Word: propsed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The CRIMSON fears Communism, with its abrogation of individual freedom. It equally fears the limiting of those freedoms in a Buckley-brand educational crusade against Communism. We feel that our own system can stand up well, without the ideological props Buckley seems to feel are necessary.
The Skyshark has a T40 Allison twin turboprop engine (5,500 h.p.) driving counterrotating propellers. The props give it high take-off thrust, and the gas turbines give it high power for low engine weight. After the take-off with a heavv load of bombs or fuel, the pilot can...
The 1,254 companies listed on the Big Board had also changed. U.S. corporations last year had $67 billion in working capital, more than double the total ten years ago. Though they came out of the war with huge new modern plants which were largely written off as part of...
The dangers of not driving carefully are dramatically demonstrated to the student salesman by a little red toy wagon driven by a male doll which carelessly smashes the wagon against a stone (the instruction book thoroughly lists, among the required props, "one stone about half the size of your fist...
What made the problem serious was that anything moving at or near the speed of sound sets up shock waves (powerful sound waves) that interfere with the smooth flow of air. Beset by shock waves, the efficiency of a propeller falls off dismally. Extremely large propellers, geared to turn slowly...