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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kaiser-Frazer, which is jacking up horsepower in its Kaiser line, plans to make 1,000 sport cars with plastic bodies, made by California's Glasspar Co. (TIME, Feb. 18). K-F's new model will weigh about 2,000 Ibs., cost about $2,000, v. $1,450 for the 2,300 lb. Henry...
...Jones, an all-country selection from Pennsylvania, and Bill Meigs, will team at guard. Both weigh about...
Plastic Dies. In Detroit, Chrysler Corp. began experimental use of plastic instead of steel dies to make truck panels. The plastic dies, roughly 75% cheaper than steel, can be used on an ordinary 1,000-ton press, weigh only one-fourth as much as steel dies, can be made in three or four weeks compared to 14 to 16 weeks for comparable steel ones...
...mass, however, the star is no midget. Astronomer Luyten figures that it is 40% heavier than the sun. A cubic inch of its densely packed matter would weigh something like 1,000-tons, and if a 150-lb. man could stand on its surface, his body would weigh 300,000 tons...
...glory briefly as a supernova, shining more brightly than all the stars in the sky. But when the excitement was over, the only thing left would be a "neutron-star": a ball of peculiar matter made largely or entirely of neutrons. A cubic inch of this strange stuff would weigh 18 million tons, and a mass the size of the sun could be packed into a sphere less than 100 miles in diameter...