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...grilles, is now brought into the family car over small portable speakers. This device, with the help of a good windshield wiper, brings the show through clearly even during pelting rainstorms (though fog is still a bugbear); and some northern drive-in managers are dreaming that a new combination heater-speaker will enable them to keep going all winter...
Divester of the Blue oarsmen was a $600 blaze started by a defective gas heater which was used to operate the drying apparatue...
...second fire aboard a DC-6 in three weeks-and both had started near the gasoline-burning heater under the cabin floor. The other plane, a United ship, with 52 aboard, had crashed (TIME, Nov. 3), with no survivors. But the Civil Aeronautics Board had seen enough to order the magnesium emergency landing flares taken out of all DC-6s-a step the lines themselves had long advocated. In the second fire, the airliner may have been saved by the fact that it had no flares to add to the fire...
Estimate. As investigators went over the Gallup plane, suspicion at first centered on the heating system. The Sixes have had trouble recently when both the heating and pressurizing systems were working. But tests showed no fault in the heater. Investigators suspected another cause. This was that gasoline, overflowing from the wing tanks, had caught fire as it was vented under the fuselage just forward of the heater air intake. If that proved to be the case, Douglas estimated that modifications could be made in a short time. But the Sixes would stay on the ground until CAB and Douglas were...
...radio, fluorescent lights, a Teletalk intercommunication unit (known commonly as a "squawk-box"), an electronic dictating machine, an electric razor with door mirror, an electric cigaret light' er, a telephone mounted on a pull-out slide with an automatic index, an extra electrical outlet convenient for fan, heater, Silex or therapeutic lamp...