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Thickly frosted in the frigid air of Moonlight Valley, S. Dak., start of the two previous failures, the great rubbery bag grew like a mushroom in the night as 300 soldiers labored beneath floodlights to pump in 300,000 cu. ft. of helium. By dawn all was ready. The balloonists climbed aboard, shouted: "Up, balloon!" Released, it floated gently away, cleared the rim of the woodsy valley, drifted out of sight as the 20,000 chilled spectators trekked back to Rapid City. Six hours later, Capt. Stevens radioed that Explorer II had touched 74,000 ft., well above both...
Worthington Pump & Machinery, Phelps Dodge, Pittsburgh Plate Glass, Procter & Gamble, Allis-Chalmers, Diamond Match, American Locomotive, Crane, Hammermill Paper, White Rock Mineral Springs, three dozen others. There was a man from the U. S. Navy Department and one from Standard Statistics...
...that menaces airplanes usually forms on the leading edge of the wings. Goodrich has developed a "deicer" consisting of a pair of rubber tubes which ordinarily lie flat against the wing. When ice formation begins the tubes are pulsated by an air pump. This movement cracks the ice coat, lets the wind blow it away .The "deicer" is already in use on some transport planes, is slated for thorough experiment on military aircraft...
...some small renown as the man who had found a way to keep a piece of chicken heart living and growing through the years. Lately the name of Carrel has been whirled up to fresh fame because Bio-mechanic Lindbergh designed him an artificial heart with which to pump life into human hearts, kidneys, thyroids, ovaries and because the Press knew the newsworthiness of the name of Lindbergh, if not of Carrel (TIME, July...
...hills from Denver, he got his whiskey to Leadville, where it retailed at $2 for three fingers. Later, when he got his own distilleries, he beat out his rivals by selling direct to retailers. A tall, beaming sales man with a sleek, well-fed look, Julius Kessler managed to pump the hands of at least 40,000 U. S. liquor dealers. That gave him such a runaway advantage that Distillers Securities Corp. ("The Whiskey Trust") put itself and its surplus stocks in his hands. Under President Kessler the "Whiskey Trust" had a brief period of profits before Prohibition reduced...