Word: safe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slim-nosed, stainless steel X-2 will be used mainly to explore the effects of high speed and air friction on the metals used in aircraft building. In an emergency the capsule-enclosed cockpit can be ejected from the new plane; after it falls by parachute to a safe altitude, the pilot can bail out as if from any more conventional craft and float to earth with his own chute. With the X-2 flying in the air perhaps as fast as 2,250 m.p.h., the old X-1A will probably never be missed...
...combination will be marketed successfully within the next three years, predicts George H. Weitz, chief of CAA's experimental aircraft division. Though airplane-autos have proved commercial flops so far, Weitz believes that the increasing clutter on U. S. highways will make a sizable market for the first safe and economical plane-car that can land, fold its wings, and drive...
...failed to live up to its own "code of honor," Bogota newsmen noted that censorship began on the eve of the President's long-postponed weekend visit to Ecuador, repaying last year's good-will visit to Bogota by President Velasco Ibarra. Just to be on the safe side, President Rojas took with him a huge retinue of 115 Cabinet ministers and officials, including all the friends and foes of consequence who might dream of plotting behind his back. Rojas installed an Acting President (his old army pal, General Gabriel Paris) with a whole new Cabinet...
...U.S.S. Pasadena found it intact and undamaged among the scrap in the battered naval base at Sasebo, 800 miles southwest of Tokyo, later donated it to Pasadena, Calif., where it was placed in the city hall. Tokyo's people heard that their bell was safe in a beautiful American city, but they were too proud to ask for it. Then, last June, Pasadena's Board of City Directors decided to return the bell...
...After tests on 1,000 people subject to ivy poisoning, the University of Pennsylvania is convinced that a vaccine prepared by Lederle Laboratories is a safe and effective preventive. But since it is not yet known how much vaccine to give or how often, it will not be available until next year...