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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fully armed and carrying a full load of fuel, the Air Force's brand-new F-86 set an unofficial world's speed record for level flight-669.75 m.p.h. The plane, a North American jet fighter with swept-back wings, was flown by Major Richard L. Johnson, 30, over a measured course at the National Air Races in Cleveland. The old record was 650.796 m.p.h. Speed of sound (at sea level): about 750 m.p.h...
...shmoo was discovered by Al Capp's Li'l Abner. When, last month, he began to hear strange music which sounded like "shmoooooooooooo!", his eager pursuit of the lilting sound was barred by an amazon of fierce and busty aspect. ("Ah sees to it," said she, "that th' shmoon don't come over th' mount'in.") Nevertheless, Li'l Abner penetrated into the forbidden Valley of the Shmoon, where a sage clad only in his own beard, called Old Man Mose, frantically explained the shmoo situation to the intruder. "Shmoos...
...Thass becuz they is so bad, huh?" asked Li'l Abner...
...stupid," answered Mose, hurling one of life's profoundest paradoxes at Li'l Abner. "It's because they're so good...
...meeting of the American Chemical Society. As at most large scientific conventions, the principal concern was better jobs, but the chemists listened to papers touching on nearly every chemical compound that can be put into a test tube. They heard about hydrazine and dithiooximide and triacetyl-aldehyde-L-erythrose. The learned speakers told how to keep plastic shower curtains from smelling bad and how to keep cattle from getting arthritis...