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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...France, whose production was down to 40 a month early in 1939 while her factories were recovering from socialization under the Popular Front, has never been able to top 400 a month. Total maximum production for the Allies: 1,600 a month...
...bombers Britain's (and the Allies') best bet is the big, rugged Vickers Wellington, a husky, reliable weight carrier with a top speed of 265 m. p. h., and the lighter Bristol Blenheim (about comparable in size to a Lockheed 12) with a maximum of 295. But both need fighter escorts, are not to be compared in speed with the new German Junkers Ju. 88K which has a top of 330 m. p. h., can show its heels to pursuit with any kind of start. To Ju. 88K, and the somewhat slower Heinkels and Dorniers, Britain has several...
Registering the third shutout in Crimsons swimming annuals, the Ulenmen last night overwhelmed M. I. T. by a maximum score of 68 to 7, even though second-stringers were entered for Harvard in five of the nine events. Other shutouts were scored against Tech in 1933 and Cornell last year. The plucky Engineer swimmers will be expected to do better next year when their new pool, now under construction is completed...
...General Electric's laboratories in Schenectady announced a new world's magnetic record. A piece of Alnico (aluminum, nickel, cobalt, iron), housed in a brass and iron assembly air-gapped for maximum magnetic efficiency, lifted 4,450 times its own weight...
...Physicist John Ray Dunning of Columbia said that fission experimenters now believe there is an automatic check against a multiplying chain reaction getting out of control. The accelerating release of atomic energy would heat up the uranium specimen; this heat would speed up the neutrons beyond the point of maximum effectiveness for fissions, and the reaction would therefore slow down, and stop...