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The Navy has described the torture chamber which it will build at Johnsville, Pa. to test the effect of the hops, drops and altitude changes of high-speed airplanes upon the human body. The Navy's gadget is a gigantic merry-go-round with a cab twelve feet in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Human Centrifuge | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

One "G" is the normal gravitational force to which the human body is accustomed. When an airplane makes a turn, it subjects its occupants to a centrifugal or "quasi-gravitational" force measured in additional Gs. During a "five G turn," the pilot's body weighs five times as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Human Centrifuge | 9/30/1946 | See Source »

A. BRIAN MERRY Augusta, Ga.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 23, 1946 | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

¶TIME'S thanks to Reader Merry. For the names of TIME'S team, let him look at the masthead, p. 19.-ED.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 23, 1946 | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

James Norman Hall, Tahiti-dwelling author (with Charles Nordhoff) of the Bounty series, discomfited many a book critic with a wicked confession: Fern Gravel, a child poetess whose volume, Oh, Millersville!, made a merry little noise in literary circles six years ago, existed only in Hall's brain. Deadpanned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Regards to Broadway | 9/23/1946 | See Source »

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