Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spreading the Word. Newcomer Chamberlain found that voting with his district was not nearly as easy as it sounded. Capitol Hill is 500 miles from Lansing, Mich.; the political stand that appears perfectly obvious in Washington may be twisted completely out of shape by the Sixth District's crosscurrents. It was up to Chamberlain to assess correctly the interests of his district on all the hundreds of issues coming up in the House...
Steam Steering. Operation at such dizzy height and speed has posed special problems and produced oddities in design. X-15's large vertical stabilizers are wedge-shaped, as if their trailing portions had been cut off with a saw. Wind-tunnel tests have shown that such a wedge is more efficient than a conventional streamlined shape for keeping the X-15 aligned on course as the atmosphere thins out at high altitude...
...earth is only a first step. Greater peril comes when the pilot starts down through the atmosphere to land. To offset the ferocious heat generated by the air's friction, the X-15's skin is made of Inconel X, a heat-resisting alloy that keeps its shape at a brightly glowing 1,350° F., when aluminum and ordinary steel have long since softened. Liquid nitrogen, which will not support combustion, is used as a coolant for both pilot and equipment, and is also vaporized to maintain pressure in the plane's interior. The pilot...
...them. Siegel raised more from Philadelphia's Donner Foundation and the New York Water Corp. In addition, they sold off their Fort Pitt clothing and beer business for $3,000,000 plus a hefty beer royalty from the new brewery owners. With Seeburg's cash position in shape, they were able to pay off their bank debts for the original Fort Pitt deal -and buy Eastern Electric Inc.'s electrical cigarette vending machine business...
Varsity Coach Bruce Munro's team has also had its share of injuries this year, but its victories over Springfield and Williams indicate that it is rounding into shape. Captain Floyd Moloy is still out with a sprained ankle, but he is off crutches now and may be available for some service against Dartmouth on Friday. Meanwhile Charlie Steele has been filling in for him at fullback along with Tom Morgan...