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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wasp's Captain Burnham C. McCaffree of all fault. They advanced three theories to explain Tierney's disastrous maneuver: 1) he had become "completely confused," and thought that a sharp left turn would bring him to his correct position; 2) he ordered "left rudder" when he meant to say "right rudder"; 3) he thought he was on the blacked-out Wasp's right bow when actually he was on her left...
Much of this growth was real (actual physical production has increased 14% since Korea), but much of it also was a result of creeping inflation, reflecting higher prices and higher costs all down the line. And if anybody thought it meant unlimited and universal prosperity, the Department of Labor slide rules came up with some dampening figures of their own: in 1950 the average city family earned $4,300 after taxes, an alltime record up to then, yet it had also overspent its income by $400 trying to keep abreast of rising prices and taxes...
...cost in the hope of finding production shortcuts. But now that the prototype has been built, Engineer Pease estimates that a duplicate, easily convertible to other jobs, could be made for $50,000 to $70,000, about six times the cost of an ordinary milling machine. None of this meant that the robot factory was right around the corner (or that the robots were about to inherit the earth). But the day was measurably closer. Summing up his own views in the current Scientific American, Pease says: "With [such] machines in control, we can conceive of factories which will process...
...Soon after Miss Great Lakes II conked out for good with a cracked gear box, Slo-mo IV lost a propeller and also dropped out. On the sixth 3-mile lap, Slo-mo V Driver Lou Fageol knew his boat was a goner: water spewing ominously from the exhaust meant that a cylinder had blown. Detroit's Miss Pepsi won the heat at a speed of 101.0242 m.p.h. in the fastest boat race of all time...
...Force was sure that temperature inversions over the nation's capital had permitted high-angling radars to pick up trucks and other moving targets on the ground. But what about the other 1,000 or more sightings elsewhere? In a Pentagon press conference, just as if he meant to be reassuring, General Samford went on to state that such things as missiles, ice formations, birds, meteors, and honest misinterpretations of natural phenomena account for all but 20% of them. That still left plenty unexplained. So the Air Force plans to distribute 200 special cameras to competent observers...