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Inability to predict such behavior, plane builders have claimed, has long made them wary of stainless steel, which for aviation purposes must often be used in sheets as thin as .004 in. So they have stuck to aluminum, whose behavior under flight conditions is tried & tested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Stainless-Steel Airplanes | 6/22/1942 | See Source »

...months, Franklin Roosevelt and his onetime best friend had a heart-to-heart talk last week. James Aloysius Farley dropped in for lunch. But it was hardly a sentimental reunion. Cooking at the White House were some very practical New York State politics. Observers were ready to predict, when Farley came out, that the next Governor of New York was all but elected. The choice: John James Bennett Jr., the State's Attorney General, an unknown to the U.S. at large...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bennett & Bennet | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

...chief threats to the Crimson should come either from Cornell or Syracuse, both of whom come to the Charles with high-calibre press notices and nothing concrete on which to predict their performances. Syracuse had a top-notch Freshman boat last year, and most of this is now on the Orange Varsity. In addition to this, the high stroke at which Syracuse is accustomed to row is much better suited for the Henley than the longer mile and three-quarters...

Author: By John C. Bullard, | Title: Crimson Crews Favored in Rowe Regatta | 4/24/1942 | See Source »

...present, it is impossible to predict any kind of an outcome, because few of the institutions have begun their schedule of dual meets as yet. Pennsylvania is the defending champion, having won the meet in Princeton's Palmer Stadium last year with 58 points...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: May 17 Named for Heptagonal Meet | 4/22/1942 | See Source »

...four variable factors, wind, current, competition, and the stroke rowed, probably in that order of importance, are the foundations on which conclusions about a time trial are built. With these in hand, Bolles can generally predict to within two seconds the time his boats will do over the course before they reach the starting line...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sports of the Crimson | 4/22/1942 | See Source »

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