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Boner. In Vancouver, Wash., Leon Hutcheson, in bed with a broken leg, tried to move it, placed his good leg under the heavy cast, used it as a lever, broke...
...leader, Atlantic City was filled with memories. In the President Hotel, John Lewis and his followers had plotted their great rebellion in 1935 against the A.F.L. and laid the foundation of a rival C.I.O. In the tarnished ballroom of the Chelsea Hotel, John had given the carpenters' Bill Hutcheson a punch on the jaw (1935). In the same room, in 1940, John resigned the presidency of C.I.O. and Phil Murray mournfully became his successor. Murray had no reason now to feel any happier about...
...watt ultrashort-wave transmitter could weigh less than 50 lbs., said Dr. Hutcheson, and its signal would be strong enough to reach from moon to earth, even without the advantage of a directional beam. Power could come from batteries. The whole apparatus would have to be designed to deal with the vacuum of space, and designed to operate both in extreme cold and in the high temperature (250° F.) of the lunar midday. To Dr. Hutcheson such difficulties were minor...
More serious was the problem of landing on the moon without smashing the radio to smithereens. Parachutes would not help, for the moon has little or no atmosphere. Dr. Hutcheson's solution: a tiny radio in the nose of the rocket. Working like the proximity fuses in antiaircraft shells, it would detect the approach of the moon's surface and fire "braking rockets" at the proper distance. Shooting their power forward, they would counteract the moon's gravitational pull (one-sixth as strong as the earth's), and allow the whole apparatus to make a sufficiently...
Neither the Army nor Dr. Hutcheson was thinking of rocketing passengers to the moon. But Robert Lee Farnsworth, president of the U.S. Rocket Society, was practically (in imagination) an earth-moon commuter already. He could see one serious obstacle only: "I'd like to be on the first flight," said he, "but my wife gets pretty indignant with...