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...three-day week-end session packed in a luncheon featuring President Conant, a meeting of the officers of the AHC, a tour of San Francisco, a meeting of the Business School Alumni, a symposium on America's economic future, and a special combination sight-seeing and thirst-slaking excursion through the wine-rich Napa Valley...
Chief disadvantage of jet engines is their enormous thirst for fuel. At cruising speed and altitude each Ghost drinks 120 imperial gallons (144 U.S. gallons) of kerosene per hour. To get her safely across the Atlantic and allow a three-hour safety margin, the Comet will have to carry something like 6,000 gallons of fuel (the DC-6's load: 4,248 gallons). Fully loaded, the Comet will probably carry only 20 passengers on a long flight (the DC-6 can carry...
...Thirst. In Seattle, a grocery clerk explained why he had stolen some $4,200 from his employer: "I like to drink beer...
Magnolia Alley (by George Batson; produced by Lester Cutler) was already, at week's end, part of Memory Lane. It set out to picture the life of a shabby-ungenteel rooming house in a Southern town. The characters included a landlady with a past and a thirst (Jessie Royce Landis); her daughter, a boxer's wife and almost anybody's woman; her adopted daughter, a rather noisily religious girl; her chief roomer, a Magnolia Streetwalker; and enough men to illustrate the women's ways. Done right, it might have been enjoyably raffish. Since Playwright Batson...
...most cattlemen, feeding was only one of many trying problems. On the plains there was hay in plenty-if it could be gotten to the herd. But cattle (which, unlike sheep, refuse to eat snow) were dying of thirst as well as hunger. The cold froze their eyes, feet, scrota and udders. It also threatened next year's stock-weakened cows and ewes would be unable to produce calves and lambs...