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Avco is working on two MHD generators. One of them will burn coal in a stream of compressed, preheated air. While passing through the flame, the air gets hotter, expands and rushes out of the furnace at high speed. A small amount of potassium chloride fed into it increases its ionization and makes it a better electrical conductor. Then the stream shoots into a hollow cone made of a heat-resisting, nonconducting material (see diagram). Electrical coils outside the cone create a strong magnetic field. As the gas speeds through, a powerful current of electricity flows across...
...U.S.S. Denver, and after 15 years was surprised to hear she had the honor of firing the first shot in the Leyte landings. She also participated in the Battle of Surigao Strait, which I recall quite vividly, as the entire ship was at general quarters all night, it was hotter than I can ever recall, and the night entailed a good deal of work for the crew in handling hundreds of rounds of ammunition when the ships in our task force opened up rapid salvo fire on the unsuspecting Japanese. In surveying the results of our night's work...
...week's end the war seemed hotter than ever. The day before the court decision, U.S. Steel Executive Vice President R. Conrad Cooper, top industry negotiator, told the Virginia Manufacturers Association that the union enjoys "vastly" greater power than the companies; that Steelworker President David McDonald is the "only man who can choke off our nation's steel supply at will." When the Supreme Court order was announced, McDonald agreed to obey "the law of the land," but struck a do-or-die pose. Cried he: "Steelworkers do not quit. They will not bow down to industrial tyranny...
...that temperature, the hydrogen is hotter than the center of an exploding nuclear bomb. But the gas is spread so thin between the galaxies (fewer than ten atoms per cubic yard of space) that there is no appreciable heating effect on objects it surrounds. The heat merely makes it expand like any hot, unconfined gas; and since it fills the whole universe, the universe as a whole expands...
...July 14 another series of balloon-borne instruments detected an even hotter burst of radiation, about 10,000 times more intense than normal cosmic rays. Both the May and July radiation bursts, say the Minnesota scientists, came from the same disturbed region on the sun, which has been exploding for many months like a vast ammunition dump. As the sun rotates, flare after flare has sprayed streams of particles into space, sweeping the solar system like streams of water from a revolving lawn sprinkler...