Word: panels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mohandas K. Gandhi last week survived a crisis that had caused a panel of nine reputable doctors and the people of India to believe that this time he would die. At week's end Gandhi's uremic condition improved. He was more cheerful, weak but "perky." This week it appeared that his aged but surprisingly resilient body would last out his 21-day fast...
...twelve days of his intended 21-day fast was sinking rapidly. Said an Indian physician, Dr. B. C. Roy: "Only a miracle" could see him through. During the first days he took only citrus juice and water. Midway through his ordeal the act of drinking water exhausted him. A panel of nine doctors announced that Gandhi's "uremic condition deepens and if his fast is not ended without delay it may be too late to save his life." He was too far gone for blood transfusions or glucose injections to be of help. Government bulletins prepared Indians for news...
...baggage compartment in the tail. A 15-lb. turkey easily breaks conventional safety glass even at speeds under 100 m.p.h. Westinghouse shoots its chickens and turkeys at velocities up to 400 m.p.h. Results of the test: recommendations for thicker windshields than the usual safety glass. One type of panel developed has tempered glass on the outside, an air space, then two panes of glass holding a half-inch filling of plastic. Exhaust heat is circulated through the air space to prevent ice. This has withstood the impact of a 15-lb. bird fired at over 200 m.p.h...
Field also noted that in one sculpturesque panel of the central tower "President Johnson is operating on the Government machinery with all his might, and the members of Congress ... are pulling the opposite...
...Joseph M. Gordon, fluorescent and luminescent products consultant of New York, has made the use of black light for night flying,† now usually confined to instrument-panel illumination, easily practical for all members of a bomber's crew...