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...Great Lakes it was almost two weeks past the traditional closing day, and almost a month beyond the date when insurance rates skyrocket because of the unpredictable 'Lakes weather. With the temperature a bitter 4° to 21° below zero, with snow from three to eight feet deep and a 50-60 m.p.h. gale, all that happened was this...
After three years of planning-and a whopping 1938 deficit-Hoffman and Vance took a chance on the lightweight Champion. It put Studebaker back on its feet. Then came a share in the biggest job in history: war contracts, including a big order for Wright airplane engines, that will skyrocket its sales to around $350,000,000 this year...
...fire down the night sky. There will be no blinding saucisson shells, no bengolas, no spidery pyro cuttlefish, no earwhacking bombshells, no climactic Niagara Falls. The U.S. is without its tradition al fireworks (except for a few bootleg pops) because the whole fireworks indus try has become a sizzling skyrocket...
...Skyrocket. For years Consolidated struggled along as a modest steel fabricator (one of its big jobs was making spillway gates, tunnel forms, for Boulder Dam) until the defense program handed it a sky rocket. But it was Alden Roach who touched it off, watched his company soar to its present annual rate of $250,000,000, almost 150 times the bleak...
...probably the original missile from the remote regions of the universe is a proton, a bare hydrogen nucleus moving at terrific velocity with energy of 200 million electron volts. When it strikes the earth's atmosphere it breaks up either by explosion or collision and, like an earthbound skyrocket, forms a spray of smaller particles, called mesotrons. These in turn, colliding with oxygen and nitrogen molecules of the air, produce the electron showers on earth...