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Transport: The Soviets are producing a large twin-rotor helicopter called "The Horse," which can lift 40 soldiers or 10,000 Ibs. at a speed of 110 m.p.h. Ready for production is the gas-turbine MI-6 ("The Hook"), which will carry twice the load of The Horse. U.S. Army experts say they have nothing to match either of these Soviet choppers...
...Load into Speed. Liquid-fuel rockets burn their fuel only as fast as their pumps, which must be kept light, can deliver it to the combustion chamber. This limitation keeps the thrust comparatively low, and low thrust means a long burning time. Thus, a heavy load of fuel is carried to high altitude against the pull of gravitation before it is burned and its energy turned into speed...
...will you please remember I am Kuan Suo." When he was sacked some time later, he took to "spivving it" and writing occasional magazine articles. To Literary Agent Cyrus Brooks he brought a manuscript on corsets and such a high, wide and fancy load of Himalayan snow that...
...June 1870, a Boston schooner skipper named Lorenzo Baker stopped at Port Morant, Jamaica, for a cargo of bamboo and some rum punch. While refreshing himself he bought-apparently with some misgiving-a load of bananas at 25? a bunch. The bananas were a bonanza; in the U.S. they brought $2.50 a bunch, and Captain Baker quickly went into the banana hauling business. Since then his company has grown into United Fruit Co., the world's largest banana producer and carrier (1957 sales: $342.3 million), which currently accounts for 60% of the U.S. market. United grew so large that...
...South. Back in Washington, the President measured his work load against a sudden desire to get into warm country, found the balance in favor of a long weekend vacation. With the special messages on education ($1 billion over four years to step up U.S. education in the satellite age) and on reciprocal trade (see Foreign Trade) dispatched to Congress, the only big hurdle was a Friday-morning breakfast speech to the Republican national committeemen. Taking the hurdle in stride, the President got off the kind of no-clichés-barred political pep talk GOPoliticians wish he had delivered...