Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Other sports were better able to make the transition from war to peace, although many faced particular problems of their own. Hockey, basketball, and baseball teams carried over many players from informal squads of 1945. The skaters, however, ran afoul of Yale and Dartmouth, two faster-developing post-war aggregations which they will have to be pointing for this winter, and the basketball and baseball squads had to become familiar with two new coaches...
...week by the Office of Defense Transportation. In nationwide advertising last month, Young had cried that some railroads, particularly those with routes between Chicago and California, deliberately slow down freight trains by mutual agreement to eliminate competition. Replied ODT: in the first half of 1947, all Western roads maintained faster freight-train speeds than Young's C. & O. Countered Young: "Statistical lies," inspired by the prejudiced ICC, of which ODT Director J. Monroe Johnson is a member...
...critical speed of sound, moved up a double notch. At Muroc Dry Lake, Calif., the Navy's Douglas Skystreak (0-558), piloted by Commander Turner F. Caldwell, zipped four times over a three-kilometer course at the average speed of 640.7 m.p.h. This was 16.9 m.p.h. faster than the record set (on June 19) by Lockheed's P-80R. Then last week, five days later, Marine Major Marion Carl (credited with 18 Japanese planes) took the Skystreak up again. Flying at times only 25 feet above the desert, he averaged 650.6 m.p.h...
...that both times it moved at 82.8% of the speed that sound would travel through the same air. While Commander Caldwell was flying the Skystreak, the temperature of the air was only 75° F. But when Major Carl took the controls, it was 94° F. Sound travels faster in hot air, so the speed of sound at the course moved up too, keeping Pilot Carl's speed in "mach numbers" the same as Pilot Caldwell...
...A.E.G. hardly mentioned the practical possibilities. The fast reactor must be surrounded, like its predecessors, by a thick shield to protect the neighborhood from destructive radiation. This limits its use. But the comparatively small size is an obvious advantage. The new pile, further developed and allowed to run faster and hotter, may be the furnace of tomorrow's atomic power plant...