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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thinking that the state's documents might better feed scholars, many people have spoken their minds to the legislature's Committee on State Administration. Plans for a new archives building to be located by the west wing of the State House are now on file. But they have been on file for four years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Archaic Archives | 2/25/1956 | See Source »

Says Coggeshall: "I should like to see a self-service wing set up in a hospital, for patients who don't need all this expensive special equipment and service. Those who are in for diagnosis or convalescing may well be able to go to a cafeteria and service themselves-and enjoy company at their meals. Some of them might go home at night. I believe that those who are not incapacitated should not be treated-and charged-as though they were...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: New Hand at HEW | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...total drag on a plane is not merely the sum of the drag on each of its parts, but varies according to where the parts are located. Convair's F-102 was redesigned with a punched-in "coke bottle" fuselage to smooth the air flow over the critical wing junction. Result: on its first flight, Convair's new F-102 not only eased through the sound barrier, but flew 100 m.p.h. faster than anyone expected. The area rule, applied to Grumman's F11F and Chance Vought's F8U, helped them both to supersonic speeds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Supersonic Centuries | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

...Jeweler's Touch. On the century series production lines, workers need a jeweler's touch to fit parts within supersonic tolerances. A single, one-in. hole in a wing can slow a modern jet by as much as 100 m.p.h. And such skilled manpower is hard to find. Though McDonnell has 14,000 workers at its St. Louis plants, it is still desperately short of skilled manpower. Last week, with new F101 orders coming in, McDonnell sent out calls for another 1,000 engineers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AVIATION: The Supersonic Centuries | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

Princeton tied the game again at 17:05, Robinson then shut out the Crimson in the second period, making 13 saves, as close covering and hard backchecking kept the varsity from organizing many rushes. Wing John Butsch put the Tigers ahead with his deflection of a long shot...

Author: By Charles Steedman, | Title: Varsity Sextet Edges Princeton, Stays Undefeated in Ivy League | 2/20/1956 | See Source »

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