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...sisters were no homelier than many women who had sewed up husbands, but their thoughts were wound around their work like thread around a spool. Spinsters at 50, they had never even been kissed...
...Spooler. The "two-spool" engine, now in fashion both in the U.S. and Britain, solves this problem by means of two compressors, each driven by its own turbine through concentric shafts. The first compressor, which spins comparatively slowly, compresses the air part way. Then the second compressor, spinning faster, takes over and crams the air into the combustion chambers at much higher pressure (up to twelve to one) than could be reached by a single compressor alone. The result is to increase the power of the engine and to reduce its fuel consumption per Ib. of thrust by as much...
Practically every engine builder on both sides of the Atlantic has a two-spool model under development. Out in front is Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co. of Hartford, Conn., whose two-spool J57 is already in limited production. Several British manufacturers are not far behind...
...over 200 boys with a number or symbol on each. Mark IV is nearing completion and full use. Tests are now being conducted with the new machine. Multi-colored lights flash, a complex of gears spins, and soon an electric typewriter types the answers on a white spool of paper...
...ambition of Donald Grey Barnhouse, the bustling pastor of Philadelphia's Tenth Presbyterian Church. It does not matter to him that these illustrious preachers are all dead or that some of their audiences may number no more than 15 people. The trick will be turned by a spool of plastic tape and a standard 110-volt light socket. To distribute what he calls Portable Church Services, Barnhouse has turned to the tape recorder...