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...rods was automatic, controlled by a motor which could shoot it back into the pile when instruments warned that neutrons were getting too thick. Another (called "Zip") was attached to a heavy weight by a rope running over a pulley. When in the "withdrawn" position, it was tethered by another rope; a man with an ax stood ready to cut it free, send it zipping into the pile if anything went wrong. The last rod, marked in feet and inches, was to be worked by hand...
Into the Unknown. Fermi ran the test. At 9:54 a.m. he gave an order. A whining motor withdrew the automatic control rod. The Geiger counters on the instrument panel clicked a little faster; a pen drew a slightly higher curve on a strip of paper...
...inventor named Harry Ferguson made a deal with a shy, talkative inventor named Henry Ford. They both thought that a Ferguson-designed tractor, which had a hydraulic mechanism to raise and lower a plow automatically, would revolutionize agriculture. It didn't-exactly. But in the process the Ford Motor Co. made 250,000 Ferguson tractors, helped build Harry Ferguson Inc. into one of the biggest U.S. agricultural equipment companies...
...years, the Ford Motor Co. has by tradition been closemouthed about its profits & losses. Last week, before the Jefferson City, Mo. Chamber of Commerce, Ford's executive vice president, Ernest Robert Breech, broke with tradition. He announced that Ford's loss for the first nine months of 1946 was a whopping $51,600,000 (if this figure still stands at year's end, tax rebates would cut this down to $32,900,000). Reasons: wage increases, shortages, suppliers' strikes...
Fledgling P.I.A. was the baby of Clement Melville Keys, 70, who has sired many a line. A onetime classics professor, hockey player, and reporter, Keys got into big-time aviation by winning control of Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co., Inc., built around it a web of manufacturing and financial companies until he was probably the No. 1 U.S. air operator. In 1932, when he retired from aviation because of his health, Keys was a top executive of Curtiss-Wright Corp., Sperry Gyroscope Co., Inc., T.W.A North American Aviation, Inc., and a director of some ten other aviation companies...