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...market sagged, but was quickly buoyed up by a U.S. grain-for-metals barter program and stockpiling. But this year, with enough lead and zinc stored up to last an estimated three years, the U.S. eased off on stockpiling. Prices tumbled from 16? to 13½? a Ib. for lead, from 13½? t010? a Ib. for zinc. Marginal mines in the U.S. began closing, and U.S. producers cried for protection. The Administration tried (and failed) to put through a lead and zinc protection bill during the last Congress...
...Thrust. The greatly increased size of the second Soviet satellite means that it probably was not launched by the same rocket system that launched the first one. It takes roughly 1,000 Ibs. of fuel to put 1 Ib. of satellite on an orbit. So more than 1,000,000 Ibs. of fuel must have been burned to give Little Curly her ride. The loaded rocket, with its fuel, structure, instrumentation and payload, must have weighed considerably more than 1,000,000 Ibs. To lift it off the ground at reasonable speed must have required a rocket motor...
THANKSGIVING TURKEYS this year will cost less than at any time since before World War II. Production will rise to record 80.6 million birds for 1957, and frozen stocks are 53% above a year ago. Manhattan supermarket sale prices are as low as 30? a Ib...
...Army and Navy jointly undertook a satellite project thought up by Engineer Wernher Von Braun, captured German V-2 expert turned U.S. Army missile brain. Von Braun planned to equip the Army's tested Redstone missile with booster rockets and use the hybrid to send a small (5 Ib.) satellite into an earth-girdling orbit...
Mindful of the Big Ten's code of football purity and eager to show that service with Coach Duffy Daugherty's undefeated assassins does not curtail a young scholar's other activities, Michigan State's athletic department posed hefty (6 ft., 200 Ib.) sophomore Guard Russ Kelly, 25, with his four major courses: Nick, 7, Kurt, 6, Marilyn, 4, and Terry...