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...growing air fleets. They fear that stockholders might think the planes are used only for junkets and fishing trips. But few companies will buy, and fewer plane makers will sell, a plane unless it adds to the customer's profit. Eastman Kodak, U.S. Steel, International Business Machines, Firestone Tire & Rubber, Socony Mobil Oil Co and Texas Co. all have fleets ranging from puddle jumpers to four-engined DC-6Bs and turbo prop Vickers Viscounts. They find them worth their cost many times over in shuttling men and equipment around their widely diversified operations...
...Army kept working on Jupiter, with Medaris and Von Braun shuttling between Huntsville and Washington, begging and borrowing Army research and development funds to keep going. Said Medaris: "We bend every effort we can to make up for whatever handicaps or checks have been thrown into it, and we tire people and wear them out, but we get it done." With the job of testing a nose cone for Jupiter, the Huntsville team kept going on Jupiter-C. Actually Jupiter-C-a bundle of rockets beefing up the Army's Redstone-was hardly kin to the sophisticated, sleek Jupiter...
...most impressive U.S. thermonuclear work was done at Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory with a machine called Perhapsatron S-3. Its doughnut is made of glass surrounded by copper, and is about as big as a scooter tire, with its minor diameter (through the dough) about 2 in. compared to ZETA's 39 in. The temperature of its pinch is higher than ZETA's (about 6,000,000° C.), but the pinch lasts only a few millionths of a second, about one-thousandth as long as ZETA's. Other thermonuclear machines at Los Alamos use short, straight...
...game was actually somewhat of a farce because the varsity was such a better team in every respect. Toward the end of the final period, when the outmanned Jumbo squad began to tire, the Crimson simply formed its plays around the opposition's blue line without any interference. The Tufts team would then congregate in front of its goalie, Dave Wilson, and do its best to beat off the attack...
Metal Spare Tire. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. has developed a flat, rubber-rimmed metal spare tire that takes up little room in the trunk, can easily be bolted on the hub over a flat tire by raising the wheel off the pavement with a jack. The motorist can drive as far as 100 miles on the tire at speeds of up to 45 m.p.h...