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...higher & higher altitudes, they found their engines losing power dangerously. Reason: atmospheric oxygen is as vital an aviation fuel as gasoline. At 20,000 feet, air is only half as dense as at sea level, at 35,000 feet one-fourth as dense. Hence a 1,000-h.p. motor seven miles up will deliver only a puttering 250 h.p. without artificial respiration...
...blade five to seven feet long, with a deep groove in both edges. In the groove run the saw's teeth, fastened together on an endless chain that whirls about the blade at a rate of 1,500 feet a minute. The power comes from a converted outboard motor or from a generator mounted on a tractor. It takes two lumberjacks to drive a power saw. They can learn how in a couple of hours...
Last April, Wing Commander Straight got the Military Cross for valor at Dunkirk. Last week he led his squadron of Hurricane fighters in an attack on Nazi Channel shipping. As he suddenly pulled out of a dive, his motor streaming smoke, he radioed: "I have been hit and am going to force-land in France. . . . Squadron to return to its base." He was last seen gliding toward the Nazi shore...
...Godeffroy, N.Y., Mrs. Emil Myers (who wrote straight to the President) couldn't cultivate her acre of vegetables for lack of a gasoline tractor motor; her husband, who enlarged his dairy "to aid in national defense," couldn't cultivate his feed crops for lack of i) a cultivator, 2) a team of horses, 3) help skilled enough to drive the team...
...Although June quarter sales of General Motors rose 50% over 1940 to a record $699,898,000, taxes almost tripled (to $93,208,000), thus held profits to $53,-580,000, 15% above 1940. Truck maker White Motor Co. had a similar experience: first-half sales rose 71%, profits 6%. But price-cutting Nash-Kelvinator, its June quarter sales up almost 75%, lifted profits from $902,000 to $2,607,000-best in over a decade...