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...aircraft's acceleration (speeding up or slowing down).* The unchanging gyroscope line and the line of the plumb bob, which tells which way is down, form an angle that changes as the plane follows the earth's curved surface. This angle is the self-contained milepost by which Inertial Guidance determines and sets its course (see diagram...
...child's death was a bitter milepost in the life of an extraordinary woman-a life that began in a fashionable, upper-class Episcopal home in Philadelphia, ended in an English Roman Catholic convent, and may be crowned by beatification by the Roman Catholic Church. In The Case of Cornelia Connelly (Pantheon; $3.75), British Roman Catholic Author Juliana Wadham brings back to life a reverberating scandal that burst upon the U.S. and Britain in 1849, when the Catholic Church was struggling to re-establish itself in England...
...pleasant tribute came from Eugene L. Jalbert, associate justice of the superior court of Rhode Island, who states, "without fear of error," that he has been a TIME subscriber for 28 years. Writes the judge: "I can hardly believe that TIME is about to hit the 30-year milepost. Time flies because TIME is so companionable and so frequently engrossing. World events whirl so fast that the human eye would not be able to see them in their proper perspective or the human mind to analyze them accurately were it not that TIME, with its world-covering service, brings them...
Last July, for the first time, monthly outgo crossed $1 billion. By January 1942 the $2 billion milepost whizzed by. In April the figure was $3.2 billions; an incredible billion-a-week total is in sight. To maintain a 50-50 ratio between borrowing and taxing to meet war costs, Henry the Morgue faced the job of selling about $25 billions a year of Treasury securities. Notion Counter...
Last May U. S. business activity ended its minor early 1940 slump, began to turn up. During the summer, as recovery quickened with the defense program, more & more businessmen began increasing their inventory commitments, began thinking about plant expansion. By Labor Day, traditional milepost of the business year, business was rolling along, gathering boom momentum. A few chronic laggards remained behind. One was oil, the victim of a production war between the States. Another was cotton, practically shorn of its export markets, hopelessly overproduced for the market left to it. Another was corn, also export-dependent, whose only records these...