Word: making
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...window blows out at high altitude. Announcing that it had made some experiments on the subject, the Civil Aeronautics Administration said soothingly last week that such disasters are no great peril just now, because airliners do not fly high enough. But cruising altitudes are increasing. In an effort to make airplane manufacturers fully conscious of future dangers, the CAA made a movie which chilled the blood of hard-boiled air designers...
...time will come, thinks the CAA, when "explosive decompression" must be faced squarely. Jet airliners will have to fly at 40,000 ft. to economize fuel. The best way to make them decompression-proof, think some CAA men, would be to build cabins with no windows at all. A television eye in the plane's nose could show the passengers the country passing below-or movies could amuse them...
...Government, long confident that synthetic rubber would be plentiful enough to compensate for cutbacks in natural rubber, last week had a confession to make: the Government's synthetic output was expanding more slowly than expected. Therefore, the National Production Authority told manufacturers that they will get 13% less synthetic in early 1951 than they had expected...
...Multigraph operator who has been with Hawaiian Pineapple for 20 years. She wore a pineapple-patterned dress and a white carnation lei, and she was barefooted. Said she earnestly: "Business is a team of people. Some of the people are stockholders; some are employees . . . All do their part to make the business a success." Aloha-shirted Mitsuma Miyazaki, a union shop steward, cautioned: "Profits are not guaranteed . . . and so for future needs we have earmarked...
Guggle to Zatch. Children will perhaps know best what to make of the evil Duke who sets good Prince Zorn such a fearful price for the hand of Princess Saralinda...