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...instructor in the course is C.G.B. Garrett. British-born Garrett has been keeping what may best be described as a stiff upper lip concerning the big textbook lack in his course. "We're going ahead just as if we had the text," he says; "there's nothing else...
...missing text book is Robert's "Heat and Thermodynamics." As Garrett says, "It's really the only book on the subject, so far as this course is concerned...
Unfortunately, the book is published in England and is very difficult to obtain in this country. A new edition came out last March, and in July Garrett ordered 80 copies of the text through the Phillips Book Store...
That was over two months ago: The books have yet to arrive in Cambridge. The Coop has informed Garrett that the New York dock strike is holding up the valuable tomes, and that there is no immediate chance of delivery...
...supersonic speeds, a way had to be found to cool their cockpits. Ramsaur's turbine provided the answer; by putting an engine's heat to work turning the turbine, it cooled the air by expanding it, shot the air into the cockpit. As rearmament got under way, Garrett began turning out a total of 700 accessory products. With the Navy order for the self-starter, Garrett Corp. has a $120 million backlog, enough to keep 5,500 workers on three shifts busy for at least the next three years...