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...Korea-some with runways 5,000 or more feet long, capable of handling jets and bombers-for staging between Manchuria and the front lines. In the field, before the Red drive began, the U.N. forces had taken elaborate precautions against air attack. Radar surveillance and blackout discipline were intensified; motor pools and supply dumps were dispersed ; truck drivers were ordered to keep their distance in convoys, jeep drivers to remove the tops of their jeeps...
...long time, may be ready for testing this year. Current guesses give it a top speed of 2,500 m.p.h., at an altitude of 200,000 ft. (38 miles). Even more radical is the X3, which Douglas is said to be developing. Powered with a ramjet and a rocket motor as well as a conventional turbojet engine, it is expected to have a ceiling of 300,000 ft. (57 miles...
...Ford plan is to establish scholarships for the sons & daughters of Ford employees making less than $6753 month. The money will come from the Ford Motor Company Fund,* will pay tuition and up to 80% of the living costs of an average 70 students a year. It will also send a $500 bonus to any private institution a Ford scholar attends...
...able to travel accurately to the operating depth of any known submarine. Small and maneuverable, it has its own Sonar for seeking out enemy craft that have killed their engines to ride out an attack in silence. No telltale wake of bubbles comes up from its chemically fueled motor, said the Navy, and it can be launched not only by submarines, but also by surface ships and airplanes. The Navy now expects to reinstall torpedo tubes on all warships smaller than heavy cruisers...
...quick peek. In its annual report, Detroit's Ford Foundation, set up in 1936 with a $25,000 gift from the late Edsel B. Ford, announced that it now had $492,678,255 in the till. Most of it represents 3,089,908 non-voting shares of Ford Motor Co. stock, given by the Ford family and currently valued at $135 a share. So far, the foundation, which Paul Hoffman heads, has given out $42 million for philanthropic and educational projects (chiefly in Michigan). It has pledged its entire wealth to a peace and democracy campaign, is still drawing...