Word: supers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fortunately for those who might care, there is a man down in Washington who has not forgotten that charity is a year-round affair. He tells us that if we vote for the right kind of men we can have a super-colossal balanced budget. And with our chrome-plated, atomic-age, whiz-bang budget safely balanced in ossified equilibrium, we can then enjoy the sweet fruits of peace, progress, and prosperity...
...strike. No planes would be serviced, none overhauled. The nation's fourth biggest line had no choice but to shut down. T.W.A.'s 196 daily flights, carrying 12,000 passengers across the U.S. and to 23 foreign cities, flew on to their destinations. Then the big Super Connies and twin-engined Martins were grounded, and the line locked up shop...
Even without a strike, T.W.A. would have a rough time meeting its bills. Hughes is in the midst of a $500 million re-equipment program for T.W.A., has paid for 20 new piston-engined Super Constellations recently delivered, but still owes something like $320 million for 30 Convair 880's and 33 Boeing 707 jets on order. The strike makes it just that much tougher. T.W.A.'s fixed charges alone amount to $300,000 each day for interest payments on loans, police and maintenance payrolls, office and hangar rental, guarantees to airports, etc. With no revenue coming...
...intricate steps contained on the tape. Called pulse-servos, such motors have been in operation for years; the problem was that the fastest available could handle only 1,700 pulses per second, which was not enough for really sophisticated work. The great breakthrough came with the development of a super pulse-servo that could handle 6,000 pulses per second, fast enough to direct the most complex piece of milling work. To start the system, the operator merely runs the machine through its work by hand a first time. As he performs the task, the stylus records his most minute...
...Super-Glue. Eastman Chemical Products, a subsidiary of Eastman Kodak Co., has developed a new adhesive that will glue together almost any combination of substances, e.g., wood and steel, is so strong that a single drop can support a 5,000-lb. car on a rig. Unaffected by heat or cold, the Eastman 910 Adhesive sets rapidly without additives or heating...