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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With its swept-back wings and dual power plant, the Skyrocket is closer than the X-I to being a practical supersonic airplane. Flying on its turbojet alone, it has a respectable endurance: about half an hour. In combat, the rocket motor could give it brief bursts of superspeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dual Power | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...Railroad Hour (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Program Preview, Dec. 5, 1949 | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...wheat ranch .on the side, that the Herald's series would make it impossible to get a fair trial of the Kestin suit. Headlong, Judge Horrigan promptly forbade the Herald to publish any more stories on the houses, forced it to yank the fourth article a half hour before press time. Last week, after rereading the Bill of Rights, Judge Horrigan decided he had gone too far. He rescinded his injunction, but hinted that if the Herald kept printing such stories it might be found in contempt of court. Meanwhile, the project's builders had slapped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The Battle of Pasco | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

...Bouncing putty," developed while Rochow was at General Electric, is an off-spring of silicone experiments. It is now used in golf ball centers and in table leg casters that find their own level in half an hour...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Gift Suggestions | 12/2/1949 | See Source »

Yesterday the society's five altruists arrived in the hall with adilades, plane tables, and ten pounds of surveying equipment, and the one hour later announced that the dining hall wasn't trapezoidal, but trapeziform...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trapezoid Tradition Gets Heave-Ho | 11/29/1949 | See Source »

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