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...despite defense spending that was $225 million above estimates. Principal factors were relentless pressure on all fronts against federal spending-16 of the 22 major Government agencies spent less than anticipated-and some luck down on the farm. Bad weather at home and good demand from abroad made for lighter wheat crops and heavier cotton exports, helped cut Department of Agriculture outlays by $277 million...
Full Circle. Ironically, the big nonrigid blimp was designed as an answer to the sudden death that had plagued the larger, rigid, lighter-than-air ships of the 1920s and '30s. The French Dixmude disappeared over the Mediterranean in 1923; the U.S. Navy's 680-ft. Shenandoah broke up in a storm over Ohio in 1925 ; the 785-ft. Akron splashed in the Atlantic in 1933; and her sister ship Macon was ditched in the Pacific in 1935. Then, on May 6, 1937, the biggest dirigible of all, the hydrogen-filled German Hindenburg, blew up and burned...
Altaian's hoped that the out-at-the-elbows look might fit in the trend toward cooler, lighter, more comfortable men's wear. It was a long reach. But like manufacturers and retailers all over the U.S., Altman's was taking no chances on passing up whatever the big-spending U.S. consumer might want. Anticipating his whims and angling for his taste were new trends running all the way from cars to corsets...
AMERICAN MOTORS will bring out a Rambler with an engine having an aluminum block for its bestselling model, the 108-in. Rambler. The new block is 50% lighter than a conventional cast-iron block, and by cutting down weight is expected to improve gas mileage. American Motors also has a new muffler, which it says will not have to be replaced, as in most present cars. Coated with ceramic, it should last for 90,000 miles of driving, says American Motors...
Point of Light. Much work remains to be done. Nose cones can be made still lighter, thus adding to the missile's payload. This is particularly important to the solid-fuel, second-generation Minuteman, a fine but small missile with definite payload limitations. Already in the works are plans to make re-entry bodies maneuver so that their courses will be unpredictable and hard to intercept. To do this, the re-entering bodies must have controls and some sort of wings to give them lift, or to make them plunge steeply, or to let them dodge from side...