Word: pipeful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Their documentary proved nothing new. It probably cured no addicts of the Communist drug pipe.* But in turning the spotlight of fact into dark corners of methods and basic philosophy, it achieved a notable success...
...planes are pushed by the reaction of the blast of hot gas shooting out the tail pipe. The present problem is that this blast is speeding much too fast-at about 1,300 m.p.h. Even when the plane is flying at 600 m.p.h., the blast is shooting backward in still air at 700 (1,300 minus 600) m.p.h. The engine is still wasting too much energy merely stirring up the air. To approach the normal propulsive efficiency of a propeller plane, a jet plane would have to fly faster than sound. But one arresting compensation-for the jets-is that...
...Only when the engine is set up with a pipe to catch its gases is it safe to watch the fires kindle. *The power of jet engines is measured in pounds of thrust. The propulsive horsepower developed varies with the speed. At 375 m.p.h., one pound of thrust equals one "thrust horsepower." * Spruce, tweedy Whittle, 41, comes nearest to being the inventor of the turbojet. Recently the British Labor government, with a grand Old Regime gesture, handed him a tax-free thank you of ?100,000. *Pronounced mack. Named after Austrian Physicist Ernst Mach...
...Three thousand robed and hooded members of the Ku Klux Klan gathered in a field near Stone Mountain, Ga. for the largest Klan ceremony since 1924 (see cut). They fired up oil buckets hung on a cross of iron pipe, initiated 700 new members, and cheered a prediction by Grand Dragon Samuel Green that "blood would flow in the streets" if civil rights for Negroes were enforced in the South...
Finally, the assembly heard reports on the work of missions sent out by the interim commission that preceded the present permanent organization (TIME, April 5). Said Dr. Neville Gordon, pipe-smoking British head of WHO field services, about DDT-spraying planes in Greece: "Our slow, low-flying planes could be shot down like ducks by anybody with a gun on a hill [but] the rebels even sent guides through the lines to our spraying teams, asking them to come up and spray rebel-held villages." In China, a WHO mission, with authorization of the Central government, is working in Communist...