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...similar circumstances Chancellor of the Exchequer Gladstone drank eggnog; Disraeli, brandy & soda; and a grinning Churchill announced that he was not sure whether his amber-colored liquid was cider or ginger ale (he prefers brandy to either of them...
...Corporal is a graceful, pencil-slim, 1,000-pound rocket, 16 feet long and 12 inches in diameter. Booted along at supersonic speeds by the combustion of liquid hydrocarbon, she aims to search out secrets of the ionosphere (super-stratosphere). The Army announced last fortnight that, on her first try, the Corporal rose 43½ miles into the blue, came down by parachute...
Last fortnight Dr. Donald H. Andrews of Johns Hopkins University described a bolometer to top them all. Its sensitive surface is columbium nitride cooled by liquid hydrogen to minus 432° F. At this temperature-close to absolute zero-columbium nitride becomes "superconductive"; its electrical resistance almost vanishes. When a heat ray hits it and warms it only one millionth of a degree, it gives a clear electrical signal...
Shooting any sort of projectile beyond the earth's gravitational field would take enormous energy. Prewar energy sources could barely do it, even in theory. One calculation: a 100-ton spaceship would need nearly 8,000 tons of gasoline and liquid oxygen to toss it into space...
...teeth protruding. But the Olney neighborhood liked her. By the time she was 17 she was singing in a Camden, N.J. nightclub, where she earned, as combination hatcheck-girl, vocalist and electrician, about $85 a week. The turning-point in her career came when she met a handsome, liquid-eyed insurance broker named Frank Kinsella...