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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speeds above the danger limit have already cost many lives. Designers of high-speed aircraft, rather than risk their test pilots, are turning to radio-controlled planes equipped with television. Last week Bell Aircraft Corp. described an experimental plane which takes off and lands with the unwinking eye of a television tube watching the instruments and the horizon ahead. Everything it sees is projected by radio on a screen in a mother plane or on the ground. Observers can study the plane's performance as if they were in the cockpit. If the speed limit is passed...
...scorer. He gave up indoor track to play on the Point's potent (won 14, lost 1) basketball quintet. As center fielder on the baseball nine, Junior won a $75,000 appraisal label from Dodger President Branch Rickey. In West Point's famed Master of the Sword test-the 300-yd. run, dodge run, standing broad jump, vertical jump, bar vault, rope climb, chins, parallel bar dips, softball throw, sit-ups-he scored an all-time high of 926 points out of 1,000 (cadet average...
...Brother Ralph, who scored only 490 points in the Master of the Sword test, plays on the B football team and is Blanchard's shot-putting track teammate...
Fledgling. Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corp. will test its wings in a new market - consumer goods. In its $6 million fighter and bombers parts plant at Nashville, Consolidated will go into production of gas and electric ranges and farm equipment...
...Cuba to pony up the usual election ante ($2,000,000 in that case) and otherwise encouraged a free vote. Even Batista praised him: "He is more a man than a diplomat." So far, the Braden doctrine and the Braden way have failed in their most conspicuous, most important test-in Argentina. There, at the crest of his career as a Hemisphere Ambassador, Braden early this year locked horns with Dictator Juan Domingo Perón, threw every personal and official weight against him, and for a time seemed to be winning. Hundreds of thousands of Argentine students, workers, businessmen...