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...answer to the roll call: "Pennsylvania casts 75 votes for General Edward Martin." The vote, as everyone knew, was just a maneuver. Pennsylvania came around to Curtis when the Pennsylvania bosses got what they wanted frolri the National Committee. But it gave Ed Martin his first brief and tentative spin into the national scene...
...structural strength, the radio equipment especially shines. Designers like to know how much extra strain an airplane will take. Formerly, they sent a human pilot aloft with instructions to test the plane for the most extreme strains it would get in combat or commercial service. Often, especially in spin tests or pullouts from high-speed dives, something broke or failed to work. Even if the pilot parachuted to safety, neither he nor the plane's smashed instruments could tell the full story of just what happened at the climax...
...operators sit at ease, watching the airplane by eye and radar. A signal puts it into a dive or spin. Down it screams. Shock waves buffet its wings, claw at its tail surfaces. If anything cracks, a flashing light on the television screen tells what part has yielded. No life is lost, and every detail of the plane's experience, up to the final smash if it comes, is accurately recorded...
...gyroscope tries to keep vibrating in the same plane. Its struggles register upon a knot of nerves at the base of the haltere, and tell the insect how it is doing in space. If both halteres are removed, the insect loses its sense of equilibrium, goes into a spin, crashes...
...over a hundred years it has been customary for each textile mill to specialize in a single process only. One mill would spin, another weave, etc. But when Little established Textron's parent company (Special Yarns Corp.) on $10,000 capital in 1923, he had different ideas. He believed that in textile making all stages of manufacture, from yarn to consumer, should be under one management...