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...received his reward for devotion to the cause. He was put on the Communist Party payroll as a $15-a-week instructor. The Waldrons went their separate ways, Nora to go into show business, Amelia to work in a library. Frankie, seedy-looking and burning-eyed, with a shock of wild hair, went off to teach Marxist economy at a youth seminar at a Finnish community in Woodland, Wash...
...main shock of the quake, the most violent and widespread ever to hit the Pacific Northwest, lasted for 40 seconds. When it ended, every activity of the region had been wrenched askew. Hardly an automobile, truck or bus moved; the downtown streets of Seattle, Olympia, Tacoma and other cities were jammed with motionless cars and tens of thousands of people, who had spilled out of doorways, milled between the cars, gazing fearfully upward. Some of the frantic thought of an atom bomb...
...next day, Avery got a shock. Vice President Willard Sahloff, Avery's right-hand man and the only vice president left, also handed in his resignation. Avery could not call Sahloff a "conspirator"; he had made Sahloff a vice president after Norton left, and praised him highly. Last week, Avery revised his estimate. Said he: "Sahloff was not an important man ... I am very glad his weakness made itself apparent now." Sahloff promptly got a job as president of Milwaukee's National Enameling & Stamping...
Even flying much slower than sound, airplanes can run afoul of shock waves. The air crowding past them has to go faster to get around their curved surfaces. If, in its hurry, the air hits the speed of sound, shock waves form locally. Good design has steadily raised the speed at which an airplane can fly without trouble from local shock waves. But there is a limit: the speed of sound itself.* At this critical speed, an airplane's motion is sure to generate shock waves...
...Piece. Silently and smoothly the X-1 cut away from the B29. For an instant it drove forward and downward. Then Chuck turned on the nitrogen pressure and fired the lox and alcohol in one of the rocket chambers. A spurt of white dots (visible shock waves) spurted out behind and grew into a long plumelike "contrail" (condensed water vapor...