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Founded in the fall of 1950 after the Chinese breakthrough in Korea, the Center was in full swing by December of that year. Since the projects are semisecret, the offices are closed to all except employees and official personnel...
...canny Swiss, advised by Avalanche Expert André Roch, plan to take advantage of this previous British reconnaissance. They will also attack the problem with a new, semisecret weapon: an ingenious "third lung," designed at Zurich and perfected by Swiss watchmakers. Contrary to widespread opinion, there is nothing unsporting about using oxygen, though some British mountaineers might consider it "going soft." Heretofore, it has simply been considered impractical or impossible to haul the added burden. The new lightweight (22 Ibs.) Swiss lung, complete with plastic mouthpiece, is worked by the climber's own breath, which releases the precious oxygen...
Both Ottawa and Washington were abuzz with talk about the semisecret wartime Hyde Park Agreement which Canada wanted continued into the years of peace (TIME, Feb. 9). On Capitol Hill, Nebraska's Senator Kenneth Wherry and his Small Business Committee had a staff of clerks digging through the files for a full-dress investigation, some time soon. On Parliament Hill, Saskatchewan's CCFer Thomas John Bentley asked that the Secretary of State for External Affairs tell the House of Commons all there was to tell about Hyde Park...
...assets, annual sales of over $500,000,000, annual profits of roughly $15,000,000. Its line of aircraft, moreover, will include everything from Stinson "flying jeeps" and private planes to deadly Vultee dive-bombers, long-range, four-engined Consolidated Liberator bombers and Coronado flying boats-plus a titanic, semisecret 400-passenger plane now abuilding...
...Cabinet, the Secretary of State alone does not have to make an annual report on his semisecret activities. Last week the other nine members finished rendering their bulky swansongs to President Hoover or the Congress. Each told in great statistical detail how his department had weathered the Depression. Some added a cheerful chirp or two about confidence in the future and a few, despite the fact that they go out of office March 4, boldly made recommendations for new legislation. Excerpts...