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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...orders for its burly F101 Voodoo jet, a plane fast (1,200 m.p.h.) and versatile enough to perform every job from tactical A-bomber to all-weather interceptor. McDonnell went into missiles and helicopters, landed an $8,000,000 contract for its XV1 convertiplane, another $45 million for its high-speed Quail bomber decoy drone. Latest project: the supersonic (Mach 2 plus) F4H fighter, which beat out Chance Vought's F8U3 Crusader for an initial $170 million (23 planes) Navy contract...
...TURBINE ENGINES will be sold by G.M.'s Allison Division for testing in trucks. Two of the biggest problems, high cost and fuel consumption, are almost whipped. Allison says high-power gas turbines now can be mass-produced "at a price no higher than for equivalent" gasoline or diesel engines, and that a big power plant, e.g., 500 h.p., turbine costs less to operate...
...meet the demands of missile makers, U.S. scientists have worked for years on metals that can resist the high temperatures generated by supersonic speeds. One such metal is molybdenum, which melts at 4748° F., v. about 3000° F. in commonly used alloys. But making molybdenum castings was long impossible; its melting point is so high that it destroyed the crucible holding it. Last week the U.S. Bureau of Mines announced "a major metallurgical breakthrough"; it had succeeded in making molybdenum castings...
Metallurgists melted a 30-lb. piece of molybdenum with a high-density electric arc in a copper-lined, water-cooled crucible. The molten molybdenum was then poured through a series of troughs into a rotating graphite cylinder which forced the metal to cling to its walls while it hardened, produced a molybdenum cylinder 4½ in. wide and 8 in. long...
...high panjandrums of the art world are the so-called "experts"-the men who authenticate paintings. Like baseball scouts and wine tasters, they are paid not just to guess, but to guess right.. The best of them admit that it is an uncertain art, often humbly change their judgments. But when an opinion can determine whether a painting is worth $10 or $100,000, some modern experts try to envelop their trade with the accouterments of more exact sciences, strive to test problematic works with a chemist's lofty calm. Some refuse to see the picture itself, arguing...