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Most of them remember the wild days back in 1933 when Wall Street manipulators jacked the stock from $2 a share to $28, then let the price drop like a hot potato so that they could rig the market over again. Thus last week the hardy Atlas stockholders heard a grim summary of their company's condition and took it standing...
Behind this war whoop was strong-man Juan Domingo Perón's and his cohorts' fear of the effects of Argentina's hemispheric isolation. They would desperately like, even in absentia, to curry favor at the inter-American conference in Mexico City. To rig up some semblance of democratic thinking and pro-Allied feeling, Argentina has recently...
Since then the A.A.F. has found the pickup just the ticket for rescuing stranded soldiers from rubber boats, jungles, remote islands. Pickup gear-ropes, poles, harness -is dropped first. The man below then sets up his rig, waits confidently for the plane to come back, hook on and whisk him away. The A.A.F. is already experimenting with fast-flying combat planes to replace the slow-flying put-puts now used...
...changes in air density by means of an extremely fast mercury lamp with an exposure of less than one-millionth of a second. The light, flashed through a region of disturbed air, recorded on a photographic plate a "shadowgraph" showing groups of bunched air molecules. Using a more elaborate rig, which has a knife-edge that stops all but the bent light rays, the experimenters developed a technique so sensitive that it can photograph the heat rising from a human hand at room temperature...
...most Oklahomans, these are remote considerations. They have an oldtime oil boom on their hands, and they like it. The West Edmond boom has robbed the Kentucky and Illinois fields of every rig capable of boring deeper than 5,000 feet. Phillips Petroleum is curtailing its wildcatting in the Panhandle, moving its equipment east to develop its Edmond leases. Over West Edmond's 27 square miles, Oklahomans could count 102 producing wells, with 88 more being drilled-and only six dry holes so far. Ready to be drilled when rigs are available are 150 locations in proven areas...