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With the only refrigerated wind tunnel and the biggest low-pressure chamber in the U.S. aviation industry, Airesearch Co. of Inglewood, Calif. is developing equipment to send planes toward the stratosphere, whither the air battles of World War II are rapidly climbing. The refrigerated wind tunnel, an enormous doughnut 25 feet across, made of tubing three feet in diameter, contains a 300-m.p.h. wind that blows at temperatures down to -90° Fahrenheit...
Forward thrust, engineers formerly thought, would also be increased, since the second screw would bite into an already moving air stream. But wind-tunnel research at Stanford has shown only a disappointing 2½% increase in thrust efficiency at low speeds, an actual loss of efficiency at higher speeds...
...James Laurens ("Daisy") Van Alen, goldplated, blue-haired blue-blood of Newport, engaged a bomb-shelter expert to build a subterranean luxury shelter on her estate with all the comforts of home, air conditioning, special lighting effects, a tunnel to the mansion. She also laid in an eight-year supply of cosmetics...
Even bondholders (of which the industry has practically none) felt the end of the automobile. Since there is sure to be less driving, if only to save rubber, top-notch municipal bonds secured by highway and tunnel tolls went down. Port of New York Authority (Holland & Lincoln Tunnels, George Washington Bridge) 33 last week dropped 5 points to 95; Triborough Bridge Authority 3¼s dropped 3 points to 95; Pennsylvania Turnpike 3¾s lost 4 points to 96. All were record lows...
...foggy night last week a fleet of shiny, grass-green news trucks started careening out of the loading tunnel of the Daily News Building, roared into Chicago's Loop, swerved with loud honking to crash halts at crowded newsstands. "Yo!" yelled the drivers, "the Sun is out!" Fat bundles of papers pitched to the sidewalk, melted like snow on a griddle a few minutes after they were ripped open. Sometimes the newsstand crowd cheered. Chicago was grabbing Vol. 1, No. 1 of Marshall Field's new 2? morning paper, the Tribune-challenging Chicago...