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Chief disadvantage of jet engines is their enormous thirst for fuel. At cruising speed and altitude each Ghost drinks 120 imperial gallons (144 U.S. gallons) of kerosene per hour. To get her safely across the Atlantic and allow a three-hour safety margin, the Comet will have to carry something like 6,000 gallons of fuel (the DC-6's load: 4,248 gallons). Fully loaded, the Comet will probably carry only 20 passengers on a long flight (the DC-6 can carry...
Some textile men, who know how thin American Woolen's profit margin has been, doubted if the new prices would do much more than let the company break even. But Pendleton hoped to get some relief from bigger volume. In any case, it would cost American Woolen less to keep its mills in operation than to shut down for lack of orders while maintenance costs...
British voters in West Leeds, Yorkshire, have lost a lot of faith in the Labor Party; but a majority are still doubtful whether the Tories offer anything better. In a by-election last week, Labor won the parliamentary seat by a margin greatly reduced from the 1945 general election vote. It was Labor's 51st by-election victory since 1945. Labor defeats: none...
...Smaller Margin. Publisher James H. McGraw Jr. (McGraw-Hill Publishing Co.) also drew a bead on the Administration. He accused Harry Truman of causing the current power shortage in the Northwest by short-circuiting power projects. The result is that the area "may be set back for a long time to come...
...electric men thought that the Government's argument for more public power projects was based largely on spotty power shortages; the overall shortage was about licked. The institute estimated that this year's margin of reserve capacity should be 9.7%, or nearly double last year's reserve. But the U.S. would not have the 15% margin of reserve capacity it needs until...