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Pouring on the Gs. In the circling cab, the human guinea pig will be strapped in a seat mounted on gimbals, so that it can be locked in any position. The air he breathes can be pumped away to simulate altitudes up to 60,000 feet. As the Gs begin to multiply, a television tube will stare him in the face, flashing his tortured grimaces to a screen in the control room. Elaborate instruments will study his fluttering heart; an electroencephalograph will record his troubled brain waves. An X-ray motion picture camera will photograph the slithering of his internal...
...other serious troubles: strikes in supplying companies, shortages in basic metals-pig iron, sheet steel and especially in lead (G.M. had only enough lead for storage batteries to carry through October...
...Test Baker (the underwater bomb) the score was higher. Two hundred white rats and 20 pigs were confined in the sick bays of four ships near the bomb. All were well sheltered, and none of their ships was sunk. But 77 rats were dead soon after the blast. Forty-nine died later of lingering radiation sickness. Of the 20 little pigs that went to Test Baker, no little pig came home. Six were found dead when their shelters were entered four days after the explosion. All the rest died in two weeks...
...years ago in Vermont, Industrialist Ralph E. Flanders lost a campaign for the Republican senatorial nomination. His friends jokingly tell him that it was because of a widely circulated photograph of himself. It showed him holding a pig in an awkward fashion. Vermont farmers, say Flanders' friends, laughed and voted for Senator George Aiken...
...tonnage, roughly a quarter of expected U.S. consumption for 1946, was a prize few other countries wanted. The ore is low grade, needs special smelting to produce pig tin. But the U.S. has just such a smelter at Texas City, Texas. The U.S. problem was not refining the ore, but getting more...