Word: thickness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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MADISON AVENUE calls it "the Filter Derby." U.S. Congressman John A. Blatnik calls it "a lot of hot air." In the hotly competitive tobacco industry, the claims fly thick and fast, with half the firms advertising that their filter fliters best of all. To settle the argument, the Federal Trade Commission wants a single, standard test for all filters. Meanwhile, for what the public, the companies, the U.S. Congress thinks, see BUSINESS ESSAY, Those Cigarette Claims...
...protection from pressure, all the power and ordnance equipment of such a sub could ride "outside" them in an outer hull filled with oil. Like the thin steel of the bathyscaphe's gasoline float, which feels no appreciable pressure, the sub's outer hull need not be thick and pressurized. It could be made of lightweight aluminum or lithium for greater speed...
From the small, thick-walled ball under Trieste's belly, scientists looked upon a world within the world where living men had never been. Already Trieste has descended almost three miles, or 20 times deeper than conventional submarines. It can do this without danger to itself or passengers because it operates under water like a blimp. Its 50-ft. hull is a float carrying 28,000 gallons of gasoline, which is 30% lighter than sea water and compressible. The float does the job of a balloon's gas-filled bag, while the passenger ball hangs below. Water enters...
...trackers, etc. (TIME, April 29, 1957) taken over in a rare salvage from the Air Force's defunct Navaho missile program-kept Nautilus on course and on depth, gave its captain instant readings of position. Ten sound-detection devices measured the distance to the ice above and the thickness of the ice while three other devices sounded the sea bed. Findings: polar ice is generally about 12 ft. thick, although some ridges bulged down 50 ft. or more. Crew comforts were also measuring up: the sub's crew was treated to more than 30 movies, e.g., Katharine Hepburn...
...miles above South America, the radiation hit Explorer IV at a heavy ten roentgens an hour-enough to give the human space traveler his top weekly X-ray dosage in about two minutes. And one Geiger counter inside the satellite, though coated with lead 1/16 in. thick, recorded 60% as many impacts as its unshielded mate, which in turn reported radiation almost as intense as that reported by two scintillation counters outside the vehicle. Nobody knows where this radiation comes from or what gives it such high energy. One theory is that cosmic-ray protons are strengthened by interaction with...