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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Year message from Russia was that 1956 would see a full-scale resumption of the cold...
Major General Pedro Aramburu's government followed up with large-scale jailings. An estimated 3,000 to 5,000 Peronistas were behind bars; 125 labor leaders were loaded aboard a navy transport to be sent to distant Patagonia, Argentina's more than adequate substitute for Siberia...
...Lippisch, there is no doubt that the internal lift will be sufficient to keep the ship in the air. The big problem is control, which is accomplished by deflecting jets of air and gas in the desired directions. His electric models, which simulate the control problem of a full-scale aerodyne, fly very well. Attached to an electric cable, to supply power and control signals, they rise on an even keel, circle around a hangar, hover indefinitely and land without a jolt...
Last week the two countries put their problems together and reached an agreement. Starting next March, West Germany will take up to 100,000 Italian workers, most of them unskilled, who may stay up to one year. They will be paid on the same scale as German workers, and enjoy the same working conditions. German employers must furnish their housing, of which Germany's supply is also short. Germany will pay family bonuses even when the Italian leaves his family at home, a feature not included in Italy's similar arrangements with France and Belgium...
Hypersonic Tunnels. Present-day aircraft and missiles grew out of wind tunnels that are comparatively small or slow. To design the missiles of the future, whose speed will be respectable on the astronomical scale, requires wind tunnels of a new order of size and speed. A group of these monsters, whose jointed shells look a little like primitive mollusks, is nearing completion at Arnold Engineering Development Center, at Tullahoma...