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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Since the speed of the exhaust gases is proportionate to the temperature in the combustion chamber, Lewis next calculated what temperature such a rocket's materials would have to stand. The figure came out about 506,000° F., which is about 80 times more than enough to melt a combustion chamber made of any known substance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Rockets Up & Down | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...were riding a shying horse and had lost the reins." Strauss also felt that he himself had been badly dealt with by publishers, stage directors and actors. His father, first horn at the Munich court opera, had to contribute 1,000 marks ($238) to the printing cost of the F-Minor Symphony. "My fee for Don Juan," Strauss recorded, "was 800 marks ... for Eulenspiegel [one of his most frequently played works], 1,000 marks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: May Bugs & Spice | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...Them In." The managers do it by putting every foot of hotel space to work. In the Plaza, Hilton's men converted a basement storage space into the swank Rendez-Vous Room, where New Yorkers and visitors now pay $500,000 a year to dine & dance. Stockbrokers E. F. Hutton & Co., who had been paying only $5,000 a year for valuable ground-floor space, were moved upstairs (for the same rent). In their place the original Oak Bar was restored; it now grosses $25,000 a month. When Williford saw the chance to make $18,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOTELS: The Key Man | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...F PSmith, c 8 4 20Prior 0 0 0Rockwell, if 8 9 25Covey 0 2 2Goldsmith 0 0 0Gabler, rg 2 0 4Hickey, 1g 2 0 4Cohodes 0 0 0Murphy, rf 3 5 11Stiles 1 0 2Totals...

Author: By Paul W. Mandel, | Title: Navy Staves Off Late Rally, Edges Five, 70-68, at Garden | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

Moors-John P. Elder, Classics; Myron P. Gilmore, History; Albert J. Guerard, English; Burrhus F. Skinner, Psychology; and Bart J. Bok, Astronomy, (Bok, who is leaving for South Africa in February, accepted for the next school year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe to Institute Faculty Tutor Plan at Party Friday | 12/10/1949 | See Source »

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