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...valuable is a Godfrey free plug on the air that manufacturers, on the off chance that he will mention them, deluge him with .merchandise ranging from buttermilk to uranium ore to elks. They remember that, on TV, he has often taken a pull at a Coke bottle when he might have been plugging his sponsored products. And they know that Godfrey's fooling around with a ukulele on the air pumped new life into an industry that had been dormant since the early 1930s. Said uke salesman Jack Loeb: "Sales went from nothing to higher than they had been...
...same day, over Tampa Bay, Steward Marc Fisher-Galati, an ex-paratrooper, tried to pull shut the partially opened door of an Eastern airliner. The door, hinged at the bottom, fell open. Fisher-Galati plunged forward, was saved when his leg caught in a chain supporting the door. One of the crew tried vainly to haul Fisher-Galati back into the plane. He hung head downward for about ten minutes until the plane made an emergency landing...
...vital question is: Will the trend against Communism continue? It all depends, says Burnham, on the quality of the free world's political leadership. He has a mystic faith that in the long pull this leadership will not be wanting. In America's grass roots especially he has recently found the will to win. "The knowledge and intelligence, which enter into the synthesis of politics, are still needed to make ... as fruitful as possible a victory, as sparing as possible of blood and treasure. But the issue is no longer in doubt. Doubt is vanquished...
...Push & Pull. To overcome the bad habits of earlier ram jets, Wright engineers have installed in the new model a complicated system of instruments that measure temperature, pressure, etc. As the ram jet changes speed and altitude the instruments feed in just the amount of fuel needed to keep the engine working at top efficiency. If a sudden change of conditions makes the main flame go out, it is reignited immediately by the small, sheltered flame...
...Wright ram jets have "flown" only in a monstrous test chamber at the Wright plant at Wood-Ridge, N.J. Compressors blow air into the ram jet's nose. Simultaneously, three steam "ejectors,"' fed with steam from the plant's main boilers, pull combustion gases out of the ram jet's exhaust. By regulating the compressors and ejectors, the engineers can feed the ram jet with air of almost any speed and density. It is no trick at all to make it act as if it were speeding 2,000 m.p.h. at an altitude of 15 miles...