Word: normally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with it. That became virtually certain last week when the U.S. State Department turned down a proposal by UNRRA's Fiorello LaGuardia for a $400 million international relief fund to tide the world over the months between UNRRA's end, next Dec. 31, and the resumption of normal trade...
...that there was no longer room for the delicate-and probably impossible-task of mediating between a sovereign government and armed rebels, U.S.-Chinese relations could return to normal diplomatic channels. In Ambassador Leighton Stuart, the Chinese people would keep a good, old friend; if & when George Marshall departed, they would bid farewell to a good...
Physics. To non-nuclear Professor Percy Williams Bridgman of Harvard, 64, authority on high-pressure phenomena. He proved that nearly all substances change profoundly if squeezed hard enough. Water existed as ice in Bridgman's apparatus, even when its temperature was above the normal boiling point. Soft and slippery graphite (under 1,500,000 pounds of pressure per square inch) gets hard enough to make a dent in steel...
...Bailing out is a bit of a problem. If a pilot bails out of a plane speeding 600 m.p.h., the air slows him down so suddenly that he gets a decelerating force of about 30 'Gs.' [Every part of his body weighs 30 times as much as normal.] This is a bit too much." To live, said Whittle, "the pilot will have to be tossed out in some sort of streamlined box," so he won't slow down too quickly...
...getting rid of such production frills which add nothing to car performance (and may save car buyers dollars eventually), Browning hopes to pile up savings of $20 million, based on a "normal" million car year (slightly more than current production: 3,800 units per day). Only a shift into high-gear production could make up the rest...