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Engineers are learning to air-condition cockpits, insulate electronic gear and use tough metals like titanium in high-speed planes, but another hope for dealing with the problem of high-speed heating lies in speed itself. When high speeds are reached. Rice points out, there is a certain time lag before the airplane's structure heats to the danger point. Future military planes may be fast enough to accomplish their missions and slow down again before they begin to melt...
...trouble," he went on, "is that the newsreels try to compete with newspapers and television newsreels. It's plain that they can't. There will always be a two or three day lag between the event and the reel. No one wants to sit squirming in his seat as Truman talks for ten minutes on the steel situation, especially when the text of the speech can be found in any good newspaper...
...After reviewing the statistics, the book concludes : "By and large the Former Coed seems to be doing pretty well at marriage . . . Any theoretical fears that college might make a woman unfit for matrimony seem to be thoroughly dispelled by the facts." As our Georgia reader suspected, however, college women lag far behind the rest of their sex in the matter of getting married. Only 69 out of 100 were married when TIME made its survey, compared with 87 out of 100 for all women in the U.S. But, once married, the college woman usually stays married. Nine...
...Defense production was a national headache, too. General Hoyt S. Vandenberg's report on his return from Korea underlined the fact that we lag woefully behind the Communists in numbers...
...Korean war scare buying. The wholesale price index was 3% under a year ago, and just about at the low point for the last twelve months. The drop has already been reflected in retail price cuts in textiles, leather goods and furniture. By spring, other retail prices, which normally lag several months behind, may be down...