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...quick-lifting power from the U-shaped bands which function on the principle of the Venturi tube, i.e., the faster air flows through a tube with a narrow throat and flaring ends, the lower the pressure drops within the tube. On the plane, the lowered pressure causes a suction, even at low speeds, within the channel's, maintaining the flow of air and preserving lift under conditions that would stall an ordinary plane...
...Eisenhower headquarters in New York's Commodore Hotel last week, Christmas jollity manifested itself chiefly in the bounding of plastic grasshoppers. An old and previously unnamed plaything, the toy grasshopper, which has springy metal legs and a rubber suction cup on its belly, was promptly christened "the Eisen-hopper" by fascinated newsmen. Introduced into Ike's offices by his old friend, Toy Manufacturer Louis Marx, the Eisenhopper caught the President-elect's fancy. Talking business with serious-faced guests, Ike would casually press a hopper on to his desk, and roar with delight when, seconds later...
...energy needed to escape from the earth's suction is simple for astronauts to figure. Expressed as speed, it is 25,000 m.p.h. A space ship with this "escape velocity" would be an independent part of the solar system and could cruise, with a little more energy, all over the place...
...crest touched 30.24 feet. Then, slowly, the waters crept back down the markers on the rivermen's gauges. But the flood, even as it fell, showed its awesome power. The suction of the receding waters pulled huge chunks of muck from the levees. On the Omaha shore, the river forced its way into sewer outlets and gushed out with enough strength to lift a truck-trailer off the street and to buckle 120 feet of concrete pavement. Army engineers quickly dropped a lattice of steel I-beams across the sewer outlets, then jammed up the barrier with sandbags...
...night last week Florence and her father decided that there was no point in waiting any longer. In a soupy fog, with the tides unfavorable and the waves white-capped, Florence helped smear herself with chill-cutting grease, adjusted her suction-cupped goggles and waded into the black water off Dover. Three hours out, she was a very sick girl. Said father Chadwick: "She was vomiting every third stroke." Pills did not help, but finally one of her trainers spotted the jinx: fumes from a leaky gasoline line of an accompanying motorboat. Florence recovered as soon as the boat drew...