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...ruptured disk in his back and you know what that means to a miner. He may be helped by operation and he may not be, but he needs help now so I ask each and every one of you to help him by giving his wife a vote (X) for county clerk...
...fastest manned aircraft are rocket planes like the Bell X-1 and the Douglas Skyrocket (1,238 m.p.h.), but these experimental jobs fly under rocket power at altitudes where the air is too thin for the oxygen-breathing engines of operational planes. Their flights do not count as official records, which must be made over a measured course close to the ground...
Said the Ford Foundation's Robert Hutchins: "The patriotism of the Los Angeles school board was so intense that it developed an X-ray eye that enabled it to see Henry Ford II, Benson Ford, Donald David of the Harvard School of Business, and the other men who dominate the Ford Foundation as Communist agents...
Benjamin Harrison was in the White House; in Paris, Professor Louis Pasteur was working out his theories on bacteria; and in Würzburg, Wilhelm Konrad Röntgen was on the threshold of discovering the X ray, with scarcely a glimmering of the wonderful and terrible world of radioactivity that lay beyond. At Washington's Smithsonian Institution, itself only 46 years old, a 23-year-old instrument maker named Andrew Kramer applied for a job. Secretary Samuel P. Langley hired him on trial, that October day in 1892, to equip his astrophysical observatory. Last week...
...planes are rapidly approaching the point where they are penalized rather than aided by the presence of a human pilot. The time is coming when the defense of the U.S. will be pretty much automatic." North American, loaded up with guided-missile contracts, is planning for that day (its X-10 Navaho, forerunner to an intercontinental guided missile, will be test-fired soon). But those who think that guided missiles are a cheap way to security are wrong. In many respects, says Kindelberger, missiles are even more complex than today's aircraft; and with no pilots to bring them...