Word: models
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...noted sadly that his real expensive model in all-bronze ("Sell quite a few to Chicago-call it our gangster model") was no more. "Those guys will have to settle for wood," said he with finality...
...Chicago, where the racing is done mostly in postwar-model Fords, Chevvies and Plymouths, the twice-a-week grinds in Soldier Field have been outdrawing night baseball. In New England, 14 tracks are going full blast, and more are being built. In Southern California, prewar jalopies are preferred, but the idea is the same. With old or new cars, variations of the sport are pulling in customers in New York, the South and the Southwest...
Designing guided missiles is vastly more difficult than designing "inhabited" aircraft. A new model airplane has a pilot on board to correct its maiden errors, and (if all goes well) to bring it down intact for study and improvement. Guided missiles depend on artificial brains which need to be tested themselves, and they are seldom recovered except as a mass of wreckage. To test a new missile by the cut-and-try method of actual flight is expensive not only in money, but also in more precious time...
...Navy would need hundreds of them for the planes of its infant carrier force, the shrewd Yankees wasted little time on bargaining. They promised Rentschler $250,000 in 1925 to help finance the new Pratt & Whitney Aircraft Co., promised him $1,000,000 more if the Navy approved his model...
...Seattle alone to a handful of 2,600 workers in the whole state of Washington. Along the Gulf Coast, Pascagoula's Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp. was the only yard with new construction under way last week. And Ingalls is building just one ship: an experimental model of a highspeed (18½ knots) cargo steamer which the Maritime Board hopes to use as a prototype for future cargo vessels...