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...Margaret and Mary Gibb, 41-year-old twins joined at the base of the spine, both had to be anesthetized at Boston's New England Deaconess Hospital for famed Surgeon Frank Lahey to remove a fibrous tumor from Margaret's abdomen. After the two-hour operation, both sisters were reported doing fine...
Britain claimed a new jet altitude record last week: 63,668 ft. over southwest England. The plane was a Canberra bomber with two Bristol Olympus turbojet engines, piloted by R.A.F. Wing Commander Walter F. Gibb...
...since rocket motors need no air to breathe, they are considered in a separate class. They can fly under full power for only two or three minutes, and when trying for an altitude record, they must be dropped from the belly of a high-flying bomber. Wing Commander Gibb's Canberra took off from the ground in the normal way and stayed in the air for 61 minutes. At the top of its flight, its engines were breathing air only one-thirteenth as dense as air at sea level...
...level is a rather gruesome landmark in high-altitude flying. It is the level at which the air has so little pressure that human blood (temperature 98.6° F.) begins to boil. If something had gone wrong and Wing Commander Gibb had been exposed to the pressure outside his cockpit,' his veins and tissues would have puffed up with a froth of water vapor, his spinal fluid would have begun to beil, and he would have died in a few seconds...
...cargo. To prevent idlers from wasting his business hours, Merchant Jardine kept no chair in his office but his own. He made huge deals with Bombay Tycoon Jamsetjee Jeejeebboy. Hundreds of young Englishmen, attracted by high wages & high life, flocked to China. Race tracks were built, blood horses imported. Gibb, Livingstone & Co. (John Gibb was a member of the Race Club Committee) never questioned the living expenses of their young employees unless the soda-water bills for their mess exceeded $500 a month...