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...flexible pipes, can be mounted on gimbals. When a liquid-fuel rocket takes off, it can switch its gas jet from side to side, correcting any tendency to veer off course. But solid-fuel rockets have no separate combustion chamber, only a nozzle to form the gases into a high-speed jet. Usually the nozzle is an integral part of the rigid cylinder that contains the fuel...
...Pipe. Another system is to mount the nozzle at the end of a large, flexible coupling so it can switch from side to side like the combustion chamber of a liquid-fuel rocket. This is extremely difficult because the flexible pipe must carry the giant flow of hot, high-speed, high-pressure gas without leaking or burning out. But Ritchey implied that it can be done in an efficient way that causes little drag loss...
...move more advantageous to the invading forces could scarcely have been planned by the Allied high command-as in fact it was. The truth is, General Montgomery did not make an inspection tour of North Africa in 1944; he was much too busy in England. The trip was actually made by Lieut. M.E. Clifton James of the Royal Army Pay Corps, a small-time character actor who bore such a staggering resemblance to Monty and mimicked him so well that not a man in North Africa twigged the substitution-not even Monty's onetime batman...
...Earnings after taxes of the average factory worker with three dependents reached an alltime high of $79.60 per week in December, reported the Labor Department...
...Steel output hit a 15-month high of 2,111,000 tons weekly, was scheduled to rise again last week to an 18-month high. Operating at 74.6% of capacity, the steelmakers were besieged with so many orders that backlogs were mounting...