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Chernus churns up the buying fever with a score chart posted in his sales office. Each cream-colored pin in the chart stands for a house being looked over, each red pin for a house sold-and it tells every waverer at a glance that he is wavering against time. "Our greatest sales," Chernus says, "are between 2 and 4 in the afternoon when the crowds are thickest" (and when the score chart bristles with pins...
...Automotive Engineers. In outline, the job looks simple. A "nuclear reactor" (essentially a controlled, slow-exploding atom bomb) gives off most of its energy as heat. One way to do the trick is to put a reactor in place of the combustion chambers of a turbojet engine (see chart). A compressor forces air into the forward end of the engine. Heated and expanded by the nuclear reactor, the air shoots toward the rear end. On the way it spins a turbine, which runs the compressor through a shaft. The force of the jet escaping from the tailpipe pushes the airplane...
...Committee for Aeronautics, undertook to find the best way to deal with them. If a plane flies too slowly through the vertical gusts, it may lose flying speed and stall. If it flies too fast, the gusts may tear its wings off. This week the Air Force published a chart showing how fast various planes should fly through thunderstorms-if they must...
...Force does not think that its "Safe Speed Chart" will tempt many pilots to fly into thunderstorms unless they have...
...none too accurate, notably in the last two years. Back in 1937, the market fall was far worse than the drop in production; since 1942, the market has been much lower-in comparison with the gross national product-than it was even in the dark days of 1932 (see chart). The Dow-Jones industrials, now earning even more ($20 a share) than they did in 1929, are selling for only half as much...