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Other new scientific notes: ¶ A surveying gadget built into two small boxes mounted on a trailer (to be pulled by a car or jeep), has been developed by the Sun Oil Co. Starting from a known elevation, an odometer records distance traveled. A pendulum indicates up & down grades, and an electronic calculator works out, by trigonometry, net changes in altitude. Valuable in oil prospecting, the apparatus enables height surveyors to work three times as fast as they could by rod sighting, saves them from such occupational hazards as sunstroke and frostbite. ¶An electronic I.F.F. (identification, friend...
Tall, 23-year-old William L. Cox is a cocky, capable truckman and he drives a big rig-a tractor and a double-tank trailer. Some of his admiring fellow truckers would say that sharp-eyed Billy could roll his rig through an oven door without jarring the roast...
Down in the basement of Lyman Labs, Nobel Prizewinner Percy W. Bridgman is learning what happens to things when you squeeze them hard. With huge hydraulic presses, Bridgman has squeezed one cubic inch of matter with the pressure of 1000 trailer trucks...
...Madison, from Edna Aaness to Norris Zvniecki, from 47 states and 57 countries. About one-fourth of them are girls.* The centennial's bumper crop had outgrown dormitories, boarding houses, and the fraternities and sororities on Langdon Street, spilling over into Army barracks, an ordnance works and three trailer camps. It now costs about $1,000 a year to go to college in Madison, for board, room and tuition, with not much left over for beer, dates and phonograph records...
...last week, crewmen began unloading draggers at Manhattan's Fulton Fish Market on the East River. Through the quiet streets leading to the market, giant trailer-trucks rumbled up with even bigger loads. There were cod and pollock from Massachusetts, salmon from Canada, croakers and sea bass from Maryland, lobsters from Maine, shrimp from Florida, clams and oysters from Long Island. They were put into barrels and boxes or just piled in the bins of stalls along the waterfront...