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House Lining. New homes can be made virtually moisture-and termite-proof by lining exterior walls and foundations with a tough, translucent plastic film developed by Terre Haute's Visking Corp. "VisQueen" is noninflammable, will not dry out. Price: about 1½? per sq...
...Scholander's tentative conclusion: the pressure at the bottom of the Fjord (about 160 Ibs. per sq. in.) works in some unknown way in combination with the cold to keep the fish swimming and feeding when they should be hunks of ice. We'll come up with the answer in time " he says, "but there's a factor missing somewhere...
Last week the Peking bullyboys -according to their own account -carried off a small. Commando-type raid of Nationalist-held Quemoy, a 70-sq.-mi. bastion (not part of the Pescadores) that lies off the port city of Amoy, only four or five miles from the mainland. Quemoy bristles with Nationalist troops, is said to be heavily fortified with concrete pillboxes, artillery and interlocking fields of machine-gun fire. Peking claimed that a party of 40 Red raiders attacked a sleeping garrison on Quemoy. killed ten, captured one, withdrew. The occurrence of the raid was confirmed from Taipei...
...Convair's experts, is the possibility that raindrops can puncture a jet's fuselage or cockpit blister, causing the pressurized cabin to explode at high altitudes. At 1,520 m.p.h. (Mach 2), a raindrop smashes into a plane with a force of 70,000 Ibs. per sq. in. At higher speeds, raindrops may be as deadly as enemy bullets...
...World War II, when others again cautiously retired to safety, Perkins had the courage to expand once more, thus was ready to cash in on Britain's postwar boom in trucking. "Ginger" Perkins built a 575,000-sq.-ft. plant in Peterborough, Northamptonshire that he claims turns out more diesel engines than any other plant in the world. In six years he boosted sales of Perkins Ltd. from $6 million to almost $39 million. Last week Ginger Perkins was ready to start deliveries on his latest big order: 2,000 diesel engines (at $700 apiece) to Yugoslavia for tractors...