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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Flying Mattress. Britain's M. L. Aviation Co. showed off the first model of a new inflatable-wing, two-passenger aircraft which may be the sky-auto of the future. Named the "Flying Mattress," the new plane features a 40-ft. span delta wing, made of light fabric and easily inflated by compressed air machines or by a regular tire pump. When deflated, the wing is small enough to fit in a car's trunk compartment. Inflated, the wing sits on posts above a 10-ft. wooden fuselage, is held in place by struts. A pusher-propeller, powered...
...looks, in fact, like the popular conception of a gangster, model 1929. He has bright, wild eyes, and his movements suggest spring steel; he talks out of the corner of his mouth. He dresses with a glaring, George Raft kind of snazziness-rich, dark shirts and white figured ties, with ring and cuff links that almost always match. He had, at last count, roughly $30,000 worth of cuff links. "He has the Polo Grounds for a closet," says a friend. In one compartment hang more than too suits. In another there are 50 pairs of shoes, each shoe...
...U.S.S.R. showed a working model of the year-old 5,000-kw. power plant in operation about 50 miles outside Moscow, reported that a new 100,000-kw. reactor-probably of a similar design, and therefore behind U.S. models-will go into action within a year and will provide power on a competitive cost basis with coal-fed plants. The Russians also said that they are building the world's biggest atom smasher, one that will hurl protons (hydrogen nuclei) with energies as high as 10 billion volts against the nuclei of target atoms, enabling Soviet scientists to study...
Through most of the week, the scientific exchange dealt with the present state of peaceful atomic knowledge and the more immediate future, the "model T" stage of atomic development. Technical papers came from nations large and small, but the big news was made, of course, by scientists of three big nations, Britain, Russia and the U.S. Highlights...
...auto-finance company. Said G.M.A.C. to G.M. dealers: "Some customers who should buy used cars are being induced through 'easy terms' to take new cars. And some people who ordinarily would buy a lower-priced new car are 'easy-termed' into a bigger, more expensive model...