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...Scorpion came howling toward home, he quietly outlined his situation 1) his right engine was on fire, 2) he had the fire under control, 3) the burning engine was delivering no thrust. In the next agonizing minute it became evident that he had other troubles...
After six painstaking years, Hobbs and his 1500 engineers had an engine combining a low rate of fuel consumption with a thrust of 10,000 Ibs., powerful enough to permit supersonic speeds in level flight. Last October a YF-100 Super Sabre, powered by a J-57, set an official world's speed record of 754.98 m.p.h...
...well above 10,000 Ibs. thrust, has been in mass production since February, while the British Bristol Olympus, its closest competitor (with a 9,750-Ib. thrust), is still a collector's item. Thanks to Hobbs and his men, the U.S. can claim that the postwar supremacy of British jet-engine designers is over...
That night the chief interrogator came to Dean and told him he would be tortured in the morning. He thought of splinters to be thrust under fingernails and set afire to make a man talk. Dean, who had become increasingly depressed, decided to commit suicide. "Dean," he told himself, "you don't know whether you can take it or not. You might talk. You'd better kill yourself...
...that no man is guilty until so proven. Few people remember today that Truman had all he could do to ward off those who would appease Russia at every turn. They do not remember that such obvious moves as the Greek-Turkish Aid program and opposition to Tito's thrust for Trieste aroused the bitterest condemnation. Few remember the Henry Wallace speech attacking Truman for war-mongering. Indeed, in the light of the rampant leftism of the times, Truman deserves congratulations, and not abuse, for adopting the course...