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...Reaction Motors, which has concentrated heavily on research since its founding in 1941, is just getting into mass production. Reaction made the first 350-lb. thrust engine for World War II's experimental Gorgon flying bomb, built the liquid fuel engines for Bell's X-1 series rocket planes. Currently, Reaction is at work on a rocket booster for a U.S. Air Force plane, has a contract to produce rockets with 500,000 Ibs. of thrust for supersonic Air Force test sleds. Another project: the rocket engine for North American's piloted X-15 rocket plane, which...
...Liquid v. Solid. Watching the figures soar, dozens of big companies are hurrying into the field to share the bonanza. General Electric, after a start in small rockets, is now producing the big (100,000-lb. thrust) first-stage rocket for the Vanguard earth satellite. Curtiss-Wright is producing small antitank rockets for the Army, is working on a throttle-equipped" rocket engine for planes and missiles. Bell Aircraft, Hercules Powder, Phillips Petroleum, General Motors and many others are developing new engines and materials to fuel them...
...green peas keep their shape but become as light as miniature ping-pong balls. Freeze-dried chicken breasts look like balsa wood. For gourmets, freeze-dried foods offer some interesting possibilities. Chicken or fish could be made to soak up several times their weight of wine or other flavorsome liquid...
...Matter. Cash now manufactures capsules by the carload for use in copying paper, but long before the capsules became a commercial success, the research men found more interesting jobs for them to do. In a sense, the microscopic capsules are a new form of matter, with properties of both liquids and solids. The liquid chemicals inside them may be highly reactive, but until the capsules are broken they remain almost as inert as sand...
Chemical Memory. Some of these applications promise to grow into important businesses, but the Cash research men have long since taken off into wilder blue yonders of capsule science. Most interesting capsules produced so far are filled with a liquid photochromic dye that turns blue when exposed to light of a certain wave length and loses its color when light of another wave length hits it. The Cash men are hard at work building these talented capsules into a "chemical memory" for computing machines. A transparent film impregnated with photochromic capsules can be written upon in coded dots of color...