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Though the government insists that the $12 million spent on the Valley came mostly from voluntary gifts, Spaniards know better. Shopkeepers complain that government collectors had told them either to put up or shut down. Other Spaniards, traveling the nearby highway, grumbled about the tunnel five miles from the Valley that never got built; it was supposed to replace the treacherous mountain pass on which dozens of motorists lose their lives each year. While the big monument had all the men and machines it needed, nothing was available for the tunnel...
...dividends, pours 85% into the company to expand research and development. Last year he spent $3,700,000 for a new advanced research lab that includes a 12.5 million-watt radiant heating unit to simulate the fantastic heats of atmospheric reentry. This spring a new $5,137,000 wind tunnel will be finished to help solve the problems of flight at speeds up to 4,000 m.p.h., temperatures from -65° F. to 660° F. and altitudes up to 125,000 ft. McDonnell's race for space is not just for business reasons. Says Mr. Mac, with something...
...walls began cracking again. As some workers straightened, there was suddenly an enormous sigh that forced a windstorm through the miles of galleries, and the whole slope of Rosenburg Hill caved in. As 400,000 tons of stone and earth crashed into the caverns, the three tunnel mouths spouted out flying stone and dust like miniature volcanoes. Screaming men and women ran bloodily from the caves, dragging with them other workers who had been knocked unconscious. Groping through the thick fog, slipping on the wet clay topsoil, they screamed for help. The village priest and the schoolteacher spread the alarm...
LONGEST ROAD TUNNEL in world will be carved through Mont Blanc in the Alps, will run seven miles between Italy and France, cut road distance from Paris to Milan by 194 miles. Cost: $31.6 million...
Steam Steering. Operation at such dizzy height and speed has posed special problems and produced oddities in design. X-15's large vertical stabilizers are wedge-shaped, as if their trailing portions had been cut off with a saw. Wind-tunnel tests have shown that such a wedge is more efficient than a conventional streamlined shape for keeping the X-15 aligned on course as the atmosphere thins out at high altitude...