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...Force turboprops, the T47 and T-49, under tight security wraps: both are reported to turn out more than 12,000 h.p. Curtiss-Wright is also testing a jet engine of great power called the J-67, which develops well over 15,000 Ibs. of thrust...
...wide tailpipe and the wide air intake in its nose, which give it a chopped-off look. The wings are swept back at 45° (the Sabre's sweepback: 35°), and the engine is a Pratt & Whitney J-57-7 turbojet, which delivers 10,000 Ibs. of thrust with afterburner (the Sabre's thrust: about...
Following in the steps of such acknowledged masters as Britain's Geoffrey Gorer and France's Jean-Paul Sartre, several still little-known but promising rookies have recently reported that U.S. children are developing prognathy ("The lower jaw is thrust forward as a result of lying for hours on the floor in front of the TV screen, chin in hand"); that, when the air conditioning breaks down anywhere, "New York reverts to terror in the face of a hostile and uncontrollable nature"; and that "the female secondary sex characteristic is the dominant theme in current American culture." Against...
Spot of Advice. Churchill was not advocating appeasement of the Russians. He was quick to remind the world that "the Soviet armies in Europe, even without their satellites, are four times as strong as all the Western allies put together." Jaw thrust forward, blue eyes flashing fire, the Old Man denounced "Socialist politicians who hope to win popularity both by carping and sneering at the U.S." He warned the Tories, too, that "it would be madness to make our heavily burdened island take up an attitude which, if not hostile, was, at any rate, unsympathetic both...
That this would be the nature of the questions asked was obvious to me before my appearance since the thrust of these Congressional investigations and already become clear...