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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fast planes of the future will probably look like the Navy's new jet fighter, the Chance Vought XF7U-1, which completed its initial flight tests last week. The new fighter has short, broad wings "swept back" at an angle of 45° or better. There is no tail; two stabilizers with rudders are attached to the trailing edges of the wings. Two Westinghouse turbojet engines drive the plane at better than 600 m.p.h...
Thus far, the new architectural doctrines have been used chiefly in factories and office buildings. Houses are still pretty oldfashioned, partly because people don't want their homes to "look funny." Also, houses present a more difficult problem. People do a wide variety of things in their houses, and each activity requires different conditions. The environment of the living room, where Junior is picking on Little Sister, may not be suitable to Dad, who is listening to the radio...
More & more U.S. old folks are ending up in mental institutions. In 1922, only 9,229 patients over 65 were admitted to mental hospitals; in 1939, there were 18,227; in 1946 the figure had climbed to 29,987. These statistics look "appalling" to Dr. Riley H. Guthrie, who last week settled into his new job as a special mental hospital consultant to the U.S. Public Health Service...
...Brookings Institution's President Harold G. Moulton took a look at prospects for 1949 and liked what he saw: "A well-sustained level of national production and employment; a moderate decline in the cost of living; continued but abortive efforts at credit control; an expansion of Government expenditures for social and defense programs; [and] higher wages." Farm prospects would be dimmed by "a further decline in agricultural prices," and corporations would face increased taxes. But an increase in crops might prevent any real drop in farm incomes, said Moulton, and lower farm prices would "afford real relief for those...
...skiers liked the new frills. At present prices, a skier who wants to avoid the poor-relation look must spend almost $300 for a complete outfit. Worried one,: "Skiing is being taken away from the masses. The industry is heading for a real fall, if it's not careful...