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...what bait the others were using. A neighboring cruiser shared its successful white feather jigs, and another provided wire lines for deeper trolling, but nothing worked until, on a tip messaged from a third helpful sportsman, the President ran into a sliver of luck: off Sandy Point, using a nickel-plated spoon, he hooked a single 20-in., 4-lb. bonito, hardly worth a tug on his heavy tackle...
Among the dedicated men who set out for speed behind the steering wheel of an automobile, the Bonneville hot-rodders are a class apart. They are amateurs with professional skills, willing to spend months -and every spare nickel-to create from standard parts a car so far improved over ordinary hot-rods that it can be opened up only at Bonneville. The drivers race not against each other but against the clock, on solitary, screaming runs through the timing traps on the ninemile, arrow-straight course. "These men aren't a bunch of scatterbrained kids like the hot-rodders...
...engine, says Rocketdyne, will take perhaps five years, but it will not require any new scientific breakthroughs. The present Thor engine, which is about as big as a small sports car, will be scaled up to about three times as big. New alloys (probably tungsten-molybdenum-nickel) will be needed for the walls of the thrust chamber, whose temperature will rise from 1,000°-1,200° range to the 1,800°-2,000° range. Combustion-chamber pressure will rise from the current 300-500-lb. range toward 1,000 Ibs. per sq. in. The turbopumps that...
...Nickel surpluses already total 180 million lbs., and current demand could double without a production increase. International Nickel, which dominates the industry, is holding prices stable...
Remand Union. In Chicago, Mrs. Berenice Reilly complained in court that her estranged husband was giving her $32 weekly on condition that she spend every nickel of it in his grocery...