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What can be negotiated in Indo-China? In the U.S. view, little except an abject surrender to the Communists. The country cannot be divided, like Korea, for the Viet Minh forces cannot be shut off by a tourniquet: they are in the blood stream. Moreover, the French hold the two important rice deltas, but the Hanoi delta is in the north and the Mekong delta is in the south, and the French could not give up Hanoi, as they must in any north-south division...
...Conditioning. A compact, thermostat-controlled, heating-cooling-ventilating unit for automobiles was announced by Nash-Kelvinator Corp. The unit is installed under the hood and right front fender. By turning a knob, the motorist can switch on either the heating or the refrigerating element, bring in a stream of outside air warmed or cooled to the temperature set on the thermostat...
Since then, Pan Am has developed an elaborate technique of air hitchhiking. Before each flight from Tokyo, meteorologists figure out where the jet stream is going to be and how much help can be expected from it. The ship is loaded accordingly (more help, more payload), and the captain is told what course to fly. Generally he climbs into the stream at 17,000 ft. half an hour out of Tokyo. As knowledge accumulates, more flying time is saved. Now each airplane hitched to the jet stream "finds" 2,200 gallons of free...
...stream is no good in summer; it flows too far to the north. East of Honolulu, it is present but not dependable, and on east-west flights it is a hindrance rather than a help. When headed west, Pan Am still schedules the Wake Island stop...
...Knots. Pan Am's observations are carefully studied by the Air Force. Though usually strongest over the North Pacific, the great stream blows around the earth, changing drastically the flying distance from point to point. Knowledge of its habits would make all the difference in successful bombing expeditions. Since the stream is strongest at 35-40,000 ft., only high-flying military airplanes could make full use of it at present. For them and for future jet liners, its possibilities are striking. Two weeks ago, the stream was clocked at 425 knots (489 m.p.h.) over Spokane...