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...April 1952 McDonnell fired off a letter to Washington warning that the result would be a "disappointingly underpowered combination." He asked for a substitute engine. But none was yet ready, and the Navy could not wait. It took a gamble, put the J40-22 power plant into the heavier plane to serve as an "interim engine" while it urged Westinghouse to speed a more powerful version...
...spent some $5,000,000 and 300,000 engineering man hours to design its plane. It will closely resemble the 707, have swept-back wings and underslung engine pods, which reduce the danger of fire or structural damage if an engine breaks down. The DC-8 will have the heavier, more powerful (well over 15,000 lbs. thrust) Pratt & Whitney J75 engine. Both planes will be fitted with newly developed silencers to cut the scream of their jets on the ground, plus a device to reverse the jet thrust so that they can be stopped quickly after landing...
...although Curtis Vice President Benjamin Allen said last week: "For a quarterly, it is going pretty well." Though Curtis lifted its gross 2% to $90,650,000 for the first half of 1955, its net profit tumbled 33% to $2,500,000. The drop, explained Curtis, was caused by heavier outlays for promotion, rising costs of production, and increased volume discounts to heavy advertisers. Curtis hopes that the changes will reverse the trend, send profits...
Cloete's overall conclusions come as a shock, for there has been nothing quite so blunt said about Africa in years: "The black man hates the white . . . The African, once he can read and write, will seldom pick up anything dirtier than a fountain pen or heavier than a pencil. He is evolved, an intellectual ..." These half-educated Africans fall easily for Communist propaganda. Africa therefore must be bound to the West to prevent it from falling into the hands of the Communist East. Any idea of holding the African down permanently, as South Africa is trying...
...Even heavier elements can probably be made by the neutron-fattening process or found in bomb debris. One of them has been: Element 101. But all of these atomic monstrosities will be short-lived. The forces that hold nuclei together do not seem to work well above the weight of uranium. The outsized atoms either fission (split) spontaneously or turn into lighter elements by radioactive decay...