Word: frictions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...There comes a time when every organization needs a shake-up just for the sake of having one-to try out men in new jobs, to break up petty friction. The President started such a shake-up for the State Department when he upped Assistant Secretaries Sumner Welles and R. Walton Moore to Under Secretary and Counselor, respectively. Last week, carrying that all-purpose shake-up farther, he sent to the Senate the nominations of: Hugh S. Gibson (Ambassador to Brazil) to be Ambassador to Belgium, Jefferson Caffery (Ambassador to Cuba) to be Ambassador to Brazil, J. Butler Wright (Minister...
Most meteors or "shooting stars" are entirely consumed by the burning friction of their swift flight through the atmosphere. Meteorites are bodies which are big enough to survive their flaming passage and land on earth. Meteoriticist Nininger was born 50 years ago in Kansas, in which a greater number of important meteorite finds have been made than in any other U. S. State. He started his scientific career, however, as a biologist. One night in 1923, while he was a biology professor at McPherson College in Kansas, he saw a shooting star so bright that he was sure some...
...Telephone Cabinet." From the first, one thing was clear: the military Government could not be replaced by an out-&-out liberal one. In a brief radio speech in which he revealed an attractive radio personality, the new Premier declared that he would seek to "heal strife and eliminate friction." This meant that he had to conciliate the Army, recognize the disgruntled civilian parties, win the sympathy of the electorate...
...rises again at the finish. Coming into the stretch, Goya II forged in front as Perifox and the Aga Khan's Le Grand Duc moved up to challenge. Goya II soon faltered and Jockey Michael Beary, who had run Mid-Day Sun to the outside to escape the friction at the turn, pushed his steed fresh down the sun-baked stretch, streaked up to a clean length's lead. Mid-Day Sun held fast to the finish-for a slow 2 min. 37 3/5 sec.-with Sandsprite and Le Grand Duc second and third...
...struts and wires which characterized old planes have been removed, the wing has increased from one-third of total drag to about half. To reduce this the NACA experimented with the friction set up by rivets and lapped plates on the wing surface. A modern plane weighing 20,000 Ib. and having a wing area of 1,000 sq. ft. was found to require 182 less horsepower to reach 225 m.p.h. if its wings were smoothly polished than if it had normal overlapping plates and brazier rivets with a head-diameter of 3/12...