Word: rams
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rotor. McDonnell will not tell what its convertiplane will be like. Sky-side gossip believes that it will have a rotor driven by some sort of jet. One possibility is small ram-jets on each blade tip to push the rotor around. Another is a central turbojet engine blowing hot gases through hollow rotor blades. The gas will escape as jets from one side of each blade tip, making the rotor spin. When the aircraft has gained enough altitude, the central engine will be used to propel it forward, supported partly by the windmilling rotor, partly by small wings...
...this that Jews call the ten days the Yamin Noraim-the Days of Fear. But when the trumpet call of the ram's-horn shofar has split the air for the last time on Yom Kippur, the mood traditionally changes to one of joy and hope. The New Year has indeed begun...
Captain Dave Gregory led the field, and finished the four and one half mile course in 22:21, followed by Ram captain Ray Lister in 22:25. The next Crimson runners to finish were Dave Cairns, eighth in 23:38, Hubert Maguire, ninth, four seconds later, and Bruce Phillips tenth. Hal Gerry was twelfth and Emil San Soucie fourteenth. The last four are sophomores...
...Mexican government, which has traditionally operated in the red, ended its last fiscal year with a $14,000,000 surplus. "It was simple," explained Treasury Minister Ramón Beteta last week. "We tried to get more money into the treasury and see that less money was wasted." Beteta was particularly successful in cutting down income-tax evasion. He promised his countrymen absolution from past sins if they would pay up present taxes; then he got a law passed threatening them with jail if they did not go straight in the future. The carrot-and-stick technique worked fine...
...tail. Everyone's flying all around you and you're a bit afraid of a collision. You're only human and you're worried. Yet the speed is so great that you'd have a hard time trying to ram someone if you wanted...