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...show opened with the familiarly quiet voice: "This is Ed Murrow. Listen to an informer now in hiding, afraid he will be found and killed." With that, CBS radio last week told in the bone-chilling words of its participants The Galíndez-Murphy Case: A Chronicle of Terror. The skillfully fleshed-out version of the story, first revealed by TIME and LIFE, made an impressive documentary-in-sound-so impressive, in fact, that CBS rushed to rebroadcast this week the suspenseful full-hour reconstruction of how Columbia Lecturer Jesús de Galíndez, a Basque...
...attempt to find out what it could of Galíndez and the subsequent disappearance of Gerald Murphy, the young soldier of fortune who flew him to his fate, involved CBS in a sort of thriller of its own. Of 200 witnesses questioned by CBS reporters, 50 refused to talk. Many, asked for FBI protection, agreed to talk only anonymously. Witnesses were interviewed in darkened Manhattan offices in the middle of the night, some bringing lawyers with them. The wife of one witness told CBS that she got an anonymous call saying: "We know your husband's talking...
...hydrogen peroxide. Liquid systems have produced the highest thrust-weight ratio (80 Ibs. for each i Ib. of weight), but they require an enormously complex system of tanks, valves, pumps and generators. To feed and control its monster engines North American must have pumps capable of 8,000 gal. per minute (enough to empty a 20 ft. by 40 ft. swimming pool in less than five minutes), gas generators which have the power of a nine-ton diesel locomotive. Solid propellants such as Thiokol's rubber-base fuels are far simpler and safer to handle. Yet the trouble with...
AIRWAY USERS' TAX will be submitted to Congress by Commerce Department, which will probably urge boost in aviation gas tax (now 2? per gal.), plus levy on now untaxed jet fuel. It will help finance CAA's six year program for air-lane control by ground radar stations, automatic navigation equipment. New control system will cost $810 million to build, about $430 million a year to operate...
...Juice by Sea. Sale of fresh Florida orange juice in Northern states will get a boost from Fruit Industries Inc., which has solved the high cost of refrigerated land transport with S.S. Tropicana, a vacuum-sealed stainless-steel tanker. The ship can carry 1,500,000 gal. (the juice of 70 million oranges) on a 56-hour run from Cocoa, Fla. to Long Island, where the juice is put in cartons for sale in twelve states and Canada. Company spends only $15,000 per tanker trip v. $265,000 if the juice came by land...