventions went to Acme, the Scripps-Howard picture service. Acme developed and transmitted pictures by wire direct from a 1,200-sq. ft. office set up in the basement of Convention Hall, at an estimated cost of $5,000. As a result, Acme moved pictures faster, and often got a better play in the press, than either of its rivals. A.P. lost time by developing and transmitting its pictures at the Philadelphia Bulletin (published by A.P. President Robert McLean), a mile and a half from Convention Hall. Hearst's I.N.P. used a darkroom...