tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-65689159671868441962024-03-18T00:47:48.453-07:00Bench GrassBench Grass is a blog about the history of technology by the former student of a student of Lynn White. The main focus is a month-by-month retrospective series, covering the technology news, broadly construed, of seventy years ago, framed by fictional narrators. The author is Erik Lund, an "independent scholar" in Vancouver, British Columbia. Last post will be 24 July 2039. Erik Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.comBlogger785125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-48012626476790101412024-03-16T15:20:00.000-07:002024-03-16T15:20:55.564-07:00Boom: The Space Race, 1<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/cwZb2mqId0A" width="320" youtube-src-id="cwZb2mqId0A"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-EkbNz9CN8PHOKLDkcpFc241QV2XNZdP9JugLhsOKnbp4lo8ZLzKQFfnR0bE1f8XCYnRIIg-fro0SDCLsTbji9iQrw_f2u1H5Q_7eB7WYzVd1xD4cCOH7WCVWE5rFbNz_uIXoaF-zvtOz3l34vOZfT0EgkOPQk_8Iybf_-rLHyCzbcZC4e-So2IXY0Qvb/s777/Unrotated%20projectile%20mounting%20on%20HMS%20_King%20George%20V_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="777" data-original-width="588" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-EkbNz9CN8PHOKLDkcpFc241QV2XNZdP9JugLhsOKnbp4lo8ZLzKQFfnR0bE1f8XCYnRIIg-fro0SDCLsTbji9iQrw_f2u1H5Q_7eB7WYzVd1xD4cCOH7WCVWE5rFbNz_uIXoaF-zvtOz3l34vOZfT0EgkOPQk_8Iybf_-rLHyCzbcZC4e-So2IXY0Qvb/s320/Unrotated%20projectile%20mounting%20on%20HMS%20_King%20George%20V_.jpg" width="242" /></a></div>Everyone has a first public event they remember, and for me, it is the live television broadcast of the landing of Apollo 9. I was a bit young as these stories go, and this might have something to do with the fact that, as it turns out, this was four days before my fifth birthday. I was far too young to remember the two events sequentially, but heightened attention to the one might have leaked over to heightened attention to the other, I dunno. The point here, such as it is, is that I will have my 60th birthday this year. I try not to blather on about work around here too much, so I won't go into the details of why I am not getting all the paid time off that the contract says I get, just to note, once again, that it has to do with the lack of younger workers at my place of employment and in the Canadian economy in general. Hence the clever double meaning of the title of this series, a reference to the baby boom as well as to the "space race" that culminated on 20 July 1964. Do the two things go together? I sure think so right now!<p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Even if they don't, this blog obviously can't ignore the space race, and this is the first occasion in the progression of the technological postblogging where it seems appropriate to give the space race its own series. Notice how I've cleverly begun the enumeration of this series in Arabic numerals? That's so I'm not working out the Roman notation for "47" at some point in the probably not-so-distant future. <br /></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p style="text-align: justify;">So speaking of the first things we remember from childhood, the picture above the fold isn't an outhouse with adequate vents, as we're still waiting on science for that. It's an "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrotated_Projectile">Unrotated projectile</a>" mounting on <i>HMS George V. </i>"Unrotated projectiles" were solid-fuel rockets <i> "</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">developed for the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Navy" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #3366cc; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Royal Navy">Royal Navy</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> by </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alwyn_Crow" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #3366cc; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Alwyn Crow">Alwyn Crow</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> of the Projectile Development Establishment of the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ministry_of_Supply" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #3366cc; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ministry of Supply">Ministry of Supply</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> at </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Halstead" style="background: none rgb(255, 255, 255); color: #3366cc; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Fort Halstead">Fort Halstead</a><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">," </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">and perhaps the reason Wikipedia knows the name of the government scientist behind it is Crow's pathetic "we meant to do that" apology for confining British wartime rocket development to the UP, plus the more useful RATO, RP-3 air-to-ground rocket, PIAT, and, I think, Squid ASW mortar? Or maybe they remember, like me, his kinsman at the Foreign Office, Sir Eyre Crow, who pops up frequently in discussions of appeasement. It's certainly a family of distinctive names! </span></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Speaking of which, I'm launching this series today because of a working paper commissioned from the Guided Weapons Department of RAE Farnborough in "late 1954," per <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desmond_King-Hele">Desmond King-Hele</a>'s introduction to the eventual paper on reconnaissance satellites, duly submitted at some point in the next year, and enthusiastically recommending the development of such a thing, anticipating that it would be launched by the BLUE STREAK. or, as a further discussion of 1957 specified, by a two-stage rocket using a BLACK KNIGHT launched by a BLUE STREAK and carrying the satellite payload. </span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzsAhoroG4MCLQ5Z9Op4XHbo0EfysNrUy1Tosw-gd50XUcYpIM25syT6uRDV2VKHTta9r3a33uz1-Z8zhz9QoG3y4GCAcAwRfNLNaG-JCggyv9rlasDT_IRfJgszlHNb-E9cSieBiU3STGPjyXCnhHLWotl2310jiv2ouj6Vd9VVRlWlMSo0z4RsxrjQ9N/s575/Dowty%20prop,%20Lockheed%20C-130%20Hercules.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="575" data-original-width="575" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzsAhoroG4MCLQ5Z9Op4XHbo0EfysNrUy1Tosw-gd50XUcYpIM25syT6uRDV2VKHTta9r3a33uz1-Z8zhz9QoG3y4GCAcAwRfNLNaG-JCggyv9rlasDT_IRfJgszlHNb-E9cSieBiU3STGPjyXCnhHLWotl2310jiv2ouj6Vd9VVRlWlMSo0z4RsxrjQ9N/s320/Dowty%20prop,%20Lockheed%20C-130%20Hercules.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The parallel lines my mind is working down here are genealogical. On the one hand, King-Hele's department is presumably the descendant of Crow's, now thinking much more ambitiously. On the other, "Hele," like "Crow" is a distinct and resonant name, and one wonders if Desmond was a relative of "H. S. Hele Shaw," (as a man known mainly from the potted biographies attached to engineering papers, his Christian name is lost to the vagaries of inline citation), two-thirds of the person behind the Hele-Shaw-Becham variable pitch propeller and rotary hydraulic motor. Because, of course, it was the De Havilland Propellers division that was selected to develop the BLUE STREAK.</span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white;">I hope at this point that I have the bulk of the random free associating done. The paper in question was turned up by C. N. Hill, and discussed in his <i>A Vertical Empire: A History of the British Rocketry Programme </i>(London: Imperial College Press, 1994; 2nd Edition 2011); 180--83). King-Hele's exploration of the possible military uses of space and the space-related uses of BLUE STREAK, come very early in the history of that programme, which by the time he was writing, was intended to succeed the V-bombers as the next stage of the British nuclear deterrent from 1965 on, a silo-based IRBM that would presumably pioneer the infrastructure for the ICBM to follow. </span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEice4Z7FDywACGmh9HRvrw8mUSILMKnRB80QvZBCEqrvfW1aA1TueacJ7AZU3Ra5pt2_F1DQIpoNDEEVHlbyRhxV6yW71pOkvPiGnRk7IZ_rzOHmCavXHHBwflqaYYtDNirIs9wPGSpNKij1Vq6xmD7eUM-ymBeF6C36Q1jDOLftQwOhVgjBeTmbkd7__w0/s368/Watkinson,%20Lord%20atr%20needed%20wiki.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="368" data-original-width="270" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEice4Z7FDywACGmh9HRvrw8mUSILMKnRB80QvZBCEqrvfW1aA1TueacJ7AZU3Ra5pt2_F1DQIpoNDEEVHlbyRhxV6yW71pOkvPiGnRk7IZ_rzOHmCavXHHBwflqaYYtDNirIs9wPGSpNKij1Vq6xmD7eUM-ymBeF6C36Q1jDOLftQwOhVgjBeTmbkd7__w0/s320/Watkinson,%20Lord%20atr%20needed%20wiki.jpg" width="235" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">It's hard to believe that this wasn't posed deliberately.<br /> Some ver small posthumous revenge from Viscount Watkinson<br />By Godfrey Argent - Original publication: http://www.oxforddnb.com<br />/templates/article.jsp?articleid=60347&amp;<br />back=Immediate source: http://www.oxforddnb.com/templates/article.<br />jsp?articleid=60347&amp;back=, Fair use, https://en.<br />wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=41603296 </span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white;">Hill has a pretty good discussion of the 1960 death of BLUE STREAK, finding the fingerprints of Lord Mountbatten and Solly Zuckerman all over it, a subtle, even diabolical trap for Duncan Sandys in it, a bathetic picture of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Watkinson"> Harold Watkinson</a>, the new Minister of Defence and virtual political neophyte who was tasked with wielding the knife, and, at the end of the day, a plausible defence of the pretextual cancellation. In the last analysis, a land-based deterrent is a weapon of pre-emption, inviting launch on warning and impossible to recall. It may make sense as part of a strategic triad, but gives way to air or sea-launched systems. Hill then busily moves along to what he regards as the real tragedy, the slow death of the space programme that was built around the various BLUE STREAK commitments, particularly to Australia, and, within this more general failure, a more specific one in the failure of that programme to utilise the hydrogen-oxygen motors under development at the Rocket Propulsion Establishment.<br /></span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white;">The news here is that there <i>was </i>a Rocket Propulsion Establishment, which is now famous for being obscure, "not marked on Ordnance Survey maps." This seems like an important part of the story of Britain "ignoring" rockets in the years after the war! As it turns out, Britain's V-2 men were less impressive than Britain's Me163 men, and the fist thing RPE Westcott jumped on was rockets based on hydrogen peroxide oxidising jet fuel. We've already heard about that around here in the form of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Sprite">De Havilland Sprite</a>, and by the end of the decade it had given rise to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Knight_(rocket)">BLACK KNIGHT</a>, a very successful - but unambitious suborbital rocket programme testing re-entry vehicles.</span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #202122;"><span style="background-color: white;">Along with SKYLARK, BLACK KNIGHT might be the most unambiguously satisfactory programme of the Colour Code era. Which is <i>bizarre. </i>What made the British political establishment's wind so sound for </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> British political establishment's wind proved far more sound for ICBM re-entry systems? I mean, let's recall the political capital spent on </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevaline">CHEVALINE</a>! And the money, too. The overarching theme of the space programme decade was ceaseless complaints about the cost of rocketry and suggestions that if it were such a good idea, the private sector would be doing it. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">Beyond that, though, I am struck by the fact, now that I know that RPE Waldcott existed, that work <i>was </i>going on with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waxwing_(rocket_motor)">solid-fuel</a>, hydrazine, and hydrogen-oxygen motors there, and that much of the reason that this work didn't come to anything was the constant refrain that the Americans were doing it, so why bother? Departing from his neutral tone at one point, C. N. Hill calls this for what it is: "Sponging."</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglb-TDn547ALzoJXrptvksLph5DOJtW9BeNwSORIpB5gS52sQB5I2p4NEQCobkd_MY4YB6ew5fSP3F5HMUybrOPtIwSV6mGM47Xn9AcJIgXrTUCxsVEp2aVauNXT6F8S2BfrcOTrXtcq_KPeEVRf07NbnYVwQ8T9a3gEjyXKmpN_9AuoBQC9uWcdz0PunD/s1024/Rolls%20Royce%20Conway.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="761" data-original-width="1024" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglb-TDn547ALzoJXrptvksLph5DOJtW9BeNwSORIpB5gS52sQB5I2p4NEQCobkd_MY4YB6ew5fSP3F5HMUybrOPtIwSV6mGM47Xn9AcJIgXrTUCxsVEp2aVauNXT6F8S2BfrcOTrXtcq_KPeEVRf07NbnYVwQ8T9a3gEjyXKmpN_9AuoBQC9uWcdz0PunD/s320/Rolls%20Royce%20Conway.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">And it began with the decision to cancel the V-1000, <i>not </i>the "Sandys Axe." Meaning that we can't blame it on the Conservative government, <br />because there was no Conservative government between Churchill's stroke and his resignation. </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">Is that fair? It seems hard to argue that the lesser NATO powers, Britain included, <i>needed </i>to duplicate what the United States was doing anyway in terms of capability. It is very tempting to make this about a recent American President, but in fact there have been complaints from America about European "sponging" from the beginning. It's not wrong, it <i>is </i>invidious, and the only alternative one can imagine is a political break between the United States and the United Kingdom that tests the limits of my willingness to entertain counterfactuals. Maybe if Dewey had been in charge when the Chinese counterattack began in Korea? </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">I will, however, entertain the possibility that the economic fates of North America and the rest of the world began to diverge with the Space Race rather than with WWII. The Eisenhower Recession is about to begin, while Britain is enjoying a period of prosperity. These things <i>can</i> happen. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"><b><a href="https://www.statista.com/statistics/281981/live-births-in-the-united-kingdom-uk/">Births, UK</a></b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">1950: 818,00</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">1951: 796,000</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">1952: 793,000</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">1953: 804,000</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">1954: 795,000</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">1955: 789,000</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">1956: 825,000</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">1957: 851,000</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">1958: 870,000</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">1959: 879,000</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">1960: 918, 000</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">1961: 944,000</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">1962: 976,000</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">1963: 990,000</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">1964: 1,014,672</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">. . . And there it goes:</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">from 1965, at 997,000, the number of live births declines to an absolute historic minimum of 676,000 in 1977. The historic pattern is the same as North America, so it is the amplitude of the swing from low to high count that explains the differing demographic history of the tight little island and the big old continental countries. Understanding it would also seem to require pairing these numbers with the central birth cohort of the <i>parents, </i>which will depend on their average age, and that data might be out there, but I am not looking for it today. Also, it is very definitely a cultural moment and not just some wacky thing that happened. A million babies out of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">54 million people is a <i>lot</i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;">! (Although the United States managed 4 million, and Canada, 400,000.)</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122;"> </span></p>Erik Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-86980599819510122372024-03-09T13:00:00.000-08:002024-03-09T13:00:00.417-08:00A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, November 1952, II: Around the Gyrotron<p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgheCqLk8MHHnICTdqWWJWTorC4jnorL_hCYPeBjXRWdmRrj5KYTpfWmSn9KIVmS63_VU3poPL8WU6uv9_VkI3-0waEabYDsAMjejnN7FHq7LRpHOBTu4TBsWm11BQH8DRmVDpNRtxLe4CYgAEhMyAVXcL17uL_-NZQzvdh0pyTduE5ZDXvNY5K-fEZHqMY/s1024/Ivy%20Mike.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="1024" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgheCqLk8MHHnICTdqWWJWTorC4jnorL_hCYPeBjXRWdmRrj5KYTpfWmSn9KIVmS63_VU3poPL8WU6uv9_VkI3-0waEabYDsAMjejnN7FHq7LRpHOBTu4TBsWm11BQH8DRmVDpNRtxLe4CYgAEhMyAVXcL17uL_-NZQzvdh0pyTduE5ZDXvNY5K-fEZHqMY/s320/Ivy%20Mike.jpg" width="320" /></a></div> The biggest industrial and technological story of this week is the collision of ongoing talk about civil defence or continental air defence with ongoing planning for OPERATION CASTLE, in which the BRAVO test blast of 1 March 1954 will demonstrate the feasibility of noncryogenic, "dry" hydrogen bombs. It will also detonate with two-and-a-half times the predicted yield, and catch <i>Daigo Fukuryu Maru </i>within its unexpectedly large fallout radius. With its usual maladroitness (I seriously do <i>not </i>get the Eisenhower revisionism school at this point), the Administration tried to cover up the enormous screw-up and blame the crew of the trawler at a very delicate moment in American-Japanese postwar relations, and possibly leading (not a Japan expert!) to the confirmation of the postwar "pacifist" constitution, and certainly to <i>Godzilla. </i>Would we have otaku culture without <i>Godzilla</i>? I don't know. Probably. <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMKNBc95r_a2HXr3qVXMwBikfJDAVW9ctrQ9tdaqJoEUReIDceLPHDDqzemdtLKzeWWubaj3kfPNV-Pgu0-xyALcvN4vMvL9UcdVOPzQb85-oI_UB_YiCYr71Mz0mMzgaUvAtQBC1TVTWg250aAAinpAnK53L__tfr3yFv_M5USsg8QOqAU96cGreM6KsP/s1024/Blue%20Streak.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMKNBc95r_a2HXr3qVXMwBikfJDAVW9ctrQ9tdaqJoEUReIDceLPHDDqzemdtLKzeWWubaj3kfPNV-Pgu0-xyALcvN4vMvL9UcdVOPzQb85-oI_UB_YiCYr71Mz0mMzgaUvAtQBC1TVTWg250aAAinpAnK53L__tfr3yFv_M5USsg8QOqAU96cGreM6KsP/s320/Blue%20Streak.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Hydrogen bombs are a few things. First, they make civil defence seem vaguely ridiculous. Second, they need even less precise aiming than the previous generation of mere atomic bombs. Third, they can be lighter than that previous generation. People have been talking about intercontinental ballistic missiles since before the end of the war in Europe. Hydrogen bomb-tipped missiles actually make sense, because with an error of 3 km at the delivery end, you can still aim at "Moscow" and blow up all the strategic tarets in the Moscow vicinity, along with the rest of Moscow. That being said, ICBMs are a lot harder to build than to imagine. In the rough sketch of a plan for the future of the British nuclear deterrence that developed within its aviation-technical community after WWII, the ICBM would be preceded by an intermediate range ballistic missile. In April of 1954, the outgoing Minister of Supply in the Churchill government, Duncan Sandys, pushed through the concrete realisation of this schedule: the BLUE STREAK, a somewhat more advanced counterpart to the American Thor and Jupiter missiles that would deploy in underground bases in 1964, following several generations of life extensions for the V-bomber fleet and preceding an all-British ICBM that would never be ordered.<p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Today we are not talking about the BLUE STREAK so much as its guidance system, and we have been led to that discussion via a technology which was <i>not </i>used in it, the "tuning fork" gyroscope. My inspiration for this was taken from an article in <i>Aviation Week </i>about this new "gyratron" or "vibragyro," and an offhand mention of the fact that it had been tried by Smiths in the Smith's Automatic Pilot, SEP2 militarised as the RAF Mk10. The Sperry vibrayro of 1953 doesn't appear to have gone any further. The idea was revived by Westinghouse for the space programme in the 1960s, but it wasn't until they were made piezoelectric that they became common in such vital gyrostablising applications as electric skateboards. <br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">So instead I'm going to talk about the technology that was used, and the concept of the BLUE STREAK as a total weapon system.</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYbllGxbyFjbAooLie_pit5_pzkAPHe_ptL5geq6x05FOeTrobkwxiQ3cUVmTnQYUjPIiLH_GYgJngJzIndRVeIfv_QTJncmJB7iuxaRHIX0B3qbWxExcBOjpzITRME34Hj9LPWJ_wpm_vYOkZuPlmWCPU7C2tBJcrREZ9HEYR3GHtmRrD1MR7nK9v56Mm/s1203/Thor%20Missile%20attr%20needed%20wiki.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1203" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYbllGxbyFjbAooLie_pit5_pzkAPHe_ptL5geq6x05FOeTrobkwxiQ3cUVmTnQYUjPIiLH_GYgJngJzIndRVeIfv_QTJncmJB7iuxaRHIX0B3qbWxExcBOjpzITRME34Hj9LPWJ_wpm_vYOkZuPlmWCPU7C2tBJcrREZ9HEYR3GHtmRrD1MR7nK9v56Mm/s320/Thor%20Missile%20attr%20needed%20wiki.jpg" width="213" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">B<span style="font-size: xx-small;">y Bubba73 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0,<br /> https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=40142782</span></td></tr></tbody></table>In the course of 1954/55, the three American services (leaving the Marines out for some reason) began developing two IRBMs in a typical example of the complete procurement mess that was the Pentagon of the day. The earliest, the Air Force's PGM-17 Thor, reached operational service in 1959 with 20 RAF missileer squadrons in the United Kingdom, the only place from which this 1500 mile radius missile could hit strategic Soviet targets that was a politically viable basing area. (I guess we can leave the Turkish deployment to another day.) Thor, like Jupiter and the proposed BLUE STREAK, was a single-stage, liquid-fueled missile, and preliminary studies of the design began at Ramo-Woolridge, the startup created by the Hughes walkouts that is another big technology story of the fall. (And by Herr Dr. Ing. Adolph Karl Thiele, understudying Werner v. Braun in the role of Dr. Strangelove.) The contract specification, issued on 30 Nov 1955, was for a missile using existing technology in order to enter service as quickly as possible as an interim strategic deterrent. Douglas won the role of lead contractor, with Rocketdyne as engine developed and AC Spark Plugs getting the guidance system. (Because of course AC is who you look for to make sure your H-bomb hits the target. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Erwin_Wilson">It is a complete coincidence that it is a GM subsidiary</a>.) The Thor flight trials contributed heavily to Cape Canaveral's late Fifties reputation as the place where hapless American missiles went to die in gigantic explosions whilst socialist rockets reached for the stars, a problem retrospectively attributed largely to the Rocketdyne LR-79 engine's "marginal" turbopump design, although there were plenty of other bugs to work out. The AC-Delco guidance system seems to have worked satisfactorily, but the Army/Navy/Redstone Arsenal alternative, the shorter-ranged <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PGM-19_Jupiter">Jupiter</a>, was sustained through interservice rivalries as a more-accurate but more expensive alternative for high value targets, and its inertial guidance system achieved a CEP of 1800m. While this was not an AC objective, it does point to the limits of the Thor weapon system, which was quickly superseded in service by the Atlas ICBM; but not, of course, BLUE STREAK, which was cancelled in 1960. <br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Streak_(missile)">BLUE STREAK </a>was originally pitched as part of a c<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Streak_(missile)">ollaborative international programme</a>, with the British taking on the IRBM role while the USAF moved directly towards the Atlas ICBM. This seems to have fallen afoul of the ambitions of the Army and the Redstone Arsenal and its associated v. Braun team, with the Navy getting roped in to make it two-to-one. The Thor project proposal then became a concrete proposal-to-tender once the Air Force decided that it needed to be in the game with the other services. BLUE STREAK was significantly beefier than its American counterparts, using two Rolls-Royce licensed LR-79 engines, firing together as opposed to pioneering two-stage rocket technology. This gave the proposed British IRBM a significantly greater range than even Thor, at the expense of more than doubling the takeoff acceleration to in excess of 18g. De Havilland Propellers got the prime contract, fresh off fucking up the Britannia (which, to be fair, was just asking for a rogering-over like all of the big early turboprop planes, Gannet excepted for some reason), and Sperry Gyroscope's British subsidiary got the guidance contract. I've found an interesting paper on the programme online, Benjamin Cole, "Soft Technology and Technology Transfer: Lessons from British Missile Development," (<a href="https://www.nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/npr/cole61.pdf">originally published in <i>the Nonproliferation Review </i>for Fall of 1998</a>) from a fellow "independent researcher" with an interest in discovering what this experience tells us about the timeframe for a North Korean ICBM. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Compared with Rolls Royce and De Havilland, Sperry was soon identified as a weak sister in the development team. At one point in 1955 it came under heavy criticism for having only 10 engineers working on the programme, explaining that "numbers are not necessarily a criterion of progress. At this stage of a new project, we believe that quality of thinking is perhaps rather more imporatant than quantity." (Ibid, 7; original pagination, 62) Pathetic excuse making? WELL,</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/id03MZFPfNY" width="320" youtube-src-id="id03MZFPfNY"></iframe></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">I mean, how hard can it be? Sperry intended to use a well established gyro, the Sperry Type B/RAF Mk. 10, and no, I have no idea why it is the same mark number as the then-current autopilot. The real design issue was the Ferranti-subcontracted integrated gyro-accelerometers, and a 1958 review focussed on a shortage of machine tools and testing facilities. Or, rather, it was with the 18 g acceleration requirement, which by 1958 had left the Type B behind. Sperry could have probably caught up, but not within the deployment time frame. This led Sperry to adopt the American "Kearfott T2502 gyro." Kearfott was new to me as I was reading, but still exists today, and even has a (useless) <a href="https://www.kearfott.com/company/history/">company history resource</a> at its web page. It might have been a navy contractor back in the day? The eventual use of an American gyro represents an important datum in Coles' overall assessment of the likely path of "soft technology transfer" programmes and so bears heavily on any model of proliferation based on his work. It would therefore be <i>considerable </i>interest to know more about the "Kearfott T2502.' Thanks to a helpfully-posted Ministry of Aviation research note, (R. R. ALLAN, B.Sc., Ph.D, Kinematic Rectification in Damped Single-Axis Gyros" [1964] find the T2502 described as a "damped single-axis gyro of the fluid-floated type. <a href="https://archives.sciencemuseumgroup.ac.uk/Documents/SCM/Finding%20Aids/Named%20Archives/ELLREP.pdf">Elliott Brothers worked extensively on interfaces with the T-2502 in 1962/3, and while it was otherwise working on BLUE STEEL and a VC10 autopilot.</a> This is confirmed in <a href="https://books.google.ca/books?id=DiuU4P1Dih4C&pg=PA469&lpg=PA469&dq=Kearfott+T2502&source=bl&ots=U7raHQFcoX&sig=ACfU3U0jxwHo4n8dNznjLRM4Yi0cVPokJA&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiH-MmKgeiEAxV_EzQIHc5LC8Y4ChDoAXoECAIQAw#v=onepage&q=Kearfott%20T2502&f=false"><i>Flight's </i>1960 Farnborough special issue</a>, in which a visit to the Ferranti stand turned up numerous applications of the Kearfott gyro. At this point thinks make a bit more sense to the cynic, as we see the Ferranti subcontractor supplanting Sperry management and Sperry gadgets in favour of a license that held a brighter future for Ferranti. One wonders if, in the end, it was Kearfott's low profile that gave it the advantage, as a firm that would be more willing to play junior partner to Ferranti in a host of programmes more likely to survive the budgetary axe as of 1960. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The thumbnail of Ian Clark's 1994 <i><a href="https://www.amazon.ca/s?k=ian+clark+nuclear+diplomacy&crid=3K3G1TSOI1HCA&sprefix=ian+clark+nuclear+diplomacy%2Caps%2C152&ref=nb_sb_noss">Nuclear Diplomacy and the Special Relationship</a>, </i>of which UBC's copy is held hostage by the robot uprising in the automated retrieval facility, says that the inertial navigation system played a role in BLUE STREAK's cancellation after the design was economised by removing the "insurance" of a second [clip ends], presumably guidance element. So one of the reasons for cancelling BLUE STREAK was that the prior cheaping out on the guidance system had led to concerns that it would miss Moscow after all. The Wikipedia article attributes cancellation to a combination of cost concerns, fears of pre-emption by a Soviet first strike, and interservice intrigue, with Mountbatten pressing for the Polaris solution. Clark is not cited in the Wiki article, but C. N. Hill's more recent <i>Vertical Empire </i>is, and I think that I will stretch my book budget to this more recent and economical offering and leave off this post for dinner. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">, </p>Erik Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-57131355722496163122024-03-02T14:29:00.000-08:002024-03-02T14:29:25.042-08:00Postblogging Technology, November 1953, II: Calamity White<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXagNZrh6FVtba8srrZ3OKJdujYCzmJFE32QXTE1Q_z0PJFBdhCJhKMx7VkJm7r00ZOt6vycggsFpgaHQhQ8vp7pfS4N-a4vXNinWEPLrwmtocJBjWTJe3PQJUzEHL2bz32d9nmsTtemnRAZHWQOYzZdgHPf3e8s5FttloVzdz6v3u7KciF4YQu4Wmxq8j/s1200/Flight%20to%20Tangier%20Publicity%20Still.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="944" data-original-width="1200" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXagNZrh6FVtba8srrZ3OKJdujYCzmJFE32QXTE1Q_z0PJFBdhCJhKMx7VkJm7r00ZOt6vycggsFpgaHQhQ8vp7pfS4N-a4vXNinWEPLrwmtocJBjWTJe3PQJUzEHL2bz32d9nmsTtemnRAZHWQOYzZdgHPf3e8s5FttloVzdz6v3u7KciF4YQu4Wmxq8j/w400-h315/Flight%20to%20Tangier%20Publicity%20Still.webp" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div>R_C_.,<br />Shaughnessy,<br />Vancouver,<br />Canada<br /><br /><br />Dear Father:<div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9UGvABXgG8iy-WiE-jjNH2_QJ8wvKusGMRt0EPAETBLzzzsyOjrquUZ1Hczwz_1i9leWCWBe6xZD35kfGs0KGwyoiFGlqXDzZLs_68oOItJpMNnEI6Sm4FdOxg-za95qNVWQs0D5EFGmEhiYd6QXmhXGOZc3gfxkGu8kZAi-HitvHaf-8DLN-psUsMW2_/s1390/Bartok,%20Eva.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1390" data-original-width="999" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9UGvABXgG8iy-WiE-jjNH2_QJ8wvKusGMRt0EPAETBLzzzsyOjrquUZ1Hczwz_1i9leWCWBe6xZD35kfGs0KGwyoiFGlqXDzZLs_68oOItJpMNnEI6Sm4FdOxg-za95qNVWQs0D5EFGmEhiYd6QXmhXGOZc3gfxkGu8kZAi-HitvHaf-8DLN-psUsMW2_/s320/Bartok,%20Eva.jpg" width="230" /></a></div>I know that you're going to call me a flighty girl for saying it, but the biggest technology story of the week is a silly movie from a producer who obviously hasn't a clue what he or she (but let's be honest, it's a "he") is doing: <i>Flight to Tangier, </i>in which the studio's money was staked on <i>Jack Palance </i>as a romantic lead. The movie itself, a CinemaScope, Technicolor production for flat screen, 3D or widescreen viewing, is just an amazing statement on the progress of the technology of film making over the last few years. If you can credit television with anything, it is for getting the studios to drop some money into something besides' actors' salaries. I'm thinking about this a lot because of the amount of time I am spending up at Bray, and I know that the studio doesn't exactly spell "sophisticated" to anyone who isn't impressed that I have Eva Bartok's autograph. I don't care. More money is being spent on making bad movies look good (and sound good, too, how did we get beat out to be the first with video tape?) than anything else besides going fast. It's going to matter some day! And not just for those of us making money by smuggling silver. <br /> </div><br />Your Loving Daughter,<br /><br />Ronnie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/M8FVHOJko4c" width="320" youtube-src-id="M8FVHOJko4c"></iframe></div><br /><div><br /><div><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk8Xpgi-rHMTxhDr7bU4jsYEHZ4oJednqgzQNladKdMmiE5ZLe5iqLyguxB7D7MKtM-uXNpII78OQOW9c6I_Bxf3huMhEeZWseTq4hGDGfPS7o4NMRXIBzC68JkqXDG9Vn4l2bZTpGbMYBtu4bbrKoCwSOEc3Q5BmKuXUnP5Xfs9WX90332LqyQW7AfVbb/s4032/20240227_192429260_iOS.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhk8Xpgi-rHMTxhDr7bU4jsYEHZ4oJednqgzQNladKdMmiE5ZLe5iqLyguxB7D7MKtM-uXNpII78OQOW9c6I_Bxf3huMhEeZWseTq4hGDGfPS7o4NMRXIBzC68JkqXDG9Vn4l2bZTpGbMYBtu4bbrKoCwSOEc3Q5BmKuXUnP5Xfs9WX90332LqyQW7AfVbb/s16000/20240227_192429260_iOS.heic" /></a></div><br /><div><b>Letters</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In an unusually awful editorial blunder, <i>Newsweek </i>pronounced the <i>USS Mississippi </i>sunk as of 1924. Five letters, probably selected from many more, point out that it seems to be misunderstanding a news story about a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Mississippi_(BB-41)">1924 accident.</a> (Or, actually two accidents and almost another one.Lloyd Dunn points out that s<a href="https://museumsvictoria.com.au/article/8-myths-about-snakes/#:~:text=%238%3A%20Snakes%20are%20deaf,sounds%20at%20a%20higher%20pitch.">nakes are deaf</a>. Mrs. Robert E. Ludwig of Drexel Hill liked the Caruso painting because it reminded her of a story about her son. Everyone liked that story about New York being a hell of a town. <b>For Your Information </b>introduces us to <a href="https://en.snu.ac.kr/snunow/snu_media/news?md=v&bbsidx=72050">Lee Chang Wha</a>, <i>Newsweek's </i>distributor in Korea. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkfZ5y7Hnbdi6ganzqDupjJKxi26rQ-IEzSHQG_9eICR9MawcYQRU_wsZm-jPpuDdDB0WsbnL71sLBdxrV8pLDfBKEy97WDoLsLYxzWpaziDrnbQKxmfAXO13U9zitKktkljgNDa2t2drciCnEgizY873XwV751AXHGmcMEu8yzlu2oWr2eRmYjyXNjftd/s4032/20240227_192521457_iOS.heic" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="You would not believe how heavy a box of canned goods that size is." border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkfZ5y7Hnbdi6ganzqDupjJKxi26rQ-IEzSHQG_9eICR9MawcYQRU_wsZm-jPpuDdDB0WsbnL71sLBdxrV8pLDfBKEy97WDoLsLYxzWpaziDrnbQKxmfAXO13U9zitKktkljgNDa2t2drciCnEgizY873XwV751AXHGmcMEu8yzlu2oWr2eRmYjyXNjftd/w240-h320/20240227_192521457_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Periscope </b>reports that, while the Administration is still denying that it plans to withdraw U.S. troops from Europe, Army strength in Europe has already been drawn down by 50,000 by not replacing men rotated home. "Paris insiders admit" that if the Soviets were willing to talk about a German settlement, the EDC would already be dead. Pentagon insiders say that <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1976/07/27/archives/richard-clare-partridge-dies-retired-army-general-was-77.html">General Partridge</a> has been removed from Army Intelligence because of his clash with Senator McCarthy, and that the three Democrats who resigned from McCarthy's committee did so because their mail had turned angry after the Fort Monroe inquiry began. <i>Newsweek </i>reports rumours about the extremely complicated history of Brownell's decision to raise the Harry Dexter White matter. Washington is worried about the amount of US money entering the East Bloc through places like Hong Kong. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Stratton">Governor William Stratton</a> of Illinois is a rising Republican star. The F-102 has also exceeded the speed of sound, so stick that in your pipe and smoke it, North American. East German propagandists are getting excited about test firing atomic artillery. <i>Newsweek </i>reminds us that there aren't going to be any live test firings, but someone is embarrassed, because here's a rumour about Soviet atomic artillery out somewhere in Poland. (With no ammunition, because the Russians can't make it yet.) Senator Irving Ives is going to try to revive the Federal Fair Employment Practices Commission next session, the IRS is using Coast Guard helicopters to spot moonshine stills, the Russian food shortage is so severe that they're spending gold to import food, something about Trieste, Red China is making moves on Japan again, Norway has been a very bad country for sending 3000t of aluminum to Russia, West Germany is now the second largest shipbuilder in the world after Britain, edging out the United States. (At least, the way Americans count it.) The Russians have let Field Marshal Paulus out of jail for sinister reasons. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P.O.W._(The_United_States_Steel_Hour)">US Steel's "initial TV drama, <i>POW</i>,"</a> is quite something. ABC is going to counter <i>Talk of the Town </i>and <i>NBC Comedy Hour </i>with a full-hour Sunday night drama show in the Fall. All Hollywood is laughing at <i>What's My Line</i>? for being an ad lib show with six writers. Fox is doing two <a href="https://themarilynreport.com/2021/10/07/marilyn-vs-20th-century-fox/">CinemaScope movies with Marilyn Monroe</a>, while <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franchot_Tone">Franchot Tone</a> and Betsy von Furstenberg are set to star in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oh,_Men!_Oh,_Women!">Edward Chodorov</a>'s psychiatric comedy, <i>Oh, Men! Oh, Women</i>! <b>Where Are They Now </b>catches up with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Ann_Steinhagen">Ruth Steinhagen</a>, who is living quietly with her parents, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Unruh">Howard Unruh</a>, who is still involuntarily committed to a psychiatric hospital.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Hcn2-sk0gGg" width="320" youtube-src-id="Hcn2-sk0gGg"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Periscope Washington Trends </b>reports that Eisenhower is afraid of losing control of Congress to conservative Republicans next session, and the solution is a bold new Presidential agenda. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>National Affairs</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Communism: Big New GOP Weapon From Now Till Next November" Yep. You heard it here first. The GOP's going to run on anti-communism. So far they've got Harry Dexter White and . . . we're working on it. More on the off-year elections, in case you've had your head under a rock and haven't heard that the GOP took a beating. To show how serious it all is, <i>Newsweek </i>gives Everett Dirksen a full page boxed column to explain that people are tired of Republicans doing nothing but getting in the way of the President. Ernest K. Lindley uses his <b>Washington Tides </b>column to air the President's diagnosis, which is that he is much more popular than his party. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The first snow of the season has hit the east coast while Los Angeles has been shut down by a smog so severe that people are coming down with "smog sickness." Atlanta city council has raised its own stink by first banning after-hours parking in Piedmont Park and then unbanning it after they got everyone from English reporters to sociologists asking questions. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawakita_v._United_States">Tomoya Kawakita</a> is on death row after being recognised as a sadistic POW guard, while shopping in a Los Angeles supermarket. (President Eisenhower has commuted the death sentence to life imprisonment.)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggEc_hcALzMmhVQOtVesxnMsE0AsjEtwMkhlzZPutNGq_ZS0M0-a935auLpL30eEse6mTsNWR7PuJr5SZ5fVZSApJv5F7xarFrXi96aDZsOOHNSSB9w0_4aM1R6d4Hy_R__NymOjqPRqkEuO-J0sZKcdULOtghyjGPOeOM4pjRKZmBEqMgukFCI39ALz4G/s1024/Mikoyan-Gurevich%20MiG-17.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="669" data-original-width="1024" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggEc_hcALzMmhVQOtVesxnMsE0AsjEtwMkhlzZPutNGq_ZS0M0-a935auLpL30eEse6mTsNWR7PuJr5SZ5fVZSApJv5F7xarFrXi96aDZsOOHNSSB9w0_4aM1R6d4Hy_R__NymOjqPRqkEuO-J0sZKcdULOtghyjGPOeOM4pjRKZmBEqMgukFCI39ALz4G/s320/Mikoyan-Gurevich%20MiG-17.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"First Team Upstairs" <i>Newsweek </i>went to the F-100's press party and was impressed by the F-100 and also the J57, which brings America level with Britain in jet engine design. "But the British aren't the probable enemy," and a convenient graphic shows that the USSR has 20,000 planes to the US 14,000, in spite of the US industry employing 623,000, to the Russians' 500,000. Fortunately, the F-86 is better than the MiG-15 and we have the B-47, B-62, B-66, F-100, F-102 and F-84F. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A profile of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kodandera_Subayya_Thimayya">General Thamaya</a>, the commander of the Indian peacekeepers in Korea, warrants a special "<b>The Truce" </b>heading. <i>Newsweek </i>likes him because he is anti-Communist and "reinforced three crucial passes leading into Tibet" because he is concerned that the Reds are up to no good. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>International </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYm87SSMDkroOv1vHWxNQVMIS2VMZ6tbTsAqDS-ACHMs_cN3aMZXUgQG_rB_a69Wu8Oj4BV4XtE6NCu3C0bop7Ue6l7dKdp5d3XOn6UnETVD0NPtoKKb7h_4N06KES5GX_tD8hUlIlbNmfAS_kPeDEKfPoPKU0BK2mEytebx6tkfq2mngzoicqyVW8RcHr/s3289/Consumer%20production%20us%20vs%20russia%201953.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3289" data-original-width="2925" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYm87SSMDkroOv1vHWxNQVMIS2VMZ6tbTsAqDS-ACHMs_cN3aMZXUgQG_rB_a69Wu8Oj4BV4XtE6NCu3C0bop7Ue6l7dKdp5d3XOn6UnETVD0NPtoKKb7h_4N06KES5GX_tD8hUlIlbNmfAS_kPeDEKfPoPKU0BK2mEytebx6tkfq2mngzoicqyVW8RcHr/s320/Consumer%20production%20us%20vs%20russia%201953.jpg" width="285" /></a></div>"Problems In and Out of Russia As Red Policy Shifts to Asia" Russia doesn't want to talk about whatever it was they were going to talk about ((I'm fading out a bit. Were we still talking about a non-agression pact?) Instead they want to talk about something else with ou<br />her people. France, maybe? <a href="https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP80-00809A000700190278-2.pdf">Hungary communists are silly as well as terrible</a>. The results of the Philippine elections are not yet in, but we get a full page explanatory story. The Mossadegh trial is getting underway.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The Homosexuality Issue" Lord Montagu of Beaulieu's homosexuality has become a national sex scandal in Britain. Montagu not being enough for a real scandal, Kenneth Hume has also been charged, and it has been revealed that there are 600 male public indecency charges on the court dockets, leading the <i>Sunday Express </i>and <i>Daily Mail </i>to conclude that homosexuality "is spreading like a foul growth in our midst." Then they caught Sir John Gielgud, and the <i>Sunday Times </i>decided that it had to run a story. Some people (and <i>The New Statesman </i>and <i>Nation</i>) are calling for reforms in the laws against homosexuality, while <i>The Spectator </i>thinks it is just a fuss about nothing. On the other hand I'm sure the usual crowd will seize on <a href="https://www.bridgemanimages.com/en-US/noartistknown/oct-10-1953-mrs-lyndon-appeals-to-the-country-her-son-found-guilty-of-cowardice-in-korea-mrs-amelia/photograph/asset/4888055">Patrick Lydon</a> as evidence that Britain has gone all moral rot. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Say what you will about <i>Newsweek </i>and Trieste coverage, at least it manages to tell me that the Fascist rioting in Trieste last week led to the special police (recruited by the British and Americans) opening fire and killing 6 protestors. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ibn Saud's obituary is long and generous, and for some reason Abdy Hamzavi gets a full page interview to explain how Iran is going to be a good country from now on. He speaks English and seems to have a lot of money, but he's been living in London for 25 years, which leaves me wondering what exact insight he has into Iranian affairs at this point. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In this hemisphere, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_A._Odr%C3%ADa">General Odria of Peru</a> is a success story because, five years after taking power in a coup, he is now an elected President. Pity about there being no-one to run against him. Also, Lima is quite nice, he believes in free enterprise, and is appalled by American economic policies towards Latin America. No-one's wrong about everything!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Business</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Periscope Business Trends </b>reports that we "shouldn't be surprised if the recent elections creep into the Administration's planning." That is, there will be some inflationary policies, but "carefully controlled," since Administration officials "have staked their careers" on there being no serious recession, just a "readjustment." The Treasury wants a harder fight against tax cuts to prevent an anticipated $8 billion deficit if Congress gets its way. Congress is also going to freeze social security payments. Forecasts call for Christmas sales to trend "slightly" downward, with apparal, radios, phonographs, and especially toys booming. Gas prices may be going up, the Air Force is casting around for ways to keep the aircraft industry from "disintegrating," the milk strike in New York points to a trend away from home milk deliveries, and civil defence building in factories may be worth a 100% tax write off soon. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsfwDkxk0-Okvniij6bZgjCGQUqjERndluVfsVjXvkecbqLwV3H1rcr57m3Dl_gkjUskEOfm4G3le63EPjZ-YqJMziSYJE55Ifp2TaxCjK1UuvvD4a7sznd4RxvxV13ffU5rR8_I3dHMaYIuKjpH5GRRjoopTjEddj-Dqr7RD5veXL4qHR77_OsNhnu8h2/s3488/Michigan%20Avenue%20car%20park%201953.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2882" data-original-width="3488" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsfwDkxk0-Okvniij6bZgjCGQUqjERndluVfsVjXvkecbqLwV3H1rcr57m3Dl_gkjUskEOfm4G3le63EPjZ-YqJMziSYJE55Ifp2TaxCjK1UuvvD4a7sznd4RxvxV13ffU5rR8_I3dHMaYIuKjpH5GRRjoopTjEddj-Dqr7RD5veXL4qHR77_OsNhnu8h2/s320/Michigan%20Avenue%20car%20park%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"Pool for Independents" With all the talk of mergers amongst the independent automakers, the next step is some kind of pool or cartel. Also, (and this non-sequitur is under the title, not me), Ford is reported to be reviving its Continental brand. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A recent conference recommended extending Social Security benefits to fifteen million people now excluded, on the grounds that it would make for a "stronger country." Daniel Starch and Staff's long-awaited study of audience reaction to ads, which indicates that only 41% see them, is provoking a fierce response from the television industry, which claims that the telephone survey was flawed. Seagrams of Canada is having a nationwide photographic tour, the William E. Philips discount outlet in Los Angeles might be an unadvertised nationwide trend,</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Notes: Week in Business </b>reports that building hit its peak in October and is declining, goes into a bit more detail about the threatened $8 billion Federal deficit next year, and that Howard Hughes is selling his share in RKO. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Products: What's New </b>reports a pressure-contact wood-on-wood adhesive from Armstrong-Cook Company of Lancaster, a drill/saw combination from Rotex, and a turntable for radios from Furblo, for better reception. Henry Hazlitt's <b>Business Tides </b>isn't going to talk about his recession for obvious reasons, so instead he defends depreciation against allegations that it is a subsidy, coming from assorted greasy and swarthy left wingers. Subsidies are what socialists do! Get it straight! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Science, Medicine</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6VuOvHA5gAEJnvSR2d9IK-mofNLU1DMV5IFKRyGmx9i-mmkU26UlQyD7lSh8jJWdf_Lg3JCA_MwQECavNys9noLm1dILk4el4PCs1aYbrH_NeRtCJIxvsZsGLuu8dWtwWDGE5S1EeQbIVGGL0XfvXNiQHzWYuqMGrUkZrqLGXUnG2bsc1JyNPPks51iIb/s3929/Doall%20Fifth%20Plate%20Ad.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3929" data-original-width="2350" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6VuOvHA5gAEJnvSR2d9IK-mofNLU1DMV5IFKRyGmx9i-mmkU26UlQyD7lSh8jJWdf_Lg3JCA_MwQECavNys9noLm1dILk4el4PCs1aYbrH_NeRtCJIxvsZsGLuu8dWtwWDGE5S1EeQbIVGGL0XfvXNiQHzWYuqMGrUkZrqLGXUnG2bsc1JyNPPks51iIb/s320/Doall%20Fifth%20Plate%20Ad.jpg" width="191" /></a></div><i>Newsweek </i>alerts us to the upcoming transit of Mercury. Then it briefly explains the significance of this year's Nobel prize winners,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frits_Zernike"> Frederick Zernike</a> and<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Staudinger"> Hermann Staudinger</a>, after tut-tutting the committees for picking older men.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Science Notes of the Week </b>repots Luis Alvarez's latest, the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bevatron">swindletron</a>," which is a cheaper sort of particle accelerator that "cheats" to get more speed out of them. Rothamsted Experimental Station has found that the reason that aphids stop flying after they give birth is that they digest their own flight muscles. Frank L. Howard of the University of Rhode Island has found that pyridnethiols are a great way to treat cotton threads such that they don't mildew. This year's gypsy moth infestation in New England set a new record by defoliating 1.8 million acres.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Sightless Motion" There are 308,000 people with less than 20/200 vision in America, and the VA is looking at a new, <a href="https://sites.aph.org/hall/inductees/hoover/">chest-high "bumper" cane</a> that might give them more mobility, says the Reverend Thomas J. Carroll of the Archdiocese of Boston, who is the head of the archdiocese's Catholic Guild for the Blind and who works out of the family home on various measures to restore mobility to the blind. At a conference there, he recently blindfolded a group of volunteers to demonstrate that being blind is tough! <i>Newsweek </i>explains at much greater length than it devotes to ophthalmologist Dr. Richard E. Hoover's new cane technique. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The Warning Shadow" The lung cancer rate is rising rapidly in America, with smoking and air pollution likely causes. It is estimated that 18,400 men and 3800 women will die of lung cancer in 1953, and although this has a great deal to do with rising population and life expectancy, the rate is <i>four times</i> higher than twenty years ago, says Dr. Daniel Horn of the American Cancer Society. We should work on reducing smoking, extracting the carcinogens from tobacco, and doing something about air pollution, say various attendees of the recent meeting of the ACS that this story covers. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJkdJ9SCaaio9eBPyUeQgSfeK_2jsoNWK_ZtWKiaNDJjCL8P7O8F0RuPiZPiVaRAql9C_jYiQU7ibvK-6x9xWpLjKEyLpMglAYj8hCe-a28Lue61dqo4x5zTfjGxD5ogeIrZXpg0P8fgFKFmn2dhPcQR21oQQgVKAXOSoD8vYvvc9JYlFgaveRWgvtuHWQ/s252/Peter%20Juley,%20Zorchy%20and%20others.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Juley, Zorchy and Others." border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="252" height="508" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJkdJ9SCaaio9eBPyUeQgSfeK_2jsoNWK_ZtWKiaNDJjCL8P7O8F0RuPiZPiVaRAql9C_jYiQU7ibvK-6x9xWpLjKEyLpMglAYj8hCe-a28Lue61dqo4x5zTfjGxD5ogeIrZXpg0P8fgFKFmn2dhPcQR21oQQgVKAXOSoD8vYvvc9JYlFgaveRWgvtuHWQ/w640-h508/Peter%20Juley,%20Zorchy%20and%20others.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Art, Radio and Television, Press, Newsmakers</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Photographer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_A._Juley">Peter A. Juley</a> is getting a retrospective show at the Art Students League of New York, being more <i>Time's </i>idea of a great artist than <i>Newsweek's, </i>for example in being dead for seventeen years now. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Colour and Tape" RCA and NBC officials visited Hollywood to see a colour television show from New York-produced tape, showing that RCA's new erasable magnetic tape can record both black and white and colour footage, beating Bing (and us) to the punch. Hollywood seems glum about it, because it is worried that it will reduce the value of their black-and-white inventory. The <i>US Steel Hour </i>show, "POW," gets another positive review. It seems like people are inclined to forgive POW "brainwashing" victims. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheppard_v._Maxwell">Louis Benson Seltzer</a> of the <i>Cleveland Press </i>gets a profile. A story follows the quest to get <a href="https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/casedetailpre1989.aspx?caseid=41">Willie Calloway </a>out of jail, and the <i>Chicago Daily News</i>'s war on slums. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdI3j2Qpetyq_DTcIO4e4WO-VhxZwFve77zQcBYJvtwI6C1ILXZKU0YRKohjL91ZJbGwzettSkXsItn1NG9h70u2ovjiMYuJdTOse41cLTLSu5AKwweo88mpCM1i6twV3c2vZ_sHj2L9053EL8xQaFZvOC3RqiqUamMES5D1cVV8hnJ5C-m5dhDD7QyVz_/s2841/Trufant%20Family.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1713" data-original-width="2841" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdI3j2Qpetyq_DTcIO4e4WO-VhxZwFve77zQcBYJvtwI6C1ILXZKU0YRKohjL91ZJbGwzettSkXsItn1NG9h70u2ovjiMYuJdTOse41cLTLSu5AKwweo88mpCM1i6twV3c2vZ_sHj2L9053EL8xQaFZvOC3RqiqUamMES5D1cVV8hnJ5C-m5dhDD7QyVz_/s320/Trufant%20Family.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Governor Battle, the current and past president of the WCTU, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._David_Schine">David Schine</a>, Zsa Zsa Gabor and George Sanders, and Greer Garson are in the column for the usual reasons. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Carney">Bob Carney,</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Stump">Felix Stump</a> are in it because they had to hitch rides back to Pearl after their staff car broke down. The Trufants of Everett, Massachusetts, are in it for having three pairs of twins in a row, all cute as buttons. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>New Films </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>How to Marry a Millionaire </i>is the first of Fox's CinemaScope movies for Marilyn Monroe. Since everyone is talking about the Divine Marilyn, so it is interesting to know what <i>Newsweek </i>is going to say. Well, first of all, it tut-tuts such skin as is shown, and then admits that the movie is very funny without for a second acknowledging that Monroe, Bacall, and Betty Hutton had anything to do with it. <i>Crazylegs </i>is a sports biopic from Republic about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elroy_Hirsch">Elroy Hirsch</a>, with Joan Vohs. <i>Take the High Ground </i>(MGM) is one of those basic training movies where Karl Madden yells at boys until they turn into soldiers and also Elaine Stewart. Paramount's <i><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045774/">Flight to Tangier</a> </i>was produced to be shown 2D, 3D, regular or widescreen, which is quite an achievement, so you can see why they saved some money by leaving out the plot. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5Ymfob2SJhc" width="320" youtube-src-id="5Ymfob2SJhc"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Books </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Jesse Stuart tells a picturesque and strange story of the South in days gone by that you can stack up so high with all the others. (<i>The Good Spirit of Laurel Ridge.</i>) Rowland Emett gets a collection, <i>Emett's Domain: Trains, Trams, and Englishmen</i>. Major General John Herr and Edward Wallace have <i>Story of the US Cavalry</i>, while <b>Other Books </b>reviews a family novel by Elizabeth Janeway and a Perry Mason murder mystery by Erle Stanley Gardner. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Raymond Moley turns in a look at the off year elections in <b>Perspective </b>and concluding that they were "No Skirmish," and that the President has to change course and be more conservative if he wants to win next year. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuvJcajf098widnn31HbpYpC91fpbByae3YuzFN0vxkWiKirtatM27v3Axj7_Lkf7iClwXmX9b4z72lymAxtAIClMTNQV5tuGrrRTxOLd7GFPmjCWKc91XJTneIvx073OhOBagdyK2ccWUliNYpQoOPNp3h4T8FQVhKRHNVgwFejX-rfMrbOs3eMcvrICB/s4032/20240302_142633890_iOS.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuvJcajf098widnn31HbpYpC91fpbByae3YuzFN0vxkWiKirtatM27v3Axj7_Lkf7iClwXmX9b4z72lymAxtAIClMTNQV5tuGrrRTxOLd7GFPmjCWKc91XJTneIvx073OhOBagdyK2ccWUliNYpQoOPNp3h4T8FQVhKRHNVgwFejX-rfMrbOs3eMcvrICB/w480-h640/20240302_142633890_iOS.heic" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Aviation Week, </i>16 November 1953</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>News Digest </b>reports that the Hughes guided missile factory in Phoenix, Arizona, will <i>not </i>be taken over by the government, and that Eastern has received its first Turbocompound Super-Connies, I guess for nonstop service. (I've never flown the New York-Miami route, which is quite the thing these days.) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: right;"><br /></div><b>Industry Observer </b>reports that Convair has split its "weapon system" contract for the B-58 into two halves, with Emerson to do the weapons and Sylvania the detection equipment, replacing GE, which was going to subcontract the whole thing before negotiations broke down. De Havilland is rolling out the first Comet 3s and has finalised some production design details, including adopting elliptical windows rather than the double-paned favoured by the CAA. Pentagon aid money for offshore fighter procurement will focus on all-weather types rather than day fighters from now on, as we have enough of those. Propeller manufacturers have won some concessions in terms of getting high power turboprop engines assigned to them for ongoing development. The CAA is cracking down on the rules for self-certifying small helicopters. <i>That's </i>why there's so many weird helicopter designs around! Allison says that the J35 is actually pretty reliable these days, and Lockheed and Republic point out that most of the Korean War Air Force jet sorties were byF-80s and F-84s. The MoS has shelved plans for a Hunter with the sweepback increased to 50 degrees and 10,000lbs thrust from the Avon 14 when the prototype was almost complete, suggesting that a new Swift might be on the table instead. Piasecki's third prototype of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allison_T56">some helicopter that absolutely will appear really soon</a> will have the Allison T56 turboprop that absolutely will be working reliably soon. Anyone who says different is a big giant poo-poo head. (To quote your grandson on a related subject.)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk05jMGm2hqy2rFvvVL5Yh7PSBwpbX900itH84clt9VA5c7te1ey3l_UxR_Ako4SqF64KStIgeWfkaDQG4gUZDgdXaOBaI4vOx_RIT3iD-ALm4L2_DZqUmYIft-mvsc3Uh2ob6a56MPr09saEX5thMQxhvxIeM6lYlcVjitSbjEPk30haX9TJRwFMhUwRs/s4032/Douglas%20Skyrocket(2).jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="A record it held 26 days last month before the F-100D beat it." border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjk05jMGm2hqy2rFvvVL5Yh7PSBwpbX900itH84clt9VA5c7te1ey3l_UxR_Ako4SqF64KStIgeWfkaDQG4gUZDgdXaOBaI4vOx_RIT3iD-ALm4L2_DZqUmYIft-mvsc3Uh2ob6a56MPr09saEX5thMQxhvxIeM6lYlcVjitSbjEPk30haX9TJRwFMhUwRs/w320-h240/Douglas%20Skyrocket(2).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Katherine Johnsen's <b>Washington Observer </b>reports that Admiral Carney is fighting Wilson over the cancellation of an atomic power plant for aircraft carriers, arguing that all major ships should be atom powered from now on. The Pentagon is arguing about whether continental air defence should be built from the frontiers outwards, or from the frontiers inwards. Current air strength proposals are 127 wings (Wilson promises 115 by mid '54), 16 carrier air groups next year. The Office of Defence Mobilisation thinks it is being ignored these days, the railroads are mobilising to fight the new round of air mail subsidies, the CAA thinks that President Hoover's recommendation to eliminate a bunch of independent agencies because there are just too many of them around these days is stupid, and there may be even more Defence under-secretaries soon. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Robert Hotz reports for <b>Aviation Week </b>that "Air Policy Study Sidesteps Military Issues" which is a story about how the aircraft industry thinks that there will be a disastrous crack-up of the industry if someone doesn't think of their needs for more money soon. The CAA is continuing to trim its budget, offload costs, and lay off staff. GM has gone from leasing Willow Run's vacant floor space to buying the whole darn thing. Kaiser will shift auto manufacturing to the Toledo plant, which is largely idle. Uncle Henry gets out from under almost $20 million in government loans this way. Igor Stroukoff is negotiating for a development contract for a C-123 prototype with boundary layer control based on an earlier one for a C-123 with hydroski iundercarriage. Canada is fighting with the CAB over stuff that seems like cabotage. More Air Force spending cuts seem in the offing due to "closer fiscal control." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"AF Permits First Look at Pratt and Whitney J57" It's a 10,000lb engine two years ahead of the British, the manufacturer says. Considering that the Olympus is running at an <i>official </i>rating of 9750lb and the Avon 14 at 9500lbs, even <i>Aviation Week </i>thinks this is a bit much. The major detail in print is that the J57, like the Olympus, has a "split" compressor. North American and Douglas are said to be continuing to chase a speed record for the F-100 and Skyrocket, respectively. No-one is taking airplanes to vacation in America because they can't get dollars, say the airlines. The Air National Guard is receiving its first F-86s, stalls continue to lead non-airline crash totals, San Diego is getting a big air show, Italian parliamentarians are sticking up for Italian aviation by trying to squeeze out the foreign capital that controls Alitalia and ALI.<br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI9KAl_CwNUON2Deb7ZOrNqDzXUys5ofDF9hdDpQdJ1Sw0tHr730TTn8en4SRh40MfMOSo0i6qqIODhwu40dhJasahO-yMUwLYVkqKXbJddP3WFXgFGR96NTEv7FQB0W-sKN5CEgfLGKpbmU2sL1StIvvYudG-Y66JLUkoXWKgdacBJJ73PiMzC3B420_u/s4032/Parker%20O-rings%20ad.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="This is what it looks like when you're a sucker and pay for your advertising space" border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI9KAl_CwNUON2Deb7ZOrNqDzXUys5ofDF9hdDpQdJ1Sw0tHr730TTn8en4SRh40MfMOSo0i6qqIODhwu40dhJasahO-yMUwLYVkqKXbJddP3WFXgFGR96NTEv7FQB0W-sKN5CEgfLGKpbmU2sL1StIvvYudG-Y66JLUkoXWKgdacBJJ73PiMzC3B420_u/w320-h240/Parker%20O-rings%20ad.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>David A. Anderton reports for <b>Aeronautical Engineering </b>on "How Air France Comet Training Works," which just means printing the pilot training curriculum <i>verbatim, </i>then giving some commentary. Since that doesn't take all the space, the editor calls Lockheed and gets a blurb on some glide tests they're doing on a Lodestar with cleaner engine cowling. That <i>still </i>isn't enough, so it's on to an LA Chamber of Commerce blurb reporting that aircraft is the biggest industry in California once you define "industry" to leave out all the bigger ones. (Hollywood <i>manufactures </i>films. That's just what it does!) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>What's New </b>reports about brochures about guided missile power generators, electronic induction heating for metal furnaces, ducting for jet aircraft for assorted hotelling services, Twin Manufacturing's aircraft tooling capabilities, the excellent boxes available from Zero Manufacturing, facilities for making silicone rubber bits available at Goshen Rubber,, shockproof helmets from General Textiles, structural latches for aircraft from Simmonds, cutting-off wheels and spindles from Norton Manufacturing, ground generators, cherry blind rivets, and electric clutch controls from three different manufacturers (including Honeywell, so not small fry), all in the same paragraph just because, Wirelon ropes, ultrasonic meters, lightweight magnesium plate. That's all information <i>about </i>these products, and not advertising at all! <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Production </b>has a pictorial of the rebuilt Boeing C-97 that Temco is turning out for medical flights. Then Avro Canada wants us to know about its technique of using resin impregnators in magnesium gearbox castings,and a GE engineer accidentally said something nice about British jet engines. David Cochran will be shot at dawn. <b>Production Briefing </b>reports that Hillier has built its 500th helicopter, some companies have subcontracts, American Helicopter Corporation has bought Piasecki.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Philip Klass reports for <b>Avionics </b>that "AEEC Acts on Avionic Problems" Specifically, the Airlines Electronic Engineering Conference likes the new cockpit phone system, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selcall">Selcall</a>. The CAA has issued new regulations easing ramp tesdting of omnirange receivers, new airline radio rack designs with better cooling are in the offing, the AEEC passed on making recommendations for DME equipment, because, while useful, it is hard to maintain right now due to lack of suitable test equipment. It did, however, recommend a new 360 channel airborne VHF communication system. More frequencies are to be set aside for all the ILS systems coming into use. <b>Filter Centre </b>reports that Smiths is looking into US production (and presumably use) of its SEP2 autopilot, in use on the Comet, has a nice brochure on hand about transistors, write GE for your copy today, and unveils a 360 channel Collins VHF receiver with 50kHz spacing. <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiffrp5U9Hm6pM9Nx8eFM8GrFq9a8rc56sf8XYaIpxHpSMjHYmiFUFikgFIpwqZ58kNWuCqTf3SyFtX5D6QMK4py0MRW1HWEIahrk36o_weQRdvu581KTtua1BMiCjOzBSXW3tz9n-xvG-4ZpFML2FQ7P_vT15FjcB5mxnHA1NEj5WVSD34X8EuNOdR4yev/s4032/Westinghouse(2)%20.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiffrp5U9Hm6pM9Nx8eFM8GrFq9a8rc56sf8XYaIpxHpSMjHYmiFUFikgFIpwqZ58kNWuCqTf3SyFtX5D6QMK4py0MRW1HWEIahrk36o_weQRdvu581KTtua1BMiCjOzBSXW3tz9n-xvG-4ZpFML2FQ7P_vT15FjcB5mxnHA1NEj5WVSD34X8EuNOdR4yev/s320/Westinghouse(2)%20.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">How a company can blow an industry-dominating position this quickly <br />is beyond me. And it's not just them. </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Convair reports for <b>Equipment </b>that "Animated Panels Explain Convair 340" Just what we needed, comic-book level operator's guides for the 340 for foreign pilots.AiResearch wants us to know that its new turbines catch fire far less often. Atlas Powder reports that Atlas Powder's new oil additive inhibits engine rust. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>New Aviation Products </b>has a "small compressor for pneumatic systems" from Rhodes Lewis, am adjustable control bar for presses, from Danly Machine Specialities, an absolutely explosion-proof polyphase ac motor from GE, and a self-timing welder that eliminates the need for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elapsed_real_time">wall timing.</a> <b>Airlines </b>has a bit where the industry takes Piasecki aside and explains what it needs to do to make helicopter passenger air transport practical. A reliable, thirty-seat, fast helicopter. Can do? Then talk to us! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Robert H. Wood's <b>Editorial </b>hasn't much to talk about, so it gets back to running down the railways, which really do have no future in passenger transport, he thinks, secrecy, which is still stupid, and the CAA and CAB, which are still corrupt. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh13sguTdtfT-EAKc0ApfXmoMnNT0Edci-rrAVtgMsMqs-lRGoCE14B1NrihSZ3M-vIlosiDfz03Opr75bmHckDkA8zxo7JgHkedzFavQBn3Lvy2zEtMa0hgJEUaTMVuIEEoIKfghHfvKwdYfyrLzV_VD-eqmJyNPciFFiE9l7-d8jo-30nfhVox5LYojbG/s4032/20240229_202559591_iOS.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh13sguTdtfT-EAKc0ApfXmoMnNT0Edci-rrAVtgMsMqs-lRGoCE14B1NrihSZ3M-vIlosiDfz03Opr75bmHckDkA8zxo7JgHkedzFavQBn3Lvy2zEtMa0hgJEUaTMVuIEEoIKfghHfvKwdYfyrLzV_VD-eqmJyNPciFFiE9l7-d8jo-30nfhVox5LYojbG/s16000/20240229_202559591_iOS.heic" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Letters</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8RKuco9MukQqSUaCPAN3cNeB7YM-6t6fMTYqSAZByY478nExdlPh6E3nBp8N67YgbsSNM5-Z69p_2LuA5-DEAz2DyXr5qw7aJw_kRpYh0LPytf2xVhCoZ-f1hHMl0qF_I11sop-EPuXgVx3v2HC6tEmqEmlmZRHLh8tjmt80m8cVc4DCfcP8jTA6Fcyoe/s1000/Muir,%20Malcolm.webp" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="849" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8RKuco9MukQqSUaCPAN3cNeB7YM-6t6fMTYqSAZByY478nExdlPh6E3nBp8N67YgbsSNM5-Z69p_2LuA5-DEAz2DyXr5qw7aJw_kRpYh0LPytf2xVhCoZ-f1hHMl0qF_I11sop-EPuXgVx3v2HC6tEmqEmlmZRHLh8tjmt80m8cVc4DCfcP8jTA6Fcyoe/s320/Muir,%20Malcolm.webp" width="272" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">This is Malcolm Sr., Malcolm's Dad. Malcolm Sr. was<br />Chairman of the board of <i>Newsweek.</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table>C. Jay Walker of Hammond, Oregon and Robert Fairbank of Moro Bay, California, really liked Daniel Richberg's letter about how economic aid and allies are bad, and we need a real, patriot government that can declare foreign parts illegal and be done with it. F. H. Barksdale of Lexington, Virginia, thinks that symphony music does more for the world than a bomb. S. Stewart Brooke points out that smoking in the classroom was already the rule at Yale thirty years ago, and he is amazed that this pleasant custom" has taken thirty years to reach the West Coast. Many, many corrrespondents point out that modern college kids are progressive and even liberal, and one points out that it's because they can't exactly take moral lessons from their elders, because whoo, boy! The editor of <i>Parents </i>writes to point out that their circulation is up even more than the <i>Newsweek </i>story says, because everyone is just so darn serious about parenting these days. <b>For Your Information </b>catches us up with the promotions of Chet Shaw and John Denson down at the office. "Senior editor <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1984/07/22/obituaries/no-headline-081572.html">Malcolm Muir,</a> <i>formerly in chare of </i><b style="font-style: italic;">The Periscope </b><i>and </i><b><i>Business</i>," </b>has also been promoted, or possibly kicked up stairs. Which is too bad. I will miss his wacky ways and his ability to write entire <b>Trends </b>columns that don't say anything and don't need summarising. (Except to say, "<i>This </i>time the Administration has it right."<i> </i><b> <br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-uU1BX9kteslxB6RSyltgClSDorillz0F5897F44H6Gc1Jv71ZW4PuFfii_UrNXo3Neh4ar1jDTzq3e6VMq1hFEsqTT0qcB4P9zr8HrGVUs9ce1-qLnIQFd6d8KxmeF6EprRMIZ6DnbHhvs-H5O9lPcc2XkqqBVK-S9z0XM3-FwkXfcYj9ZeZeMJ8zaxt/s4032/20240301_144821762_iOS.heic" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-uU1BX9kteslxB6RSyltgClSDorillz0F5897F44H6Gc1Jv71ZW4PuFfii_UrNXo3Neh4ar1jDTzq3e6VMq1hFEsqTT0qcB4P9zr8HrGVUs9ce1-qLnIQFd6d8KxmeF6EprRMIZ6DnbHhvs-H5O9lPcc2XkqqBVK-S9z0XM3-FwkXfcYj9ZeZeMJ8zaxt/s320/20240301_144821762_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><b>The Periscope </b>reports that the President may have to call Congress back to deal with raising the debt limit, and that Canadians were disappointed by his recent visit. "Some Treasury people" are now fingering the FBI for not cooperating in building a case against Harry Dexter White. Which, if these people know the story of why the FBI <i>couldn't </i>cooperate, seems like a pretty nasty thing to do to some pretty nasty people. So two wrongs making a right for a change? The Army is keeping mum about some 300 Red defectors crossing the demilitarised zone in Korea, while <b>The Periscope </b>reports that five more of the POWs who originally rejected repatriation, have changed their mind, and that there is "fighting" going on amongst the Americans still held. It is reported that the atom bombs dropped on Japan were dubbed "Fat Man" and "Thin Man" after Churchill and FDR, respectively. The Russians are increasingly worried about their alliance with China. Adlai Stevenson is getting more and more critical of the President in his speeches, and speaking of which, it is reported that that valise that is carried around with the President wherever he goes contains Western novels, not top-secret documents. The Communist Party of the USA is splitting into three factions over how it should fight anti-Red measures. (Spend on young communists, spend on defending leaders on trial, back front organisations.) Russian observers have been invited to the atomic test set for Eniwetok next month. Doctors will not be drafted next year, and the Russians have been reported to have <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peenem%C3%BCnde">reopened the German missile works at Peenemünde</a>, where they are working on an improved version of the German <i>Wasserfall</i> rocket. It is reported that NATO planes are being packed together on European airfields because they are expected to be able to take off before an airstrike reaches them. The Kremlin is boasting that the Western trade embargo is breaking down as they sign 25 more trade agreements. Continuing fighting between Indonesian troops and "Chinese rebels" is reported in north Sumatra. Is <i>Newsweek </i> dumb, or just confused because both "Achinese" and "Chinese" look similar? The Reds may be offering Europe atomic power plants, and may have discovered oil in western China, both of which developments are sinister and bad. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On the Hollywood beat, the boss's son (it turns out Malcolm Muir, Sr. is the big cheese at <i>Newsweek</i>) reports that James Mason is starring in a CinemaScope remake of <i>Svengali, </i>MGM is seeking Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_McAvoy">May McAvoy</a>, and Carmel Myers for roles in <i>Ben Hur, </i>a musical based on Hilton's <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shangri-La_(musical)">Lost Horizons</a> </i>is the big Broadway musical for the spring, NBC is putting six Robert Sherwood plays in the Milton Berle slot in the spring, Joan Bennett is working on six half-hour shows for something called <i>Screen Star Review, </i>and Edward Arnold will play a blind detective with a seeing eye dog in a new half hour show. <b>Where Are They Now </b>reports that Pappa Boyington is on the sales staff of a southern California brewery,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabby_Hartnett"> Gabby Hartnett</a> is 52 and is a successful businessman who seems to own half the businesses in Lincolnwood, outside of Chicago. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UjiVsxMLc0k" width="320" youtube-src-id="UjiVsxMLc0k"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The point of the bit about Silent era stars being "sought" for <i>Ben Hur </i>were all in the original cast. McAvoy is the only "get' per their Wiki biographies, so I haven't linked to the Ramon Novarro entr per my format here. But check it out for an outrageous mid-Seventies scandal. The rest of it is all the nepo baby blowing it as usual. I can't rule out that Anderson plays ran in the Berle slot over the summer, but it doesn't seem likely. Enjoy this clip from <i>Commando Cody, </i>which <i>did </i>debut on NBC this year.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Periscope Washington Trends </b>reports that various prominent Republicans have assured the President that the "Truman-Brownell row over the Harry Dexter White case" is all the ammunition he needs for the next two years. It will completely make up for needing Democrats in Congress to actually pass his legislation, the GOP in Congress being determined to blow up the deficit with tax cuts and farm aid, his difficulties getting trade liberalisation through, his attempts to get out from under Taft-Hartley, the AEC's effort to not give the entire atomic candy store away to private power, and Hawaiian statehood. (Unlikely this session, we're told.)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>National Affairs</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSLGDRFLbMCJs-zZWZRvBitLvtkgdCCV7z7ufbeX4gbgA3RR-Wt8Gx13NOIwfZWqBvbd9xFxj-sDKr1ZiLn0ngm99lcYnAo3ObbAm9qrxlBSvCQcwDMaxjLLmsNWXhKisG1Fxc_8M-5pIiuKrK7ayqXqjIL6qwP2Y5gRZSKmVX8F3J-PeS393426JmgzHS/s4032/Raytheon%20microwave%20ad.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2225" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSLGDRFLbMCJs-zZWZRvBitLvtkgdCCV7z7ufbeX4gbgA3RR-Wt8Gx13NOIwfZWqBvbd9xFxj-sDKr1ZiLn0ngm99lcYnAo3ObbAm9qrxlBSvCQcwDMaxjLLmsNWXhKisG1Fxc_8M-5pIiuKrK7ayqXqjIL6qwP2Y5gRZSKmVX8F3J-PeS393426JmgzHS/s320/Raytheon%20microwave%20ad.jpg" width="177" /></a></div>"Stake in White Case: Victory in 1954" We're apparently going to dance around the Soviet diplomatic decryptions behind the White case for an entire year, romping to victory in the '54 midterms on the strength of the Administration's fervent anti-Communism without a single downside on the McCarthy front. Which is great news for the Republicans, since the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_United_States_elections#:~:text=In%20the%20House%2C%20the%20Republicans,two%20seats%20to%20the%20Democrats.">worrywarts are saying that the election will go on the pocketbook and there's a slump on the way</a>, and when we're all "Heil McCarthying" in 1957, at least we'll have the consolation that the President had a friendly Congress in '55. Also, we shouldn't forget that there are still plenty of people in the Administration who hate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Brownell_Jr.">Herb Brownell</a>.<br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Red Network in Government: Story Without End?" Yes, yes, it will be. Although the "story" here is a three page potted history of Soviet espionage in America highlighting their successes during the Great Depression, which, I don't know, "Eisenhower Depression," anyone? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Muted Monmouth?" With the McCarthy Committee hearings on the Fort Monmouth investigation going on behind closed doors, there have been plenty of rumours about what it has found. This week, the Army's own investigation laid out the headline finding: No espionage, except perhaps a bit just after the war, associated with the Rosenberg ring. The 8000 Fort Monmouth employees have generated 167 security cases and 33 suspensions but none permanent so far, and none on espionage-related charges. McCarthy's position is that this proves the need for a public inquiry. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_Hallinan">Vincent Hallinan is guilty of tax evasion</a>, and Ernest K. Lindell uses <b>Washington Tides </b>to argue that the Brownell/Truman/White "fuss" is "A Political Blunder," with Republicans entering into "a conspiracy to make Harry S.<span style="font-size: xx-small;">[sic]</span> Truman President again."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Truce</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZX4RgKbs1T-PQUYKO4BCq7HBYve8awK16d2MRCP5O-gxxQc-H2_MmrMvc40-htQ1-gVB-yzVzdG79cwBYDT2alXYddISvsAmTW71vFvzSuhcN_htweKuzlljyPtJq3UtHl4EyQbE-rFvT1VOBuePnSqIMPBbUeM6xZaaBnhIwki8xMbKoUdYRWN5LfCjK/s3910/North%20American%20F86%20Sabre3.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3910" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZX4RgKbs1T-PQUYKO4BCq7HBYve8awK16d2MRCP5O-gxxQc-H2_MmrMvc40-htQ1-gVB-yzVzdG79cwBYDT2alXYddISvsAmTW71vFvzSuhcN_htweKuzlljyPtJq3UtHl4EyQbE-rFvT1VOBuePnSqIMPBbUeM6xZaaBnhIwki8xMbKoUdYRWN5LfCjK/s320/North%20American%20F86%20Sabre3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"Korea Bunkers: Winter Watch" Nothing much is happening in Korea, but some of the nothing is being done by the Reds in a sinister way, hence the story. And a baby born in the "pro-Communist" detention camp run by the Indians won't have to attend the UN "explainer" sessions, but instead will go wherever their mother goes. Which adds colour to a story about 22 Americans, one Briton and 333 South Koreans being held at that camp. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SGX6dkVmDoI" width="320" youtube-src-id="SGX6dkVmDoI"></iframe></div><b>International</b><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Crackdown in the Middle East: Red-Inspired Iranians Retreat" General Zahredi sent his troops into the Teheran bazaar to repress the massive strike that was entirely caused by "nationalist extremists and Reds in favour of ousted Premier Mohammed Mossadegh." Or by Mossasdegh's "antics" at his trial. Either way, the 218 people detained and three people were killed by police gunfire had it coming, and it seems as though the Americans and British are fighting over who gets a larger share of Iranian oil. Meanwhile, the Sudanese national election is full of the zany behaviour of colourful Africans and the outrageous cheating of the Egyptians. Prince Charles has had a birthday, getting a toy car he can actually drive, but no sign of his parents, who are off on a trip to Australia. In Trieste oh go away! The Big Three meeting in Bermuda is a month away, and the Chinese have made it clear that the Russians are not to do anything that would upset Peking. But Churchill is eager to meet with Eisenhower and pass on the torch, even if the British are starting to chum up with Japan, and we know how that ends! Ramon Magsaysay has won the election in the Philippines, and <i>Newsweek </i>visits with Soviet diplomatic staff in New York to see what is up with them. Not much, except <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semyon_K._Tsarapkin">Semyon Tsarapkin</a> almost arrested <i>Newsweek </i>and sent him off to the Lubyanka by parcel post after <i>Newsweek </i>inadvertently let it slip that he was a Russian emigre. Very dramatic! (It turns out that <i>Newsweek's </i>man was Leon Volkov, who I cannot believe went unrecognised by the staff before he pronounced "Ukraine" wrong.)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWZZVxyJAo1Pf9e6dmn_7bChS8NlS3kMANzLbgaHiwLyxheCfJ98B27kQcCRH_P2jihdmLN65uxcvNYOz9OE94ClQnPefJ1WbvTCxRY3YbL5i3DuTxLKYZE2kizTZOMSEZF2KFc8pu4WLK5c_bLPZNGEMs388eYM6CMRKivbRaNdD40uBHHf141EjBfZyq/s2309/Newsweek%20streeters%20on%20Soviet%20diplomatic%20staff%20in%20New%20York,%201953.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1367" data-original-width="2309" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWZZVxyJAo1Pf9e6dmn_7bChS8NlS3kMANzLbgaHiwLyxheCfJ98B27kQcCRH_P2jihdmLN65uxcvNYOz9OE94ClQnPefJ1WbvTCxRY3YbL5i3DuTxLKYZE2kizTZOMSEZF2KFc8pu4WLK5c_bLPZNGEMs388eYM6CMRKivbRaNdD40uBHHf141EjBfZyq/s320/Newsweek%20streeters%20on%20Soviet%20diplomatic%20staff%20in%20New%20York,%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Eisenhower's address to Parliament headlines this week's <b>Canadian Affairs </b>page, but Governor-General Massey's pomposity isn't missed. </div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Business</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Periscope Business Trends </b>reports that there is going to be a slump next year. It is natural and inevitable and nothing to get alarmed about. Remember that the US population, now nearly 161 million, will be 175 million by 1960, that new families will grown in number from 45 million to 51 million, and industries that cater to teenage needs stand to be good business for the next while.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Rising Crisis for US Industry: Brains --And How to Get Them" Keep promoting the boss's son? It's always worked before! Anyway, a bunch of business leaders and smooth talkers got together for a conference in Sulphur Springs the other week to talk it over. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Plugs" CBS is really promoting itself these days! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Products: What's New </b>reports Eastman Kodak's new halftone negatives suitable for photographic reproduction in periodicals, which can now be produced without special engraving screens or cameras. Aluminum Products of New York has an ironing board cover which can reduce the length of time required for ironing by a quarter by holding heat better. Storz Brewing of Omaha, Nebraska, has a "calorie controlled" beer in 8oz cans. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The 1954 Nash line is out, with price cuts of from $14 to $161, with the Rambler Suburban four-door only $1945 to the Ambassador Country Club's $2745 with Dual Powerflyte engine. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Notes: Week in Business </b>reports that Hilton is building a hotel in Egypt, Lockheed is forming a separate division to produce guided missiles, and the nation's production of goods and services dropped to an annual rate of $369 billion, a drop of almost 10% from last quarter and the first drop in three-and-a-half years. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj_R5ScU5c1kNYQIJVdKqEqnUAuRObClGBa6kVpwUH_dgyVoY3n132u_R7CeY0pRdq9Tma28T7sAU4wIfAmjyGNSID4iuxqXOfHhEjXABgoydrdieIGnabaYKWOT56o9MH6-ybHYaTWMBQ_pC4U2sDudtrFg30XwoxMBa-LyLO-ies3gxvJ27f-6fkEc5-/s4004/US%20national%20debt%20per%20capita%201929%20to%201953.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2363" data-original-width="4004" height="189" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgj_R5ScU5c1kNYQIJVdKqEqnUAuRObClGBa6kVpwUH_dgyVoY3n132u_R7CeY0pRdq9Tma28T7sAU4wIfAmjyGNSID4iuxqXOfHhEjXABgoydrdieIGnabaYKWOT56o9MH6-ybHYaTWMBQ_pC4U2sDudtrFg30XwoxMBa-LyLO-ies3gxvJ27f-6fkEc5-/s320/US%20national%20debt%20per%20capita%201929%20to%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Henry Hazlitt's <b>Business Tides </b>has this little matter of the slump that Henry has been calling for for eight years at the doorstep, so it is time to advocate "For a Responsible Budget," where he explains that Congress' insouciant failure to authorise an increase in the debt limit during the summer is no big deal because Congress can now demand that the Administration get rid of the deficit in return for the spending authorisation. But that's only a stopgap, and Henry wants a tiny little constitutional amendment to stop Congress from ever increasing spending on top of an Administration budget ever again. They have it in Britain, after all! As compensation for giving up its most basic constitutional power, Henry proposes that Congress get a <i>different </i>power to reduce spending.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Science, Medicine, Education</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Tornado Killers?" Two Air Force tornado researchers, Fritz O. Rossman and Rollins H. Mayer, have presented a new theory of "torpedo structure" according to which they can be taken apart by explosive missiles fired by airplanes, and that the Air Force should position some tornado-fighting jets near every major city. "Weather experts aren't accepting the Rossman-Mayer theory without controversy," <i>Newsweek </i>goes on, but R. H. Simpson of the Weather Bureau says it has "an open mind about this." One thing that there are no open minds about is AD-X2, which definitely isn't good for batteries. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Mass Polio Test" The first mass inoculation public trials of the polio vaccine developed by Jonas Salk will be made in February. The killed-virus vaccine is the safest one so far developed. Meanwhile, claims to have finally identified the polio vaccine have been registered by Dr. A. R. Taylor of Parke, Davis, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendell_Meredith_Stanley">Dr. Wendell M. Stanley</a> of the University of Southern California<span style="font-size: xx-small;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosalind_Franklin">!</a>]</span> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"What Pilot Failure Is" <a href="https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/research-guides/modern-biographical-files-ndl/modern-bios-b/barr-norman-lee.html">Commander Norman Lee Barr</a>, a navy flight surgeon and head of the Aviation Medicine Division at Bethesda, is looking into it by wiring up pilots with remote sensors like they were a test plane. He seems to be mainly interested in high-stress pullouts that may lead to pilot blackouts. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Newsweek </i>visits a colourful one-room schoolhouse in Oregon, the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship, and the 84 jammed schools for the children of US soldiers in Europe. (It's Army, only.) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizO79WXAfs7dwSFnpcOJ5D2QewPN4pM9oBC1w3omz_nhCfPAnSsvOkKR0gF1PEFBjTHpwmOaHNJHX0ZVEQg07Q7G7GWT7i-unJnyComk-XMzXS4F26PCObtYQF2Ro2oXJWV-pVMX5q_tAb0_goHbH5EwS7SYy5w7gppjqLdc7_JWjiq2F5Q-jVEuajuEI0/s4032/20240301_220958920_iOS.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizO79WXAfs7dwSFnpcOJ5D2QewPN4pM9oBC1w3omz_nhCfPAnSsvOkKR0gF1PEFBjTHpwmOaHNJHX0ZVEQg07Q7G7GWT7i-unJnyComk-XMzXS4F26PCObtYQF2Ro2oXJWV-pVMX5q_tAb0_goHbH5EwS7SYy5w7gppjqLdc7_JWjiq2F5Q-jVEuajuEI0/w480-h640/20240301_220958920_iOS.heic" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Art, Press, Radio and Television, Newsmakers</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Newsweek </i>does a story about <i>Photography's </i>"International Picture Contest," which pays a total of $25,000 in US Savings Bonds (current value $18,750), and gave out 280 prizes to the 31,000 amateur photographers who submitted 91,000 pictures for this year's ninth annual contest. Some prize winners are printed, including <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farrell_Grehan">Farrell Grehan</a>'s $2000 top prize winner. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSAtBNQerRWv37y-OnY5X_4mvLDRwCdywnGSTPNYL_ntojtLfoOAXRdTC7WrzEUalIDemISdD_kPW5rnerNK38sLMgerEuibV5Cm4NEYhZdq2jcG5Yp6Mjp_juoZZn4jqZDS8dTKiBdf_0sni7YvBmSTGHJIqJsH2hE5U7JyOKkvYA7JVSiMWGyJaMgg_Z/s4032/20240301_144710603_iOS.heic" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSAtBNQerRWv37y-OnY5X_4mvLDRwCdywnGSTPNYL_ntojtLfoOAXRdTC7WrzEUalIDemISdD_kPW5rnerNK38sLMgerEuibV5Cm4NEYhZdq2jcG5Yp6Mjp_juoZZn4jqZDS8dTKiBdf_0sni7YvBmSTGHJIqJsH2hE5U7JyOKkvYA7JVSiMWGyJaMgg_Z/s320/20240301_144710603_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"Off the Beat" The President's Armistice Day news conference, the one where the White case was revealed, was the wildest Presidential press conference ever. At least, James Reston says, it proves that Adlai Stevenson is wrong when he says that there is a "one-party press." <i>Forward </i>is a magazine for British West Africa, to be produced by <a href="https://www.lbi.org/german-exile-publishers/adprint-ltd/">Wolfgang Foges</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quentin_Reynolds">Quentin Reynolds</a>' <i>The Man Who Couldn't Talk </i>has been revealed to be pure fiction spun by a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Dupre">Canadian fabulist.</a> Which seems like letting Reynolds off the hook a bit.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Newsweek </i>catches us up with the British debate over commercial television, yeah or nay, <a href="https://www.abc4.com/about/">a graphic closed-circuit medical tv show out of Salt Lake City</a> for professional education of small-town Utah doctors, and the strange situation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KSAZ-TV">Channel 10, Phoenix</a>, which is being run by two rival radio stations, KOY and KOOL. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The column is all news (by its standards) this week. A crazy lady from the Illinois GOP women's auxiliary is trying to get Robin Hood banned from the library for being some kind of Communist. Hell, Norway is in for its ridiculous name, Frank Stanton of NBC for resigning from his college fraternity because it won't drop a restrictive "'racial'" clause, as <i>Newsweek </i>delicately puts it. Joe Louis is punch drunk. Audrey Hepburn doesn't have much <i>decolletage</i>. (Rude!) Censors try to stop a performance of <i>Streetcar Named Desire </i>in New Jersey, and make RKO take cuss words out of a Korean war movie. Marion Anderson will be allowed to perform in a Baltimore venue after all, and out of all those column inches, only Barbara Hutton and Esperanza (Chata) Wayne uphold the tradition of being seen in print by virtue of being famous or formerly married to famous people.<br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mamie Eisenhower is 57, Virginia Mayo has had a baby, Randy Turpin is married; Harrison Williams, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Jewett_Mather">Frank Jewett Mather</a>, Princess Irene of Prussia, and Dr. Herbert Ives have died.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>New Films</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>The Man Between </i>is a British spy thriller/romance starring Claire Bloom and is well acted and directed but let down by a bad story. <i>The Glass Web </i>is out from Universal-International although the foreign connection isn't clear to me and apparently it does a disappointing job with the exciting concept of a murder at a television studio, even with Edward G. Robinson as the villain. Disney's <i>Living Desert </i>is a pretty good documentary. Warner's <i>Calamity Jane </i>features Doris Day, "one of the most aggressively healthy women in Hollywood," having to hit the same energy levels as Betty Hutton to turn the heroine into a romantic lead. I guess the moral is that it's an okay movie if you like Doris Day?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/x_xmujSyxkU" width="320" youtube-src-id="x_xmujSyxkU"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">What even is this?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Books</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">No reviews this week, as instead we get a long profile of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Jones_(author)">James Jones </a>of <i>From Here to Eternity </i>fame, with a clear subtext of "Why don't you save the publishing industry again, Jim?" Look Jim can't help it if America is too busy with bedtime stories to read a novel or see a movie these days! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Speaking of being too tired to hold up your end, here's Raymond Moley jumping on the Harry Dexter White case at <b>Perspective. "</b>Has anyone else tried the "type White's <i>Who's Who </i>entry into the magazine? No? Here it is, I'm off to lunch. And, yes, I do know it's 9:30 in the morning. Don't wait up!" </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Aviation Week, </i>23 November 1953</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>News Digest </b>reports that Slick is selling two DC-6As to a French firm, that the DC-7s' CAA certification comes just 22 months after the company agreed to build the plane, a new record, that Curtiss-Wright will be building the Turbocompound on a new "semi-automatic" assembly line in New Jersey, that MATS is very safe, and Douglas delivered its second DC-6B to Japan Air Lines this week. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhowJKhUnyjCflarz5cnZhHE4-eWb9jOmR7DMP7WIhAO_C8IvlJmtr_-7t2ApKIWfASWVQOKA_ioVfkfRaF6-xO-Vd65AbSBSxtM4FGB3Dww4iOtTW6d3O8yF5K9o4Dcx9TzYFidmwMZd9ubVH-Gr962UlxXDIhm2hHReZUznSDpW6B7BvgWzpLvcRErc9I/s2658/Martin%20Marlin.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2212" data-original-width="2658" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhowJKhUnyjCflarz5cnZhHE4-eWb9jOmR7DMP7WIhAO_C8IvlJmtr_-7t2ApKIWfASWVQOKA_ioVfkfRaF6-xO-Vd65AbSBSxtM4FGB3Dww4iOtTW6d3O8yF5K9o4Dcx9TzYFidmwMZd9ubVH-Gr962UlxXDIhm2hHReZUznSDpW6B7BvgWzpLvcRErc9I/s320/Martin%20Marlin.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Katherine Johnsen's <b>Washington Roundup </b>reports that one of the reasons for President Eisenhower's visit to Canada was to discuss Arctic defence and the DEW line, that CAB is not being probed by anyone in the government because it is just fine, says Undersecretary Robert Murray, that future development of the XB-58 will be affected by General LeMay's demand for a jet fuel tanker to support jet bombers, that Air Material Command and Air Research and Development Command are locked in a bitter feud, that no new developments in offshore aircraft procurement will be outlined before spring, that Senator McCarthy will not be investigating any aircraft factories in his current round of factory visits, that experimental airmail operations have been a great success, that overwork at the Air Staff could be helped by putting someone in charge of planning overwork, that the Korean air lift was a great success, that Westinghouse isn't going to e allowed to move its jet factor to Kansas City from Pennsylvania. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Industry Observer </b>reports that Convair's F-102 is pretty fast, that Sabena is buying some helicopters (again), that all the helicopter companies are working on "flying cranes" like the Hughes XH-17, that the Navy is giving up on the T40, but the J73 is coming right along, that Convair will be working on the atomic plane project, Lockheed has a ramjet test aircraft in development, the F-101 will have a retractile refuelling probe, the F-84F will get a slab, all-flying tail, that Bristol is reviving its tiny Saturn turbojet for the Folland Gnat lightweight fighter. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJGPv0plIa0TniwN5ZZEagmKr0TrlwyXvBY4kIOkg6NPDwFCMlkkBdMJeR6n_UmeC2Mm2Q0iCiMcnmGdjJOX7LpZP6zqcf3W5JvZYI7INNlz_gM3RvSy_nqVDkDA0fxXkl6ynhQxoSyHZe5pF_sSnEZ4AHojsOGtfJ7q88xIVn3Pifr52E-Rq7wBngss7v/s1831/Gloster%20Javelin2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1635" data-original-width="1831" height="286" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJGPv0plIa0TniwN5ZZEagmKr0TrlwyXvBY4kIOkg6NPDwFCMlkkBdMJeR6n_UmeC2Mm2Q0iCiMcnmGdjJOX7LpZP6zqcf3W5JvZYI7INNlz_gM3RvSy_nqVDkDA0fxXkl6ynhQxoSyHZe5pF_sSnEZ4AHojsOGtfJ7q88xIVn3Pifr52E-Rq7wBngss7v/s320/Gloster%20Javelin2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">NACA<b> </b>reports for <b>Aviation Week</b> that "NACA Takes Over X-3 Testing Programme" The Air Force has given up on the Douglas X-3, so NACA will complete the testing programme. Oh, have you heard that the Skyrocket is super-duper fast and amazing and incredible! Because I can stencil it on your forehead in reverse so you can read the story every time you brush your teeth and then you will feel just like me! Also it says here that "Stiff Fight Brews on Air Defence" Congress now has seven different reports, all making differing recommendations, to consider. It is now reported that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_F-86D_Sabre">F-86Ds</a> being built in Italy will cost a cool million bucks each once everyone has taken their cut, compared with a flyaway cost of $420,000 for the Gloster Javelins once proposed. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lee Moore reports on the new CAA "open door" policy in "Blackout Lifted," the CAA and the military are fighting over whether to scrap the 450 existing DME stations in favour of a new military design, or upgrading them to the new DME plus VOR standard. California Central Airways is working ona financing plan to buy some second-hand 2-0-2s. Fairchild is still shopping its jet transport around, and "Industry Warns: New Planes Need More Titanium." So in other words, when it is real news, <i>Newsweek </i>scoops <i>Aviation Week. </i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmR3V34WBKE4pBBu8spwtHgQnqCu8WHwO9AXNSt8XxgXs6NBuE97sIrSC1IS9APOwRb9rkZD_rx1Vg0LYjI9BpTKEaf87JBq8NexP2hgIoS4pEIDk9G9NQuAMqC74i_GGQ_KtZEPFGPxFLh63gaF4t7bZ8NkQuPC5pC-jedknHZ86JvqsuFB_aWh8Y3Np-/s543/Helio%20H-6%20Twin%20Courier.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="431" data-original-width="543" height="254" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmR3V34WBKE4pBBu8spwtHgQnqCu8WHwO9AXNSt8XxgXs6NBuE97sIrSC1IS9APOwRb9rkZD_rx1Vg0LYjI9BpTKEaf87JBq8NexP2hgIoS4pEIDk9G9NQuAMqC74i_GGQ_KtZEPFGPxFLh63gaF4t7bZ8NkQuPC5pC-jedknHZ86JvqsuFB_aWh8Y3Np-/s320/Helio%20H-6%20Twin%20Courier.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Your (CIA) tax dollars at work!</span></td></tr></tbody></table>NACA (hey, why not write the whole issue for them?) reports for <b>Aeronautical Equipment </b>that "NACA Reveals Crash Data to Industry" I guess because it was Top Secret President's Eyes Only before? Anyway, NACA has been smashing old planes into runways to see what happens for some time now, just like my son. And just like my son, it wants to show everybody.<b>Thrust and Drag </b>reports that <b>Thrust and Drag </b>has nothing to say this week, so here are the jokes its planning to use at the fraternity party this weekend. Helio Transport wants us to know that it has a six-place twin under development based on its Courier. Pulsometer of England is working on a tiny tiny air turbine for pumping gas in jet aircraft. Dr. Kurt Tank is now working on a four-Avon, forty-seat passenger jet that will make 600mph, with engines in a "revolutionary" position. That's almost 1000lb thrust per passenger! No wonder it'll make 600mph! Or, it would if Tank had access to a billion-dollar wind tunnel to design it. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lockheed reports for <b>Production </b>that "Waffles Stiffen Highspeed Structures" This is a new lining for stiffened panels that seems to be better than all the other ones, here are three pages of narrative and lots of graphs to demonstrate this vital achievement in the field of making thick fuselage sections slightly stronger maybe. Besides, it is good practice in precision forging, and that's important! Bobbin and Shuttle Corporation reports that "Wood Laminate used in Aircraft Tooling" <a href="https://www.findtheneedle.co.uk/companies/permali-deho-ltd/products/hydulignum-and-jabroc-densified-wood-laminates">Hydulignum</a>, the British high density wood laminate licensed in America by Bobbin and Shuttle, is great in tooling because it can be handled like wood, in other words, carpenters can build precision jigs with it. L. O. Koven has a completely different kind of impregnator for sealing "micro-porosity in cast electronic and aircraft products." It sounds like porosity, in magnesium castings and otherwise, is getting to be a bit of a problem! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtt5R3aGU6wdUtl3ntdi3fB46m2Bqybyh6c8G5JYJMgww4lN83IvW67hwoTXopoSqPbmA2ep31LJ1iO34rhglrC7XpFH3eq7LcezW7YaX3Y83LoAeteA4bQymfhfrFbM8BE-mYlMAiLMVmnHgALAX-4BzlEDpdDFRE_AUyST2BK97f8P2l4xoRRZa0z0Ks/s4032/20240302_191245951_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtt5R3aGU6wdUtl3ntdi3fB46m2Bqybyh6c8G5JYJMgww4lN83IvW67hwoTXopoSqPbmA2ep31LJ1iO34rhglrC7XpFH3eq7LcezW7YaX3Y83LoAeteA4bQymfhfrFbM8BE-mYlMAiLMVmnHgALAX-4BzlEDpdDFRE_AUyST2BK97f8P2l4xoRRZa0z0Ks/s320/20240302_191245951_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>Philip Klass reports for <b>Avionics </b>that "<a href="https://www.sciencenews.org/article/science-past-issue-october-6-1962">Vibragyro</a> Takes Cue From Housefly" Sperry's latest gyro uses a tuning fork instead of a rotating mass to measure angular velocity, this being presumably the same as the way that houseflies orient themselves by vibrating their antenna. Sperry has patented this as the "Gyrotron," although Smith's previously tried to use it in the SEP-1 before switching to conventional gyros. Sperry has been working on vibrating gyros since 1937, and a 1946 article in the trade press suggested that they'd given up on the line, but they like it for sensitivity, wide range, ruggedness, single-axis sensitivity (so that vibrations don't get "counted in" as rotation) and miniaturisation potential. The article gives a very brief, nonmathematical explanation for how it works (a full account is appearing in the engineering literature this month), before going on to explain how data is picked off (with a torsion bar), and some of the developmental problems.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Filter Centre </b>reports that Hydro-Aire is working on a pump-metering device that will use transistors of its own manufacture, the Bureau of Standards is continuing to work with the "tinkertoy" electronics assembly method, GE has added a five-electrode triode to its Five-Star reliability offerings, The Institute of Radio Engineers is looking to recruit from a broader range, Honeywell's new high-powered transistor can handle up to 20 watts, Lord Brabazon illustrates the growth of British avionics by pointing out that the Hampden used 56lbs of electronics equipment and 8 tubes, while the Valiant has 3.5 <i>tons </i>of electronics including a thousand valves and thirteen miles of wiring. Victory Engineering has a booklet about its thermistors out, the Bristol Corporation of Connecticut wants us to know about its multiplex telemetering, DuMont's new dual-bam CRT is described extensively in a booklet available from Du Mont, while Gamewell's booklet describes its precision potentiometers. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">George L. Christian visits Northeast Airlines for <b>Equipment </b>to find out how "NEA Solves Shorthaul Problems." It likes its Goodrich tyres and Pesco pumps for reliability and ease of maintenance and has an ignition analyzer and some other fixed plant, like a supercharger test stand. NWA wants us to know that it has an inspection procedure that licks wing bolt corrosion in the bud. Northwest has emergency cabin lights that last 30 minutes after a power outage while Pacific Airmotive has licensed some British Godfrey cabin pressurisation equipment. <b>New Aviation Products </b>headlines a Texas metal loading ramp designed for all US 4-engined transports, while GE's Transformer-rectifier is a great airborne DC source and United has a regulator that guards hydraulic pressure on the F-84F. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2DnI1pl97B4eYwKk3HccIehrehOX50OLkjt1Qun5R18asOjEO5DZ8fa8ZGphvOdQhWCSf6tHA2LLcdw1goJKHat9U9IsR0OgcPOoUfHqzLuKjJ-dYpIcA1-3wOefTnmik58jBqTiKk6ev-_AMa-vLcNkXQoBTdqzLWKBLhD166EE1sSJ9BUuptga4S_DF/s1024/Rolls%20Royce%20Conway.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="761" data-original-width="1024" height="238" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2DnI1pl97B4eYwKk3HccIehrehOX50OLkjt1Qun5R18asOjEO5DZ8fa8ZGphvOdQhWCSf6tHA2LLcdw1goJKHat9U9IsR0OgcPOoUfHqzLuKjJ-dYpIcA1-3wOefTnmik58jBqTiKk6ev-_AMa-vLcNkXQoBTdqzLWKBLhD166EE1sSJ9BUuptga4S_DF/s320/Rolls%20Royce%20Conway.JPG" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">And GE will get the JT3D in service within five years. I think the issue is that <br />the builders don't want existing turbojet projects scrapped while they wait</span></td></tr></tbody></table>William J. Coughlin reports for <b>Air Transport </b>that "AA Calls the Ducted Fan Key to Jet Airliners: But Builders Say Proposed Turbine is Years Away" George Snyder of Boeing agrees that the turboprop has no future in transport aircraft, but thinks that, as quoted, the ducted fan is years away. "Rumour has it --and all we know is what we read in the British press-- that an engine of this general nature is under development in England by a company of very good reputation," said Kelly Johnson. And by "rumour" I think he means the actual Rolls-Royce Conway intended for the actual V1000 and VC7. Honestly, the aviation press! Things are secret long after they stop being secret, and news long after they stop being news. I think it's because they spend so much time recopying each other's press releases and so little time actually reading. The washout of the turboprop is the other interesting part of the article. Essentially, controlling the prop is just too hard. THANK YOU! Speaking of stale news, Our Nat has an explainer about the Aquila bid for the Saro Princess. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Robert H. Wood's <b>Editorial </b>explains that the "cargo airlines" need to fight for their existence now that the airmail subsidy will give the "grandfather lines" such a boost. <br /> <br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXePrGm4KPpRWu81yN9UVXum0CxIVj55FPHoR2_HR_qqzC_WUb3yckV4OALlKmZ6CD1Ffol9D5im6Ap9IwqZSYMYtbi9jGhgaXytzUkW_b6ZsOJdwsJN3tmAZqZNlqDxdOpfYFahbnlj5R-7dDUqr6ETT5zfNbHjI6W-8HvhshWI0vhCglzWRpXo8ObcD6/s4032/20240301_232212561_iOS.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXePrGm4KPpRWu81yN9UVXum0CxIVj55FPHoR2_HR_qqzC_WUb3yckV4OALlKmZ6CD1Ffol9D5im6Ap9IwqZSYMYtbi9jGhgaXytzUkW_b6ZsOJdwsJN3tmAZqZNlqDxdOpfYFahbnlj5R-7dDUqr6ETT5zfNbHjI6W-8HvhshWI0vhCglzWRpXo8ObcD6/s16000/20240301_232212561_iOS.heic" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Letters</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Several correspondents liked the article about that local paper that got in <b>Press </b>the other day. The Governor of Wyoming writes in to tell us that rodeo is a mighty fine sport. Everyone in the Pacific Northwest liked the Pacific Northwest story. Jean Markham of Philadelphia writes to point out that <i>Newsweek </i>got the B-57 confused with the B-66. It can now be told that Ivan Volkov was the reporter who visited the Soviet delegation at home in New York. I mean, besides the byline last issue. Our photographer was Ed Wergeles, and we're reminded that the <i>real </i>story is that <i>Newsweek </i>has a Russian emigre on his staff who is practically Red Public Enemy Number 1. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqWmFb0Nc7SzVk84BcdA_31UhDVQutZwwBZ9-YB0EO2ZcdTqRCHh4R-WaPRAADLOnPmsgUNILVP5lYDZ7lYwiX5F1vYBCV2pTAmGcQWMYgiyLy3nIOc2r1TlmkuCun6zNlzqz_wAaVMWG1lyl2n3Kx8BRdoDKsEh3zAuQjLJdfKiSXeiFucBMMIFQ4hsVu/s1041/Scopes,%20John%20T..jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="John T. Scopes, but the hat's the star" border="0" data-original-height="1041" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqWmFb0Nc7SzVk84BcdA_31UhDVQutZwwBZ9-YB0EO2ZcdTqRCHh4R-WaPRAADLOnPmsgUNILVP5lYDZ7lYwiX5F1vYBCV2pTAmGcQWMYgiyLy3nIOc2r1TlmkuCun6zNlzqz_wAaVMWG1lyl2n3Kx8BRdoDKsEh3zAuQjLJdfKiSXeiFucBMMIFQ4hsVu/w246-h320/Scopes,%20John%20T..jpg" width="246" /></a></div><b>The Periscope </b>reports that Elizabeth Bentley's secret testimony has implicated a high-ranking official of a friendly government, so her testimony has been locked up in a very special box. White House insiders are clear that the real problem in the off-year elections was the RNC. The Administration has apparently decided that tax cuts are more important than deficits. Finland, it is feared, will slip behind the Iron Curtain after an economic collapse this winter. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perlo_group">John Abt and Victor Perlo</a> are still communists. The British are demanding much too much Iranian oil. The Army is demanding too many men in talks about slicing up the available manpower, and the Navy and Air Force are outraged. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bedell_Smith">Walter Bedell-Smith</a> is likely to be the next Administration official to resign, and when he goes, so will Ambassador Davies. Vice-President Nixon has not persuaded the Japanese to re-arm, in spite of reports to the contrary. Thievery is "rampant" at US Army bases in Korea. Secretary McKay is trying to get the government out of Indian band affairs, the US is concerned that the Reds are building a network of radio jamming stations, more trouble is expected behind the Iron Curtain, a "high Polish Communist official" says that the Soviets are getting ready to attack, people are starting to think that IQ tests don't actually tell you very much, narcotics use amongst youth seems to be in decline.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Rodgers and Hammerstein are <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_Dream_(musical)">making a musical out of </a><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_Dream_(musical)">Cannery Row</a>, </i>Orson Welles is set to portray King Farouk in a movie, Danny Kaye will be Maurice Chevalier in <i>Man from Montmartre. </i><b>Where Are They Now </b>catches up with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_T._Scopes">John Scopes</a> (Monkey Trial), who is a geologist for United Gas in Shreveport and tells <i>Newsweek </i>that friends who know about it never bring it up in his presence. (Translated: "Go away, <i>Newsweek</i>!") </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/p0y75OxfTCg" width="320" youtube-src-id="p0y75OxfTCg"></iframe></div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipe_Dream_(musical)">Close enough to call it a correct prediction. </a></div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Periscope Washington Trends </b>reports that "No matter how reluctantly Eisenhower goes along with it, you can be certain that 'crime, corruption, and Communism' will be the Republican slogan again in 1954." Republicans have lots of ammunition they haven't used yet. For example, they have enough for impeachment proceedings against <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_C._Clark">Justice Clark</a>. There will probably be more anti-Communist legislation, although even J. Edgar Hoover doesn't want the Communist Party banned. The main concern is that the "right wing" will run away with the party. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>National Affairs</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJGu3TDxOB-HSfx-zYaeJiteHY6Dm3Lt3mhXbkxHZxspInyafVqEmS7ews8X-oXFciszMK_1c8pA66r4d_yqvff2TCYahlPO37_8KsydlLtBvDMafCn_f6BsCwI-tCdY2OrJaEVkUF_BLzyXTiB4vzlKisi26_qoDCh3J48o2MvSF1qPM3sa34_CqOw3vP/s4032/20240301_220945627_iOS.heic" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJGu3TDxOB-HSfx-zYaeJiteHY6Dm3Lt3mhXbkxHZxspInyafVqEmS7ews8X-oXFciszMK_1c8pA66r4d_yqvff2TCYahlPO37_8KsydlLtBvDMafCn_f6BsCwI-tCdY2OrJaEVkUF_BLzyXTiB4vzlKisi26_qoDCh3J48o2MvSF1qPM3sa34_CqOw3vP/s320/20240301_220945627_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"The President Up to Date: His Health and His Mood" The President is in excellent health, especially his cardiovascular system, and he is in a good mood, although a very serious one. Meanwhile the Senate now wants to look into <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_Glasser">Harold Glasser</a> and talk to Igor Gouzenko. The Monmouth hearings are still not going anywhere, the Navy wants us to look at the Skyrocket, damn it, not all those Air Force planes that are so damned fast because the Air Force didn't put all its money on Westinghouse rolling boxcars. J. Edgar Hoover is going to have to testify in the White hearings, so he gets out in front of the story barrelling at him with a <i>two-page </i>box story, even better than the usual one-pagers. Art Samish is guilty of tax evasion, juvenile delinquency is bad, and it was so much fun cleaning up for J. Edgar this issue that <i>Newsweek </i>does it again for poor, misunderstood Ezra Taft Benson, who, it is pointed out, is getting advice from people <i>besides </i>God, Who is somewhat unreliable on farm price supports. Ernest K. Lindley summarises the White case so far for <b>Washington Tides</b>, leaving aside the decryptions, there was, in fact, no definite evidence that White was a spy in 1946, and so the Truman haters are going to have to find something else to hang on him. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCZdSBMaN6yN5gDCgYq506AXSouXi33wTvOL20vOpkKXjZw_MfNQrDXDrUg-ImtizuRPiR33KjcRAHtljRPtwrC5QpsCcJoMDcfLUVEEdRA7N5li1OJ2jgGXjYRzFNHlki02j_GgRSE21xSJ4BdxaIjDlULexB81psPnPU1Arao0JoNYhcwGDnFl-RKjOl/s3298/El%20Nino%201953.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1978" data-original-width="3298" height="192" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCZdSBMaN6yN5gDCgYq506AXSouXi33wTvOL20vOpkKXjZw_MfNQrDXDrUg-ImtizuRPiR33KjcRAHtljRPtwrC5QpsCcJoMDcfLUVEEdRA7N5li1OJ2jgGXjYRzFNHlki02j_GgRSE21xSJ4BdxaIjDlULexB81psPnPU1Arao0JoNYhcwGDnFl-RKjOl/s320/El%20Nino%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b>Weather </b>reports that the strangely warm, wet, and sometimes and smoggy weather is likely to continue to Christmas. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>International</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Stronger Outer Defences: A Bargain in the Making" John Foster Dulles denies that the US is negotiating for air bases in Pakistan, but <i>Newsweek </i>is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Treaty_Organization">very excited by the prospects of an anti-Soviet wall extending through Turkey, Iran, and Pakistan.</a> <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Linse">The East Germans are having a spy ring trial</a>. Georges Bidault's collapse while addressing the National Assembly is no big deal, unlike the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominici_affair">Drummond triple murder</a>. Stalin's corpse, entombed with Lenin's, has had a touch-up, while honestly nothing much is going on in Korea, although the official American death toll is likely to be more than 30,000 out of 142,277 casualties. The American handyman who inherited the Dunbar baronetcy (o<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar_baronets_of_Mochrum_(1694)">f Mochrum</a>, there being five in total, says <i>Who's Who</i>) is living in the caretaker's cottage and trying to grasp what he has gotten into, the mansion being in ruins and all. I'm now officially filing "Big Three --Bermuda" stories with "Trieste" stories. Indian Communists are saying nice things about Nehru so he'll probably go Red any day now. Remember how <i>Time </i>thought he was such a pinko for trying to stop the Korean War?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Milton Eisenhower returns from Latin America with the news that Latin American countries expect too much from America, which on the other hand could do more. Mexico's annual <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Carrera_Panamericana">Pan American road rally</a> is running an even higher death toll than last year, the latest and fifth death being Italian driver<a href="http://www.motorsportmemorial.org/focus.php?db=ct&n=968"> Giuseppe Scotuzzi</a>, and that was just the first day! Bolivia had an attempted revolt last week, put down by a miner's militia armed with dynamite sticks. Latins are so colourful! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLYHrAaoiVDozGq7YgZHjhIkEk3ySvOzcDMf0nz1hE6ReItSCNIl3LamVIfIxYd-7a_YYzYEMlVPQBq1WkMuLo5NlRLoTmFyRrQLDVvHcNvpchvYeaVEojRnz9eUOeSfwm_Hw_V0mPwAvMiKo9INs1bTgQQhNWAFPxFYlK8LimsVlwIwI4IcMg7m_kUAB6/s4032/20240302_010405564_iOS.heic" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLYHrAaoiVDozGq7YgZHjhIkEk3ySvOzcDMf0nz1hE6ReItSCNIl3LamVIfIxYd-7a_YYzYEMlVPQBq1WkMuLo5NlRLoTmFyRrQLDVvHcNvpchvYeaVEojRnz9eUOeSfwm_Hw_V0mPwAvMiKo9INs1bTgQQhNWAFPxFYlK8LimsVlwIwI4IcMg7m_kUAB6/s320/20240302_010405564_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Business</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Periscope Business Trends </b>reports that even though there are even more signs of a business slump, "[i]t's significant that many realistic businessmen are betting big that the Administration's optimism about the future is justified." On the bright side, there's an entire story about how deflation is going to cut the price of this and that, if you're lucky enough to still have a job!<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Notes: Week in Business </b>reports that rail loadings are down for the fourth consecurtive week, American's first non-stop coast-to-coast flight hit a record time of 6h 40 minutes, Fairchild's M-186 jetliner is just around the corner, titanium has been placed under control, because production is not meeting demand for the strategic metal, incomes are up, Idaho Power is launching a ten-year expansion plan. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Pabst is building a brewery in Los Angeles, and the new Studebaker fall line is out. The high lights are better brakes and lots of chrome! Congress heard from foreigners that high US tariffs mean high tariffs against US goods. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkLHV6WQa733soTm6apnLT-ddrV6tn8M-0wJI-rYONKrzxMU_MhWhkqfP6TKUTiap9GxvHkij2Zq6u403DqCDY0jVROgY27gv3Ll7iGGD6RB65-GByy1VQKw9MOWkJxFW9GUlph0waHmUociBGuo5Ta9Fu0pAY2Gf2ipNXnOSBCZIEUWS-e82KLcLdQD_I/s3925/French%20Cartoons%20of%201953.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3925" data-original-width="1772" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkLHV6WQa733soTm6apnLT-ddrV6tn8M-0wJI-rYONKrzxMU_MhWhkqfP6TKUTiap9GxvHkij2Zq6u403DqCDY0jVROgY27gv3Ll7iGGD6RB65-GByy1VQKw9MOWkJxFW9GUlph0waHmUociBGuo5Ta9Fu0pAY2Gf2ipNXnOSBCZIEUWS-e82KLcLdQD_I/w288-h640/French%20Cartoons%20of%201953.jpg" width="288" /></a></div>"This Rich and Changing World" Highlights from a recent study of this title published by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Century_Foundation">Twentieth Century Fund</a> include: World output of steel will continue to grow; there's lots of coal and oil, especially in North America; of a billion workers in the world, 530 million are in agriculture; the trend for people to concentrate in cities is slowing down; the world has 10 billion acres of forest, which is a lot, but only a fifth is properly managed, which isn't a lot.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Products: What's New </b>reports the smallest, cheapest flashbulb yet, from GE; table salt from seawater that won't cake, from Trace Elements, of Houston; a universal mixer pigment that can be added to any kind of paint, varnish, or enamel, from Keystone Paint and Varnish. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This week, Henry avoids talking about his slump by devoting <b>Business Tides </b>to "White's Mischief Lives On." Specifically, he created the IMF, and it is bad and wrong. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Science, Medicine</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Counterfeit" Piltdown Man, the prehistoric English fossil, long believed to be a hoax, has been confirmed as such by Dr. K. P. Oakley of the British Museum and Professors J. S. Weiner and W. E. Le Clark of Oxford, using a test that dates fossil remains based on their uptake of fluoride, showing that the bones were no more than 50,000 years old, and furthermore had been modified. As to who did it, no-one wants to point fingers, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dawson">since it must have been a scientist and an Old Boy</a>.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Rigg's: A Winning Fight on 'Nervous Breakdown'" <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austen_Riggs_Center">Austen Riggs</a>' therapy resort in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, gets some attention. Three pates worth! <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Art, Press, Radio and Television, Newsmakers</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQDYDHL-xOMEJAfuSEgz3Z5I1777a9CFbrkOX9f_Sh0Wto4a_-ivZVvvyQoAl9mXg8Exteq6FUFVRLYNHAOCbjX-gIAvnol-ZHsBX6xg2mSMe9fmcWBPXVa2cXToCSf9ITzy1lOtqR8PVeEspzs7pb5ZjRwzSl7FSB4A1_FZsnklWsFUB2OWWhAvlySj-y/s4032/20240302_001254630_iOS.heic" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQDYDHL-xOMEJAfuSEgz3Z5I1777a9CFbrkOX9f_Sh0Wto4a_-ivZVvvyQoAl9mXg8Exteq6FUFVRLYNHAOCbjX-gIAvnol-ZHsBX6xg2mSMe9fmcWBPXVa2cXToCSf9ITzy1lOtqR8PVeEspzs7pb5ZjRwzSl7FSB4A1_FZsnklWsFUB2OWWhAvlySj-y/s320/20240302_001254630_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Art </b>reviews Simon and Shuster's <i>Best Cartoons from France</i>. Oh, those French!</div><div style="font-weight: bold; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><b>Press </b>gives the "Spy Case" a full page reviewing press coverage, which seems split on party and regional lines. James Wechsler's <i>The Age of Suspicion </i>is a memoir of his time as a young communist but also a reflection on our anti-Communist era. Too much suspicion! Speaking of which, <i>The Freeman </i>has a story quoting several anonymous ex-Soviet doctors who think that Stalin was clinically paranoid. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Everyone still loves Arthur Godfrey, no matter what you've heard to the contrary, and some people say<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1753104/"> there's too many tear-jerking stories about hard luck cases on the TV these days. </a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sir Pierson Dixon, Ed Dickinson, the Presidents of Yale and Harvard, Casey Stengel, Ed Cantor, Marilyn Monroe and the President are in the column because they are famous. Milton Berle is engaged, Susan Hayward and Robert Sweeny are divorced (not from each other); Edwin Fleischmann, Arthur George Waters and E. W. Palmer have died. Alger Hiss has been turned down for parole. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The New Films</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Paul Muni returns for Universal (albeit in an Italian production) in <i><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043671/">Stranger on the Prowl</a>, </i>which is picturesque and artistically bleak, but makes no sense. <i>Genevieve </i>is another British import about a vehicle with a lot of personality, only instead of the Titfield Thunderbolt, it's a car, and it is almost as much fun. MGM's <i>Easy to Love </i>is an Esther Williams movie, so you know what you're getting. Wet!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/hhoNii192ZQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="hhoNii192ZQ"></iframe></div><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Books</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The last volume of Churchill's history of the Second World War is out, and so is the third volume of Bruce Catton's history of the Army of the Potomac. They're okay if you like that sort of thing. A collection of William Sansom short stories set in wintery, cold, northerly places, and a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Schaefer">Jack Schaefer</a> (<i>Shane</i>) novel make the <b>Other Books </b>column.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioSGDys0NTrp0tS8-ejRl95W76ap2T13WRswbpNrbJn4DX0JZ66RaDr6BFliiBzKDP6qCEJN5V4YWnzasVMGyIiiuhB6sb1oiEuctteDz6AtF9Scef4sf8_ZxBx8SS-rDEgfODlwf833HBwfC0kNqIzZZrGEhbUip5ngvEczMDVphwk1sXB0xSKoLRh1WC/s4032/20240302_194816731_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioSGDys0NTrp0tS8-ejRl95W76ap2T13WRswbpNrbJn4DX0JZ66RaDr6BFliiBzKDP6qCEJN5V4YWnzasVMGyIiiuhB6sb1oiEuctteDz6AtF9Scef4sf8_ZxBx8SS-rDEgfODlwf833HBwfC0kNqIzZZrGEhbUip5ngvEczMDVphwk1sXB0xSKoLRh1WC/w480-h640/20240302_194816731_iOS.heic" width="480" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Aviation Week, </i>30 November 1953</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>News Digest </b>reports that US airpower now runs to 92,000 aircraft, and that's about it. <b>Industry Observer </b>reports that the world speed record race continues. No, in fact, it is over. The F-100 won. Live with it! Viscounts are damn good planes. Avionics manufacturers still can't do rugged and cheap for guided missiles. English Electric's proposal for a DC-3 replacement uses two Double Mambas and so might qualify as a twin-engined plane or not. I can see that being an issue when the DC-3 replacement shows up, any day now! The USAF hasn't made any statements about the latest loss of an X-5 except to say that it is really, really tired of stupid X-planes, here NACA, you have them. In a scoop from five years ago, "American and British designers are looking at gas generators" for helicopters, convertiplanes, and some conventional planes. Fairey is planning a large aircraft around this principle, which <i>is </i>true, but the idea of anyone else taking up Dutch oven engines seems a bit crazy to me. W. E. W. Petter is working on a "carrier plane of advanced design" at Folland. United Aircraft claims that its new civilian Sikorsky, the S-56, will carry 35 passengers and baggage.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Katherine Johnsen's <b>Washington Roundup </b>reports that final decisions on the 1954 military budgets are imminent, and will determine the extent of military aid, the air defence investment, and the fate of the research and development budget, which may or may not be consolidated into a single fund. The undersecretaries are fighting about who cut what at Defence. Admiral Carney says that the Navy won't build new guided missile ships when it has lots of old hulls to convert. Undersecretary Murray is being hung out to dry over the cuts to the CAB. Feeder airlines aren't lobbying locally enough, people say. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Robert Hotz reports for <b>Aviation Week </b>that "Douglas Skyrocket Reaches Mach 2.01," which is yet more Douglas self-promotion somehow making it to be the lead news item. Speaking of self-promotion, an "artist's impression" of the <a href="https://www.secretprojects.co.uk/threads/early-jet-transport-project-fairchild-m-186.1133/">Fairchild M-186B</a> jet transport shows up, page over, we visit the ongoing Congressional "Titanium Hearings," where Congressmen and women ask why there's no titanium, instead of going down to the plant and <i>making </i>titanium. (In fairness, it's hard and dirty work!) The Belgians have a drug for airsickness on the market, and AA is tightening up its schedules around its high-flying DC-7. (Passengers are being "briefed" about "exhaust illumination," i.e., "It's nothing to worry about, the wing's just a bit on fire.") </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVZtN2Dann4hZCDicRp7USNTfhlK1DDSbPk9bKe4mu9d5GFqbJiA0znMCuHD5fdH8up3Sk84RMCFSODIGFT-Jqtk9wacEMgr8G5bFaDycd9yhvMWvAEaGYI3R1dFHRrR3bZJWKyNt-JMSf2aeG5lnWs8xzSnryMfVmdaVS5FWVLdkNQRBWgeS19j4uYm59/s4032/Mikoyan-Gurevich%20MiG-15(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2051" data-original-width="4032" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVZtN2Dann4hZCDicRp7USNTfhlK1DDSbPk9bKe4mu9d5GFqbJiA0znMCuHD5fdH8up3Sk84RMCFSODIGFT-Jqtk9wacEMgr8G5bFaDycd9yhvMWvAEaGYI3R1dFHRrR3bZJWKyNt-JMSf2aeG5lnWs8xzSnryMfVmdaVS5FWVLdkNQRBWgeS19j4uYm59/w400-h204/Mikoyan-Gurevich%20MiG-15(2).jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">David A. Anderton, "Red MiG-15: AF Test Pilots Analyze Captive Fighter" Pilots don't like the manual controls on the MiG, found the cockpit cold, small, and cramped, and found it a bit slower than the Sabre in level flight. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1-lzkw5zK5oDrc7dSfuZOSxCTV_Pk672zZoNAzfNk_uMqGwudvF_NTcCJ1C2IK5JyqnGiLSqjZIrGkQ005glCZK2S_MN6GycbvJ04DPOg1aRb9F2g6av9qFUgmN3_zuoeiSBEqmREZ0xyvz-QqFc58Oi3IxlhQDkqMUVnRskMnCTJTrv5YcDnFucYmeV6/s4032/20240302_201231855_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1-lzkw5zK5oDrc7dSfuZOSxCTV_Pk672zZoNAzfNk_uMqGwudvF_NTcCJ1C2IK5JyqnGiLSqjZIrGkQ005glCZK2S_MN6GycbvJ04DPOg1aRb9F2g6av9qFUgmN3_zuoeiSBEqmREZ0xyvz-QqFc58Oi3IxlhQDkqMUVnRskMnCTJTrv5YcDnFucYmeV6/s320/20240302_201231855_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>The US Navy reports, "F4D Trials" The F4D is great, and a perfect carrier plane! Meanwhile in California the aviation industry and the Defence Department are teaming up to fight the new property tax on industrial properties in four California counties. McDonnell is delivering the last of 800(!) Banshees, and there is a long article about business pilots' refresher training and a pictorial about the strike at North American. National Airlines doesn't want a subsidy for its experimental helicopter service, and the Viscount's power upgrade gets a story. Fairchild's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_J44">1000lb J44 </a>turbojet gets a pictorial. NACA is buying a huge bellows from Solar for its wind tunnel, the University of Cincinnati's part time postgraduate training for working technicians is very popular, Vought is building its own wind tunnel, and the army shows off a stunt where it lays phone cable with a helicopter. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Philip Klass reports for <b>Avionics </b>that "Industry Gets <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microstrip">Microstrip</a> License Offer" ITT's patented printed circuit process for making ultra lightweight waveguides and accessories is the best thing since the last thing that was the best thing since sliced bread. Three firms are offering improvements in magnetic amplifiers (Magnetic Research, D and R, Magnetic Amplifiers, Inc. I don't know. The fac that the technology has been left to dodgy little companies, while Hydro Aire, GE and Honeywell work on transistors, is not a good sign!) Georator has the cutest little frequency converting motor ever. <b>New Aviation Products </b>has high temperature electrical actuators from Bendix, a fire-control (i.e. the kind of fire where the DC-7's titanium forgings are on fire, not the ones where you shoot Reds from the sky) plugs into a potentiometer wherever you can find room on a small plane. Lear's new ADF is remote tunable. Northrop has licensed its leakproof fitting design. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Captain Robson's <b>Cockpit Viewpoint </b>looks at "Bad Weather and Lost Planes" explains that with bad weather, we have to face the fact that it is much more dangerous for a plane to be a bit lost over a major metropolitan area, and that we have to think about how we license pilots to accommodate this fact. <b>Letters </b>has A. T. Groves of Kimberley Clark's aviation department is upset that his comments to the magazine were cut for lack of space, leaving him sounding like he didn't make any sense. Sorry, needed to run some more hype for the Skyrocket! Jack Craddock of Temco is also upset that the company didn't get more free publicity in regards to its role in <a href="https://abpic.co.uk/pictures/view/1749555">Pete Gluckmann</a>'s famous flight from London to America this year that we've all heard about. David Stuart writes to tell people who live next to airports to shut up and stop complaining considering they have the privilege of living next to airports. An Air Force man writes about gliders, another about the F-86 fighter bomber, and Airworks is very pleased about the article about Airworks. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/xlqdEca3hks" width="320" youtube-src-id="xlqdEca3hks"></iframe></div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">What the hell, here's some more. </div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So what's up in <i>The Engineer </i>this month? <b>(Not the Seven Day-) Journal </b>for 20 November 1953 has the Association of Consulting Engineers, the British Electrical and Manufacturing Association, and the Cycle-and Motorshow throwing parties, and a fundraising appeal to spruce up the James Watt Memorial. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjCa5SUml4YKRK3h_DMQtq0KI1-fH5jsyBZNAFnuAhIaAmwEePjDgWbsZN_iWfRoWw0tno3KgmKYd726Eh0IuMFYXWl1LR4cwVBDuhI0MrAFVct_yn-zYVIJBz6oCn1Mr0EtufjQOISbbqbziVi1I0WzON9uhIjfwr4lHdMiDk6ZUmBNdKqNa6HgbuhBmg/s3141/Nova%20Power%20Station,%20Portugal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3141" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjCa5SUml4YKRK3h_DMQtq0KI1-fH5jsyBZNAFnuAhIaAmwEePjDgWbsZN_iWfRoWw0tno3KgmKYd726Eh0IuMFYXWl1LR4cwVBDuhI0MrAFVct_yn-zYVIJBz6oCn1Mr0EtufjQOISbbqbziVi1I0WzON9uhIjfwr4lHdMiDk6ZUmBNdKqNa6HgbuhBmg/s320/Nova%20Power%20Station,%20Portugal.jpg" width="308" /></a></div>We're going to have a long series about "Hydro-Electric Development in Portugal," which I absolutely approve of because no-one reading this cares to hear<a href="https://www.power-technology.com/marketdata/power-plant-profile-venda-nova-portugal/"> one more word.</a> Then James Mitchell got to give a nice little talk on the "Steel-Making Process," which turns out to be an extended meditation on efficiencies and costs, plus a defence of modern Bessemer steel making practice and a discussion of something called "duplexing," and it's not even a multiparter, so I suppose if there was a point, <i>The Engineer's </i>note-taker missed it when he fell asleep. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Floor Malting at Grimsby" While I'm not a big beer drinker, it's like pork chops. The less I know about how it's made, the better. If you do want to know, they use a lot of machine tools to turn lots of barley into lots of beer without paying lots of brewers these days. "Chucking Automatic" is a way of making machine tools chuck woodchucks. I think. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Pressurised Electrical System for Hazardous Atmospheres" is a nice article from GEC about --well, just guess! It's mainly for coal mines. Commander (E) L. Baker, "Synthesis of Two Marine Water-Tube Boilers" is a "resume of important lessons learned from the operation of oil-fired water boilers at sea since 1925." Actually it seems to be about problems with the water boilers that commercial operators inherited from world war construction. Circulation defects, corrosion, superheater leaks, and drum cracks were the big problems, though American-made economisers soon developed problems with excess soot leading to fires and blocked passages. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Wild-Barfield of Wales is using a steam plant for metal tempering. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Leaders </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"London Particulars" Smog is horrible. Just how horrible, we are only beginning to understand. "Why and Why Not?" The Mitchell talk may not have a point at the end, but it has a point in every word, which is that "productivity" is just an empty word without considering the actual process. <b>Literature </b>reviews H. Kolsky, <i>Stress Waves in Solids, </i>which is a good review of a subject of "renewed interest." <i>Jane's Fighting Ships 1955 </i>is, well, what can you say about it? E. G. Ellis' <i>Lubricant Testing, </i>John Immis, <i>Material Handling, </i>and B. E. Lauer and R. F. Heckman, <i>Chemical Engineering Techniques </i>all pass without unfavourable comment, except that the last is too expensive (48s) and might have been better printed without colour illustrations. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Two Marine Water-Tube Boilers: Institute of Mechanical Engineers" Comm. (E) Baker's paper is discussed after the talk. It is pretty damn technical, so if you're interested in maintaining the right level of alkalinity in feed water, here's your lads. "Epicyclic Gearbox with Clutch Pedal" is a Leyland-Wilson patent, while "Diesel-Electric Locomotive for Mauritius is a good old locomotive design article that doesn't quite take up two pages, leaving us with advertorials for a lorry crane from Lorry Loaders, Ltd and an announcement of a Newcomen Society shindig. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd1JvaVap0ZPVs1Zeb314XCUhmGTpfoL6G7P301fV8xMIBsqDANy0TLTDaTy-x97iTx6M4RBRZxSSIZ7X1Fv9NN7dlCikNEtckffg6Snqt_IZyIW3gN1sa_dZQ4frj4Gxbt2HIcCGFHKXM-KPMi8dqz2n-N6YwAj0CQLd6i9WdoU7zqEk1hVja3ofawTEz/s800/Caltex_Manchester-1953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="800" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgd1JvaVap0ZPVs1Zeb314XCUhmGTpfoL6G7P301fV8xMIBsqDANy0TLTDaTy-x97iTx6M4RBRZxSSIZ7X1Fv9NN7dlCikNEtckffg6Snqt_IZyIW3gN1sa_dZQ4frj4Gxbt2HIcCGFHKXM-KPMi8dqz2n-N6YwAj0CQLd6i9WdoU7zqEk1hVja3ofawTEz/s320/Caltex_Manchester-1953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>E. G. West, "Multiple-Unit Diesel Train in Aluminum describes mainly the very nice passenger cars of this German train, while "Triple-Screw Launch" is about a Shell launch for operation on Lake Maracaibo, Venezuela. Then we <i>really </i>get into the advertorials, with a marine reversing gearbox, a <a href="https://www.marinetraffic.com/pl/ais/details/ships/shipid:960392/mmsi:-5314303/imo:5314303/vessel:SARSIA">new research ship</a> for the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, a mobile mine drill and tower crane, a forged steel drum, and a machine tool. <b>American Engineering News </b>visits the Missouri State Highway Division to look at a roughness recorder, a "large universal testing machine" (for locomotives) from the Baldwin Works, and plastic-coated steel and aluminum sheet from Naugateck Chemical division of the US Chemical Rubber Company. <b>Industrial and Labour Notes </b>reviews the trade balance (okay), the latest in worries about productivity, and highlights two different parties for two different institutes or chambers or associations of managers. I'm sure they'll combine one day into the Royal Institution of People Who Tell You What To Do, and in 2053 some retiring president will lovingly trace its genealogy before inviting everyone into their office to sack them. <b>Launches and Trial Trips </b>has four steamships and one motor vessel, which is odd. The one motor ship is an oil tanker, while the steamers are cargo and passenger(2), cargo, <a href="https://www.tynebuiltships.co.uk/C-Ships/caltexmanchester1953.html">tanker,</a> and cargo liner. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For 27 November, <b>(Not the Seven Day-)Journal </b>announces a shortage of engineers, and conventicles of concern over ventilation of the London Underground, inland transport in winter, and flood protection on the Thames. The Royal Society of Arts and the Institution of Gas Engineers are throwing parties. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Reconstruction of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Bridge">Brooklyn Bridge </a>(By Our American Correspondent)" The Brooklyn Bridge is eighty years old, was recently reconstructed, here are the details. The National Coal Board writes with details of two new processes for speeding up mine drifting with shuttle conveyors. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxtdQenDML2ITgJhHrL_IfgRqsin683DJ_vNIJ53ZWcIYjOO4BC0BI9Drd-DqtdNqkCxR3UvsWAZrJHPuyLn3EqOIm5ZDzoGcVe_EadbPtIJC5zI8drrm4Ou5cTSkBOEzSpmc5YENKHHsPn9NJsab7IaQLBVdjocLIcPEbFdEByGHFRWk870LcLd7huzzh/s3801/BISRA%20Labs%20Sheffield.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2556" data-original-width="3801" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxtdQenDML2ITgJhHrL_IfgRqsin683DJ_vNIJ53ZWcIYjOO4BC0BI9Drd-DqtdNqkCxR3UvsWAZrJHPuyLn3EqOIm5ZDzoGcVe_EadbPtIJC5zI8drrm4Ou5cTSkBOEzSpmc5YENKHHsPn9NJsab7IaQLBVdjocLIcPEbFdEByGHFRWk870LcLd7huzzh/w400-h269/BISRA%20Labs%20Sheffield.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>B. H. Falconer, "Post Buckling Behaviour of Long, Square Boxes Under Torsion" Math and experimental details. This is clearly to wet our whistle for Richard Southwell, "Relaxation Methods: A Retrospective," a look at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relaxation_(iterative_method)">relaxation method</a> for solving systems of partial differential equations. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Iron_and_Steel_Research_Association">BISRA Laboratories at Sheffield</a>" That's our old friends at the British Iron and Steel Institute, which now has a r<a href="https://www.sheffieldforum.co.uk/topic/120506-any-memories-of-bisra/">esearch laboratory in Sheffield, opened by the Duke of Edinburgh on the 19th. It's quite a nice shop with lots of equipment</a>. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Automotive Two-Stroke Loop Scavenging Diesel Engines" <i>The Engineer </i>visited the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turner_Manufacturing_Company">Turner Manufacturing works in Wolverhampton</a> to look at this new licensed German engine, which is installed in various test vehicles with an eye to wide commercial use as conversion packages. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Spreading a Colliery Waste Heap" I just don't know what to say. Is a waste heap more awful when it is spread out, or less? This particular colliery has so much that they dump the waste on a conveyor belt that dumps it along the way.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMWpst3fA_Ym217JMqS3LIqeqY-qRgQpRCOa6lLopKVEXW6li2bFjdFqda8DxIVp3iWSUDx7alyanHss8PbH05eKwnaoslbWM2UblH28QapQquy9Olcn5apUcVo765Yc9SHmrhJwQ8zIw4_D_C-sqQBaxRH-5f_8UAFtSFizGGhuP9Tb-rlEuVxybJNRiE/s4032/Rolls%20Royce%20Works%20Killbride.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2731" data-original-width="4032" height="217" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMWpst3fA_Ym217JMqS3LIqeqY-qRgQpRCOa6lLopKVEXW6li2bFjdFqda8DxIVp3iWSUDx7alyanHss8PbH05eKwnaoslbWM2UblH28QapQquy9Olcn5apUcVo765Yc9SHmrhJwQ8zIw4_D_C-sqQBaxRH-5f_8UAFtSFizGGhuP9Tb-rlEuVxybJNRiE/s320/Rolls%20Royce%20Works%20Killbride.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After the fold, and excluding the Southwell paper, there are two longer articles on a "Factory for Turbo-Jet Engines" (East Kilbride) and Ian C. Easton, "Shaft Sinking Accidents, 1905--1952" The <a href="https://www.facebook.com/theglasgowchronicles/photos/a.1208133939293020/1208202252619522/?type=3">East Kilbride works</a> are picturesque for a factory, but the article is so short on details that I don't feel guilty being short with it. Notable shaft-sinking accidents seem to be very specific to the situation in which they occur, and isn't that the way of civil engineering, leading into D. J. McLean, "Recent Progress in Soil-Cement for Road Construction," which looks at soil cementation for various compositions and water content based on recent work at the Road Research Laboratory. Our Indian Correspondent reports on "Industrial Progress in China," which seems to be mostly about ever more iron and steel and concrete and hydraulic works. Brief advertorials for industrial lighting and air conditioning installations by C. A. Parsons and J. and A. Hall (travelling cranes) leads into <b>African Engineering News, </b>once again mostly from South Africa, where three new airports, more electricity, more uranium, a rail link with Southern Rhodesia, and titanium production are noted. <b>Industrial and Labour Notes </b>is on about wages some more, notes that the European coal situation is not satisfactory due to those lazy workers getting time off, and a conventicle of concern about simplifying foundry operation that did not make the <b>Journal. </b>No <b>Launches and Trial Trips </b>this week. <b> </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Metallurgical Topics </b>this monthly feature looks at a special session of the Corrosion Group of the Society of Chemical Industry on cathodic protection of ships, harbour works, and other stuff in the water. It also reviews a treatment of a test for quench cracking laid out in a chapter of a book by <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/title/ferrous-metallurgical-design-design-principles-for-fully-hardened-steel/oclc/642244770">Holloman and Jaffe</a>and and an article on vacuum-melted metals by J. H. Moore in the October <i>Metal Progress</i>, which is compared with a recent article by J. Ransome in <i>Iron Age </i>on vacuum-melted steel. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Leaders </b>have strong opinions on engineering wages, which are too high for operatives and too low for actual engineers, and locomotive testing at Swindon, of which there should be more, with the caveat that the actual performance of locomotives in Britain right now depends on the coal situation. <b>Letters </b>engages Jack R. Wood of Rutherglass, Lanarkshire, on ferries on the Clyde, E. B. Parker on the recent Harrow accident, and leaves M. Jones on file drawings the last word. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Obituaries, </b>not normally here considered, have this week the notice for Loughnan St. Lawrence Pendred (1870--1953), which is, indeed, a real name, of the Editor-in-Chief of <i>The Engineer </i>from 1905 to 1946 (and son of the founding editor), which is, first, a very long time, and, second, not a long time to enjoy retirement. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Literature </b>has R. S. H. Boulding's <i>The Resonant Cavity Magnetron, </i>which sounds like a useful treatment. A short notice of G. H. Pearson, <i>The Design of Valves and Fittings </i>follows. <i> </i></div></div>Erik Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-77521943727290355692024-02-24T14:14:00.000-08:002024-02-24T14:14:33.437-08:00Postblogging Technology, November 1953, I: Kulturkampf<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimr7NvKQEhNrk_L1bPP7PHJ9xJX7Ugxr7R9KtiqYLxDQYFGsPeH_a-xRE1LNHntlPLJW9HSAhiljloeH71gHZwlXQG6V4DDUyZYNS_LfaLcz5yGl3xRrR6bzYHTYPx2UxvoLvk2YRafPJyPgs4an5em-nEVw2AwbymOYL_Z4UG3kgtgD7cS28ZGQ6OlxL2/s3712/American%20trucks%20and%20trailers%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1328" data-original-width="3712" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimr7NvKQEhNrk_L1bPP7PHJ9xJX7Ugxr7R9KtiqYLxDQYFGsPeH_a-xRE1LNHntlPLJW9HSAhiljloeH71gHZwlXQG6V4DDUyZYNS_LfaLcz5yGl3xRrR6bzYHTYPx2UxvoLvk2YRafPJyPgs4an5em-nEVw2AwbymOYL_Z4UG3kgtgD7cS28ZGQ6OlxL2/w640-h229/American%20trucks%20and%20trailers%201953.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>R_.C_.,<br />Shaughnessy,<br />Vancouver,<br />Canada<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Dear Father:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">An update from London, where yours truly continues to look for something to do that isn't swanning around film studios like a crazy investment-minded great aunt. Maybe I'll write a science fiction novel. It doesn't look that hard! Your son has not had any more chances to indulge his particular passions, because he has been attending one meeting after another in London about making sure that British radars play politely with American radars. Which, he says, "If I was interested in all this stuff I would be in television and making ten times as much money." SIGH. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Your grandchildren are fine, not neglected in any way. It's just that I have plenty of help. The only reason Nat is cooking for us is that there isn't room to turn around in the kitchen due to the way that the building got a wall kicked in courtesy of Herr Goering, so the help doesn't eat here. Don't worry, though, Harry MacMillan has promised to pop over and fix it personally, so the place will be back at its full Edwardian grandeur by the time we leave next summer.</div><br /><br />Your Loving Daughter,<br /><br />Ronnie<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XOW5TYNY3QE" width="320" youtube-src-id="XOW5TYNY3QE"></iframe></div><br /><div><br /><div><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><i>The Economist, </i>7 November 1953</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Leaders</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>"Caution and Conservatism" Should governments spend all their time reversing the work of their predecessors? In general, no, not even when a bunch of socialists ran amok, although one can see the problem. The Throne Speech promises to get rid of the raw cotton control commission, which is such a tiny little matter that it doesn't <i>really </i>count as reversing; and doing something about rent control, which is bad, but so is the alternative, so <i>The Economist </i>swears up and down that they will be tiny, tiny little rent increases. But tax reform? That will be swingeing, because massive cuts to rich peoples' taxes will benefit everyone, as rich people are notorious for spreading their money all around the town.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig_L2YxNaYra6wWKYk6JzuYx-ugB386H85JPheKRLSKgDr9fqGS8TEX7tiw0OBqb7_aaeQv_7KgggmLZTK37zOcqttfU0G1AaEVeZYKQg6Pvfj-mbpMFo1s_9cc1slNTQM6Ta0YrxwkvQ1xvNUXXQLg7TlYMtEUiq4zEMJ29s9ehmLg9SdI3pw-3mxU6gl/s4032/20240221_165902026_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEig_L2YxNaYra6wWKYk6JzuYx-ugB386H85JPheKRLSKgDr9fqGS8TEX7tiw0OBqb7_aaeQv_7KgggmLZTK37zOcqttfU0G1AaEVeZYKQg6Pvfj-mbpMFo1s_9cc1slNTQM6Ta0YrxwkvQ1xvNUXXQLg7TlYMtEUiq4zEMJ29s9ehmLg9SdI3pw-3mxU6gl/s320/20240221_165902026_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Paris on the Red River" The special Assembly session on the Indo China War ended with a 317 to 251 vote in favour of continuing the war in spite of the French wanting an immediate end to the war and th return of French forces to Europe so they can outnumber the germans in the European Army. Everyone now doubts "French moral ability" to sustain the war," but it would be terrible if Laniel were defeated in the Assembly on this; so he promised that the Associated States will take over the war as quickly as possible; that he would keep on negotiating; and that the other free nations would recognise their responsibility and share the burden. Besides, evacuation is impossible without massive loss and slaughter. On the other hand, it seems guaranteed that the French will eventually take what terms they can. So can something happen before "eventually"? Navarre has been reinforced with nine battalions from Europe to prevent a Viet Minh offensive in the dry season that might well have pushed the French to the negotiating table by May, which will do as a date for "eventually."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"State Farming in Practice" Everyone agrees that land nationalisation is a good idea due to land being a natural monopoly, but on th eother hand everyone agrees that it is politically impossible. It would be nice if Labour were still talking about nationalisation, because then <i>The Economist </i>could make fun of it, but it is not. Instead, Sir Hartley Shawcross wants some kind of tax on the value of agricultural land, which would be a good idea if it were a tax on unused land, but that doesn't seem to be what he is driving at, so since there's not much of rent left to tax, who cares? That leaves us with Crown land, of which there is a lot, about 2 million acres owned by everyone from the Air Ministry to the Ecclesiastical Commission. all, or, at least, all in agricultural use, run by the Agricultural Commission, hence "state farming." Hence state farming? Is this a good way of farming (and improving) marginal land? <a href="https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/commons/1966/oct/31/land-commission-bill">Time will tell!</a> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQBZrM-Qxy-yxZFZQUI8oUcoIUdOoRwVX9Dsw0J9HViY9MMdvImw5_OoloSUyClHJ_tV8wCd8Vxb1R-tyGPgz1aIoUHr5k6jeMbwtUKJ0rZJ1tf8H0hdDYeQIp3IC-O59Wwz4qYg4DSkst22QTQT9xLdDI-tVIulWPyC3DMfBLvLUvKoJlqn2qEPck3UMq/s4032/20240221_165914566_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQBZrM-Qxy-yxZFZQUI8oUcoIUdOoRwVX9Dsw0J9HViY9MMdvImw5_OoloSUyClHJ_tV8wCd8Vxb1R-tyGPgz1aIoUHr5k6jeMbwtUKJ0rZJ1tf8H0hdDYeQIp3IC-O59Wwz4qYg4DSkst22QTQT9xLdDI-tVIulWPyC3DMfBLvLUvKoJlqn2qEPck3UMq/s320/20240221_165914566_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"Proud Borrower and Shy Investor" Swarthy foreigners in foreign lands <i>say </i>they want investment, but keep on making it difficult in various ways. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aswan_Dam">Perhaps General Naguib's Egypt can manage its affairs to be an exception!</a> The Americans have been doing public aid with the thought that private investment will take over from public under Point Four, but it hasn't worked that way so far. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Notes</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>The Economist </i>thought the Prime Minister's Speech responding to the Queen's Speech was great, especially the part where the Prime Minister admitted that a Big Three (Four? Five?) meeting wasn't such a good idea, after all, especially when the Russians don't want to talk, after all. Bidault has come out with a full blown defence of the EDC, so maybe it has a chance, after all. The East Germans are open to German reunification, are hunting "partisans," and have increased the gold content of their money to improve the black market exchange rate. Two articles in the current <i>Lancet </i>suggest that intelligence test scores can increase over time, indicating that "<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3950413/">intelligence is not a fixed quantity</a>," which the magazine thinks is worth noting considering how much we use intelligence tests these days. <br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYPYg3CcFAPtv9jZ0waDS5P6qnMrJHv8XGQ3saOAdixDNEU5e2UGZy0kYtDyRsuQWbA4B6G8M8KBRFcOmGJjJSrEi0ym9f8e81YE4N1JCVPb7hCBp2JEvQPcBVyAH1KvdUt3GLmajTR4NBOxl6bgvCOARdhD6pxGR-ldB9cWwWTJJRYCFHTVkmU9h2o0JY/s4032/20240221_170036638_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYPYg3CcFAPtv9jZ0waDS5P6qnMrJHv8XGQ3saOAdixDNEU5e2UGZy0kYtDyRsuQWbA4B6G8M8KBRFcOmGJjJSrEi0ym9f8e81YE4N1JCVPb7hCBp2JEvQPcBVyAH1KvdUt3GLmajTR4NBOxl6bgvCOARdhD6pxGR-ldB9cWwWTJJRYCFHTVkmU9h2o0JY/s320/20240221_170036638_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"Operation Rescue" We get into the proposed amendment of the Rent Restriction Acts in a bit more detail. Yes, it will allow very large increases in the rent of older houses; but since that rent is very low right now, it's fine! The other part is the White Paper on demolitions, that establishes how the Government is going to go about tearing down hundreds of thousands of dilapidated buildings during a housing shortage. Also, there are repairs, also, there are those 300,000 new houses a year, of which <i>The Economist </i>continues to disapprove. <br /><br /> "Power Politics" <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1957/05/dissension-in-the-aec/640531/">Thomas Murray of the AEC</a> thinks that the first country to harness atomic power for electricity will be even more powerful than the first country with atom bombs,because all the industry will flock there to take advantage of the cheap electricity. What that means for Britain is "not certain," but if there's an excuse to cut funding somewhere, anywhere, it gets a tingling feeling, and atomic bombs are expensive. Britain might also be spending too much on health, or spending it on the wrong things.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Kenya's Emptying Kitty" Kenya's is running out of money, too. Kenya's revenues have fallen from £9 million to £5 million over the last eighteen months. A deficit of £3 million is expected in 1953, and another £2 million in the first half of 1954. Since Kenya can't raise taxes or cut social services in the middle of the Emergency, <i>The Economist </i>advises the government to give Kenya a big cheque. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs7_Pt1CKAiiroyobriFtRS2PiPQ5fgVtp7NUrEkM_hLg3ar04yJWcN91yNSVXk_0yz0cL0xCWiiey6qOANhMykzz0jl7nroGcGU14PSPnuqpel-gqYMvsrqgbHR4hkdjJbXcZHwPMe5qTmmI7ltbvsIBVGJYxYUl_8SwMhwSLQOpZ_SRqlbnwpG90AHj9/s4032/New%20Products%20November1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2929" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhs7_Pt1CKAiiroyobriFtRS2PiPQ5fgVtp7NUrEkM_hLg3ar04yJWcN91yNSVXk_0yz0cL0xCWiiey6qOANhMykzz0jl7nroGcGU14PSPnuqpel-gqYMvsrqgbHR4hkdjJbXcZHwPMe5qTmmI7ltbvsIBVGJYxYUl_8SwMhwSLQOpZ_SRqlbnwpG90AHj9/s320/New%20Products%20November1.jpg" width="232" /></a></div><i>The Economist </i>finds that even with Mossadegh gone, titis still hard to persuade the Persians that their oil is worthless and that Anglo-Iranian is taking it off their hands out of sheer good will. Some people in Japan seem inclined to take up a trade agreement recently offered by Red China and break with the Koumintang. Not enough to matter, but maybe there will be more later! <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Samuel,_1st_Viscount_Samuel">Lord Samuel</a>'s Hibbert Centenary Lecture concludes that there has been progress in human affairs, good news all around! The travel allowance has been raised from £40 to £50 so that British tourists can really go to town in Europe. <i>The Economist </i>sees the opportunity to really stretch our brains by arguing that it should be higher, because most tourists spend less and the loss of foreign exchange is quite small, only £82 million last year. Or it could be abolished altogether, but that's not nearly as entertainingly contrary. The twentieth anniversary of the founding of the Falange Party was quite the shindig for 150,000 Spanish Fascists in Madrid last week, but it doesn't show that Franco is a Fascist, especially since some of the resolutions at the party congress sounded almost critical of his government. Everything is just fine! Except in Germany, where <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Erhard">Dr. Erhard</a> is celebrating the successes of the German economy by saying very mean things about Britain. He's awful! (Although he is right about what is keeping the United States of Europe.)<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>From <i>The Economist</i> of 1853 </b>we have "Russia and the West" "It seems certain that hostilities have actually commenced at the seat of war," we're told, reminding us of a world when it took <i>time </i>for the news to spread. The Turks have sent troops across the Danube, and the magazine figures that the Russians are desperate to find a way out. After all, the Czar has somehow managed to unit France and Britain against him, which impossible accomplishment "must" make him eager to "retrace his steps." However, we should be careful not to embarrass them on the way. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Letters</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkeqH9aeCUqO0heZhicEYZg2iVcDeOlqrWPtO4IJXrxFuSoQEXJd4GbO8XfMyoy3WMiWVyekmuDieSw5PPe0d34LHzxMaQwak1uJTR34Pu8wVhXZWDmnTGPH9a_5cY9lkHVbPMoipOsykA-2HfpC0-ySeYHL-8M9S3U_HWJRa7rUw1TRFStopTxRyqrMPQ/s689/lymeswold%20cheese.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="689" data-original-width="680" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkeqH9aeCUqO0heZhicEYZg2iVcDeOlqrWPtO4IJXrxFuSoQEXJd4GbO8XfMyoy3WMiWVyekmuDieSw5PPe0d34LHzxMaQwak1uJTR34Pu8wVhXZWDmnTGPH9a_5cY9lkHVbPMoipOsykA-2HfpC0-ySeYHL-8M9S3U_HWJRa7rUw1TRFStopTxRyqrMPQ/s320/lymeswold%20cheese.PNG" width="316" /></a></div>W. R. Trehane, Vice Chairman of the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milk_Marketing_Board"> Milk Marketing Board</a>, writes in to defend the Milk Marketing Board. The Editor is testy in reply. N. A. Tremlow of Pye Radio points out that FM radio is just a fad, and customers would much prefer the money be put into television and colour television. G. Johnson points out that the ratio of students to teachers in Surrey is 1 to 50, so no wonder parents are opting to spend money on private school, and instead of making that difficult, the government should focus on improving public school (or whatever they call it in England.) Michael Hope points out that there is such a thing as central heating in Britain, too. His house has had it for twenty years!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Books</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wheeler-Bennett">John Wheeler-Bennett</a>'s <i>The Nemesis of Power: The German Army in Politics, 1918--45</i>, is another one of his fine books about the Germans. It's elegant and powerful, but too long and "with conspicuous faults." <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff_Cooper">Duff Cooper</a>'s <i>Old Men Forget </i>isn't just a politician's memoir, it is an indiscreet politician's memoir. It is also a good look in at the way that Neville Chamberlain, and only Chamberlain, was responsible for Munich. In <i>Stanley Baldwin: An Examination of Some Features of Mr. G. M. Young's Biography, </i>D. C. Somervell and the Faber Press<i> </i>make a passionate argument for paper rationing while <i>trying </i>to make the point that Young was very mean to Baldwin in a <i>book, </i>a freestanding <i>book, </i>complete with a dust jacket, of 132 pages. Rosalie Godwin Grylls (which is a real name) has <i>William Goldwin and His World</i>, which is about how "one of the most scarifying revolutionary writers" of the French Revolution period (which was pretty scary in Britain, too. How's that for the deep background you need to follow this letter???) The author tries to make the period real for us, but she's just a silly girl. On the other hand, it was about time there was a book about this very important person. A. Goodwin, <i>The French Revolution</i>, establishes that there is something in the air right now. Because we're all waiting for the next French Revolution? The reviewer shows us how it is done. Laniel is just like "Brienne and Lamoignon." The nobles and hereditary legal officials are like the people on the other side nowadays. The problem with the book is that the author stops holding the reader's hand halfway through, after which one completely loses the thread. Lord Campion has joined forces with D. W. S. Lidderdale to author <i>European Parliamentary Procedure; </i>Lawrence Rosinger's associates in producing <i>The State of Asia: A Contemporary Survey, </i>are too numerous to be named. <i>Asian Nationalism and the West </i>is an edited volume from William L. Holland, but it and the forgoing are from the Institute of Pacific Relations. All worthy, worthy books, but unfortunately the Pacific books took a year or two to write and so are hopelessly out of date. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>American Survey</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEnY6zNonAR6-XlJTkegQiUpeSf2y7H4CJYJ-9V3tiklNVXGuShwvNIkrJ9fFCj3sGOWoBXuROjf_j02r6EcTwGr6cdJahDMBcjO4Ad1lzgnsV32Ff5IheTlac6lqi_rqruX5vXmsqt4O5RREvEkuAEh6DSyJYULLLL8HOc-vOgRvzVB3b9iG6HGr9nVoa/s2796/Planned%20Capital%20Investment%20America%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2796" data-original-width="2195" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEnY6zNonAR6-XlJTkegQiUpeSf2y7H4CJYJ-9V3tiklNVXGuShwvNIkrJ9fFCj3sGOWoBXuROjf_j02r6EcTwGr6cdJahDMBcjO4Ad1lzgnsV32Ff5IheTlac6lqi_rqruX5vXmsqt4O5RREvEkuAEh6DSyJYULLLL8HOc-vOgRvzVB3b9iG6HGr9nVoa/s320/Planned%20Capital%20Investment%20America%201953.jpg" width="251" /></a></div>After a main <b>Leader </b>in which <i>The Economist </i>looks for signs the Administration won't let the protectionists carry Washington off to some Appalachian hollow, and find some, we get "Southern Solidarity," investigates why the President's personal popularity hasn't carried off the creation of a two party system in the South, as Hoover has long hoped. It's not because Hoover is an idiot, no sir. It's because Eisenhower is an idiot who can't stop saying mean things about the TVA, even though he seems to have no plans of doing anything about it. <br /><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>American Notes</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Republican Reverses" <i>The Economist </i>reports on the terrible results for Republicans in the New Jersey off-year elections, confirming that the results in Wisconsin weren't just a reflection of discontent on the farms. With the House now 218 to 215, the Republican majority in the House is almost as thin as it can possibly be, and it doesn't exactly show off the President's personal popularity, as he ended up endorsing all the losing candidates. Speaking of political perennials, Federal spending continues to brush up against the debt limit in spite of various expedients. The annual McGraw-Hill survey of planned capital investment agrees closely with the Department of Commerce estimates in showing little sign of a slowdown in response to the anticipated recession. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The World Overseas</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Pakistan Without a Crown" Pakistan is now a republic, which doesn't change anything, but <i>The Economist </i>still thinks that it is reasonable to be unreasonably upset. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF0f5vopZ9Eld58hLCBShix7ZSu71V9RcM5elTh_9mJVqgfunItIVGJca-5VkqBy61KLWsrjY0voZVfmfgzgsYVHarzPReFI1-Ut4Ema_4rar9bh8-Z_5DpZTAVFID11wi1rZSGdYubGN9lQwhrzt5FlhQSwuKP8BDKtPkaT_vDZ_uA0mL9edFT9KGEzd6/s3405/Yemen%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3405" data-original-width="1754" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiF0f5vopZ9Eld58hLCBShix7ZSu71V9RcM5elTh_9mJVqgfunItIVGJca-5VkqBy61KLWsrjY0voZVfmfgzgsYVHarzPReFI1-Ut4Ema_4rar9bh8-Z_5DpZTAVFID11wi1rZSGdYubGN9lQwhrzt5FlhQSwuKP8BDKtPkaT_vDZ_uA0mL9edFT9KGEzd6/s320/Yemen%201953.jpg" width="165" /></a></div><br />"Yemen Sets its Doors Ajar" Yemen is about as closed as Tibet. We're reminded that it used to be called Arabia Felix, and that it is mountainous and gets a lot of rain, that it is in the UNO and the Arab League, that it had an uprising in 1948, that its main export is coffee, but the crop has declined due t the rising use of the mild narcotic, <i>qat</i>, that it also exports hides and skins, and has some potential to export cotton, fruits and vegetables, and that it might have oil. For which reason it has admitted a few foreign technicians and surveyors and signed some import contracts with German firms; and is forming a bank, with United Nations help, to reform the currency, which currently consists of Indian rupees, gold sovereigns and louis, and silver <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Theresa_thaler">Maria Theresa thalers</a>. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR-Z8G-ZM9t9y-yP41bPOlzosGYKt-x4hyWnPkzQjIZhL4tVLZ3BGmZRaRpDQnDkRB2CqGbA05tB9hZPQPTEh1Y3NQWmd5Bl8w2DuRnYjEDhna9IjWSlKytuduHIw0YyVsP2bMhSzZFidqbWxS9ZLqwhjb-iFc815uuf4O1duPsJMR8BfVOEAhY37vlLIo/s4032/20240223_143448337_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiR-Z8G-ZM9t9y-yP41bPOlzosGYKt-x4hyWnPkzQjIZhL4tVLZ3BGmZRaRpDQnDkRB2CqGbA05tB9hZPQPTEh1Y3NQWmd5Bl8w2DuRnYjEDhna9IjWSlKytuduHIw0YyVsP2bMhSzZFidqbWxS9ZLqwhjb-iFc815uuf4O1duPsJMR8BfVOEAhY37vlLIo/s320/20240223_143448337_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"Colonial Revolutions in the Making" Two extended pieces explain how "Moscow" and then Mao Tse-tung came up with their, I assume, slightly varying strategies for taking over the unions in the World Federation of Trade Unions as a step towards fomenting colonial revolutions for a page and a half before backing into the actual news in the last paragraph, which is that the WFTU is having a convention in Vienna, where some activists called for raiding the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Confederation_of_Free_Trade_Unions"> ICTFU</a> because it's good for revolutions. In other Communism-is-terrible news, there is a "Crisis on Hungary's Farms," which appears to be the same crisis as always, (farmers don't like collectivisation and want higher prices for their produce), but maybe it's worse or something and Hungary is about to have a peasants' rebellion. Or maybe not!Then it is off to check in with the German coal industry, which is short of capital, relatively long on labour, and not increasing its production enough to ward off further European coal crises with possibly more American coal imports. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Business World</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Power and the Atom" The Queen's Speech promised a "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_Atomic_Energy_Authority">statutory corporation for atomic power</a>." <i>The Economist </i>approves at such great length that I was worried that it would run out of space to approve of "<a href="https://liverpool1207blog.wordpress.com/buildings/built-on-cotton-the-liverpool-cotton-exchange/#:~:text=The%20first%20recorded%20cotton%20dealing,one%20of%20Liverpool's%20major%20imports.">free trade in cotton</a>," but I worried in vain! There's even space to warn Labour in advance not to re-establish control. And that's even though it has to explain how it will <i>work </i>with currency controls. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Business Notes</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVBSPq2lMk-XDWQdWIfSfIviWiX2sFd_CT8o4nFk-LCLwIb4QbVnFLTr52ju-kdXHA13BIY3D0_j8YucDS0TvX-jf2kaTYlYpY0fAtY-LSLZL35kBA7x5DPt1zPYZkuTutm_wHVgGDONUArfiqobZbKR_uwgsNWzohl82n46VoLAQLdM6UCuC8jYyheVSf/s3951/New%20Products%20November2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3951" data-original-width="2855" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVBSPq2lMk-XDWQdWIfSfIviWiX2sFd_CT8o4nFk-LCLwIb4QbVnFLTr52ju-kdXHA13BIY3D0_j8YucDS0TvX-jf2kaTYlYpY0fAtY-LSLZL35kBA7x5DPt1zPYZkuTutm_wHVgGDONUArfiqobZbKR_uwgsNWzohl82n46VoLAQLdM6UCuC8jYyheVSf/s320/New%20Products%20November2.jpg" width="231" /></a></div>The stock market has gone bullish, Tube Investments had disappointing returns, and then <b>Notes </b>and <b>Notes </b>of finance. Europe has suddenly gone all in against convertibility, which <i>isn't </i>a reversal by the Government, not really, the magazine anxiously explains; The EPU will be extended through June of 1955; British dollar holdings are up but we are still worried; the new Loan (refinancing of the British national debt by the Treasury; perhaps it had something to do with the harder money policy, I don't know?) might not have been the success it was originally thought of as being, but bank deposits are at a record high; the cinema industry has agreed on the new film levy; an article about changing the death duty; and about how the "<a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep20312.8?seq=2">Uniscan</a>" agreement between the Scandinavian countries doesn't mean very much with the end of convertibility with Britain during the crisis of 1951. There are to be industry awards in the British accounting industry, because look how much fun the Oscars are; rubber prices are down and so is the rubber stockpile, somehow; gas is cheaper in Britain, the insurance industry has its difficulties, domestic rayon sales have recovered; tungsten prices are falling due to overproduction inspired by higher prices offered by the Ministry of Supply, which now has a huge surplus being offered at uneconomical prices. On the other hand, manganese is scarce, and industry is urged to conserve it. Ivory prices are "firm." <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Flight, </i>6 November 1953</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Leaders</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Relentless Progress" Six years ago, the only thing going on in the air was fighters, and cutbacks and delays were ruining everything. But now everything is great! V-bombers are the answer to atomic war, because if we atom bomb their atom bombs, they can't atom bomb us! <i>Flight </i>hopes that the veil of secrecy is "hiding good progress --especially in electronics." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2k6tbVYq3EMbhyphenhyphenB2jiFLQ8-aZ0800ZnhjHJHZJlCqU6EINjtZ5ggLoAhzOmOboSm2dpafMFlntaA4sWsms7Fyj1G803h8idMJQYQPjCPMXi4raIRVC0-dnLEgkXFrOMF3_KBhLW8NJ90TPXrWz6_0I3f_Th8ko6s0W4KJimzMlYb28xvyhTm1yzyZ8LTs/s4032/New%20Products%20November3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="1418" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2k6tbVYq3EMbhyphenhyphenB2jiFLQ8-aZ0800ZnhjHJHZJlCqU6EINjtZ5ggLoAhzOmOboSm2dpafMFlntaA4sWsms7Fyj1G803h8idMJQYQPjCPMXi4raIRVC0-dnLEgkXFrOMF3_KBhLW8NJ90TPXrWz6_0I3f_Th8ko6s0W4KJimzMlYb28xvyhTm1yzyZ8LTs/s320/New%20Products%20November3.jpg" width="113" /></a></div>"Super Sabre" This issue has a preliminary report on the F-100, the "first of the level sonics." The Hunter and Swift might be an improvement on the Sabre and the MiG-15, but the Super Sabre is the first of a new era, and the Russians have surely got something up their sleeve. It is time for a British super-sonic fighter, and an all-weather one, as quickly as possible. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>From All Quarters </b>reports that <i>Flight </i>has had a good look at pictures of the MiG-15 that arrived in Korea, which no Red official has shown up to claim as yet. It likes the canopy and gunsight, because they show British influence, and notes the problems the design has had with spin recovery. The Saab-32 has achieved supersonic speed "under complete control," it is reported. The Fleet Air Arm has formed its first anti-submarine helicopter squadron, No. 706. The American decision to withdraw its weather ship fleet from the North Atlantic has not been greeted with universal approval. Viscount production at Weybridge stands at 24 against a total of 84 firm orders so far, with production beginning at Hurn, freeing Weybridge for "bigger things." Bristol Aeroplane Canada has opened an engine factory in Montreal. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Airliner Crewing: Navigators and Engineers Concerned About Their Future" The Navigator's and Engineer Officer's Union is worried that the Comet only has two pilots, which is bad for safety and the union members' careers. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Here and There </b>reports that the new Norwegian CAS is only 38, that it is now permitted to acknowledge the existence of the De Havilland Gyron jet engine and new makes of the Avon, Conway, and Nomad. The RAe.S heard an interesting paper on the prospects for small turbines from F.R. Bell of Blackburn, which has the British license for the Turbomeca line. De Havilland will begin machining the giant hollow steel blades for the Bristol Britannia airliner at a new factory next month. Fairey's "envelope tooling" method got a big boost last week when replacement parts for two urgently-needed trial Gannets damaged in a collision could be installed straight from the factory. The USN is now operating 9,940 aircraft, with 14 of 1129 ships in commission being aircraft carriers. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRX22Js6o3IrYrHCy6GnDm5D6h1v9vSoNeFfcrFjfOCJ-IpLvpR77W8Ic86Uh1sEX6SG_sQ-EkIOSkiSDxedYs4SZgP6N7Vgdxwn53Jq_V_h6Rm49Bg65cuQeb_QZ77tdrkh0epeqWlbjsv84FMLCxqjBV9wORb4IE_kzcytf15URlY1IdlwjTiJc91BQC/s1024/North%20American%20F-100%20zero%20l%20aunch%20trial.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="1024" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRX22Js6o3IrYrHCy6GnDm5D6h1v9vSoNeFfcrFjfOCJ-IpLvpR77W8Ic86Uh1sEX6SG_sQ-EkIOSkiSDxedYs4SZgP6N7Vgdxwn53Jq_V_h6Rm49Bg65cuQeb_QZ77tdrkh0epeqWlbjsv84FMLCxqjBV9wORb4IE_kzcytf15URlY1IdlwjTiJc91BQC/s320/North%20American%20F-100%20zero%20l%20aunch%20trial.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b>Aircraft Intelligence </b>reports that the Bell X-1 is officially a 967mph, 70,140ft experimental rocket plane. Lockheed reports officially that the Neptune carries a magnetic submarine detector, that the underwing J34 installations will not become general on Neptunes, that production of the C-130 assault transport will begin as soon as B-47 work tails off, that work on the Bomarc missile continues. Dassault has its Avon-Mystere ready for test flights. The latest thing from Kurt Tank in Argentina is quite the thing, whatever it is. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCbdtwi4q-syRhpdY0B-wEQ5YGUwtdoC_vwQZCqskVrpWyTAUMzl7pZ-tssRoiC8VM_W4c-PNzC8gQnzQzeVtFwSk3bKQmVt4N1zoiwdE4rjKMY0NYTNWcGu-H8Cu5-BNxRlbGlYx2YKOSRXUyeHxJdBqBPpLmUAg3qfUiIN-532COKzQU6NXJHXIpbWIa/s4032/New%20Products%20November4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="1371" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCbdtwi4q-syRhpdY0B-wEQ5YGUwtdoC_vwQZCqskVrpWyTAUMzl7pZ-tssRoiC8VM_W4c-PNzC8gQnzQzeVtFwSk3bKQmVt4N1zoiwdE4rjKMY0NYTNWcGu-H8Cu5-BNxRlbGlYx2YKOSRXUyeHxJdBqBPpLmUAg3qfUiIN-532COKzQU6NXJHXIpbWIa/s320/New%20Products%20November4.jpg" width="109" /></a></div>"Thoughts on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_F-100_Super_Sabre">F-100</a>: The Sabre's Successor: Brute Force and Knife Edge Aerodynamics" The North American F-100 started out as a private project, aiming for supersonic speed with the brute force of a Pratt and Whitney J57 engine and the finesse of a 45-degree sweep, knife edge wing. Our American Correspondent points out that he was surprised to see how little the wing profile varied from the F-86 when the delta planform was already known, and was probably inspired by "devil they know" thinking and a fear of being overtaken by rivals like the F-102. The result is, once again, very high wing loading, of 84 lb/sq foot, up from 76 on the F-86. With lift and low speed stability at issue, the design retained leading-edge slats. The wing is also probably almost completely solid, given its extremely thin profile. Like the slat, the very low tailplane is probably intended to fight Dutch roll. Wing control surfaces, inboard ailerons, are used as in the B-52, but not because of concern about aileron reversal but to control air flow. The cockpit is pressurised, of course, and the stalky undercarriage allows high angles of attack. The solid wing means that fuel has to be carried in pylons. Much of the structure, especially aft, is titanium. Production deliveries of F-100s will begin this winter. <br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Flight </i>does right by the community by printing a long article by Air Commodore A. H. Wheeler arguing for a National Museum of Aircraft, or, at least, the beginnings of a collection to go into one, when it is built. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Qaw_eqoLrgE" width="320" youtube-src-id="Qaw_eqoLrgE"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Comets in the Commons" The Corporation reports were debated in the Commons, but that was all boring finances and balancing load factors, with the most excitement a brief excursion on the subject of giant flying boats, which no-one believes are even as real as Santa Claus, so that was all a bit of disappointment, and it was agreed that the next day the lads could have it on about the Americans doing the Comet dirty by scuttling its Certificate of Airworthiness. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Vere_Harvey,_Baron_Harvey_of_Prestbury">Air Commodore Harvey</a> <span style="font-size: xx-small;">[M.P., Cons., Member for Giant Subsidies for Bristol/Short Brothers/Belfast]</span> explained that the Comet 3 doesn't even have a British C of A yet on account of it not actually existing just yet, so the Americans can be forgiven. Remember how the Dove got sorted out in the end? Now we have to do it again for turbine-powered planes. <i>Flight </i>then summarises all that boring airline talk.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUpN9yDKaIdh-PUuLQL4ENTG28U3zKXbJcdTuOSLqZFYWJHe9U9apt3VjUKzYWRp12UBrOHocnJmM9anDaqyPeviowSHroH7BlU4cH3bkjCohnTfZcyO-MJ8pqB53X7Y-aEGjtux3owg3HXqtkN-Qeg3-FQYKw2GpEjl8N0vDcz9743v32i0XlyyinUjN5/s4032/Ward%20Leonard%20Ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2333" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUpN9yDKaIdh-PUuLQL4ENTG28U3zKXbJcdTuOSLqZFYWJHe9U9apt3VjUKzYWRp12UBrOHocnJmM9anDaqyPeviowSHroH7BlU4cH3bkjCohnTfZcyO-MJ8pqB53X7Y-aEGjtux3owg3HXqtkN-Qeg3-FQYKw2GpEjl8N0vDcz9743v32i0XlyyinUjN5/s320/Ward%20Leonard%20Ad.jpg" width="185" /></a></div>"3-D Aviation: A Helicopter Pupil Tries the W.S. 51: Lessons and Observations: By the Editor" I have decided to include the byline in the title even though the University of Chicago would yell at me because it seems like a special kind of endorsement for the article. (Maurice Smith is the editor of <i>Flight, </i>G. Geoffrey Smith having died several years ago.) Smith has been flying for <i>Flight </i>for years, everything from airliners to, now, a pretty big helicopter. The S. 51 sounds like a real rig, with doors that come off in your hands, stops that go missing, weights that go missing, a collective that is long for normal arms, and possibly loads in the luggage box that shouldn't be there. In general, I wouldn't want to fly on one of these things! <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"NATO Bears Its Teeth" NATO demonstrated its air power at the Tunis Range of the Sennelager in Germany for 800 assorted dignitaries the other day, and <i>Flight </i>was there to see the ground blown up for practice by Canberras, Vampires, and Lincolns. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioH_a_BjtQhjx57UxPyrpq7TZ-HK1kB-Xokq_i82IV6Vz94b87q_xAlBdkl2RdsqHUNj5ClYGd-G6HwNFaDmxR-sR_ESw5g6CcM6NlcJRKF7Z8jy7Fkm0zdM9hzKHrQNxDNlIw0u2vBIy9GNP11nBtXSyMbNaQ-d6o-t7SUM3HCY6uwk8SxC3BKvCiLP-Q/s2917/ILS%20Beam%20Distortions%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2106" data-original-width="2917" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioH_a_BjtQhjx57UxPyrpq7TZ-HK1kB-Xokq_i82IV6Vz94b87q_xAlBdkl2RdsqHUNj5ClYGd-G6HwNFaDmxR-sR_ESw5g6CcM6NlcJRKF7Z8jy7Fkm0zdM9hzKHrQNxDNlIw0u2vBIy9GNP11nBtXSyMbNaQ-d6o-t7SUM3HCY6uwk8SxC3BKvCiLP-Q/s320/ILS%20Beam%20Distortions%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"Instrument Approach Research: Precis of a Talk to the R. Ae. S. by J. F. W. Mercer, of the Blind Landing Experimental Unit of the Ministry of Supply" Mercer dealt with the "main" aspects of blind landings in his lecture. Currently, ICAO standard is for ILS to bring an aircraft within 200ft of the ground, after which landing is accomplished by flareout and visual markers. The Unit is working with an ILS system that couples with an automatic pilot to give automatic blind landing. The autopilot receives control impulses via low-power DC. The aircraft may be said to "hunt" around the ILS signal. The goals of research are rate stabilisation, achieved when the aircraft is on the beam without regard for cross-winds, with the primary difficulties for research being beam distortion; and horizontal stalisation, with the interrelation of aircraft heading with !DM being used to control the rate of closing and hold the plane on the beam. Wind correction can be applied to the ILS, but variation of gust strength and resultant changes in sinking rate have forced the abandonment of this approach. Pitch altitude stabilisation to maintain glide path is a promising alternative. For now, with blind landing limited to delivering the plane at the right position at 200ft, heading stabilisation is enough, and work is focussed on distortions. All tests so far have been conducted with piston aircraft turbine aircraft will be another thing. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">John Bishop offers is idiosyncratic views on airline pilot training. The special Hawker Siddeley Mission to America to find out what is happening at Curtiss Wright is back home. Also, the civil flight training school at Ealing thinks that "avigation" is a good word for air navigation. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Correspondence</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">W. A. Brown thinks that the proposed 25 storey tower on the Thames South Bank is going to be a problem for helicopter transport services. J. R. D. Bethell and L. Donoghue reminisce about the old days, before the war. A. W. Harrison has thoughts about sonic bangs and the "puffs" of vapour that supersonic planes produce. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4zYUCpz4eVRWlwdhYHzh8L76MQo_FOXfn-SceEtJsWK444v7K1Yk953HjilECwdXYpL3_8exVx7QTUb_nMrtMYht5BDRAcuPv_q5-_KZROl1Ek2BEaGL9Ihex2OHfJ3MytXXNEdgcflxvjZdnbsjiMjdZN1hHYwSCryC0wHnqraKv-oZZsn5lONzlWNdH/s4032/20240224_200524916_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4zYUCpz4eVRWlwdhYHzh8L76MQo_FOXfn-SceEtJsWK444v7K1Yk953HjilECwdXYpL3_8exVx7QTUb_nMrtMYht5BDRAcuPv_q5-_KZROl1Ek2BEaGL9Ihex2OHfJ3MytXXNEdgcflxvjZdnbsjiMjdZN1hHYwSCryC0wHnqraKv-oZZsn5lONzlWNdH/w400-h300/20240224_200524916_iOS.heic" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Civil Aviation </b>notes Hunting's new trooping contract from the UK to Gibraltar and Malta. A Sabena DC-6B on the new Ridgeway (Manchester)-Idlewild service was inaugurated with a special direct, 12 hour flight with reduced load. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BCPA_Flight_304">BCPA has had its first accident in four years</a>, a Sydney-Vancouver DC-6 hitting a hill at San Francisco, killing all 11 passengers and 8 crew. Jan Smuts Airport is deemed to be too far from anywhere, and everyone wants to fly Viscounts. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Industry </b>reports that R. B. Pullins has had a party, and Winston Electronics has bought a fabrication shop and will be known from now on as Winston Metal Fabrications, bit of a step backwards, don't you think?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5IB_uUqP8iY" width="320" youtube-src-id="5IB_uUqP8iY"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>The Economist, </i>14 November 1953</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Leaders</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiynGYdS2mdTUM1jk9ldq9NkTcrCBN6_Q-dxwnh4GfVoEn4lq8CmdDv9X8KUOQlZdgykKCPKqPbLgd51gG-nI7ghcn86JY2fAHyLLMd_gOuMMUC-w1-P6DfGvt51oVXJDYo7a9BdaTFfwa3XoS_zlMVIu32oT7MGheScHjiO88V6iP4JTSrIXPV7t-ZWe4F/s4032/20240224_200226263_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiynGYdS2mdTUM1jk9ldq9NkTcrCBN6_Q-dxwnh4GfVoEn4lq8CmdDv9X8KUOQlZdgykKCPKqPbLgd51gG-nI7ghcn86JY2fAHyLLMd_gOuMMUC-w1-P6DfGvt51oVXJDYo7a9BdaTFfwa3XoS_zlMVIu32oT7MGheScHjiO88V6iP4JTSrIXPV7t-ZWe4F/s320/20240224_200226263_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"Conserving the Featherbed" Food rationing is to end, but the marketing boards will endure and <i>The Economist </i>is concerned in advance that it will all end up with consumers paying too much for food, while farmers luxuriate in their soft and warm feather bed. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"An Idea for Bermuda" The Big Four talk is now a Big Three talk in Bermuda. What are Eisenhower, Churchill, and Laniel going to talk about? <i>The Economist </i>suggests Germany, and the EDC. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Britain and Japan" "There is no longer any doubt" that Japan is re-emerging into the world as the largest industrial economy in Asia and "a considerable military power." Britain should probably try to be nicer to Japan, for example showing the Crown Prince in the film of the Coronation and not appointing an ambassador who had been refused by China so that the younger generation of Japanese don't decide that they are a colony of America rather than an equal partner and go all Communist on us.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9DWqOiJjtVReI8AhOiz1Lsitz9TlrEOxqsuQHw6CVCtJWxGtEL1GUez3mmizhUVeGKT2dvFi5v1UCz_HMkBMANuOdmHT-EYYqSk3xDttNeR4TVrLiPt_ZbU4UqDb7HCQfT1hNyt2mvefWw_B4JGfGgsLhE4_bKjo8J0X58XUfqSfw6dd4Fco3_REPlgzF/s375/Popplewell,%20Ernest%20attr%20needed%20wiki.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="265" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9DWqOiJjtVReI8AhOiz1Lsitz9TlrEOxqsuQHw6CVCtJWxGtEL1GUez3mmizhUVeGKT2dvFi5v1UCz_HMkBMANuOdmHT-EYYqSk3xDttNeR4TVrLiPt_ZbU4UqDb7HCQfT1hNyt2mvefWw_B4JGfGgsLhE4_bKjo8J0X58XUfqSfw6dd4Fco3_REPlgzF/s320/Popplewell,%20Ernest%20attr%20needed%20wiki.jpg" width="226" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Ernest Popplewell, Baron Popplewell (1899--1977)</span></div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><div style="text-align: left;">Walter Stoneman</div></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> - Original publication: Bromide Print,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> 5 November 1947Immediate source: </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">search/use-this-image.php?mkey=mw228455,</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"> Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">?curid=65305203article</span> </div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></td></tr></tbody></table>"The Charabanc and the Law" "There used to be something of vulgarity about the idea of joy-riding in numbers of more than two or three at a time. A flavour of paper hats and football rattles, of beer and fish and chips, clings still about the good old un-English word 'chara.'" What? I'm sorry? Do you even understand this? I grant that <i>The Economist </i>admits right up that it's <i>not </i>English, so I guess I have to give it the benefit of the doubt, but . . . You know what? I'll make an exception to the usual rule of dealing with silly <b>Leaders</b><i> </i>and read the next paragraph, too. It seems to be about "coach parties," or "coach trips," which <i>seem </i>to be bus tours? You can only do that, it seems to me, with a private bus that you rent out, and the magazine seems to be on the same wavelength, so I will quite arbitrarily assume that this is how it works in England, which makes the rest of the , <span style="font-size: xx-small;">was MP for Newcastle-upon-Tyne from 1945 to 1966, and </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">out to be an extended fret about the <i>licenses </i>that such private busses might require. I'll give it about fifty-fifty odds as to this being a problem in the real world, and not just in the magazine's head. It's not like the body of the <b>Leader </b>troubles itself with minutiae along the lines of facts, figures, or specific events that would let me sort it out! (Except that something called the "<a href="https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=1955-02-18a.788.2">Thesiger Committee</a>" exists. Thanks for that!) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Notes of the Week</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhibNW76MaP8RtJ6u2kCPM6-MYjxXwr9Gt2zvD6OCJ91MiuF_fBJrUjxTmoAG6w6pDJUtOoBORk7XMa66ZcCsH3z0ZHs84b_Ixy3xuLOovx_buU1NpMldfY20Ew3V4-LCRTh4fGd_p_D6lcRWtUah43gTiwF6cq6XETBIc5ec3H3sOzhXS9fWvc5BKKKg2Y/s4032/20240224_200240009_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhibNW76MaP8RtJ6u2kCPM6-MYjxXwr9Gt2zvD6OCJ91MiuF_fBJrUjxTmoAG6w6pDJUtOoBORk7XMa66ZcCsH3z0ZHs84b_Ixy3xuLOovx_buU1NpMldfY20Ew3V4-LCRTh4fGd_p_D6lcRWtUah43gTiwF6cq6XETBIc5ec3H3sOzhXS9fWvc5BKKKg2Y/s320/20240224_200240009_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"The Regency" The Regency Bill makes Prince Philip the Regent in the event the Queen dies before Charles is 18, which is unfortunate timing since the 1937 Bill, which was supposed to make a permanent and standing arrangement precisely to prevent allegations of, for example, the Mountbatten family playing politics, that would have made it Margaret. So the argument is that the princess is being given a good hiding for trying to marry the wrong man, while the Mountbattens are being rewarded for playing the game. Apart from that, everyone now agrees that the Government got itself out of some difficult positions coming from the Queen's Speech. Everyone agrees that when someone important takes the salute at the October Revolution parade in Moscow, it means something, but then those darn Russians went and had Voroshilov and Bulganin take the salute, and they're not important at all! That's cheating! Unusually for the weekly Trieste article, something actually happened there in the last seven days. (A demonstration, and some violence.) The Indians have an impossible job in Korea, and everyone is grateful that they are doing it, and it really is a sight to see the Americans in a position where they have to start shooting again by their own account of things, but don't want to, so don't. The debate over ending food rationing featured Labour MPs repeating the old "Myth of Starvation." No-one (hardly anyone) has starved in Britain in at least the last sixteen years, so logically it will never happen again. <i>The Economist </i>is not impressed with the scant number of emergency regulations the Conservatives have cancelled since coming to power, what with all their promises of a new era of freedom and liberty in opposition. The recent pay increase for judges is deemed inadequate, and also taxes are too high.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Defiance in Northern Rhodesia" In the latest "Confederation <i>could </i>be good for everyone if the European settlers suddenly stop being racist" news, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Welensky">the opposition in its brand new government</a> are throwing a fit over the addition of two new seats for Africans and Europeans (each) on the legislative council, on the grounds that there are too many Africans there already. Sudan is having an election and there are allegations of Egyptian interference. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnUg9iVSz3gDlxAUHPsrYcSimFh4Pt5PJ24a4XLtiuWBktEoL6sgWFvntM5pBJeH0cj5swOqKyZbxLBoHRrnc3J0oujjOuvioY_lpnpXQGc1MGu0e8svXxCwzypDhPN0C-Lp4i6OKIJyYGEhZ8Jx8qNlx5-MIufFAgJZL3Uk8F-HPUa3Dn2aEnlFkymbe5/s4032/20240224_200251534_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnUg9iVSz3gDlxAUHPsrYcSimFh4Pt5PJ24a4XLtiuWBktEoL6sgWFvntM5pBJeH0cj5swOqKyZbxLBoHRrnc3J0oujjOuvioY_lpnpXQGc1MGu0e8svXxCwzypDhPN0C-Lp4i6OKIJyYGEhZ8Jx8qNlx5-MIufFAgJZL3Uk8F-HPUa3Dn2aEnlFkymbe5/s320/20240224_200251534_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"French Budgetary Labours" The proposed budget does nothing more than "arrest the upward trend of budgetary expenditure," mainly by cutting defence, since American aid covers so much of the cost of the war in Indo-China. Cuts in national investment have been avoided, but seem like they would be easier under the proposed new budgetary rules, which is bad; and the government claims that reduced taxes on investment will get all that French money out from under the mattress and into the market. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The new Food and Drugs Act gives the Ministry of Food increased powers to regulate food hygiene and defines various kinds of eating establishments more clearly. You're still on our own on the difference between "snack bars" and "milk bars," though! (Unless you ate at them in London often enough to be an expert in your own right. Ned is a wonderful cook, I'm learning, and we all find eating out in London to be a trial, even compared to California. You should <i>see </i>what they call "Chinese food" around here!) The British Council, which last year cost the country £2.5 million, will spread the good word of British culture less in Persia and China this year (since it is out of both places), and more in Japan, where it now is. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uqcSoL59hOs" width="320" youtube-src-id="uqcSoL59hOs"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Teahouse_of_the_August_Moon_(film)">What the fuck even is this?</a></span></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> "Ireland's Persisting Inflation" The Irish are running their economy wrong. So is Poland, but that's to please the Soviets,, where industrial investment is now being cut to channel more money into agriculture and services before there is (more) rioting. The new German government gets a bit of a tut-tutting for not doing enough to keep the right wing parties on the margin. <i>The Economist </i>hopes for an "Adenauer/<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erich_Ollenhauer">Ollenhauer</a>" two-party system, instead. It also thinks that it is time for bygones to be bygone. The Spanish Civil War was just so long ago, and we put up with Peron and Salazar now, so why not Franco? Well, I don't know, maybe because he;s a <i>Fascist</i>? (Which, by the way, is only okay in Spain, not Germany.) "One does not want to be stuffy about Guy Fawkes Day," says the magazine before being stuffy about Guy Fawkes Day.</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbdLhHkpSQ27KfSTEPJ44Xk2zq8hxfqhmMziHNG-BFw5zPwhDrP91Foib-2uM0FHpLNqhSxB1ZqYLd97GuiQpz9GXL_QM_JV81SQfrlaHjhXFdT5aOpAtVo1tZ9L8flb4uYX4RP_PjdQhcFvAKXLZ6X6U2jf9pWuESgg9Trqb3KqTpnNIS_w2A1dpr1d71/s4032/20240221_170127112_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbdLhHkpSQ27KfSTEPJ44Xk2zq8hxfqhmMziHNG-BFw5zPwhDrP91Foib-2uM0FHpLNqhSxB1ZqYLd97GuiQpz9GXL_QM_JV81SQfrlaHjhXFdT5aOpAtVo1tZ9L8flb4uYX4RP_PjdQhcFvAKXLZ6X6U2jf9pWuESgg9Trqb3KqTpnNIS_w2A1dpr1d71/s320/20240221_170127112_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><b>From <i>The Economist </i>of 1853 </b>we get "Wage Claims," which begins by admitting that things are good in the manufacturing districts, that wage claims ought to be on the menu, and the "operatives" aren't rioting, as they used to do. <i>However, </i>they're forming unions, and that's terrible. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Letters</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">D. P. Sayer of the British Electricity Authority lets forth a mighty blast in response to the magazine's skepticism about the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_grid">Super Grid</a>. In particular, the magazine shouldn't be uncritically repeating American criticisms when it doesn't even know the difference between a load factor and a power factor. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/oct/25/kathleen-jones-obituary">Kathleen Jones of the University of Manchester</a> corrects some mistaken history and legal details of mental illness care in Britain. Donald Mclean Johnston also has comments. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Books</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkYV07FjFrNjkLzDW7kj_5rSxtPUYDQyeDnyBFfW6kdRbVqAJOUNQWry4Q8ci2LsiLmKDqA7ZrQ3Nk0Oqd4DJ67949lazcALD2Ty6U2kNcqCZWRWXwVgQpJuqwJc72QZmkgodL_1nzU1uRCNsIqdUmoMR2QoTdOr2ScuLb_nnIHfcMuUtIMyqmV7VqpCHa/s290/Taylor,%20Griffith.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="A terror to Australia was the wild colonial boy" border="0" data-original-height="215" data-original-width="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgkYV07FjFrNjkLzDW7kj_5rSxtPUYDQyeDnyBFfW6kdRbVqAJOUNQWry4Q8ci2LsiLmKDqA7ZrQ3Nk0Oqd4DJ67949lazcALD2Ty6U2kNcqCZWRWXwVgQpJuqwJc72QZmkgodL_1nzU1uRCNsIqdUmoMR2QoTdOr2ScuLb_nnIHfcMuUtIMyqmV7VqpCHa/s16000/Taylor,%20Griffith.jpg" /></a></div>William L. Langer and S. Everett Gleason have <i>The World Crisis and American Foreign Policy: 1940--1. </i>This is actually a review of Volume 2, as Volume 1 came out a year ago and was well-reviewed. There being nothing new to say(!!!) it doesn't say it, but it does clear things up very nicely. John Hunt's <i>The Ascent of Everest </i>is too rushed to be a really great book about the ascent of Everest. Sir <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F._M._Powicke">Maurice Powicke</a>'s <i>The Thirteenth Century, 1216--1307 </i>is one of those books that sets off a century by events rather than the calendar, both in England, which probably means that it is actually a book about <i>England </i>in the Thirteenth Century. Am I right? I'm right! Unfortunately, it is a volume in the Oxford History of England series, and isn't on the same scale. It is 80 pages longer, but all politics, much of it original research rather than summarising the state of the field, which is but not what the other volumes did, so it is a disappointment. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cecil_Woodham-Smith">Cecil Woodham-Smith</a>'s <i>The Reason Why </i>explains how two "aristocratic asses" got the Light Brigade massacred. The author is apparently a lady? Diane Adams Schmitt's <i>Anatomy of a Satellite</i> is a look at how the situation in Czechoslovakia managed to gradually creep, as it seems, out of control. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Griffith_Taylor">Griffith Taylor</a> has edited <i>Geography in the Twentieth Century, </i>which is still an uneven collection, but not as much as the first edition of 1951, and the author's "distinctive ideas on racial and political geography" don't sound like they contribute to a general review of the science of geography. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_H%C3%B6ttl">Wilhelm Hoetl</a>'s <i>The Secret Front </i>is interesting but unreliable. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>American Survey</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjznKcJa0pPKrGCLS8NkPqtA7sql2Km6CD8SHM1B4-l6QOUS0etKZBMgUrYBp-qYOBaoJHddG8O_qHY-3GXXU1j-YbI4SJXBEdIfX89ynDvbefglpdEE30W9aFfnGhnutff-fO7fpd9xfZJONQ6YlmUQ2kbib44vszVzqohjNfwwakS6jDXBFyGB-LWFSrv/s4032/20240221_170203670_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjznKcJa0pPKrGCLS8NkPqtA7sql2Km6CD8SHM1B4-l6QOUS0etKZBMgUrYBp-qYOBaoJHddG8O_qHY-3GXXU1j-YbI4SJXBEdIfX89ynDvbefglpdEE30W9aFfnGhnutff-fO7fpd9xfZJONQ6YlmUQ2kbib44vszVzqohjNfwwakS6jDXBFyGB-LWFSrv/s320/20240221_170203670_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"Back to Containment" The rough balance in the House means that America is going to settle for sending some atomic artillery to Europe in way of telling the Soviets "not one step further." The Russians will stand pat and wait for Western resolution to weaken. The Administration would like to fight "premature independence" around the world, but it isn't clear that Congress will allow it. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>American Notes</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Brownell's Bombshell" The Attorney General's announcement that Truman promoted a Russian spy over J. Edgar Hoover's objections is the biggest thing since Alger Hiss. Truman has been subpoenaed to appear before HUAC, along with Justice Clark and James Byrnes. However, there's some question about whether an ex-President or a Governor of South Carolina should be deposed before the Committee; the President is in trouble for saying that he left it to Brownell to decide whether, or how to make the allegations public. In traditional fashion, the magazine leaves it to the end of the note to explain that the spy in question is <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Dexter_White">Harry Dexter White</a>, and the issue is whether these early FBI reports identified him as a spy, considering that he was only exposed by Elizabeth Bentley in 1948. (She had been deposed by the FBI in 1944, but it isn't clear anyone took her seriously.) The Attorney General refuses to make the contents of the FBI report public, but a grand jury did see it in 1947, and refused to press an indictment. Now, as we know, Washington is withholding decoded Russian documents because they were cracked using stolen letters, which would be embarrassing if revealed, and would be cause for a mistrial, anyway. So is the incriminating information from that material? Or is this just more McCarthyism? <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Silver Lining in the West" The Republican win in Los Angeles means a three seat majority in the House, and not 1, as was feared last week. Republicans are now fighting over whether<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenard_P._Lipscomb"> the winner wo</a>n because he was pro-Eisenhower or because some of the more conservative Republican names campaigned for him. It looks as though unemployment might be set to rise in the new year. The new system of classifying documents is a great improvement over Truman's system, so quickly put in place at the beginning of the Korean War. Secretary Benson's latest idiocy, closing seven regional soil conservation offices, gets a brief disemboweling. The railways are profitable this year and have almost finished switching over to diesel, but they're still having trouble stemming the loss of passengers. The National Security Council, which is in charge of such things for the most obvious reasons, has put <a href="https://globalpublicks.blogspot.com/2015/01/walter-roberts-first-usia-directors-as.html">Theodore Streibert</a> in charge of the latest version of the U.S.'s overseas "culture war" office, the <a href="https://www.americansecurityproject.org/ASP%20Reports/Ref%200097%20-%20The%20United%20States%20Information%20Agency.pdf">United States Information Agency,</a> in the hopes that he will somehow avoid all the eruptions that come when you put "culture" and "foreigner" in the same sentence and speak it before a Republican Congressman. (And some of the women, too!)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The World Overseas</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYvVKT9zyXjRnk9rIK9RhErSNs4Z2II7x9glmt4L8qPBRx7bX9Jq2Yo54Ma0k4S-DirFwls3VbUzTpVQJPHWOHbaafy_nB7Cg9-jeItyJtBlshusE0NvCsfoT5Z1n4IHDjbS0vPrIGTlgp63wOmGcHfrw2mXuMbYpKcotOI3Ib_e5aNlQWhHppUO5aU_SC/s4032/20240223_230133702_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYvVKT9zyXjRnk9rIK9RhErSNs4Z2II7x9glmt4L8qPBRx7bX9Jq2Yo54Ma0k4S-DirFwls3VbUzTpVQJPHWOHbaafy_nB7Cg9-jeItyJtBlshusE0NvCsfoT5Z1n4IHDjbS0vPrIGTlgp63wOmGcHfrw2mXuMbYpKcotOI3Ib_e5aNlQWhHppUO5aU_SC/s320/20240223_230133702_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"The Death of a Desert King" Ibn Saud is dead, and Saud Ibn Abdul Aziz is the new King of Saudi Arabia. He was a great guy, and very pro-British. Will it be the deluge after him? Probably. Maybe. Who can say, really? Is that a page-and-a-half? Can I knock off now? Hurray! <i>The Economist </i>notices that Western Europe has returned to prosperity, the only question being the balance of defence and investment. There hasn't been enough nothing in this issue about Trieste, so here's more. Speaking of which, a full page on the process of writing a budget for the UNO. And there has been a revolt in what the magazine chooses to call Atjeh, the magazine now acknowledges, five weeks after an uprising began on 20 September on the "Verandah of Mecca." "Atjeh," it says here, "is yet another fragment of the progressive disintegration of Indonesia's unitary state." <i>The Economist </i>recommends federalism before turning to a detailed examination of the Soviet Note. The Soviets want peace and unity in Korea, an end to aggression against China, and for all those "clearly aggressive" U.S. bases around the periphery of the territory of the peace power bloc, as it puts it, kindly dismantled. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Business World</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Franchise for Atomic Energy" The White Paper on the new <a href="ed kingdom atomic energy authority">United Kingdom Atomic Energy Commission</a>, or whatever it will be called, gets two-and-a-half enthusiastic pages, as does the appointment of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_Plowden,_Baron_Plowden">Edwin Plowden</a> to run it. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Business Notes</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Finance! Finance and United Steel! More finance! <i>Savoy Hotel </i>shares? That's a story? It turns out that it is because we're suddenly worried that stock prices are wrong from the point of view of encouraging investment and proper use of resources. At least it is more relevant news than the addition of a glass window to the public viewing gallery at the London Stock Exchange, which is the next <b>Note</b>! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZbBZtBohJvt5HvYhoTDDqOl1nkLl2z4gUCylzBesU0fQ1bL9w7koyFL9-EfFY5DD_ptc-c4F88hFIuaH8kuect-1BZgJG_JVqk_X8CncS8t1G7_FICwKqmF-pI4Cw9iIe13cVVSj3kuqw62Li6sFkuwQitUG0Xu2HlnUgeXMfRPToneLAE9bTez3ow9O5/s4032/20240223_232406558_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZbBZtBohJvt5HvYhoTDDqOl1nkLl2z4gUCylzBesU0fQ1bL9w7koyFL9-EfFY5DD_ptc-c4F88hFIuaH8kuect-1BZgJG_JVqk_X8CncS8t1G7_FICwKqmF-pI4Cw9iIe13cVVSj3kuqw62Li6sFkuwQitUG0Xu2HlnUgeXMfRPToneLAE9bTez3ow9O5/s320/20240223_232406558_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"Warning the Optimists?" During the debate on the economic situation, Hugh Gaitskell warned that too much spending is going to consumption, not enough to investment, and Rab replied that if consumption started to drive up inflation, he would absolutely step in, and, in general, those speculating on what the final budget would look like after supplementary estimates to cover the Cuban sugar deal and recent setbacks on cereal, would be wrong to take too hopeful a view. The airlines are getting a bit more borrowing room to cover their losses, and everyone is throwing cold water on the idea of someone buying and using the Saro Princesses. There is also more money for the movie industry, although the Government sounds a bit cross about it. Britain is buying $80 million in tobacco and taking some American butter, which it will be paying for in sterling, leaving the Americans to figure out what to do with it. Air Finance, Ltd., gets a <b>Note. </b>Commodities are rebounding a bit, so are exports, coal output is up again (4.67 million tons last week, up 83,000t over the same period last year) and it might just be grudgingly admitted that the coal situation is okay. Steel production broke all records in October, achieving an annual rate of 18.46 million tons, with a total production for the year expected to be 17.5 million tons. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Flight, </i>13 November 1953</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Leaders</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Crew Cuts" There are going to be fewer air crew in the future, that's just a fact. BOAC is moving towards an all-pilot cockpit crew, some of whom will have navigational qualifications, but it isn't there yet. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFNxtNF4wC_6qRdoht6c0h7yYDuTvZANZjX8seYa8xPTGebQnFkWIDse7_lfNbCiN8WcqNGuYN0b29fWVY0bFNAqlTrTAGNVJqFJFBpD4UZ2lerCDok__EhAA5_iotp64ct5DO1azcr58FovVo4fxhZoMEQWhjMREArvKkAJyUc9XteYztoIEL8r2-8tpd/s1024/Bristol%20403%20atr%20needed%20wiki.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="721" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFNxtNF4wC_6qRdoht6c0h7yYDuTvZANZjX8seYa8xPTGebQnFkWIDse7_lfNbCiN8WcqNGuYN0b29fWVY0bFNAqlTrTAGNVJqFJFBpD4UZ2lerCDok__EhAA5_iotp64ct5DO1azcr58FovVo4fxhZoMEQWhjMREArvKkAJyUc9XteYztoIEL8r2-8tpd/s320/Bristol%20403%20atr%20needed%20wiki.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">By Brian Snelson - originally posted to Flickr as Bristol 403 2 Litre, <br />CC BY 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6502769</span></td></tr></tbody></table>"Viscounts' Darts Uprated" The only turboprop in commercial service at the end of, eight years of talk, is up 80 to 90 shaft horsepower, or from 1400 to 1550shp at takeoff, allowing the Viscount to clear a new maximum all up weight of 60,000lbs, giving 18mph more at higher cruising altitudes, reducing Dart engine specific consumption by 9% and extending range. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>From All Quarters </b>reports that the Duke of Edinburgh visited Filton the other day to see what's holding up the Britannia, look at some missiles at close quarters, and take a spin in a 403. R. H. Weir replaces F. R. Banks as Director of Engine Research at the MoS because you just can't have too many old boys. Arthur C. Clark gave a nice talk about exploring interplanetary space to the Students' Section of the R. Ae.S. the other day. The youngsters seemed a lot less impressed by the "25,000mph" figure for escaping Earth's gravity than <i>Flight</i>. Which is because <i>Flight </i>writers and readers are still stuck on Spads in their heads! Everyone was shocked to see a Supermarine S6B of Schneider Cup fame just moored out in the rain at Southampton the other day. There will be Investigations. Heads Will Roll! Mr. Wimpenny's talk on "Stability and Control" to the R.Ae.S gets a blurb. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Wi4s5MN5-Hlol6Idk6U-8DwUFdKPVD23YoBDM4ALqjRO5JZioMBg0_TrqSRXUGPIRS7e0xbkGj1UDkESIkYEbPeY-OSlFH5Vtz62t_3c10uNUxf0qJXErEDNQBcVImG4SIgtYjzqKEof2OVTkKrSUTZ0qazzBq2cS-Bkwvgmo55UyyXTte_sVTwFryk1/s4032/Emerson%20Pocket%20Ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2855" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1Wi4s5MN5-Hlol6Idk6U-8DwUFdKPVD23YoBDM4ALqjRO5JZioMBg0_TrqSRXUGPIRS7e0xbkGj1UDkESIkYEbPeY-OSlFH5Vtz62t_3c10uNUxf0qJXErEDNQBcVImG4SIgtYjzqKEof2OVTkKrSUTZ0qazzBq2cS-Bkwvgmo55UyyXTte_sVTwFryk1/s320/Emerson%20Pocket%20Ad.jpg" width="227" /></a></div>"Plans for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saunders-Roe_Princess">Princes</a>s" Are to quietly knock them down when no-one's looking (see "Supermarine S.6B'), but you can't <i>say </i>that, and the dotard has directed that we find a use for them, so here's a story about Aquila Airways taking them on. Aquila operates <i>six </i>Sunderlands (under the various makes and tradenames rolled out of Southampton over the years). It's absolutely ready to fly Princesses! Right after they get the operational engines that Bristol can't even build for the Britannias. Did I mention that the British taxpayer is somehow on the hook for <i>three </i>Princess hulls, two of which haven't even flown? <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Here and There </b>reports that there are rumours of an American hydrogen bomb test at Eniwetok, that Neville Duke will <i>not </i>make a new attempt on the speed record in a Hunter, that MR. Dulles has corrected Mr. Talbott, and U.S. atomic bombs will <i>not </i>be stored at the new American air bases in Spain, that Canadian Aviation Electronics is building a CF-100 simulator for the RCAF, that Robert A. Wagner, formerly of Hillier, is rejoining the firm from Hughes. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Siddeley,_1st_Baron_Kenilworth">Sir John Siddeley</a> has died in a Jersey nursing home. E. W. Titterton, a Professor of Physics at Australian National University, says that Britain can now supply atomic weapons for all sorts of uses for all three branches of the armed services, because it is now a physics professor's job to relay this kind of information. Rear Admiral C. J. Ross has joined the Board of Armstrong Siddeley. Ross was associated with the Engineering Branch during his career, but started as an executive officer and completed it as the chief of staff to the Vice Admiral, Aircraft Carriers. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVAAZIIRhitt4EvPYlkwi83oWukH0dxl9Mv9vCUWdx07Ijc16dH3Zc4apRyAmMz1VunuougGj7Y-AcU1AgMo6nOltU92LuRQRyNaECn2LZKrw99mp7dendmWOoWeOCZSiQPD-NOMuF7wlI9HvUbMCuFsG3_1H79z2B4eZT7Rhmzgob-l8PEQgj47yIVAdj/s3857/Westinghouse%20J40(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1368" data-original-width="3857" height="226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVAAZIIRhitt4EvPYlkwi83oWukH0dxl9Mv9vCUWdx07Ijc16dH3Zc4apRyAmMz1VunuougGj7Y-AcU1AgMo6nOltU92LuRQRyNaECn2LZKrw99mp7dendmWOoWeOCZSiQPD-NOMuF7wlI9HvUbMCuFsG3_1H79z2B4eZT7Rhmzgob-l8PEQgj47yIVAdj/w640-h226/Westinghouse%20J40(2).jpg" width="640" /></a></div>"Westinghouse Turbojets" Now that Westinghouse's whole development programme has blown up, it's time to check in at the power house to find out how it is doing! Westinghouse came to turbojets from the power industry and naval machinery, and has been an original designer, leading to turbojets that look unlike anyone else's. The J34 was a great success for the company, but the J46 is well behind and its failure would create a serious bottleneck, since no other engine has the same geometry. Whether that would be a bad thing with the "speedy, but frightening" Cutlass is another thing. What about the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westinghouse_J40">J40</a>? It is a bizarre contraption, fully 25ft long to achieve its 40" diameter, and this seems unnecessary and could use a redesign that gets the "air in and out in a reasonable time." But that's not going to happen, and Westinghouse is going to build the Avon, instead. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Canada's aviation industry expansion is going ahead great guns. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Man-to-Man Talk-Downs" <i>Flight </i>was looking to fill some pages, and Ekco has its new GCA cabinet to flog, and here we are. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrPrkBnLV3xmNw3Ed0ebWloGBc5FdKwX2XTWB7L5Axa8-E45u7w26FL2F1CiADj023x9Bhr6WozpV6-U7iJrvoRz8rSV3WOCjE5K2GELS2GsRlcMT4S66U8aJVyS-qZ_2Ld4CCdjeRdRJWGJbF-z8eGHPGSnGnZO1sEe1CRTmFfPqO9KrmRpmY7oeZRXmU/s4032/ATA%20Ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2880" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrPrkBnLV3xmNw3Ed0ebWloGBc5FdKwX2XTWB7L5Axa8-E45u7w26FL2F1CiADj023x9Bhr6WozpV6-U7iJrvoRz8rSV3WOCjE5K2GELS2GsRlcMT4S66U8aJVyS-qZ_2Ld4CCdjeRdRJWGJbF-z8eGHPGSnGnZO1sEe1CRTmFfPqO9KrmRpmY7oeZRXmU/s320/ATA%20Ad.jpg" width="229" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Crusader Coach: Stansted-Nicosia by Skyways" Ten lines fly in, or plan to fly into Nicosia, where the runway is being extended, and Skyways' Yorks are among them for all your fun (sort of) in the Sun (probably) needs. At least the food is better than in Britain! T </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Aircraft Intelligence </b>reports that he Meteor F8 gets a new canopy, Avro Canada is working on a flying saucer (no, really!), Michael Stroukoff is still talking up the C-123, the Convair B-58 is going to be quite the plane, the Douglas A3D is quite the plane. So is the B-26, which, like the Hurricane, lingers in these pages. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Karl Larsson, "Replacing the DC-3: Economic and Technical Aspects of a Worldwide Problem: A North American Viewpoint: Abstract of a paper given at some Canadian shindig with much too much name, last October" You know what we should think about? Replacing the DC-3! But not with the Convairliner, the Martin Number-o-Number, the Curtiss-Wright Commando, any of a dozen "Super DC-3s," the Ambassador, or planes from Brazil or Sweden or France. No, sir! Never mind the fact that the DC-3 still flies under 1937's Bulletin 7A, and no airplane anywhere, ever, will fly under rules that easy ever again. Yes, the DC-3 is good for 21 passengers or 4800lb payload up to 200 miles at 175mph, but it can land on a 3500ft grass strip, and who else can do that these days? Thanks to being concentrated in the short-haul feeder airline routes, American DC-3s also get the lion's share of the subsidies for these routes, further bad news for replacement planes that aren't aimed at that difficult market. Is there a solution? The author proceeds to put on one of those helicopter beanie hats, pull his shirt out of his pants, and scream for a bit. Or, untranslated, starts talking about helicopters. So, no, there's no solution except to stop the subsidies and force short haul business travellers back on the train, and that's not going to happen, either, because they might as well drive. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsakwlNuQuK2_Jppkn-94VX0VKQgHmKpUrpwlfDbA6GVl1OS7CrS_6hHdeaAgVDm9v9TmFO5FnY25hW0wx9L5PauvVjN5PpcawVwlEVFJvWcWgCtZ9H25tePt39eTQ74rtX4ahSJFWB-6mJ7FpzcQ9_4qUPkewhJuZ7nqYF2FFoho6lGcYyyOyNB346Snt/s3741/Kleinschmidt%20Ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3741" data-original-width="1798" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsakwlNuQuK2_Jppkn-94VX0VKQgHmKpUrpwlfDbA6GVl1OS7CrS_6hHdeaAgVDm9v9TmFO5FnY25hW0wx9L5PauvVjN5PpcawVwlEVFJvWcWgCtZ9H25tePt39eTQ74rtX4ahSJFWB-6mJ7FpzcQ9_4qUPkewhJuZ7nqYF2FFoho6lGcYyyOyNB346Snt/s320/Kleinschmidt%20Ad.jpg" width="154" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The Stormy Life of Ernst Heinkel" A biography of the man behind Heinkel aircraft is out. It explains that all the delays in jet development were down to the Nazis, whom Heinkel always disagreed with about just about everything important. <i>Flight </i>also reads Neville Duke's quickie, <i>Sound Barrier, </i>ghost written by Edward Lanchberry, Laurence Bagley's <i>How to Fly, </i>and Paul Jensen's <i>The Flying Omnibus, </i>which is a collection of thrilling air stories. Following the book review section is an abstract of Bell's talk on "Prospects for Small Turbines," mentioned last week. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">J. C. Barr, "Axial-Flow Compressor Efficiency" an engineer from Power Jets (Research and Development), rebuts the theories of J. M. Stephenson, of Brown University, laid out in an article in the 10 October number. Specifically, his "theory" that the large centrifugal compressor isn't obsolescent, is wrong. Then we need a page, so here's an advertorial for Goodrich's new high altitude pressure suit, and a wind tunnel somewhere. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Air, Land, Sea: Inter-Related Problems: The Chairman of London Transport Answers Some Topical Questions" Will London Airport get a subway? At some point, various proposals have been heard. Gatwick already has rail, will it have enough capacity in the future? Yes, with some improvements. Will this or that scheme for faster Customs clearance be implemented? Quite possibly. Is helicopter passenger transport the coming thing? No. Are helicopter landing pads at stations practical? Yes. Do land transport interests have a point about all these air subsidies? It's complicated. Well! Fascinating! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiusGV7Qy0w5Mt2Q7fe7ekGWjiXlMw9u0NH1O4KFs0WwPwgH_mmU-qgeVZBq3xQ57Bkqb5X4A_H1DlPLYPtyYA9EcrYkTreD5S1S5r6koUaBWSzsijIXlBLyZeEfa-SdvQHhyphenhyphenWXn77dc6GkEgAUgXxkGtYJVb1JFoXnOIMap1QS25X_mWDB_1fh6hxFpMGZ/s4032/Postage%20Meter%20Ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="1892" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiusGV7Qy0w5Mt2Q7fe7ekGWjiXlMw9u0NH1O4KFs0WwPwgH_mmU-qgeVZBq3xQ57Bkqb5X4A_H1DlPLYPtyYA9EcrYkTreD5S1S5r6koUaBWSzsijIXlBLyZeEfa-SdvQHhyphenhyphenWXn77dc6GkEgAUgXxkGtYJVb1JFoXnOIMap1QS25X_mWDB_1fh6hxFpMGZ/s320/Postage%20Meter%20Ad.jpg" width="150" /></a></div>Silver City Airways is to be allowed to build an airport in Romney Marsh. Group Officer C. M. McAleery, "Mrs. Mac," who has written on Service matters for <i>The Aeroplane </i>for many years, has died. A WRAF in the 1914--18 war who lost her husband in a service accident in 1919, she was on the staff of <i>The Aeroplane </i>until she rejoined the service in 1939, and was living in semi-retirement in Sussex at the age of 58 at the time of her death. (Meaning that she lost her husband at the age of 23, and was just 43 when she left <i>The Aeroplane. </i>Now I'm sad. I shall tell myself that she was one of those women that active service attracts, for whom family is not so important. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Correspondence </b>has letters on gliding, reminiscing about days long gone, and the usual complaint that someone is doing flying clubs the wrong way. <b>The Industry </b>reports on air cargo services rushing tannoys to Norway, a new brochure from Flight Refuelling, and a nice range of aircraft cables from Callenders, using a new insulating coating, Nypren, replacing boring old<a href="https://scottbouch.com/mcfs/docs/ap3275a-sect1-chap1-1967-aircraft-cables.pdf"> Pren</a>. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnhv7tvNQwBS9ZhUfEYk3KYpMhe-v_bt92-KeEnvjsTF2Co3JYK-l8ylda3zXda47whccf0siPMM99TBIf2eG2Eg9gudmiPOj95SUXbvg0YG3SG5adYzw11N7KLHPvrHd7h94oYkNI9t8aK2brY52a58uLPpahWVqGwJG19ZOhKUC0h6P1jrPa0o31IfQR/s4032/20240224_200147302_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnhv7tvNQwBS9ZhUfEYk3KYpMhe-v_bt92-KeEnvjsTF2Co3JYK-l8ylda3zXda47whccf0siPMM99TBIf2eG2Eg9gudmiPOj95SUXbvg0YG3SG5adYzw11N7KLHPvrHd7h94oYkNI9t8aK2brY52a58uLPpahWVqGwJG19ZOhKUC0h6P1jrPa0o31IfQR/s16000/20240224_200147302_iOS.heic" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvcYUS1DZkQkgZlvthHGKlRLj7lsFr4qqcXDWHh28tKQASFh0Wz1-y4JyyHCHWmOsOb6dIId0rU5tbsfs8hMzENOvlQ_QoeFehqgedaC4X31ZQNJdAfd1WjuI3BqIZjwLjvRSGCIC1w8CrvYRom5Lspr_7FXFbc4rvxqXcmc_cv9fvqAUJW0BEmoTE1Dt8/s2100/EisenhowerRecession54(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1607" data-original-width="2100" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvcYUS1DZkQkgZlvthHGKlRLj7lsFr4qqcXDWHh28tKQASFh0Wz1-y4JyyHCHWmOsOb6dIId0rU5tbsfs8hMzENOvlQ_QoeFehqgedaC4X31ZQNJdAfd1WjuI3BqIZjwLjvRSGCIC1w8CrvYRom5Lspr_7FXFbc4rvxqXcmc_cv9fvqAUJW0BEmoTE1Dt8/s320/EisenhowerRecession54(1).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b>Fortune's Wheel </b>introduces the story about the Livonia fire, which was a real lesson fire prevention and safety. We're told a bit more about the origins of the spectacular fold out of "American Tractors and Trailers" that I cut out and included in this package. I've seen the future. specifically, I've seen its tail gate, far too close, and far too long, climbing over Mount Shasta. The story about whether there is an "Executive Face" is bravely defended, and we are excitedly blurbed abou the "Suburbia Story." All Americans will soon live in suburbs, so sell to them! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUhN4XNh8PF1Y7wtJDWvzeaH1qftLavV-2jCwX50_Wgct5U1-MxNTQHodSpLOVmWJwUaxj0qRzEyfTIhkl7GMORiMl_9T8gtzuk9499DMRJuc_AyF7rdV8pp8U3MP_pIIQWTsSGBkjl1MdX3DZgQ_nCeuPPAWJJ3JYG3Fq0tSsy0qO6bMUNByXNXfwRR6b/s2483/EisenhowerRecession54(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1884" data-original-width="2483" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUhN4XNh8PF1Y7wtJDWvzeaH1qftLavV-2jCwX50_Wgct5U1-MxNTQHodSpLOVmWJwUaxj0qRzEyfTIhkl7GMORiMl_9T8gtzuk9499DMRJuc_AyF7rdV8pp8U3MP_pIIQWTsSGBkjl1MdX3DZgQ_nCeuPPAWJJ3JYG3Fq0tSsy0qO6bMUNByXNXfwRR6b/s320/EisenhowerRecession54(2).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b>Business Roundup </b>is mainly about the signs of a recession which have inspired more business pessimism, leading to caution on the business side, and a reflationary budget on the other, as the Eisenhower Administration tries to avoid calling attention to the fact that it got us into this situation by ignoring the warnings, and will get us out of it by reversing course and governing like Democrats. (For safety's sake, then, better talk like Republicans even harder! Surely there's someone who has talked to a Communist once that we can fire!)<br /> <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is all old news, because we've had months of denial in <i>Newsweek </i>and the same recent business news in <i>The Economist. </i>It is hard to deny that <i>Fortune </i>has prettier pictures! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Defence and Strategy </b>looks at the "New Look" for Fiscal '53. The Air Force is to have 127 wings, up 12, six of them continental interceptor wings. So the Air Force can breath a sight of relief. The Soviet H-bomb has relieved demands for larger cuts than the ones that we'll get whenever the "New Look" is actually ready to see the light. We're than introduced to the 24(!) Under-Secretaries of Defence, all of whom are very essential and important people, and then it's off to Californ-y-ay with Harry Talbott to patch things up at Hughes, right after he had to liquidate Willow Run. And you thought this job would be easy, Harry! Hughes is the Air Force's most important electronics supplier, and is sole source of the Falcon guided missile, which was to be integrated into the fire control system of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_F-102_Delta_Dagger">Convair F-102. </a> The resignation of Simon Ramo and Dean Woolridge to form their own Ramo-Woolridge concern has left Hughes without experienced management capable of leading these complicated electronics projects. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"<a href="https://cissm.umd.edu/sites/default/files/2019-07/leitenberg_biological_weapons_korea.pdf">Germ Warfare: The Lie That Won</a>" A score or more Air Force officer POWs, "including several colonels," confessed to dropping bacteriological warfare weapons on Korea during the conflict. We all agree that the confessions were made under duress amounting to <a href="https://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/83028/14769178.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y">"brainwashing</a>," and the Pentagon is very embarrassed about it, and various "neutralists" around the world even seem to believe it. The lie won! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyQoSw_b8GHh9hvgtvcZevQ1wMTopsKP4DNnZuz_48HyZZ9Td6lagdNOeNNYnopLHRFIVIcisNguraG-vuOweCR5siL9x8sDUkDwruSAG-uQSqZVu_LbK1PofTOzEsTpKrkob5WVS_iOlNj2-7dUolhsesuRPLXuhUj6oZwJnX8Ep96wUg2OjzIXdztkU7/s3795/Taconite%20benfaction%20plant.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3795" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyQoSw_b8GHh9hvgtvcZevQ1wMTopsKP4DNnZuz_48HyZZ9Td6lagdNOeNNYnopLHRFIVIcisNguraG-vuOweCR5siL9x8sDUkDwruSAG-uQSqZVu_LbK1PofTOzEsTpKrkob5WVS_iOlNj2-7dUolhsesuRPLXuhUj6oZwJnX8Ep96wUg2OjzIXdztkU7/s320/Taconite%20benfaction%20plant.jpg" width="255" /></a></div><b>Leaders </b>circles round the "recession"/"confidence"/"reflation" drain for a bit, suggests that this is not the time to be tinkering with tariffs, wonder whether 60 million jobs might not be enough, notice that Barry Goldwater, the junior Senator from Arizona, is a bit of a flake, gets excited about the KKK admitting coloured members in Florida and the Kleinschmidt teleprinter, which promises even more words on the wire about yes there won't be and will be a recession what about Trieste, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and France, here's a new transformer that's smaller than ever! Full page pieces look at the Export-Import Bank, which suffered badly in the last budget, and offers a "Businesslike Antitrust Policy," which is no policy at all, because business doesn't actually <i>like </i>antitrust policies that are good for business.<br /><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Charles J. V. Murphy, "The U.S. As A Bombing Target" Chuck has been called in from the suburbs (don't worry, because his apprentices pick up the story!) to cover their possible future H-bombing. We get a fascinating view of the Air Situation Board at the Twenty-Sixth Air Division of Eastern Air Defence Command, and the usual discussion about whether proper air and civil defence is counterproductively expensive or not. It probably is, because 150 of an attacking wave of 450 Soviet bombers can expect to get through, and, counting misses and duds, that would cause 11 million casualties and destroy a third of America's industrial capacity with 1951-style bombs. Existing air defences are built up from WWII standards, using WWII-era radars and sixty battalions of WWII-style antiaircraft, plus 25 squadrons of interceptors, few of them all-weather. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIuARa_YMlaEL9cIDyzwWDnH-9rUI8CZ6BIUIxMUKNYvjZzkQh_mEun5lpAJ8-g06oh-Rc1MOg2dd1kvsaD5Aewxd6LuRIedihgZEMEAObYKSYy56SQ8mJUDJuve_zGe-lAFHKh1rW-F2H0t1H9S81702Q2V7j2-IHW6JEwLVxMNzyx2hAhaQHb8wqmMan/s3024/Air%20Situation%20Board%201954.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2445" data-original-width="3024" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIuARa_YMlaEL9cIDyzwWDnH-9rUI8CZ6BIUIxMUKNYvjZzkQh_mEun5lpAJ8-g06oh-Rc1MOg2dd1kvsaD5Aewxd6LuRIedihgZEMEAObYKSYy56SQ8mJUDJuve_zGe-lAFHKh1rW-F2H0t1H9S81702Q2V7j2-IHW6JEwLVxMNzyx2hAhaQHb8wqmMan/w400-h324/Air%20Situation%20Board%201954.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Our radar defences are built around the GE CPS-6B and Bendix FPS-3, both heavy radars that were in prototype at the end of WWII, with an effective range of 200 miles, which gives a half-hour's warning for the TU-4 and just fifteen minutes for the Type 31, which is unacceptable not even taking into account low-flying sneak bombers and gaps in the 100 station coverage. With a radar station costing $1.5 million and requiring a staff of 400 all included, often located in remote areas to which roads have to be built, providing more and better coverage gets expensive. the Arctic line is barely begun, the radar picket ships we presumably need aren't built, and a "sensing" radar that can determine for itself whether a bogie is hostile or not is just a dream. Bell is working on a "yes/no" radar, which would make an Arctic Distant Early Warning Line more than a fantasy. In the meantime, the fleet of Constellation radar ships is basically a moving "radar line." IFF, which we solved with a transponder on the plane in WWII, has been passed by, and Korea demonstrated that we need something better. Since there are 25,000 planes aloft in North America at any time, the magnitude of the control problem is appalling, and we need a robot computer, which Lincoln Lab and IBM are working on, in the form of the Whirlwind II. I don't imagine you need to hear more about the new generation of supersonic interceptors or the Nike missile. It, like antiaircraft artillery, is "point" defence. The next step is the Bomarc, an "area defence" system with much greater range. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Fortune </i>visits Allis-Chambers, they of all the ads, and then "The Lush New Suburban Market," which, in the new tradition, is more graphics than words. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8GEae8iW-aNTn_Hz0U_PNOxTjRpv2dX8dO8OXjU24QI9JIUU1Rf3qUxPdYuAM8swih4o9VzYTdu02Zv3kVl2sc4j4XH3f3SMgIKyZKnFAMaAxjNUCJ6GMtx1hSHC3DIgtzJhwAJybiplon_ock8tBH_EFqBBBDa3feI3AfeDF-yEyj3MTFa_rBVv-19zs/s2709/Suburbs%20in%201954.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1156" data-original-width="2709" height="171" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8GEae8iW-aNTn_Hz0U_PNOxTjRpv2dX8dO8OXjU24QI9JIUU1Rf3qUxPdYuAM8swih4o9VzYTdu02Zv3kVl2sc4j4XH3f3SMgIKyZKnFAMaAxjNUCJ6GMtx1hSHC3DIgtzJhwAJybiplon_ock8tBH_EFqBBBDa3feI3AfeDF-yEyj3MTFa_rBVv-19zs/w400-h171/Suburbs%20in%201954.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjBobpsJLTIp3DfDYHvvNjz2pggHBgUv5tSJowp6OMc_BrgEMwvXFMIy_97eKHp_VB2g7BV5htOGg2LnW7xMmsydCoSFYoMrbMZP4nChTbDBkX7yRwxqDCRhkHn4ehY5wrYPYt2TVFvIr5FlyrZ_zA8m4UhIqcJbzD-aJvioA5YxPf9anfvu3MWHeyiddL/s4032/Suburbs%20in%201954(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2841" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjBobpsJLTIp3DfDYHvvNjz2pggHBgUv5tSJowp6OMc_BrgEMwvXFMIy_97eKHp_VB2g7BV5htOGg2LnW7xMmsydCoSFYoMrbMZP4nChTbDBkX7yRwxqDCRhkHn4ehY5wrYPYt2TVFvIr5FlyrZ_zA8m4UhIqcJbzD-aJvioA5YxPf9anfvu3MWHeyiddL/w450-h640/Suburbs%20in%201954(2).jpg" width="450" /></a></div>There are currently 10.4 million family units housing 30 million people in American suburbs, based on <i>Fortune's </i>research. "Exactly" 27% is under 14, compared with 21.6% of the rest of the population, which is why they consume a lot --but not "conspicuously. An interesting point that you can kind of see illustrated in the <i>Fortune </i>sketch I've kindly cut out for you, is that the new houses built since the war have been small, single-story structures to keep costs down and get them up faster. This really isn't enough space for growing families, and "the outdoors have been integrated" into family life. Which I think means lawnchairs and cookouts? Fine until it is January in Minneapolis! </div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJAN9dsZMusUg-oc5bH8oiXv1mantesTW-Zq73o5p4Tj9pAbPoSoS11ne1QdVrHUwH3VouunFOwAmrTLSqJUhsdKQZE-qB1OdSYNHlb2lGvhiA2P-1puUTGmz0gftI4aaVqWB1aEWL5DmkvA4FkLj94LGEhIonJPZfoVMrHRELTuE-1CWXw1ae_XKnJjWm/s4032/20240224_200859930_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJAN9dsZMusUg-oc5bH8oiXv1mantesTW-Zq73o5p4Tj9pAbPoSoS11ne1QdVrHUwH3VouunFOwAmrTLSqJUhsdKQZE-qB1OdSYNHlb2lGvhiA2P-1puUTGmz0gftI4aaVqWB1aEWL5DmkvA4FkLj94LGEhIonJPZfoVMrHRELTuE-1CWXw1ae_XKnJjWm/s320/20240224_200859930_iOS.heic" width="320" /></a></div>"The Great Livonia Fire" GM's $35 million brand-new brick, steel, and glass automatic transmission joint was the "factory that couldn't burn." How did it happen? A fire in a drip pan full of a rustproofing oil dissolved in solvent, underneath a conveyor belt, 21ft above the floor, caught fire from sparks dripping from a welding operation on the roof. Firefighters could not contain it because they could not keep CO2 on it in sufficient quantity due to having to manhandle bottles and tanks; eventually drip ignited the creosote-soaked floor while the firefighting crew had to evacuate their overwatch position due to heat and fumes. Electricity failed, the lights and blowers (and telephones) </div><div style="text-align: justify;">went out, and smoke began to spread. Flammable material in the roof caught fire. Detroit's fire chief is quoted as saying that he had a bad feeling about it from the time he arrived because "You can't fight a fire if you can't touch it, and we never got a hose on this one." About half the article is actually about GM's successful salvage operation that got the machine tools to the new space rented at Willow Run, where production was resumed just a few days after the fire. In the wake of the fire, the lack of compartmentalisation (firewalls) and sprinklers seem like the most important deficiencies. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjhk0s9oIKvap5pXrXZhd4Vn0CKUIljpiT3VkOtVQAlbBSrPi4doz0ImY3bIHymP-gK9KBP0cpshjUmzh_xQs7GOAm6P0SGdfSijtevZoDuo0p7JPaxGonvZZG1laqqU-bBBtUslRBZRqLLjxqP3WyZcIbYQoC_QYX0-600o4-s6xWdy6OiJeuxALuucKa/s4032/Insects%20and%20insecticides%20in%20America%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjhk0s9oIKvap5pXrXZhd4Vn0CKUIljpiT3VkOtVQAlbBSrPi4doz0ImY3bIHymP-gK9KBP0cpshjUmzh_xQs7GOAm6P0SGdfSijtevZoDuo0p7JPaxGonvZZG1laqqU-bBBtUslRBZRqLLjxqP3WyZcIbYQoC_QYX0-600o4-s6xWdy6OiJeuxALuucKa/s320/Insects%20and%20insecticides%20in%20America%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"Farming's Chemical Age" They have insecticides now, but the industry didn't have a good year because there weren't enough bugs. Much of the body of the article is about the wonders of 2,4D, and not bugs. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">And there you go. Some catching up here, since we've heard plenty about the civil defence problem and the suburbs before. But, once again, <i>Fortune </i>has great pictures! </div>Erik Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-18114677274195846582024-02-16T14:16:00.000-08:002024-02-16T14:16:53.675-08:00A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, October 1953: Transducer Days<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgWQmJC0ozXzRXXh0Sgb-MrR1owqynwvDFJHtc9zEH35lpsQjaA76y-L-RxK5fHtk3fCkbBae3__JxDyR6gm3FCNH7IKf1PUr19wCCay9_k5fTbN7N8y89QxMpK_snRfNfCqakjGzoUr1I33MhdA8qX2sAxvXqbbQv8uHJRtEZBFf69xN7qTxwRLhAf4KV/s4032/20240210_201501382_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgWQmJC0ozXzRXXh0Sgb-MrR1owqynwvDFJHtc9zEH35lpsQjaA76y-L-RxK5fHtk3fCkbBae3__JxDyR6gm3FCNH7IKf1PUr19wCCay9_k5fTbN7N8y89QxMpK_snRfNfCqakjGzoUr1I33MhdA8qX2sAxvXqbbQv8uHJRtEZBFf69xN7qTxwRLhAf4KV/w300-h400/20240210_201501382_iOS.heic" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfUwqI8jCQXXXD3JeB_9nWh4yn0dk4-EJrdVOK9yaim3UcgVrZHZZdMCE4owqPlqbN50w0XdpmnkdqyyYI3y26tvxrra05L3TeivClTSLibhSVJ3s-nd2te2M40J6zA32vuddEdiRttxXt_BqMFgJ4dn-xQh3EmQZ7MxIbjdpU-bOwRjzZxgxTcjMF-1tC/s1024/IBM_650_at_Texas_A&M.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="839" data-original-width="1024" height="262" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhfUwqI8jCQXXXD3JeB_9nWh4yn0dk4-EJrdVOK9yaim3UcgVrZHZZdMCE4owqPlqbN50w0XdpmnkdqyyYI3y26tvxrra05L3TeivClTSLibhSVJ3s-nd2te2M40J6zA32vuddEdiRttxXt_BqMFgJ4dn-xQh3EmQZ7MxIbjdpU-bOwRjzZxgxTcjMF-1tC/s320/IBM_650_at_Texas_A&M.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>With the very low key add for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_650">IBM 650</a>, "the first mass--produced computer in the world,"we take another big step in the direction of home computing. With the bizarre use of a Mark 14 bombsight as a frame to describe the workings of the bellows in a modern pneumatic system points us towards <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIRPASS">AIRPASS.</a> With all that going on, <i>Aviation Week </i>has a pictorial for us showing how transistors are made, and everyone in avionics seems to have a transducer on ad this month. And something strange is going on. By this I do not mean the Wikipedia article illustration.<p></p><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJkQ-xs5gsx0HuXLAM0QElXuUFm_hym8_alLa0HDZl_iJFMOBOagCwoK6yzPypsl48AQE76WXeJwpD6jrPetOGx-5zZXX-urKKHIeRyz3fkncqdgnSrViZLCXNsrrC5_E8ZShvt33byyDTXAvXDiJNienQSoqJDDUE8ctwa573ptjSE_59hC86NyyDosbU/s4032/20240201_170348537_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJkQ-xs5gsx0HuXLAM0QElXuUFm_hym8_alLa0HDZl_iJFMOBOagCwoK6yzPypsl48AQE76WXeJwpD6jrPetOGx-5zZXX-urKKHIeRyz3fkncqdgnSrViZLCXNsrrC5_E8ZShvt33byyDTXAvXDiJNienQSoqJDDUE8ctwa573ptjSE_59hC86NyyDosbU/s320/20240201_170348537_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>According to the Wikipedia Commons credit, is from the Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, and I am guessing that it is from the early Sixties. The obvious <i>sociological </i>question I have here is why the two operators in our retrospective view of early computing are male, while <i>at the time </i>operators of complex technological systems consistently code as female. It's a very striking change that I've worn out the electrons commenting on, because I want some smart person who isn't me to do all the hard work of coming up with an analysis of it. <br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">What I mean, rather, is the default assumption that a "transistor" is made of germanium, in a month in which <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piezoelectricity">piezoelectric</a> transducers are being pushed heavily in the advertising space. Only 40 tons of germanium were mined "by the end of the Fifties," <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germanium">per Wikipedia</a>. (Or, in 1998, germanium cost $800/kg, silicon, $10/kg. We are <i>not </i>getting to the Information Age using the 50th most abundant element in missile guidance systems.Crystals of various germanium do appear to have piezoelectric properties, but I'm not sure anyone knew that in 1954, and in any event quartz is a satisfactory piezoelectric material and is as common as dirt, so that would be what we would use here. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">But first, before the jump, something for 1954 from the Paul/Ford studio, although not <i>obviously </i>electronica, which word I apparently can't use because "electronica" is a 1990s music genre and holy shit look at this <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_electronic_music_genres">Wikipedia</a> listicle. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vF_shhdArws" width="320" youtube-src-id="vF_shhdArws"></iframe></div><br /><span><a name='more'></a></span><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqa39D5Vsnz4xhOY7o1nhCwT-6mpVggVb3UfUkyk7bRjsPZn1k_BMbUSg-Isxr_b8HmeHWTOroOxF3_BEK1H8qIepLTeQmOzBp8WmSabx9xDV_vqpur6K0qCLVnicpGaVEsXos7qwgIRLtngd6C3YoWu3zHrVz-t6uakvdIAXFRo9MV0tnHXyosh5swaIa/s4032/20240216_213203652_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqa39D5Vsnz4xhOY7o1nhCwT-6mpVggVb3UfUkyk7bRjsPZn1k_BMbUSg-Isxr_b8HmeHWTOroOxF3_BEK1H8qIepLTeQmOzBp8WmSabx9xDV_vqpur6K0qCLVnicpGaVEsXos7qwgIRLtngd6C3YoWu3zHrVz-t6uakvdIAXFRo9MV0tnHXyosh5swaIa/s320/20240216_213203652_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>Silicon (Element 14), is the eighth most abundant element of the universe, with "more than 90% of the Earth's crust consisting of silicate minerals," so it's just darn lucky that we found a use for it in the vital field of watching Youtube videos at home. (Also, some other stuff.) In 1940, Russell Ohl discovered silicon's photovoltaic properties, which have come up in recent (ie in 1953) discussions as well. Immediate interest focussed on its use as a radar detector rather than as an "electric eye," but it certainly had potential there, and some attention from the solar power enthusiasts who were not convinced by the prospects of blue green algae. Per Wikipedia's potted history, Morris Tannenbaum made a silicon junction transistor at Bell Labs in 1954, and in 1958, two more Bell Lab workers discovered a way to grow a layer of silicon dioxide on a pure silicon chip to prevent contamination during diffusion processes.<p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This is evidently an oblique way of referring to some common doping processes. Again, credit is given to Bell lab workers who discovered that the silicon dioxide layer mediated the passage of various dopants into the crystal, but the silicon dioxide layer has a functional purpose in "passivating" silicon transistors. Some of this is in a patent emanating from Sperry Gyroscope, credited to Robert Woodyard and issued in 1950. Sperry Rand being much harder to patent pirate than some sad European worker (to include French Westinghouse, not to be confused with Westinghouse France, which was probably convinced that it invented the transistor for as long as it existed as a corporate entity). If all of this sounds a bit loosey-goosey, it is. I'm trying not to push my very limited knowledge of the techniques of modern chip production here. I've got quite enough on my plate trying to understand the Dominion of New England this week, and the point here is a <i>historical </i>discussion. The issue seems to be that the evolution of the silicon transistor specifically is bound up with the advance of theory and methods in the field of transistor <i>doping. </i>Silicon crystals do <i>not </i>need to be doped to be used as semiconducting devices, specifically as transducers, but do <i>need </i>to be doped to be used as transistors. The step from using silicon crystals to produce sound under electrical stimulation, and vice versa, to using solid state silicon transistors as amplifiers on telephone circuits seems obvious, leading to frustration with making the amplification reliable with actually existing silicon devices, leading to the use of doping to make it reliable; leading to silicon chips supplanting germanium ones. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Is that a story? Probably: The Wikipedia article on the history of the transistor jumps all-in on the transistor radio with products on the market from IDEA of Indianapolis, Sony, and Chrysler/Philco (a car radio) in 1954--55. I'm obviously getting a bit ahead of myself here; we will probably hear all about it in the next twelve months or so, and the reader does not need to hear me repeating what Wikipedia has to say. At some point in the next few years the silicon chip is going to be the latest thing, but not quite yet! So I will shut this discussion down at this point and move on to the edifying story of James II's best men versus the "Puritans of Massachusetts." <br /></p>Erik Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-64357138540725279852024-02-10T14:10:00.000-08:002024-02-10T14:10:51.980-08:00Postblogging Technology, October 1953, II: The Warren Court and the Idiots<div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzPIe-VgZwiP4NKyIvHP3EFbwtkEZbCmCIfdHsGhcdSy3shFKudMQNBCT3aGVnIb5SXD5sjQ4r90GsvWXzDfwkr5uUa0FWrU_mctyhfZt0LjXrA-CcZo1wczTkqRnZCSWPLFjVZ_U32_HbOlBoKrrwOlMTSfkyxj6c3Sk7UE3iOMfAdzMgAE8jcDFG-fxI/s320/Newsweek%20Cover%203%20Nov%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="320" data-original-width="240" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzPIe-VgZwiP4NKyIvHP3EFbwtkEZbCmCIfdHsGhcdSy3shFKudMQNBCT3aGVnIb5SXD5sjQ4r90GsvWXzDfwkr5uUa0FWrU_mctyhfZt0LjXrA-CcZo1wczTkqRnZCSWPLFjVZ_U32_HbOlBoKrrwOlMTSfkyxj6c3Sk7UE3iOMfAdzMgAE8jcDFG-fxI/s1600/Newsweek%20Cover%203%20Nov%201953.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br />R_.C_.,</div>Shaughnessy, <br />Vancouver,<br />Canada<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Dear Father:<div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">Greetings from London, where we only talk about the important things, such as Anthony Eden's digestion and Winston Churchill's weight! Oh, and whether we can have a nonaggression treaty with Russia <i>before </i>we're ready to throw H-bombs capable of flattening New York around. In the meantime, the RAF is working on being as good as it possibly can be at dropping the dang things. If you've got five million tons of dynamite under the hood, you only have to hit "Moscow" to get Malenkov. (But should it be Khrushchev?) But at 600mph at 60,000ft, can you even do that? Somehow the earliest version of the RAF's latest bombsight is in the pages of <i>The Engineer </i>this week, and it is all part and parcel of this new trans-Atlantic cooperation on electronic controls and relays in Very Secret Airplanes that has Reggie visiting Hadlett this week. As for me, well, if you deigned to notice, there was a little television serial over the summer called <i>The Quatermass Experiment. </i>And it has been <i>proposed </i>that one is not done making money from it just yet. </div><br /><br />Your Loving Daughter,<br /><br />Ronnie<div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/egJmnlsDJaM" width="320" youtube-src-id="egJmnlsDJaM"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /><div><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgidSKLyYXBMk2Dtupm1KLmqw95hJTHK0ru7S6a6j3B1tdDmnbls6IGUT_w2jC2_CqGAdZIoL6iXwqfpLnD0hFDjRtBHruiexCBUGwDYh5kb9GLoARvUcc9_fmlL_0uufZzi32xza51X_MQqn6aUicEfBs7le2Fa-V6YJyx2CRuLF7xn5_3nnnpmMEipqG/s4032/20240207_210937605_iOS.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgidSKLyYXBMk2Dtupm1KLmqw95hJTHK0ru7S6a6j3B1tdDmnbls6IGUT_w2jC2_CqGAdZIoL6iXwqfpLnD0hFDjRtBHruiexCBUGwDYh5kb9GLoARvUcc9_fmlL_0uufZzi32xza51X_MQqn6aUicEfBs7le2Fa-V6YJyx2CRuLF7xn5_3nnnpmMEipqG/s16000/20240207_210937605_iOS.heic" /></a></div><br /><div><b>Letters</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJm8DhXPPzyxozegZm-elb8lM-qYBwGxuTaVdZJuX3rosSRyjYTAqqC5OQInrnCu0jP9bUQMxncJTpV8pUJneCtG-MTozyAeETxGkgz4nNmIe4_ElEE23MlPsfhd-Hj-W7MfxiQ8mznTiioRBsVfEc1gil5WDv42FHkSRh1d_1R309z4o2YAP0V5ilwP_F/s4032/20240207_212701187_iOS.heic" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJm8DhXPPzyxozegZm-elb8lM-qYBwGxuTaVdZJuX3rosSRyjYTAqqC5OQInrnCu0jP9bUQMxncJTpV8pUJneCtG-MTozyAeETxGkgz4nNmIe4_ElEE23MlPsfhd-Hj-W7MfxiQ8mznTiioRBsVfEc1gil5WDv42FHkSRh1d_1R309z4o2YAP0V5ilwP_F/s320/20240207_212701187_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>Two letters thank <i>Newsweek </i>for calling attention to ALS. Three readers write to point out that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_W._Johnson">General Leon Johnson</a> is shown wearing his Medal of Honour upside down in a recent picture, but when <i>Newsweek </i>asked the Pentagon about it, it was explained that the ribbon was photographed at a bad angle, and everyone who thinks that he is wearing his medal upside down should be ashamed of themselves. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Richberg">Donald Richberg of Charlottesville, Virginia</a>, has a full-column letter of almost 2000 words, by far the longest I remember in the pages of <i>Newsweek, </i>so I guess it tells us something about <i>Newsweek </i>as well as Mr. Richberg that he endorses the following in order of priority for America''s "defence:" A "patriotic" government that can mobilise the nation; letting the rest of the world sink or swim; and lots of fighters and radars as part of what General Spaatz called, in his column, " a fairly tight barrier against bombers." Two writers have opinions about unions. I think one's in favour, and the other isn't? People are divided about the President hunting and fishing behind a "No Hunting or Fishing" sign, but he was invited by the owner, an "old crony," so it's okay. Joseph Slavin is still confused about the Peto paintings with William Harnett's signature forged on them. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daws_Butler">Daws Butler</a> appreciated the favourable review. <b>For Your Information </b>talks about the United Way campaign and has some insights from the <i>Newsweek </i>side to go with the feature story about the auto industry. 90% of <i>Newsweek </i>families have cars, 30% have two, 81% have decided to buy new cars next year, 70% of them with cash. 1954 will be a "very handsome business year for the auto industry." <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/HT3QYb7AN6k" width="320" youtube-src-id="HT3QYb7AN6k"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">The Periscope </b>reports that Intelligence is warning that the Reds have smuggled 800 jet fighters into Korea, built 35 airfields, and raised 15 combat-ready divisions, and a fresh outbreak of fighting is likely at any moment. <a href="http://www.ciscohouston.com/essays/nmu.shtml">Two Americans</a> are said to have been behind the recent Red plot in Guyana.Top-level insiders are say that if the current French drive against the Communists in Indo-China fails, the French may be forced to make peace and go home. The Italians have broken a seven-member Russian espionage ring. Vice-President Nixon is being "frank to intimates" that Republican Far Eastern policy has been unrealistic, as he gets ready for his big Asian tour. He is also pleased with all the letters he has received from union members apologising for the cold reception he got for his St. Louis AFL speech. Clyde Tolson, the number 2 at the FBI, is getting a publicity push in case he has to take over from Hoover, while O<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1983/01/01/obituaries/oswald-ryan-94-once-headed-cab.html">swald Ryan of the CAB</a> is probably for the long jump. Wilson is fighting with the Pentagon again. The next fight in the Senate between pro- and anti-McCarthy senators will be over <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_E._Lee_(FCC)">Robert E. Lee</a>'s nomination to the FCC, as Lee has been a vital supporter for McCarthy. All this recession talk is just politics, due to fifty thousand government workers being fired, crashing the Washington economy and leaving the town all blue. It has nothing to do with all those weak economic numbers at all, it's just the Administration's soul-crushing austerity! The juvenile delinquency rate has jumped 29% since 1949, with 10% more juvenile court appearances lat year than the year before. The argument between the US Army and the British over rifle ammunition is over after the British .280 was bested in field trials. Attorney General Brownell's latest bid to stop farmers from using "wetback" labour is to disallow income tax exemptions for the wages paid to them. General Naguib's "illness" is face saving. Look for Colonel Gamal Abdul Nasser to emerge as the real power in Egypt. The Israeli Army is using Erwin Rommel's <i>Infantry Attacks </i>as their training manual, and the Israelis have placed a $15 million order in German shipyards. The "one-sided load" the US is adopting in rearming the western European NATO countries has the U.S. paying $153 million for 572 planes while the British are paying $70 million for 250. The numbers breakdown: U.S. has ordered 245 Dassault Mysteres at a cost of $86 million while the French finance 150. The US will spend $42 million on 112 licensed Hunters for Belgium and Holland, which will spend $117 million for 348 Hunters. Italy has ordered 50 Sabres at a cost of $22 million. Should the British apologise because they can bring in a Hunter at three-quarters the cost of an F-86? Adenauer is said to have snubber Mayor Reuter by not attending his funeral, pleading illness. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNoI1vYErp3miuoYEhAR7HY5g41k1wO0TFqrXE2pF1Ra0LUPxr7r4MrASj-r-DYdybrwhjITZbp8y6wINnImSSVYa5Qm89lgCD9J-cQ0gUsrE4PsZyaEoCfQ9a_sQznsJOf4Wexa_68lHp2LZOajcaP6QTXbkxNzHoSBSFmCKTy2NICmKvoFhg0URi1mrk/s4032/Allis%20Chalmers%20Ad3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNoI1vYErp3miuoYEhAR7HY5g41k1wO0TFqrXE2pF1Ra0LUPxr7r4MrASj-r-DYdybrwhjITZbp8y6wINnImSSVYa5Qm89lgCD9J-cQ0gUsrE4PsZyaEoCfQ9a_sQznsJOf4Wexa_68lHp2LZOajcaP6QTXbkxNzHoSBSFmCKTy2NICmKvoFhg0URi1mrk/s320/Allis%20Chalmers%20Ad3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On the Hollywood side of things, the industry is said to be shying away from original stories in favour of remakes, books, and biopics. Audrey Hepburn will soon star in <i>Fanfare for Elizabeth, </i>based on the Edith Sitwell novel, Warner is producing a biopic of General Patton, while Fox is doing General Sitwell. Remakes of <i>Covered Wagon, Ben Hur, </i>and <i>The Ten Commandments </i>are in the works. NBC is going to shoot the 1954 Tournament of Roses, with Woolworth's picking up the tab. Fresh of <i>Dragnet, </i>Jack Webb has another TV series in the works. Edgar Bergen and Ken Murray are teaming up for a TV travelogue show, <i>Where Were You, </i>and ABC is doing an hour-long Christmas special with Sadler's Wells Ballet. <b>Where Are They Now </b>features <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_D._Mitchell">William DeWitt Mitchell</a> of Pearl Harbour inquiry fame, now a full partner at a New York law office; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Folger_Brown">Walter Brown, President Hoover's Postmaster General</a>, is 84 and still does about five hours at his law office a day; former War Secretary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_J._Hurley">Major General Patrick Hurley</a> is waiting for a recount in his senatorial election bid in New Mexico. Now, of course, if you were to use a <i>reference </i>work instead of a letter dropped by the office, you might remember Mitchell for dispersing the Bonus Army, Brown for the Air Mail Scandal, and Hurley for his shambolic mission to China and subsequent McCarthyism-<i>avant la lettre, </i>but can we just let bygones be bygones?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/RSQtLnlxASU" width="320" youtube-src-id="RSQtLnlxASU"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Three out of seven not counting the politics predictions, where there was no Korean War (the aircraft numbers are downright ludicrous), but good for <b>The Periscope </b>predicting Nasser's rise to power!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Washington Trends </b>reports that it sat down with one of Richard Nixon's friends for coffee and now it knows what to say. The Administration is going to hold the line on defence, the economy drive, and hard money, no matter who says differently. Tax cuts will be confined to the ones already put through. The budget will not be balanced next year. Congress will come through for the President because he is just so darned popular, and to the extent that anyone leads Congress on the Republican side, it will be Nixon and Martin, not Knowland, who is still an idiot. Foreign aid will be scaled back, because nobody likes foreigners any more, and will be confined to defence, with Point Four handed over to private agencies. Specifically on the defence side, the Army will maintain current manpower and materiel strengths, the Navy will keep the same number of ships, and the Air Force buildup will continue. The "New Look" will appear on the runway at some near future date. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>National Affairs</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb0eNKI2rqxzdyecPNtXfFF6NIb4oDcSchao2tFLh_AIszl1Gp4D_1NSP98FdLFrkmLMjDQtwE1Gsu0-mmMc2wu90F18roS0v7pop2afOnQTby8xT8a1aX-_rmZapqCtrcwHu4Q1Z3SI52ymx7U4-OwhpE3CCHq8QtyDTJpMg-nxvkSafdo3Vsww24VeG-/s4032/20240207_223340839_iOS.heic" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhb0eNKI2rqxzdyecPNtXfFF6NIb4oDcSchao2tFLh_AIszl1Gp4D_1NSP98FdLFrkmLMjDQtwE1Gsu0-mmMc2wu90F18roS0v7pop2afOnQTby8xT8a1aX-_rmZapqCtrcwHu4Q1Z3SI52ymx7U4-OwhpE3CCHq8QtyDTJpMg-nxvkSafdo3Vsww24VeG-/s320/20240207_223340839_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"Capitol Hill H-Bomb Furor: Ike Sets the Record Straight"All atomic statements are to go through the President or Lewis Strauss, the President has made clear, as he clears up the confusion. This after an informed, inside Washington source told newspapermen that the Soviets had found a way to set off an an H-bomb without an A-bomb trigger. (Which, as you told us yourself, is completely contradicted by the heavy metal isotopes in the debris cloud from the Russian test). If it were true, the Russians would have jumped into the lead, of course. When various officials said that America needed civil defence and lots of it, that seemed to corroborate this sudden Russian lead. On the other hand, Charles Wilson is still saying that the Russians don't have an H-bomb at all, presumably implying the theory you worked out at Whitehall, of an A-bomb "doped" with tritium. But the Soviets do have a stockpile of atomic bombs, including some pretty big ones. The President sets the record "straight" by saying that the Russians do have an H-bomb, and Air Force Secretary Patterson confuses everyone (even though he's almost certainly right) by saying that <i>no-one </i>has an H-bomb, as in, a thermonuclear device that can be put in a bomber. It will be several years before the Russians --or we-- are throwing Eniwetok-size <i>bombs </i>around, but when we do, we will have a weapon that kill a million people if dropped on New York City. Unfortunately, the Russians don't have a lot of New York-style cities, and a leak-proof air defence is simply not practical and would probably just give rise to a "Maginot Line" mentality. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also in news about the President, he is 63 this week, is trying to balance the budget, and isn't convinced that the TVA is good <i>or </i>bad, and will think about it some more. Also, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Bobby_Greenlease">people are terrible</a>, Springfield, Missouri, is having a cobra infestation (presumably escaped from a pet store that used to stock them), and there's <a href="https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/36480768/">yet another mob scandal</a> in New York leading up to the mayoral elections.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYRjuJwEKcD31It9pohj52ybjkv3jqzhyphenhyphenIe5fICoIquDwrzG3iD8qNbs9ZAue7W5wfXI2yv9hfzgIUKuxQTHS3Ei7uGq9RLCiBI3SvAJESpL_k2qkqRMsa8LXdFkHM5Tvba4Vn5NorlZ_TI1IPRRhP_OrPZxo5eLVOcvxfJTZqWiX-a5Crb-E1e_UveXxa/s2863/Air%20Raid%20Test%20Philadelphia%201953.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2259" data-original-width="2863" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYRjuJwEKcD31It9pohj52ybjkv3jqzhyphenhyphenIe5fICoIquDwrzG3iD8qNbs9ZAue7W5wfXI2yv9hfzgIUKuxQTHS3Ei7uGq9RLCiBI3SvAJESpL_k2qkqRMsa8LXdFkHM5Tvba4Vn5NorlZ_TI1IPRRhP_OrPZxo5eLVOcvxfJTZqWiX-a5Crb-E1e_UveXxa/s320/Air%20Raid%20Test%20Philadelphia%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>The Supreme Court's contentious term is reviewed. How will Governor Warren's appointment affect momentous rulings on segregation, anti-subversion legislation, offshore oil, baseball's antitrust exemption, and Taft-Hartley? James Paul Mitchell is the new Secretary of Labour, Thomas Burke the new Senator for Ohio, leaving the Senate with 48 Democrats, 47 Republicans, and Wayne Morse. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ernest K. Lindell is worried that the H-bomb story isn't screwed down tight enough, so he gives yet another summary. The Russians have big atom bombs now, H-bombs later. We have H-bombs later too! No-one but the President will update us when this changes. That takes Ernest about as long to say as me, so for the rest of his <b>Washington Tides </b>column he gives us the ol' Ernie K special, and repeats himself again and again. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>International</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Sir Winston vs. Washington: What About Top-Level Talks?" Sir Winston wants a Locarno-style conference and a non-aggression pact with Russia. The Administration thinks that the UN is fine. Meanwhile, the main issue at Margate was Eden's health, because Churchill has six more months, tops. And that was so boring that the press decided to beard Lord Woolton about a market stand proprietor who specialises in cockles and mussels, who stayed open for the Labour conference but closed for the Tories because they are rich toffs who like oysters and lobsters, instead. Lord Woolton denies everything. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEZOz99la0Fu04S6NV-IeltTdAH2gja7zw8oKO3GA1QgahFJC1diIvobecRTumZaAonwPK-iOcqTnFv1QW4_MbIGkQDJdHOoCtkvyzQroJ5NAZwZXLlVuTYvdd4WB6p-bzw-BLJwXSoEydyfUi8Syauhc1j-aIELh7sLDdBFWe8P74DXPgS3GQ3SNVH4cX/s4032/20240209_124131863_iOS.heic" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEZOz99la0Fu04S6NV-IeltTdAH2gja7zw8oKO3GA1QgahFJC1diIvobecRTumZaAonwPK-iOcqTnFv1QW4_MbIGkQDJdHOoCtkvyzQroJ5NAZwZXLlVuTYvdd4WB6p-bzw-BLJwXSoEydyfUi8Syauhc1j-aIELh7sLDdBFWe8P74DXPgS3GQ3SNVH4cX/s320/20240209_124131863_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"Intramural War" In France, Reynaud and Pleven are backing the Big Five conference because they think they can wrangle recognition for Red China in return for the Reds backing off their aid to the Viet Minh. Georges Bidault is opposing them, because he doesn't think that recognition can get by Washington, and the talk is just undermining Western unity. He also thinks that the leaks are intended to frustrate his bid for the Presidency, and also that bringing French troops back from Indo-China is the only way to get the European Defence Community off the ground. And shouting continues over Trieste. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mossadegh will be spared the death penalty by virtue of age, the first six "Atomic Annies" have arrived in Germany, the Greeks have signed an air base agreement with the U.S., and the 6th Tactical Air Force has been activated in Turkey. "Within easy bombing range: The Soviet oil fields in the Caspian Sea at Baku." <i>Newsweek </i>visits the Philippine elections, where "hero-worshipping Filipinos adore" Magsaysay (not to mention <i>Newsweek</i>) and violence is feared from pro-establishment forces.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Lo, the Poor Indian Troops, Berated and Belaboured by All" The Indians are doing their best to get the remaining 22,500 "anti-Red" POWs properly interviewed and sorted out, and it is a disaster. At this point, "non-Korean UN troops" are guarding the Indians, who have to guard the POWs, because all ROK troops have been pulled out. Peace talks keep stalling, there have been two fatal riots, which the Indians blame on outside agitators, and the South Koreans are being as difficult as possible. It isn't even possible for Indian troops to go on leave. People like Wilfrid Burchett keep stirring the pot, alleging that secret murder rings are suppressing pro-repatriation sentiments in the camps. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFFKELPEMIihKzS-xTyrEzcxdn0TtCUuKl8gYKfNPeJmcFOHSyRJpCGyn9MoRID46mv_U3M7DHfeKQMIGqufBpP4f18RR97RUYb8svHjMpkumjW7GJJs5EV4ideTs50LXjFios7KrMtSr3OsjBixBd5LUNGTNkjg3fK3EMWbg0w4GFqWpwVzZ8l2BMgwKA/s2276/Indian%20troops%20conducting%20Korean%20War%20POW,%201953.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2276" data-original-width="1576" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFFKELPEMIihKzS-xTyrEzcxdn0TtCUuKl8gYKfNPeJmcFOHSyRJpCGyn9MoRID46mv_U3M7DHfeKQMIGqufBpP4f18RR97RUYb8svHjMpkumjW7GJJs5EV4ideTs50LXjFios7KrMtSr3OsjBixBd5LUNGTNkjg3fK3EMWbg0w4GFqWpwVzZ8l2BMgwKA/s320/Indian%20troops%20conducting%20Korean%20War%20POW,%201953.jpg" width="222" /></a></div>"British Guiana: Hot Potato" This story has already been covered in <i>The Economist. </i>The colony is wretchedly poor, there was an election, Cheddi Jagan led a Communist-aligned party to victory. He clashed with the colonial government over this and that. Britain sent over 500 Welsh Fusiliers and <i>Superb, </i>the Governor declared a state of martial law, the State Department is in favour, and <i>Newsweek </i>has dug up a couple of American expatriate union activists who might have been involved. International communist conspiracy!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Periscope Business Trends </b>reports that there won't be a manufacturer's sales tax next year, because as much as the experts like it, no-one else does. It's not a recession, it's a boom in salesmanship. Or maybe it is a <i>mild </i>recession. Retail sales are still high, and building is only down 5%, and that's a number that is smaller than other numbers!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Economy Holds Steady Pace: Retail Sales Head for Record" Please don't vote Democrat in November. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv7m70y2U8uT03Bvh52WGJIvOFXK5y_8bwOMYKu-dQnBW57kII2DWc_KOO-29jIw5zakD0mhc8MQh4-F-MJYRKS6iAb4wTh-Vrwh9EA04pXplmx8WaRr15hLXOXVQPTrvEDN_Y8PQDjPnfIzQ2WL1kH_VP-UeW9TmVA8QJTHOtpDfZihi3x0Za1WWn8AgM/s3155/Gas%20stations%20these%20days%20not%20like%20when%20I%20was%20young%201953.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3155" data-original-width="2671" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiv7m70y2U8uT03Bvh52WGJIvOFXK5y_8bwOMYKu-dQnBW57kII2DWc_KOO-29jIw5zakD0mhc8MQh4-F-MJYRKS6iAb4wTh-Vrwh9EA04pXplmx8WaRr15hLXOXVQPTrvEDN_Y8PQDjPnfIzQ2WL1kH_VP-UeW9TmVA8QJTHOtpDfZihi3x0Za1WWn8AgM/s320/Gas%20stations%20these%20days%20not%20like%20when%20I%20was%20young%201953.jpg" width="271" /></a></div>"Take Cover" The problem of protecting industry against H-bombs has defence-planners at "wit's end." Industrial dispersion hasn't been going well, with most industry still concentrated in the top fifty metropolitan areas. So now the Defence Department is asking for bombproof factories. The Office of Defence Mobilisation says that proper construction can cut damages by up to a third. Arthur Fleming of the OMB estimates that this will add up to 20% to construction costs, but the Korean War depreciation holiday has boosted the nation's productive capacity by up to 20 million tons of steel, and lots of other stuff, too, and Cincinnati Milling is putting two bomb shelters in its factory, which will definitely show the Reds. "No company has even hinted that it would build a completely underground factory," and I am sad. Sweden has them! Why are the Swedes so much more grounded than we are?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/8ZYhuvIv1pA" width="320" youtube-src-id="8ZYhuvIv1pA"></iframe></div><b>Notes: Week in Business </b>reports that the Treasury doesn't have much cash on hand, but still thinks it can make it through the year. Pan Am plans to cut transatlantic air cargo rates by up to 45% if the CAB lets it. National Airlines is the latest to buy a helicopter and try a passenger route, between St. Petersburg, Florida, and Sarasota. David Donger is setting up partners to produce its sport shirts in Europe. The AEC has approved five companies to run atom power plants, and Dow is going in half with Asahi for a chemical plant near Tokyo to produce fishing nets, to start with, anyway. Nickel is decontrolled. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Foodelectric Saunders" Clarence Saunders, who pioneered automated grocery stores in America 40 years ago and lost his shirt, is trying again with <a href="https://www.supermarketnews.com/archive/foodelectric">Foodelectric Memphis</a> after folding Keedoozle (remember them) in 1949. It's a variation on the same idea. The National Hardware Show is really something, the 1954 Plymouths are really big and have Hy-Drive automatic transmissions, and cost up to $2,115 for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Belvedere">Belvedere convertible</a>. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Products: What's New </b>reports that Lux dishwashing soap is now on the market in cans to "eliminate the sneeze;" L. B. Miller Company has a flexible screwdriver to reach around corners; Seaboard Finishes has a transparent (obviously) spray that makes windows shatterproof and low glare. Silex has a two-cup coffee carafe to keep it warm, <i>Newsweek </i>going on to explain what a "carafe" is. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Henry Hazlitt's <b>Business Tides </b>explains "How America Can Help." Europeans are always using the American tariff as an excuse not to go fully convertible, so even though the tariff isn't as big a deal as they say, Congress should make a solemn, cross-its-heart promise not to raise tariffs without a really good reason, no, <i>really </i>good; and then the Europeans would have a predictable situation and could go convertible. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhOizyC6xkxZWbehV571GWMtGsS1gP6Qpgy65gSyFNFiMoiIZXZvnpljdc9zdSexWC3SM-kCZuRc68vvb_bmrqZ4WTHVQJfRWBrUFoXY1PvZRJEf0A8OZfY_P2FJI0fogJ78d2-qEwA1yAruiFz9N5EUOIqgJe3AOEKm18cJEhyoFGww7bwRHg5K9Z3jXD/s4032/20240209_133435570_iOS.heic" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhOizyC6xkxZWbehV571GWMtGsS1gP6Qpgy65gSyFNFiMoiIZXZvnpljdc9zdSexWC3SM-kCZuRc68vvb_bmrqZ4WTHVQJfRWBrUFoXY1PvZRJEf0A8OZfY_P2FJI0fogJ78d2-qEwA1yAruiFz9N5EUOIqgJe3AOEKm18cJEhyoFGww7bwRHg5K9Z3jXD/s320/20240209_133435570_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><br /><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Science, Medicine, Education</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Childbirth Essence" <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_du_Vigneaud">Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud</a> of George Washington University has announced the culmination of 25 years of work, the isolation and crystallisation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxytocin">oxytocin</a>, the hormone that "dominates childbirth and lactation in mammals." It's the essence of childbirth! So now that he's done that, he is working on isolating vasopressin, the hormone that checks kidney output and raises blood pressure. Previously, he has done biotin and penicillin, and hopes that synthesis of oxytocin will be an immense help for obstetricians and veterinarians. The US Wildlife Service has announced that the trumpeter swan is no longer endangered. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"A Great Teaching-Healing Institution at 25" Columbia-Presbyterian Hospital is twenty-five. <i>Newsweek </i>checks in. It is a really good hospital. The x-ray department takes up the entire third floor (which is a big floor), and the blood bank has made 111,000 transfusions since being established in 1939. It introduced oxygen tents, oxygen-helium mixes for treating lung disorders, and has more than 100 scientists working in it. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Antioch College is having a significant anniversary, while <i>Our Nation's Schools </i>is a new magazine devoted to same, with an article in the October number about how Australia is experimenting with a new programme to save wear and tear on school furniture by allowing boys to carve up old pieces. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Press, Radio and Television, Newsmakers</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Marquis du Cuevas is suing<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Guido_Sarducci"> </a><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Guido_Sarducci">Il Osservatore Romano</a> </i>for saying that his recent costume ball was too much. John Harold Johnson is starting two new Negro magazines, <i>Hue, </i>and <i>Copper Romance. </i>Let's learn all about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_H._Johnson">John Harold Johnson</a>! Some Americans went down to the meeting of the Inter-American Press Association and lectured everybody about press freedom. The press strike in Portland, Maine, is over. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">NBC is staging a prize giveaway to prop up ratings for the Dennis Day Show, which runs against <i>I Love Lucy. Where's Raymond? </i>starring Roy Bolger, is great. Except for not being funny. But Bolger is handsome! On the other hand, <i>Newsweek </i>didn't think much of CBS's new <i>Topper </i>series. "Radio is still trying to find the niche TV left it." <i>Dragnet's </i>theme played on <i>Your Hit Parade </i>this week, whic his awkward, because <i>Dragnet </i>is sponsored by Chesterfield's, and <i>Your Hit Parade </i>by Lucky Strikes. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vB6buYYt-bA" width="320" youtube-src-id="vB6buYYt-bA"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Marquess of Milford-Haven, the Count de Marigny, Oveta Culp Hobby, Leon Feuchtwanger, Vivian Leigh, Bernard Baruch, and Adlai Stevenson are in the column because they're famous. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Chadwick">Florence Chadwick</a> has made a record (58 minutes, 10 seconds) crossing of the Hellespont after swimming the Channel, the Bosphorus, and the Strait of Gibraltar in the last five weeks. Betty Betz is engaged, Vincent Astor is married; Vice-Admiral Gordon Campbell, Porter Hall, Nigel Bruce, James Earl Fraser, Lord Strabolgi, and the Duke of Bedford have died. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>New Films</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Little Fugitive </i>is a shoestring movie from Joe Burstyn with a great performance from child star <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0029133/">Richie Andrusco. </a><i><a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0029133/">T</a>he Titfield Thunderbirds </i>is the latest "delightful British import . .. that it is difficult to be critical about." <i>Murder on Monday </i>isn't as delightful, but is saved by great acting. <i>Torch Song, </i>the only American studio production in the column this week, is a Joan Crawford vehicle, a song-and-dance number crossed with a melodrama(?)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lPXojX-wA6o" width="320" youtube-src-id="lPXojX-wA6o"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Books</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">George Eggleston's <i>Tahiti </i>is a good sailing memoir. Nadime Gordimer's <i>The Lying Days </i>is a much-anticipated first novel from a soulful South African writing about how her country is terrible. It's not fair that some novelists get to be from terrible countries! (Or states, Mr. Faulkner.) Herbet Feis' <i>The China Tangle </i>is a dispassionate and academic look at how America and China got in this mess. It was the Reds! <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignazio_Silone">Ignazio Silone</a>'s <i>A Handful of Blackberries </i>is an affecting Italian novel (by an anti-Communist author), while<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_E._Meyer"> Agnes F. Meyer</a>'s <i>Out of These Roots: The Autobiography of an American Woman</i> gets a solid push from <i>Newsweek </i>because it is by an old-time American journalist who is married to a very rich man. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Raymond Moley is his usual idiot self, digging up an excuse for why the Bricker Amendment is actually a good idea in <b>Perspective</b>, missing about half the point of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri_v._Holland#:~:text=Holland%2C%20252%20U.S.%20416%20(1920,under%20the%20United%20States%20Constitution.">Holland vs. Missouri</a>. </i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmlU1NFZrdZ16q-1e7h_wGxKW26ljjhZEzIQHB9BVB_O1VoLQqAb_4rLJzMZzc_fThiSDyLFwuppbTEYNBR2O-4Ova-jCVb6q4IqtekCj2qg37Y5r1dvF-fW6IT1EazfGxFMHujIij-mbC3G8kSPAOx2JayQpmn9vnAZoXqRZfenDWsIeS-YJZbw5rkfjj/s4032/20240209_224025239_iOS.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhmlU1NFZrdZ16q-1e7h_wGxKW26ljjhZEzIQHB9BVB_O1VoLQqAb_4rLJzMZzc_fThiSDyLFwuppbTEYNBR2O-4Ova-jCVb6q4IqtekCj2qg37Y5r1dvF-fW6IT1EazfGxFMHujIij-mbC3G8kSPAOx2JayQpmn9vnAZoXqRZfenDWsIeS-YJZbw5rkfjj/w480-h640/20240209_224025239_iOS.heic" width="480" /></a></div><br /><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Aviation Week, </i>19 October 1953</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>News Digest </b>reports that carrier trials of the Douglas F4D start next week. GE has delivered its 10,000th J47 and is flight trialling the J73. Airlines are having trouble retaining electronics technicians who are being hired away by television. US trans-Pacific airlines need high subsidies to compete with foreign flag carriers. The RAF's Gloster Meteor fleet is grounded for individual checks after inspections uncovered loose wing spar bolts. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Industry Observer </b>reports that west coast observers report that North American has come up with an improvement on the F-100 as dramatic as that from the F-86 to the F-100. Douglas has designed a whole new wing to improve the performance of the DC-7, but can't decide which engine to put in it as between the 3350 Turbocompound and the Pratt and Whitney T-52. Yet two more Avon models are announced, and the current production model of the Swift is the Mk 4. The three new British V-bombers are not all alike, the Valiant being an interim model to an earlier specification. "Open secret in Britain is that an improved Valiant will serve as a super-pathfinder for the production Vulcan or Victor." Sperry and de Havilland are working on an improvement to the Zero Reader which will show the exact angle indication during takeoff to avoid over-rotation. US Army Ordnance is testing a French anti-tank missile based on the wartime German X-4, which has wire guides to prevent jamming and a two mile range. The De Havilland 110 prototype for the Royal Navy is reportedly heavily reinforced, and it is speculated that the service model will be modified with a much more conventional single-tail, single-engine configuration. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3zEbTAwiszC0i4QWGSAb5j6DSMKJWrOeEHx2YfiMzYhKE5S5zmpUEaPpc_dLlN58AzvgJFj5CM8ovX34kfJpdiqjHfSlAHOuQ_Fg48354b0t3M1m17b8V8291vswJDwnnpREUp9FUnyKEsuYZOLQh9qq63BtVEZMl7d0aws01pdScWak8ktDmlG7SCKGD/s1024/North%20American%20F-100%20zero%20l%20aunch%20trial.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="1024" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3zEbTAwiszC0i4QWGSAb5j6DSMKJWrOeEHx2YfiMzYhKE5S5zmpUEaPpc_dLlN58AzvgJFj5CM8ovX34kfJpdiqjHfSlAHOuQ_Fg48354b0t3M1m17b8V8291vswJDwnnpREUp9FUnyKEsuYZOLQh9qq63BtVEZMl7d0aws01pdScWak8ktDmlG7SCKGD/s320/North%20American%20F-100%20zero%20l%20aunch%20trial.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Aviation Week </b>has "Pentagon Rewrites Cost Allowance Rules," which is as exciting as it sounds, and "Douglas Rules Out Early Jet Transport," meaning that the company will not push out its DC-8 to compete with the Boeing jetliner, because there is still time for it to make its money back on the DC-7. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"RAF Centres Strength on A-bomb Force" Right now the RAF's main strength is Canberras and Canadair Sabres, which is sad, but soon it will have strategic bombers and British fighters again under super-priority production. The V-bombers will be able to take off from any airfield in Britain, and attack the Russians from many directions thanks to their long range, up to 5000 miles without refuelling, cruising at "near-sonic speed" above 60,000ft, using electronic countermeasures to defeat defences. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Wilson Leaves New Policy in the Air" The industry is fed up with Charlie Wilson. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Federation Aeronautique Internationale is not going to change the rules for the world's absolute air speed record any time soon. There are <i>already </i>rules for an any-altitude speed record that no-one bothers with, and if the industry is going to complain about the stringency of the low-altitude test, it can switch to competing for that record, subject to accurate recording devices. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Skeptics Endanger Air Power Lead" Without naming names, Nathan Twining denounced critics of air research and development in a speech to the National Aeronautic Association's annual convention. That's "Anonymous," which is spelled C-H-A-R-L-I-E W-I-L-S-O-N. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"C-123 Contract" Fairchild has won the first fixed-price Air Force contract since before the KoreanWar, to produce the C-123. It will also complete the 300 C-119Gs under contract, including the 88 that Willy Motors was working on, under a stretchout extending the time of completion to 1956. Tools and parts from Willow Run will be trucked to Hagerstown for the contract, but Fairchild is limiting tooling since its experienced workforce knows how to build C-123s already. Speculation now is about where <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Stroukoff">Michael Stroukoff</a>, the designer of the C-123, will end up, since his work on boundary layer control is considered vital to the C-123. Also, there will be a full news briefing on the F-100 at North American soon.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Also in production news, which really shouldn't be news, the aircraft production labour force has levelled off, but wages continue to go up. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-uWxOtOlFy3BO4G1N76X0zxT2AgMc_HOaP9vQjtgdRej-04Ya_4kEKEUY0FukvHs-o0Ue1Tr83FBxHTMygu2hEpJkJjGMgAhLSF5gNoo7CDuDGRcATG0hff3leCYqSBYI90WXMGSIjPGHy2OePXGTdZeSMpy1bHdmQhwsUVZXyDMr58Co6EtQup9Cv_V1/s1200/North%20American%20F-86%20Sabre%20in%20RAF%20livery.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1200" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-uWxOtOlFy3BO4G1N76X0zxT2AgMc_HOaP9vQjtgdRej-04Ya_4kEKEUY0FukvHs-o0Ue1Tr83FBxHTMygu2hEpJkJjGMgAhLSF5gNoo7CDuDGRcATG0hff3leCYqSBYI90WXMGSIjPGHy2OePXGTdZeSMpy1bHdmQhwsUVZXyDMr58Co6EtQup9Cv_V1/s320/North%20American%20F-86%20Sabre%20in%20RAF%20livery.png" width="320" /></a></div>"Canberra, DC-6 Win Christchurch Race" As expected, a Canberra won the military side, while the DC-6 took the price from a Viscount on the handicap. "Observers here speculate that this wil be the last big international air race." The $28,000 prize is completely inadequate to the expenses of participating, with the last-minute withdrawal of the Valiant reflecting widespread opinion that it was far too valuable to risk in a race. The RNZAF Hastings had to withdraw from the race in Ceylon due to engine trouble. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"ATIC Begins Study of Saucer Reports"The Air Technical Intelligence Centre is beginning a statistical study of the 3000 "flying saucer " reports received between 1947 and 1952. It has provisionally concluded that between 80 and 90% can be explained and that the astronomical phenomena are the main cause of UFO reports, but weather balloons are another important factor, just because there are so many of them. Balloons are launched from nearly every airfield in the country four times a day, and can be up to 119ft in diameter, with highly reflective mylar coatings. Hughes Aircraft has appointed William C. Jordan as general manager to cover last week's walkouts.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Reporting for McGraw-Hill World News, A. W. Jessup has "F-86F is 'Top' Fighter-Bomber" A fairly long report is highly favourable to the F-86's aerodynamics, bomb racks, and of the various modifications and repositionings required for the F-86F's long range fuel tanks, improved engine maintenance and A-4 radar gunsight, although pilots wish the gunline could be adjusted, since you want a different angle for ground attack than for air-to-air combat. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaN2qtWyqJ5PXff0ZfPo872HVPuq41q3DcnxWdaqFRgMazUWiDdlIqcf8X-uxjhTcaWb4ZX7FYlJpJW4g4RQpMVhnwIMrUI2obHVKiqsIkQVMIMgvmfpyuaiR1wf7nRwSKQ34GmKoljLSF6_Hk0toN3jDrSwsNZIfLmy4FtU99lJi0fa7HDmZeV1HFeqbj/s687/Consolidated%20YB-60.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="687" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjaN2qtWyqJ5PXff0ZfPo872HVPuq41q3DcnxWdaqFRgMazUWiDdlIqcf8X-uxjhTcaWb4ZX7FYlJpJW4g4RQpMVhnwIMrUI2obHVKiqsIkQVMIMgvmfpyuaiR1wf7nRwSKQ34GmKoljLSF6_Hk0toN3jDrSwsNZIfLmy4FtU99lJi0fa7HDmZeV1HFeqbj/s320/Consolidated%20YB-60.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><b>Aeronautical Engineering </b>has a nice article from Convair, "Engineer Analyzes Landing Gear Trends," which is about the work of Wendell E. Eldred's work at Fort Worth. Eldred concludes that tailwheels are on the way out (no, really!) and that bicycle gears are not a very good idea (also!), that tracked gears are not a good idea, that crosswind gear may show promise (or forever be next season's big thing, says I), that droppable gear, zero-length launch and landing mats are unlikely gimmicks. Outrigger gears and multiple wheels are all unsatisfactory. But you know what's great? The "diamond gear" on the Convair YB-60. That said, the trend to multiple wheels on the same gear is unstoppable because it works. The switch from one to four wheels on the Comet, for example, saved 217lbs on an original weight of 3,815lbs. Multiple wheel gears als reduce the danger of blowouts, reduces maintenance effort, reduces taxiing problems, but does increase manufacturing cost. In the future, we will see co-rotating nose gear, an effort to reduce the number of joints, more use of high-strength aluminum alloy, and also of high-strength steels, although these will require exacting metallurgical work due to the variable properties of steel alloys with carbon content. Titanium will be great, regular fatigue testing is necessary. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr-bvsepXguE46hK-5nqexvwx0RY6E6i6XSp0SHjbY02bx8vHxo_5SVwZrNP_J3f6jRVJ_ZFCvlaAZC2J1nyEPGBozPlUVLuaMaXrH6Bs3KhvKr0Y68TVeYcHCAZiJGU5izQeBsUgnTKvPe7uEYK0DXfIgjYlIMH3Tajwl_RxJ9wO8RAqKiw2x7JtcFKik/s1024/Hispano%20Suiza%20Verdon%20or%20Rolls%20Royce%20Tay.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="685" data-original-width="1024" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhr-bvsepXguE46hK-5nqexvwx0RY6E6i6XSp0SHjbY02bx8vHxo_5SVwZrNP_J3f6jRVJ_ZFCvlaAZC2J1nyEPGBozPlUVLuaMaXrH6Bs3KhvKr0Y68TVeYcHCAZiJGU5izQeBsUgnTKvPe7uEYK0DXfIgjYlIMH3Tajwl_RxJ9wO8RAqKiw2x7JtcFKik/s320/Hispano%20Suiza%20Verdon%20or%20Rolls%20Royce%20Tay.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>David E. Anderton reports that "Hisso Boosts Centrifugal Jet's Thrust" The Hispano-Suiza Verdon turbojet has been brought to7700lbs with afterburning, and will replace the Hispano-built Tay on production Mysteres this summer. Air-cooled blade roots and higher temperature steels have allowed an increase of outlet temperature by 90 degrees (F), and the engine has been redesigned for better air flow. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A nice story from Ryan Aircraft about Ryan Aircraft's new abrasive-wheel tool, which cuts stainless steel fast, but abrasive-wheel tool is very sad because no-one wants to go to coffee with abrasive-wheel tool because all the other tools think it is hard to get along with, what with being an abrasive tool. Resdel Engineering's preheat cabinet, on the other hand,is a warm and welcoming place for plastic and rubber moldings, while the National Waste Dealers Association welcomes your useless garbage, and GE is helping the little guy by building midget motors for "bomber D.C. jobs," which isn't an arcane political insight, because in this case it means "direct current." "It is reportedly capable of responding to field currents of .075 milliamperes! Which I think is small, unless the ampere is one of those metric units that measures a lot of what people are mostly interested in, as some of them are. Slip Ring Company of America has lines and lines of smaller, lighter, better electronic components. IBM's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_650">Type 650 Magnetic Drum Computer</a> is perfect for your company (so strange to see a new IBM computer advertised down in here, right?), four companies are offering better relays, and <b>Filter Centre </b>reports that Collins has sold its omnirange subsidiary, TVOR, that all eyes are on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRW_Inc.">Ramo-Woolridge</a>, the new electronics company formed by the Hughes walkouts, that Bell Labs is demonstrating a barium-titanate memory crystal which can hold up to 256 bits of data indefinitely, that the Armour Research Institute is looking at emergency alternating current generators, that the <b>Centre </b>has received interesting brochures about selenium rectifiers, ferromagnetic cores, nonlinear resistors (Varistors), taper terminals, electronic timers and controls, Single sideband filters, microsyn indicators, "Instruments for Modern Measurements," and concrete news of a new altitude control from Lears. <br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7MntL82D42YgEuAlwciBEddmYzWZu72q1poaKooKkDZhYtD7pOv8imhK2brdNtkHHR8wT_s9PDjbXNCZzVNJHUn7vjmBRaSTS7XUsVMsd285Jm-SKayzIiwnWuITHgLUVhzUyq0BPPpVt0OJu4yO1Eayocqw7BVMxs0t6fWovOwWWifNrGZlKG95CTRX2/s586/Pioneer%20I.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="586" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7MntL82D42YgEuAlwciBEddmYzWZu72q1poaKooKkDZhYtD7pOv8imhK2brdNtkHHR8wT_s9PDjbXNCZzVNJHUn7vjmBRaSTS7XUsVMsd285Jm-SKayzIiwnWuITHgLUVhzUyq0BPPpVt0OJu4yO1Eayocqw7BVMxs0t6fWovOwWWifNrGZlKG95CTRX2/s320/Pioneer%20I.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Pioneer I, by Ramo-Woolridge</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Letters </b>gives George E. Beck, "Manager of statistics" for Midway Airlines, (address: "Dundee Road West of Waukegan Road") a full column to explain why the company's Chicago air shuttle is so great. IBM and Thompson Products sure are happy with coverage of IBM and Thompson Products! (That's how you know that your aviation technical journalism is in good hands, if everyone in the industry they cover think that it's very positive and inoffensive.) More people write in to mourn the passing of Alex McSurely. The line-wide McGraw-Hill editorial crunches the numbers ahead of Congressional deliberations on the excess-profits tax to find that profits are not excessive right now.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">George L. Christian reports for <b>Equipment </b>that "Bristol Freighter Paces Bush Operation" <a href="https://www.baaa-acro.com/operator/associated-airways">Associated Airways</a>, out of Edmonton, has 24 planes and is the sole source of supply for the Salmita Gold Mine, which it provisions with a Bristol Freighter, which has brought in 500 tons of equipment and supplies, including tractors. The plane's virtues, mainly having to do with ease of loading, are discussed in detail, and we are told that the plane's Bristol Hercules sleeve-valve engines are easy to start and low maintenance. He also likes his Bell helicopters. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIZKUW_deNB_Gr4WFKMfEsTxC6_QkzD0x7-fZDg34dtrfZrTcdRIbsT_Vfv4MpbiAA6EjlqOJXJZ5MndixceI-rLsGlsRm3gTckNmpYDJXNSQwGlPB-NTVAAruYAs-Ky1S3AZg_rpwUhg7LEcicRto79eogTLGI6Kun2GUl1Aq9coY3K50Imz1fwaG3Brj/s1200/GE%20Calibration%20Console%20and%20odd-looking%20operator.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="GE Calibrating console with old-fashioned haircut" border="0" data-original-height="1003" data-original-width="1200" height="267" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIZKUW_deNB_Gr4WFKMfEsTxC6_QkzD0x7-fZDg34dtrfZrTcdRIbsT_Vfv4MpbiAA6EjlqOJXJZ5MndixceI-rLsGlsRm3gTckNmpYDJXNSQwGlPB-NTVAAruYAs-Ky1S3AZg_rpwUhg7LEcicRto79eogTLGI6Kun2GUl1Aq9coY3K50Imz1fwaG3Brj/w320-h267/GE%20Calibration%20Console%20and%20odd-looking%20operator.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Temco will be the prime contractor for maintenance of Navy R7V-1 Super Constellations, the electronics division of Curtiss-Wright is delivering an electronic flight duplicator to Air France, the Douglas DC-7 is getting triple glaze windows on some positions not because of strength issues, as reported here last week, but for noise reduction. UAL is expanding its underground power and fuel capacity at five airports. <b>New Aviation Products </b>reports a snappy new Koch fibre glass case for electronics, a Lear airborne VHF receiver modified for ground use, a GE console for calibrating electrical instruments, a "tool makers ball" from Flabob for measuring holes drilled in jigs and assemblies, and a magnetic clutch and pressure transducer are <b>Also on the Market. </b>(Along with assorted fasteners we care less about.) <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Crash Injury Research at Cornell wants stronger cabins with rear-facing seats, a special <b>Aviation Week </b>report finds that people are moving west and to the suburbs, so that's where future demand for air transport will be concentrated. The FCC has rejected a UAL proposal for a 70 station VHF network to be subcontracted to ATT by the current monopoly operator of ground based radio aids, Aeronautical Radio, on the grounds that the subcontractor will probably just flake off. What a horrible thing to say about Senator Capehart's company! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Robert H. Wood's <b>Editorial </b>sums up the job report. Aviation is a big employer, second only to autos. And he highlights an internal C and O report finding that the railway isn't doing a very good job of passenger services. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVNiIrNc2BXDVHw0fZsuBsxQsNLUrknREdo1DzdnKq7qSFASbUnQXI4JMj6ChwBD-AXeJ_1GzdmGdJ6iKX4QXyD1B_s_NZzY_VGlHHrViYbw9rXehrQVlve5trj_i64n23R99Mf8zI_twsWLc9Y1FjWLLVh1k801TNT-bd_5WskOKPgLwl5r4R0noSOdPH/s4032/20240209_155158609_iOS.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVNiIrNc2BXDVHw0fZsuBsxQsNLUrknREdo1DzdnKq7qSFASbUnQXI4JMj6ChwBD-AXeJ_1GzdmGdJ6iKX4QXyD1B_s_NZzY_VGlHHrViYbw9rXehrQVlve5trj_i64n23R99Mf8zI_twsWLc9Y1FjWLLVh1k801TNT-bd_5WskOKPgLwl5r4R0noSOdPH/s16000/20240209_155158609_iOS.heic" /></a></div><br /> Letters</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Your little province is in the news as Quaker Howard Elkington (of Philadelphia, naturally), protests that not all Doukhobors should be tarred with the same brush as, <a href="https://www.coombshistory.com/doukabors-in-hilliers">specifically, Michael Verigin</a>, and A. Laforge of Newcastle, California, points out that the Sons of Freedom have mainly been burning their own houses, and there is no way that the value of their arson has risen to $420 million. <i>Newsweek </i>accepts the correction. The number was garbled, and was actually $20 million. Mrs. George Handler of New York City also has a correction. A picture labelled as that of Anita Böjrk is actually Rita Gam. The only person on this Earth dumber than Henry Cabot Lodge is letter writer George H. Clark, who disputes Lodge's defence of the UN as the keeper of peace from the "more war is more better (against Communism)" angle. John E. Cranch, of Ames, Iowa, points this out, for Ambassador Lodge, at least. Two people write to explain how funny Red Buttons is, although Seymour Serebrick has a correction on Yiddish usage. Professor Victor Cleveland of New England College and J. Atwood think that miniature pigs are cute, and are glad that they were saved from extinction, with Professor Cleveland predicting a bright future for them as housepets. No child of mine is going to New England College!!! Jasper Hutto explains that Baptists are very modern nowadays. <b>For Your Information </b>pats itself on the back for keeping the story of<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1979/02/14/archives/richard-applegate-correspondent-jailed-in-50s-by-red-china.html"> Dan Dixon and Richard Applegate </a>alive, for winning a Christopher Award, and because a nice English professor in California arranges to have back issues of <i>Newsweek </i>sent abroad.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/2lVnshOqSRQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="2lVnshOqSRQ"></iframe></div><b>The Periscope </b>reports that the MiG-15 that defected in Korea is no big deal, because it is three years old. Then it tries to explain the current situation in Trieste in a single paragraph, which is admittedly a <i>huge </i>improvement on pages and pages, but PLEASE wake me up when it's over! The President wants us to think of atom bombs as normal, "conventional" weapons like rifle bullets, and has established a line of succession in the Defence Department in case a normal, conventional bomb blows up Washington and kills a million people, just like a rifle bullet. A special bill to promote Colonel Bernt Balchen is expected in Congress, as he has had his "three and out," in spite of being the leading expert on Arctic flying. The White House has noticed everyone calling Eisenhower the "do nothing President," and will do something about it soon, for sure. Nehru is said to be convinced by anti-Communism now that some Korean POWs don't want to go back behind the Iron Curtain. Ambassador Lodge popped by the White House to propose that we troop our POWs to the General Assembly to tell the UN about Red atrocities, and was duly dressed down by all and sundry for wanting to make a spectacle of men still recovering from their ordeal. Governor Dewey is warning the GOP to make its peace with the farm belt before the election, and "some Presidential intimates" are explaining that Knowland is an idiot. Which I'll grant, but there sure are a lot of idiots around the current Administration! SAC is going to do a giant exercise later in the month to illustrate how it is going to perforate Russia with a few rifle bullet-like atom bombs in the event of trouble. The Democrats have come up with the brilliant idea of running against the Administration in the fall. The Air Force is worried about recruiting again. The new 3 cent air mail stamp may be available by Christmas, the Army's new 106mm recoilless rifle will punch through 12" of armour, infantry tacticians are thinking about massive, helicopter-borne commando raids and want a helicopter that can fly 1000 miles at 200mph. So do we all! <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Globke">Hans Globke</a> is the next big name in German politics. The Russians are angling for Stockholm as the venue for Big Four talks. The Russo-Argentine trade pact will no doubt lead to Russian penetration of Argentina. Japan is also trading with the damn Reds. Insiders say that baseball will be fine if its antitrust exemption is revoked. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizdm-Xo74poZW-61TTLSH37QCk_tlsFpeQB4seD8ynfQcgv9sZTQSs9AP3POSY3XeMGDUSZGL7v8nSCc-QzLOAZVHdcWQ1HsA0mGMpPvF3loxeRD0BsNLkFOjhLsZpivIbmlDFJ8nnQSEKlHMduTZ1MiALmDu9gUSOc6FPIn365TOm9MeIReYZm9lmibJ_/s4032/Bendix%20ad3%20signposts%20in%20the%20sky.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizdm-Xo74poZW-61TTLSH37QCk_tlsFpeQB4seD8ynfQcgv9sZTQSs9AP3POSY3XeMGDUSZGL7v8nSCc-QzLOAZVHdcWQ1HsA0mGMpPvF3loxeRD0BsNLkFOjhLsZpivIbmlDFJ8nnQSEKlHMduTZ1MiALmDu9gUSOc6FPIn365TOm9MeIReYZm9lmibJ_/s320/Bendix%20ad3%20signposts%20in%20the%20sky.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Insiders say that Rita Hayworth can't be broke when she made a half million last year. Marilyn Monroe will be female lead of thriller <i>V<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Cruz_(film)">era Cruz, </a></i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vera_Cruz_(film)">opposite Burt Lancaster and Gary Coope</a>r. "A film version of . . . <i>Hedda Gabler </i>will be shot on location in Oslo . . ." <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0161468/fullcredits">A two hour production of <i>Richard III </i>will appear on NBC's Sarah Churchill show next month,</a> while <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_(American_football)">John Steinbeck will narrate a TV-film series of based on his short story collection, </a><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_(American_football)">Pastures of Heaven</a>. </i><b>Where Are They Now? </b>chases down <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_(American_football)">Notre Dame's 1924 Four Horsemen </a>of the Apocalypse, who have all succeeded in life like Notre Dame Old Boys. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/9Y1ZLARwwOE" width="320" youtube-src-id="9Y1ZLARwwOE"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Fairly accurate this week, because we're saving the mistakes for <b>Letters! </b></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Periscope Washington Trends </b>reports that Secretary Benson is out of the Cabinet just as soon as the President finds someone who's not him to fire the Agriculture Secretary. Secretary Humphrey thinks he's out of the woods over his hard money policy now that people are tired of yelling at him. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>National Affairs</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Farmer's Revolt on Prices: It's a Major Problem for Ike" [Dit-dit-dit] Announcer voice: "Now we go over to the <i>Newsweek </i>desk for breaking news. What's the story, Ernest K. Lindley?" Ernest K. Lindley: "Duh." Announcer: "I'm sorry?" Ernest K. Lindley: "That's what it says here. 'Duh.'"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Speaking of Our Washington Correspondent, he uses his bespoke page over at <b>Washington Tides </b>to explain that the President is still a great guy, and super, duper fit, no worries about that! And he sure is popular, everywhere he goes! It doesn't hurt, Lindley goes on, that he just talks in empty platitudes. But <i>some </i>Republicans are worried, you have to admit. Then it is off to Wisconsin to find that voters are having second thoughts. Secretary Benson gets a box story entitled, "He's Not Worried." <i>I </i>would be, but I don't have the Mormon church behind me, so I would probably be fired by my boss if I was a complete idiot costing him the election. Idiot. I know I'm saying that a lot, but come on, this Administration!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrJmq5nORAGcehVl_hW_msyI4-J4wanYl1VG9re4nNBzGkQr50trE2EcrLOKJU4D8vwrVlukt58qjeVaj0NSFuHxIsXs1PGmLM8IMglOOjpa0EOLHzMC-AYZJZhI66hyphenhyphenHfGbYha4oETrzJ8zF57Bwhdx6g6OJkeIiIVayEg_-9o1CShHtPA6_c6aY4aR6H/s4032/20240209_203713175_iOS.heic" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrJmq5nORAGcehVl_hW_msyI4-J4wanYl1VG9re4nNBzGkQr50trE2EcrLOKJU4D8vwrVlukt58qjeVaj0NSFuHxIsXs1PGmLM8IMglOOjpa0EOLHzMC-AYZJZhI66hyphenhyphenHfGbYha4oETrzJ8zF57Bwhdx6g6OJkeIiIVayEg_-9o1CShHtPA6_c6aY4aR6H/s320/20240209_203713175_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Penalty for Victory" The Senate is squabbling over how to give <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_A._Burke">Thomas Burke</a> some committee seats without completely disrupting Senate business, since he would flip the majority, but only in those committees, in the middle of the term. The surprising off-year election victory for the Democrats have them raring to go in the upcoming Congressional special election in California. Harry Byrd might be in trouble in West Virginia.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Like a Subway Train" An explosion aboard the ("long hull") <i>Essex-</i>class carrier<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Leyte_(CV-32)"> </a><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Leyte_(CV-32)">Leyte</a>, </i>currently undergoing an overhaul in Boston, has killed 36 and left 40 in hospital. Since there are no surviving witnesses, and there as no ammunition or fuel aboard, all we have is speculation that it was due to fuel oil vapours. It is the worst peacetime naval disaster since the sinking of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Hobson">Hobson</a> </i>in 1952 with 175 men, and confirms a pet theory of a certain pet husband of mine that "The <i>Essex </i>class are even worse death traps than other carriers." Senator McCarthy's latest lead in his "investigation" of security lapses at the Army Signal Corps laboratories in Fort Monroe is a group of witnesses claiming that the Rosenbergs set up a spy ring there. One witness, who broke down on the stand and promised to confess everything, was whisked off to a secure location in an obscure hotel to be looked after by Roy Cohn, and the Administration, which hasn't seen any actual evidence, seems to be counterattacking, floating an investigation of McCarthy's involvement in the campaign against Millard Tyding, and allegations of financial irregularities, before backing off. Speaking of which, it is now clear, thanks to Edward L. Murrow, that USAF Reserve <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milo_Radulovich">Lieutenant Colonel Michael Radulovich</a> was recommended for dismissal on security grounds because his father and sister are Communists, and not because of anything he did. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Klan for Negroes" The Florida branch of the Southern Knights of the KKK has announced through leader C. L. Parker that they are offering memberships to pro-segregation Negroes and are against terrorism. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHqzCZ8470bEPFK3aaMVE7KPGTqXBuDtiVcYoOaExpkTON5HsfxFBU882KUUgEHpb4OvCl0Mu33qXe38k-uaXSWhp8MWRagdkrWVoZWf3oNNEIS99bNKJ_YR9d1g66p9JOMEQztyu-MkCgQ3-66ai198tERtmG1nEnOHPcF4XOzaizC9imGbJlygMnwVIr/s4032/20240209_195309820_iOS.heic" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHqzCZ8470bEPFK3aaMVE7KPGTqXBuDtiVcYoOaExpkTON5HsfxFBU882KUUgEHpb4OvCl0Mu33qXe38k-uaXSWhp8MWRagdkrWVoZWf3oNNEIS99bNKJ_YR9d1g66p9JOMEQztyu-MkCgQ3-66ai198tERtmG1nEnOHPcF4XOzaizC9imGbJlygMnwVIr/s320/20240209_195309820_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ballad_of_Ira_Hayes">Suribachi to Skid Row" Ira Hayes</a>, the Marine who helped raise the flag at Iwo Jima has had a rough time since coming home and was living on Skid Row because "Indians can't hold their liquor," but now he hopes he is dried out and will turn over a new leaf. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trumbull_Park_Homes#:~:text=Race%20riots&text=Starting%20on%20August%205%20and,a%20new%20wave%20of%20violence.">Race riots</a> accompanied the arrival of four coloured families at Trumbull Flats on the far South Side of Chicago this week. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> <b>International </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Big Three Meet in London: Will Malenkov Make It Four?" The Big Three in question being Eden, Dulles, and Bidault. Big deal! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Dulles: Testing Time Ahead" Speaking of John Foster Dull, a special story (and the cover banner) about the "testing" times ahead, the "crisis." That crisis will take the form of rampant Chinese expansionism, as everyone knows that the Chinese are anti-foreign, anti-Western, nationalistic, and facing population pressure. Also, Dulles' new house in D.C. is very nice. Speaking of the cover, Winston Churchill is 77. That's old! And he had a stroke! (Although it is impolite to <i>say </i>that in the pages of <i>The Economist.</i>) He is probably too sick to be Prime Minister and will be gone soon. Wait. Someone already <i>told </i>you this? Well, that's a waste of a cover!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Israel and Ibn Saud: Double Trouble in the Middle East" Ibn Saud is ailing, Israel is fighting with Syria (diplomatically) over water rights, and in a retaliatory raid into Jordan for an attack at Yehud that killed 3 Israelis, Israeli troops massacred 60 villagers, which you can agree is not only a war crime, but an excessive war crime, which is worse. Herbert Hoover Jr is in Teheran as a special adviser to John Foster Dulles on the subject of whatever Junior is expert in, which isn't much, while there are intimations that the average Iranian was quite fond of Mossadegh, and is a lot more fond of him now that foreigners have overthrown him. Fancy that! Fortunately, the new premier has $45 million American to spread around and buy friends with. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Navarre Moves" The French are conducting a spoiling offensive against the Viet Minh to prevent them from building up their stockpiles for a campaign against Hanoi. And in Trieste [SNORE!!!!]. Leon Volkov's column concludes that on the one hand, a Big Four Conference could be good for Malenkob, but on the other, it could be bad! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPMO90EaCiRBrNBclmqAbpLybOl3t50E9ldcN64fOiHFfazsphBQO69kRLqAXL8UGEcax7YV_7hhUZUMPg9wnIEEnyDPdhBjbL9zE6h5ZVNqGo9ag70IiklCI_guEoM_Agnpvb5AXJCBXV2NsVNcTDqnnyOiC3GyOrWzum9gLe3hFmhWC1nQuU1326J8qh/s4032/20240209_155354125_iOS.heic" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPMO90EaCiRBrNBclmqAbpLybOl3t50E9ldcN64fOiHFfazsphBQO69kRLqAXL8UGEcax7YV_7hhUZUMPg9wnIEEnyDPdhBjbL9zE6h5ZVNqGo9ag70IiklCI_guEoM_Agnpvb5AXJCBXV2NsVNcTDqnnyOiC3GyOrWzum9gLe3hFmhWC1nQuU1326J8qh/s320/20240209_155354125_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><b>The Korean War </b>has "'Father Mao' Thrown for a Loss: But POW Game Far From Over" The Reds are now at Hind Nagar to make their case to the recalcitrant POs, but they won't turn out to hear the presentations. Peace talks might be inching closer.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In this hemisphere, the American embassy has thrown a party for the Argentinian army while Peron and <i>his </i>followers celebrated "Loyalty Day." That's not ominous at all! Cheddi Jagan has managed to get to London to protest his removal from office after the Dutch let him fly out of Surinam. In Guatemala, a "Communist-inspired" crowd held a demonstration against the British intervention. Communists everywhere! Brazil is having a fight over its Import-Export Bank, which might be playing favourites with scarce foreign exchange. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Business</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Periscope </b><b>Business Trends </b>reports "two significant signs that there's enough purchasing power to keep US production going until Spring." There's more money around and savings are holding up. And maybe steel production won't fall any more! Yes, there have been layoffs, but not <i>that </i>many, and air force plane deliveries are high and foreign aid is going to be higher than expected. Which <i>sure </i>likes like easy money and stimulation, but what do I know? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyuL_hUnK_UmGf-CYu60DqVJ2Nm5sPaOf3yMU0FoyuV-_GZm-PgL72vkUO5DLBGCh-hqHLMlkwUz8Fd_F0oz1wPLL9D-OhOYul7QaFDeSybtQIu7YOqo6c-nDESFrgoXPAOo2HEHTZ9306hxWSScmoMbih448ydeFDUE65oUxxzs07oud-oGe5AeAGQyJA/s4032/20240209_194558730_iOS.heic" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiyuL_hUnK_UmGf-CYu60DqVJ2Nm5sPaOf3yMU0FoyuV-_GZm-PgL72vkUO5DLBGCh-hqHLMlkwUz8Fd_F0oz1wPLL9D-OhOYul7QaFDeSybtQIu7YOqo6c-nDESFrgoXPAOo2HEHTZ9306hxWSScmoMbih448ydeFDUE65oUxxzs07oud-oGe5AeAGQyJA/s320/20240209_194558730_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"The Razzle Dazzle" Studebaker is upset that the competition keeps advertising. It's not fair! Also, Standard Oil's new refinery outside Boston is going to be great, and so is Canada's Trans-Mountain Pipeline, which had been finished three months ahead of schedule. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Research: Poor Penny" Interviews with the youth today establish that the minimum weekly allowance has to be 25 cents, because a nickel doesn't buy anything any more. GE is definitely going to have an atomic reactor producing electricity very soon now. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Notes: Week in Business </b>reports that the price of steel scrap is up, the NYSE Board of Governors has approved higher commission rates for stockbrokers, GE's "stork derby" was oversubscribed, with 180 babies instead of the thirteen expected, the Hilton Group has sold the Plaza Hotel for a nice profit, Pillsbury is doing a cooking promotion in <i>Paris. <br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Products: What's New </b>reports that Dunbar Novelty of Toledo, Ohio (naturally) has a novelty drinnk-carrier that attaches to a golf bag and which can hold six cans of beer. Audak has a record needle that shows gray when it is too worn to be used. National Service Sales of New York has an electronically-amplified megaphone weighing only 2 3/4lbs, battery-powered. Westinghouse's new electric welder saves 100lbs on old electric welders. Various business executives who have been in Eisenhower's cabinet told the Illinois State Chamber of Commerce that it was a lot harder than they figured. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Henry Hazlitt's <b>Business Tides </b>has "More About American Help," which you'll remember from last week was trying to do something about tariffs. He also wants guaranteed loans to foreign business in the "transition period" to full free enterprise. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Science, Medicine</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Return to Physics" James Hillier, the co-inventor of the electron microscope, gets a profile. A separate story that could use the same title features Gordon Dean's <i>Report on the Atom, </i>which he has been working on since he resigned from the AEC to join Lehman Brothers. Apart from some goldbricking at the AEC, the most important point is that the US atomic stockpile should be large enough to deter the Russians, and not just keep on increasing to stay ahead of them. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Two professors at Louisiana State, <a href="https://www.amazon.ca/Alligator-Metabolism-Studies-Chemical-Reactions/dp/1483129136">Roland Coulson and Thomas Hernandez</a>, are studying alligators to learn more about how hormones work because they take a lot of abuse and their processes are so slow that they are easy to observe. We're doing a good job fighting child tuberculosis these days. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNNd37XcL2AWc5AR49LdPKTz6OAmXAZkv2yKdJoojF8vvmfA7YarvPjqFSsAHco50Vye6Ukphq_OdR7_uGrqwqysyvnIaaHeMmt629vKnTVPHz0Ku8uTQ7rgHbY3TzNSC8KK7w_kh9zMVmDC14UxKgtU6pWxucVym5S3OLFGPbStaUwt3UvDC4zbm6_9S3/s973/Bruno%20Caruso,%20Gelataio.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="973" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNNd37XcL2AWc5AR49LdPKTz6OAmXAZkv2yKdJoojF8vvmfA7YarvPjqFSsAHco50Vye6Ukphq_OdR7_uGrqwqysyvnIaaHeMmt629vKnTVPHz0Ku8uTQ7rgHbY3TzNSC8KK7w_kh9zMVmDC14UxKgtU6pWxucVym5S3OLFGPbStaUwt3UvDC4zbm6_9S3/w526-h640/Bruno%20Caruso,%20Gelataio.jpg" width="526" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Press, Art, Radio and Television, Newsmakers </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The <i>Hyde Park Herald </i>gets a feature, the negotiations for the sale of the <i>Brooklyn Eagle </i>to the <i>New York Herald Tribune </i>have collapsed, David Laux is reviving <i>Judge </i>magazine, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florabel_Muir">Florabel Muir</a> has been fired from the <i>Los Angeles Mirror </i>for alleged insider dealing. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Virginia Museum's Artmobile sure is something, while <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruno_Caruso">Bruno Caruso</a> had a show in Rome. Where he lives. There's an American connection, but I don't care to read any further. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsosTDOvNnkCOMSi2W6ZAHhbt1fH2UJ1v97iNyW_ZtlKXu2JNIZzqTJ7Tfj6sCa8bktmmx02xUhkLs3jH-thgMM12vfpyAlI9lC2-eVGYB9H7IL71RB-4WwG1F1fdWNfrZQVN6wkJuu_44n4wUAnXZd-Xiy0THY0K97ysRAV4c69Dq5UkZKzi594-MknLN/s4032/20240209_220222948_iOS.heic" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsosTDOvNnkCOMSi2W6ZAHhbt1fH2UJ1v97iNyW_ZtlKXu2JNIZzqTJ7Tfj6sCa8bktmmx02xUhkLs3jH-thgMM12vfpyAlI9lC2-eVGYB9H7IL71RB-4WwG1F1fdWNfrZQVN6wkJuu_44n4wUAnXZd-Xiy0THY0K97ysRAV4c69Dq5UkZKzi594-MknLN/s320/20240209_220222948_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>Orson Welles is back on the news, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garry_Moore">Garry Moore</a> is very popular with theaudience he does have. The NTSC demonstration of their colour television system for the FCC was a roaring success.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Barbara Rockefeller, Fulton Sheen, Larry Parkes, Betty Hutton, Clark Gable, Georgie Joe, and Dwight David Eisenhower are in the column for being famous. (Also, Georgie Joe is a 3000lb rhinoceros. Let's see Clark Gable kiss <i>that</i>!) The Rosenberg boys are in the column because Toms River, N.J. school officials tried to kick them out of school for being the children of Communists. (They have been living with family friends in Toms River.) <i>The Moon is Blue </i>has been banned in Jersey City. Princess Fatima of Iran has had a baby. Ted Lewis has had an anniversary, Hjalmar Hammarskjold has died. So have John Taylor Arms, George Saunders (just a week after he planted his latest story!), and Frederick G. Katzmann. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ClGNm89GZBE" width="320" youtube-src-id="ClGNm89GZBE"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>New Films </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><i>The All-American</i> (Universal) is an okay football movie starring Tony Curtis and Mamie Van Doren. <i>Decameron Nights </i>(RKO) is not nearly as spicy as the original stories. The best thing about it is the Spanish scenery. Columbia brings us Rock Hudson in <i>Gun Fury, </i>which is a Western with lots of guns! and action! And predictable plot points!<i>Marry Me Again </i>(RKO again) is "an embarrassing little comedy." <i>The Overcoat </i>is an Italian version of Gogol's story, with Renato Rascel doing a thanklessly good job of a bad script. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Books</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Thurber's latest collection is out, which is good news, but review proof. E. M. Forster's <i>The Hill of Devi </i>avoids the pitfalls of age and fame by being based on his youthful journals. A terrible review summarises the plot with nothing more to say. William Lindsey Gresham's <i>Monster Midway </i>is "a breezy encyclopedia of the institution." For some reason, it is necessary to continue the review of Boswell's private papers, being slowly published at the rate of one volume a year, while <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Shellabarger">Samuel Shellabarger</a>'s latest historical novel, <i>Lord Vanity, </i>gets a more professional review</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Raymond Moley is off to Wisconsin to <a href="https://search.library.wisc.edu/digital/AEUZHROIFGBDLS8Y">find out what happened.</a> <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAFFm6DObJUjvk2WJxEjuVZWSv2KM0Z9N9n5DModIpjIndp35Adp4zdJN4sxvA3Y2Kywj9eREfRE7Zk8iLtTPKzHpEmcUvZVunitFgPLXJ2afq1sFTfBpD1zxaumtwaFfMJbC0ESXDz4F3QuDXA4scmffMJl2mlgmSvfZJ0KEzfp5BWLbUNvX-gf2vbtd0/s4032/20240210_190021076_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAFFm6DObJUjvk2WJxEjuVZWSv2KM0Z9N9n5DModIpjIndp35Adp4zdJN4sxvA3Y2Kywj9eREfRE7Zk8iLtTPKzHpEmcUvZVunitFgPLXJ2afq1sFTfBpD1zxaumtwaFfMJbC0ESXDz4F3QuDXA4scmffMJl2mlgmSvfZJ0KEzfp5BWLbUNvX-gf2vbtd0/w480-h640/20240210_190021076_iOS.heic" width="480" /></a></div><br /><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Aviation Week, </i>26 October 1953</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>News Digest </b>reports the <a href="https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19531019-0">EAL Constellation crash at Idlewild</a>, ending EAL's safety streak at 6.7 billion passenger miles. (It was also flying to Puerto Rico, which figures.) General Dynamics is still working on its takeovers of Doman and Canadair. Curtiss-Wright is laying off 700 of 20,000 employees at its Wood-Ridge, N.J. plant due to the los of military orders. The USAF is turning its base on<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavlof_Islands"> Pavlof Island</a> over to the RCAF this week. The Navy is sponsoring a new factory for Tube Reducing Corporation to make tubes for helicopter frames. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Katherine Johnson's <b>Washington Roundup </b>is back in a new location ahead of <b>Industry Observer </b> to report cuts in Army aviation, a short blurb about all the great things <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_A._Quarles">Donald Quarles</a> is doing as an Under-Secretary of the Air Force, the dissolution of the Cooper Subcommittee for being a bunch of shills for the nonskeds, and also for trying to rope in McCarthy in an investigation of the scheduled airlines, a new Shipbuilding, Ordnance, and Aircraft Division of the Business and Defence Service Administration, to be headed by Charles F. Honeywell, and that the expiry of the Renegotiation Law won't actually change much.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLhDBCKNAJLrX4kzkSpAXhPYFu-ADQtmbYEF0HScJbxK738EUMo7Hc1vqwY2ztEiFcSgxFRit2GuMX7uUePgRuhRPe4MXs_5thhb2j6uN346x1P_n6AxzKN3RmArTgA6Ql7rPWHSgYUKhHF8SxFg_khApAAIFgQHXM5cOGPZw6KEG0Bk5NpLaibuB-1Uus/s1024/HMCS%20Bonaventure.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="715" data-original-width="1024" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLhDBCKNAJLrX4kzkSpAXhPYFu-ADQtmbYEF0HScJbxK738EUMo7Hc1vqwY2ztEiFcSgxFRit2GuMX7uUePgRuhRPe4MXs_5thhb2j6uN346x1P_n6AxzKN3RmArTgA6Ql7rPWHSgYUKhHF8SxFg_khApAAIFgQHXM5cOGPZw6KEG0Bk5NpLaibuB-1Uus/s320/HMCS%20Bonaventure.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div><b>Industry Observer </b>reports that Republic is going to put a GE J73 in the F-84F to see if it will make it go like the cancelled Curtiss-Wright J65. Lockheed is mating an F-94 to the front of a Bomarc missile for flight testing. North American is working on a two-seat F-86, the US has built 15,000 jet aircraft to date, they're talking about rooftop heliports in New York again, that Napier's Eland and Nomad engines will fly towards the end of the year, that a British study of jet troop transports points to their obvious advantages, with two Vickers Valiant conversions able to do the work of 12 Hastings in a third of the time. <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMCS_Bonaventure">HMCS Bonaventure</a> </i>will operate McDonnell F2H-3 Banshees, while the latest idea in helicopters is a "copter tug" that will snag a plane in flight and lower it to the ground. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Aviation Week </b>leads off with a big feature on the North American F-100, the 45 degree sweep-wing fighter developed from the F-86, which has exceeded Mach 1 in dives and has a ceiling of more than 50,000ft. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbFoKm0iljWHHl6Svz1P6t0RZd72bQE6weuj1nitWvnCS4F2yeYcez3X-7vUKNgF6SAZkaKkN3LFJjL3YuozKixUeBUk6eoU9prNJjTj-1xDjutom8q95f5-4HUKIMedsvK-thXkI8tfQLM__QAdumgh2LZiZPZ4l_Vu8QrsnZICgw4KuoiUo5a6Ud_yvg/s4032/20240210_194405500_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbFoKm0iljWHHl6Svz1P6t0RZd72bQE6weuj1nitWvnCS4F2yeYcez3X-7vUKNgF6SAZkaKkN3LFJjL3YuozKixUeBUk6eoU9prNJjTj-1xDjutom8q95f5-4HUKIMedsvK-thXkI8tfQLM__QAdumgh2LZiZPZ4l_Vu8QrsnZICgw4KuoiUo5a6Ud_yvg/s320/20240210_194405500_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>Katherine Johnsen reports that "Titanium Sortage Blocks Buildup" The Senate has called for a "hundred-fold expansion" of titanium production to make up the current 1000t shortfall on an allocated 3500t annual production and meet future increased demand. As Senator George Malone says, he's against socialism but in favour of lots of titanium, and one principle has to give, and it won't be the one that involves cool planes that go vroom! A Canadian Pacific DC-6 has flown the Pacific nonstop from Japan to Vancouver International Airport exploiting favourable winds and registering an average speed of over 300mph.<br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"F-102 Features Thin Delta Wing" It does! Project Tinkertoy was the hit of the Aircraft Electrical Society's annual display (the automatic factory, you might remember). Secretary Talbott says that the Red Air Force is the world's biggest, TWA has started its nonstop LA-New York service, with Turbo-Compound DC-7s flying both ways. The Aircraft Industry Association's "No raiding" pact has drawn criticism from engineers. Gee whiz, no! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b>Aeronautical Engineering </b>has a nice article from GE, "Analysis Bares J47 Design Details" So if you want to know more about the ten-year-old engine now going out of service, here it is! And I do mean it. This is one of those old-fashioned, <i>detailed </i>design analyses. It comes as USAF reports are finally being frank about the maintenance difficulties of keeping them in the air --which don't seem excessive, just weren't reported before. There's also a pictorial from SBAC, <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3_a_FBYnZIyDAbxur6qsFClsTuQ7dmctG8vDt9yi19tp9XhmzkcTgI1x_Pa00fSWfmAjE0FllERMzFSFPEIzVoc4p2wV1aDUFy4mdfpRlzvU6XUnmeAhb4ixXERpKvc1l7uVyXHVngXIlw1g3JdEvOB-8WuUVO7MY-qowW1RI4JT5MZ6g-392hBJTZEGz/s4032/20240210_200326575_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3_a_FBYnZIyDAbxur6qsFClsTuQ7dmctG8vDt9yi19tp9XhmzkcTgI1x_Pa00fSWfmAjE0FllERMzFSFPEIzVoc4p2wV1aDUFy4mdfpRlzvU6XUnmeAhb4ixXERpKvc1l7uVyXHVngXIlw1g3JdEvOB-8WuUVO7MY-qowW1RI4JT5MZ6g-392hBJTZEGz/s320/20240210_200326575_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><br />including one of the Armstrong Whitworth guided missile test vehicle that <i>Flight </i>can't show(?)<br /><i>Aviation Week </i>also describes some hits of the model show, including the Saro Copter Coach, Percival P. 87 DC-3 replacement, the P.74 "pressure copter," another wingtip jet job, this one with a Napier rig using low pressure gas from an Eland compressor, and the Victor's tail. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Aviation Week's </i>George L. Christian also visited Champion's annual Aircraft Spark Plug and Ignition Conference to get the latest on fouling and gumming, and mainly word on Shell's Tricresyl Phosphate additive, analysers, and spark plug usage in modern engines, with the R-2800 doing much better than the turbocompound engines. Plug cleaners are great, and moving on to jet ignition, we have a ways to go yet.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>New Aviation Products </b>has an electronic roughness gauge that takes very little skill to use, distributed by Brush Electronics under license from GM. Herington's small panel indicator gives a wide angle llight, Rahm has a variety of transducers for measuring pressure and acceleration changes. <b>Also on the Market </b>are steel thermocouple protectors, small aircraft motors, and a "metallising machine" called the <a href="https://www.vanco1.com/">Vanco</a>. <b>Filter Centre </b>has heard from GE about its autopilot for the F-105, that Honeywell has a new altitude controller, just like Lear, and the Armour Research Foundation has built a three-axis missile simulator for Wright Field Development Centre. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Finance </b>reports that the nonskeds are in trouble. <b>News Sidelights </b>reports that companies are looking for second sources for fire control systems after the management troubles at Hughes, that the first F4D will be delivered in the spring, that the President has been firmly told that he cannot demonstrate an early atom bomb model at a televised conference because it would be taken the wrong way, that the Air Force version of the Douglas A3D, the B-66, will be much heavier than the navy version because of Air Force goldbricking, that the Snark missile might come off top secret soon, that NACA is fiddling with wing fences to improve the Douglas Skyrocket's safety and handling, that Secretary Talbot has vetoed a proposal to demonstrate the F-100 to the public, that the Convair XF-92 disappeared from the news because the nosewheel collapsed on a taxing run, that no-one knows what caused the fatal crash of the X-5, that Slick is selling all four of its DC-6s, that Eastern is buying some DC-7s. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Robert H. Wood's <b>Editorial </b>stands firm on the magazine's position that business aircraft are grerat and all, but no-one knows anything about their economics, and use, and we really need to find out. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRPQTxXNrWQFPGCp4TgK-foCOx756cZMLRfbNWz4KOLZ0InnwtwCz_cv1JjZHBNl0XZKJTkLh-o_Gr3_PjKuO_Ywfc8S3Rh6wl8Dcrh51FlsQYrdhskVDZI9znuIhGP4Fb3jRIyUG-hZBENy-jonWxcwmvBkIaEVDZXcA_96bOMapHoYTcAQ8edOAxzRBh/s4032/20240210_201501382_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRPQTxXNrWQFPGCp4TgK-foCOx756cZMLRfbNWz4KOLZ0InnwtwCz_cv1JjZHBNl0XZKJTkLh-o_Gr3_PjKuO_Ywfc8S3Rh6wl8Dcrh51FlsQYrdhskVDZI9znuIhGP4Fb3jRIyUG-hZBENy-jonWxcwmvBkIaEVDZXcA_96bOMapHoYTcAQ8edOAxzRBh/s16000/20240210_201501382_iOS.heic" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">Now it's on to <i>The Engineer </i>for 16, 23, and 30 October, 1953</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEq7zRU8XsQOjq2EOnGpBHHGS0bzUgGCe3rF1CMnkhvrPT3s0lrm9eHIAN5gyH1sWBMlZqWJ8b-LlTTj6LgGrpvOhoaVeepsE9HsAgJJ2I4blaN2TSYkVGrmRFHQnaJvHx55rWJWt4wdIOllwrL9HvPVJXurnb2OxyRaQQ09ob8CmQS6etMhbopftyaVDp/s1024/Loch%20Striven%20hydroelectric%20installation%20attr%20needed%20wiki.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEq7zRU8XsQOjq2EOnGpBHHGS0bzUgGCe3rF1CMnkhvrPT3s0lrm9eHIAN5gyH1sWBMlZqWJ8b-LlTTj6LgGrpvOhoaVeepsE9HsAgJJ2I4blaN2TSYkVGrmRFHQnaJvHx55rWJWt4wdIOllwrL9HvPVJXurnb2OxyRaQQ09ob8CmQS6etMhbopftyaVDp/s320/Loch%20Striven%20hydroelectric%20installation%20attr%20needed%20wiki.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">By Thomas Nugent, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.w<br />ikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12868798</span>7</td></tr></tbody></table><b>(Not the) Seven-Day Journal </b>for the 16th reports the bicentennial of the Royal Society of Arts, the Institution of Production Engineers throwing a party, Sir John Hacking retiring from the British Electrical Authority, the British Transport Commission hearing about the right way to rubbish road hauling units, and the announcement of the electrification of the Fenchurch-Southend Railway. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">"North of Scotland Hydro-Electric Schemes". up to Part v as of the 16th, looks at the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Striven_Hydro-Electric_Scheme#:~:text=It%20is%20located%20near%20Ardtaraig,connected%20to%20the%20National%20Grid.">Cowal Scheme</a> and others such as the Glen Lussa dam (23rd) for providing a local supply. This doesn't quite take up four pages, so a bit about the Army's handling of mechanical handing in the field, as demonstrated in Exercise KING KONG, is shoehorned in. They have forklifts to life ammunition, that sort of thing. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">"The Development of Broadcasting in Great Britain" is an Institution of Electrical Engineers inaugural address reprinted. Here is Part 1, covering frequency allocation, external broadcasting, home sound broadcasting and the future of VHF broadcasting. We get to television and colour telecision on the 23rd. Then we're off to the Swan Village Gasworks, which handle a lot of coal very handily, and we look at a "Precision Screw Thread Corrector Lathe" from <a href="https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/people/ap14544/craven-brothers-ltd">Craven Brothers of Manchester</a>. It's massive! This is followed by a historical article about old time steam engines at the Stoke Newington pumping station, London, which lifted water from the New River to the Dartmouth Park Hill Reservoir. Then it is off to the Pametrada Research Station to look at assorted test turbines, the Fluid Dynamics and Combustion Research Laboratory in Baden, where we look at wind tunnels and a combustion laboratory, and, to fill out the page, an advertorial for the smallest and cheapest submersible pump yet, from Sumo Pumps, Limited. <b>Leaders </b>look at power station design and take a skeptical view of the costs of actually implementing the Colombo Plan. <b>Letters </b>feature an explanation of "sonic booms: from W. A. Tuplin, nature preservation from the impact of industry, from Kenneth Lech, and R. G. B. Gwyer's opinion of the "Britannia" locomotives. Then we visit the Iron and Steel Institute in Holland, or, rather, take a canal voyage there, passing through all sorts of interesting locks and windmills that use steel, on the way. We get there for the week of the 23rd, snap a picture of the Werkspor Machine Shop, and then it's welcoming addresses, well lubricated I'm sure, followed by works visits on the 30th. Not voyaging, but visiting, is <i>RMS Andes, </i>the flagship of the Royal Mail Lines, and specifically its Denys-Brown stabilisers for the prevention of sea sickness. I don't know if they work, but they're keen gadgets! <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall%27s_(ice_cream)">And we visit an ice cream plan</a>t, and the testing house of the Electrical Development Association. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiarD0B-ifgdKMGyiCDRBBqlRuCazoQsaUMApT1o2wC-JlFqsmbHxN19csGwfK9rr92KtOQgUrnvIVfEwMidS_HCkSBgtrH6YaXvfeSF999Wtnq7Caj00FTJZeKHxBbLh1mO3XiIqFnkP-xO_0WymZrEqaJw25sDON2E0J-jQ0nNL8B8OiAWTBEp9s331N-/s4032/20240210_205628906_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiarD0B-ifgdKMGyiCDRBBqlRuCazoQsaUMApT1o2wC-JlFqsmbHxN19csGwfK9rr92KtOQgUrnvIVfEwMidS_HCkSBgtrH6YaXvfeSF999Wtnq7Caj00FTJZeKHxBbLh1mO3XiIqFnkP-xO_0WymZrEqaJw25sDON2E0J-jQ0nNL8B8OiAWTBEp9s331N-/s320/20240210_205628906_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"Work of the U.S.A. Atomic Energy Commission" (By the American Correspondent) The AEC is worried about uranium mining this year, is meeting production requirements for fissionable materials at an average cost of 92 million dollars a month, is testing atomic bombs mainly for "battlefield" use this year, is working on a number of reactors, and is sponsoring fundamental physical research into subatomic particles in hopes of making sense of the zoo, which might help it build up theoretical models for the various isotopes found in various kinds of nuclear "ash."<b>Continental Engineering News </b>only has an Esso refinery in Antwerp, a new bridge over the Aar, and the San Vicente Pipeline in the file to cover, so we fit in P. Ransome's inaugural address to the Institution of Agricultural Engineers on the progress of national standards in agricultural machinery. Northern Rhodesia, we're told in another insert, is up to a production of 22,000t of zinc, and of lead and copper in proportion. <b>Industrial and Labour Notes </b>covers discussions over engineering wages ongoing, the latest labour numbers (23,473,000 workers, up 121,000 since July due to school leaving), unemployment (291,000, down slightly, employment in various engineering industries, over 10 million variously defined). We continue to hope to get more old people working, and no <b>Trials and Trips </b>for the 16th.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>(Not the Seven-Day) Journal </b>for the 23rd reports a party for the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, and at the national association of petroleum equipment supplies, news of particle accelerators for the Hammersmith Hospital, contracts for work on the south bank of the Thames,, highlights of <i>Lloyd's Register</i> for the third quarter of 1953, when 47 ships were commenced and 57 launched, plus 104 oil tankers, and slightly more than a third of the free world's tonnage being built in Britain.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYRENVMXq3PrEk6XalBhz3uYqicXyG5hNMqKZlFfFt0345NZzSdHJ9jAI9vBcro8T_6s0-g8ltdmyZiCqtcb6ptd9_657oNkxXmyO15WtHzHtvxqWEJ7kPjUt9OkJDyuJHhVx-z1w50U_oTTiaOgna6LV4sPiss-EMuzSkLELpmn56iIJWkxJMCg_Bsecg/s4032/20240210_212522552_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYRENVMXq3PrEk6XalBhz3uYqicXyG5hNMqKZlFfFt0345NZzSdHJ9jAI9vBcro8T_6s0-g8ltdmyZiCqtcb6ptd9_657oNkxXmyO15WtHzHtvxqWEJ7kPjUt9OkJDyuJHhVx-z1w50U_oTTiaOgna6LV4sPiss-EMuzSkLELpmn56iIJWkxJMCg_Bsecg/s320/20240210_212522552_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>A. Roebuck's Presidential Address to the Institution of Mechanical Engineers is extracted. It was about "Craftmanship." A discussion of the two "Novel Fendering Systems" for absorbing the energy of a berthing ship at the Dover Ferry terminal has more facts, but less talk of years ago, before the war. And if that's not enough Presidential addresses, we get one to the Commonwealth Telecommunications section of the IEE a bit later, mostly regretting the closing of telegraph lines on grounds of economy. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>After more continuing series, we visit a "planetary hot rolling mill," which is the kind of gears that put the rolls on the hot steel plate at Ductile Planetary Mills of Willenhall, Staffordshire. <b>Leaders </b>cannot get enough of craftsmanship and intelligence (if we don't keep the lower classes out of th euniversity, how are we going to get smart craftsmen), or the Swiss railways, which import smart people from poor countries<b>. Literature </b>has a review of R. H. Fraenkel's <i>Manual of Rock Blasting </i>which is quite explosive (well, on the best methods for blasting,anyway); <b>Letters </b>has Walter Harris speculating that gas turbine and diesel-electric locomotives will probably come in in the heavy service areas around London, first.<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">"International Motor Show" This is Part One. something tells me we're going to be here for a while. Ford sent over its "car of the future," Jaguar and Austin-Healey sports cars are quite exciting, and we even get a few cars people might actually get to drive, likje the Ford Prefect and Standard Eight. On the 30th we see the Austin Z-30, Daimler Conquest Roadster, Austin Pathfinder, Rover 4-cylinder engine and gear-changing linkage, and Burman steering gear. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">British Railways is getting its own wind tunnel, the British Internal Combustion Research Association was hearing papers on what happens in high pressure engines, the Coal Board's "Automatic A.C. Winder with Dynamic Braking" is quite the gadget, the Coquet Viaduct is being strengthened, Sigma Instrument Company is expanding, the Aluminum Development Association is quite taken with a furnace on wheels for keeping aluminum rivets hot, Sadford Electrical has a pressure transducer for remote indication, while S. K. Dean explains "A Sensitive Pressure Switch" with an interesting detail of a a compressed-air-operated switch in the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_XIV_bomb_sight"> Mark XIV bombsight</a>, which I guess isn't secret any more! There is also a commercial for Adcock and Shipley's high-speed radial and tapping machine before wer get to <b>Industrial and Labour Notes, </b>where we hear that the economy is going well but we need more exports, and also more education and investment. Once again no <b>Launches and Trial Trips. </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><b>(Not the Seven-Day) Journal </b>for the 30th has more about the Colombo Plan, acres reclaimed here, ploughed there, sort of thing. The British Coal Utilisation Research Association had a party, the House of Commons heard about the Transportation Commission's plan for rolling stock, the Ministry of Supply is building a tank factory to be managed by Leyland, and there will be another institution dedicated to industrial efficiency soon. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNA_glbBQq9dQBO-lP4FLGoGRFsUbrlordT6EF5VITOZCVxgkvXdB0w0q9Y7TzGa6S3mIf8arB2TteEqUonlUHvxaNpgQChhekhIE5RgPanKqkP8o4gNjyk1m8hRonvST8Ziah6Lr9js5gCtPKfVM6SOnWOa6cndgVGfte8IpvqZM3eRl9bXrGRqWx4lZu/s4032/20240210_213446420_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgNA_glbBQq9dQBO-lP4FLGoGRFsUbrlordT6EF5VITOZCVxgkvXdB0w0q9Y7TzGa6S3mIf8arB2TteEqUonlUHvxaNpgQChhekhIE5RgPanKqkP8o4gNjyk1m8hRonvST8Ziah6Lr9js5gCtPKfVM6SOnWOa6cndgVGfte8IpvqZM3eRl9bXrGRqWx4lZu/s320/20240210_213446420_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>Tired of Scotland, we turn our attention to "Hydro Electric Development in Portugal" followed by a look at "Automatic Headgear for Tunnel Driving," an "8MeV Accelerator for X-Ray Therapy," the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stockwell_Garage">Stockwell Bus Garage</a>, which is quite a big bus barn! The "refuse disposal plant" at Sheffield sure sounds stinky! British Standards is concerned with aluminum-bronze alloys and electroplated coatings for nickel and chromium this week. <b>Leaders </b>share the magazine's opinion of auto design and district heating, while in <b>Letters </b>the reviewer responds to Professor Pippard's extraordinary discussion of experiment in applied science provoked by the original review of his book, while P. B. Semmens looks at automatic train control and P. W. Loveday continues the "sonic boom" discussion. There's an extensive visit to a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guardbridge">Guard Bridge Paper Company</a> paper mill in St. Andrews, Scotland, fitted out with electronic controls, and a Swedish manufacturer of pneumatic mining equipment, and a factory made of welded tubular steel sections. Profile grinders from Svenska, an amphibious tractor from John Fowler, nd a twist drilling machine from Elliott Company get advertorials in this issue, <b>Industrial and Labour Notes </b>considers the coal situation as reported in the Commons (bad, then good), the oil tanker drivers' strike, current conditions in the drop forging industry (needs improvement), exports (needs improvement), coal exports (promising to a degree), and changes in the laws concerning iron and steel capacity. Have we dropped <b>Launches and Trial Trips </b>for good?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2MGT7QG5fyS28n9zdg9QnwduN1aURD5jivpG6knOZttzba0kAloAPPGu3mbbr21011U9V08bDXV44R3wIR6Ee6fM69BGEYT2HJf8FOOn04qgaqMpASQa_TyfjjnWNSwFYbXWEQLO_lSYabG0DhZ90sm5SgsEmeGjDetyjUK3vBmExYYpGinOZ7eTCdgwB/s1024/Stockwell%20Bus%20Garage%20attri%20needed%20wiki.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="539" data-original-width="1024" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2MGT7QG5fyS28n9zdg9QnwduN1aURD5jivpG6knOZttzba0kAloAPPGu3mbbr21011U9V08bDXV44R3wIR6Ee6fM69BGEYT2HJf8FOOn04qgaqMpASQa_TyfjjnWNSwFYbXWEQLO_lSYabG0DhZ90sm5SgsEmeGjDetyjUK3vBmExYYpGinOZ7eTCdgwB/w640-h336/Stockwell%20Bus%20Garage%20attri%20needed%20wiki.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">By Diliff - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=29278332</td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div>Erik Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-50640483368951067562024-02-03T09:58:00.000-08:002024-02-03T09:58:32.719-08:00Postblogging Technology, October 1953, I: Cheque or Cash, It's Easy Money<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mlygJ9VfhVo" width="320" youtube-src-id="mlygJ9VfhVo"></iframe></div><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>R_C_.,<br />Shaughnessy,<br />Vancouver,<br />Canada<br /><br /><br />Dear Father:<br /><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCCLc6LnfojmF76DFEPDKW3XslFyhmpVOJCjt7gfkXixeqR3aXAzeqvh1ka3_Zg7oQ0kCOeUcDPuYdBhxwKOFXtMFBCKm0o6CnnPDmo8Zj3zPZmOumYMdD-SI0v1dEatkahc_Qr0qP3TSSMq2InNH3GXnXYQhbvTXZVwrK8R5rz0eyNNE0mNSPmkR06yzx/s4032/20240201_170112965_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: justify;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiCCLc6LnfojmF76DFEPDKW3XslFyhmpVOJCjt7gfkXixeqR3aXAzeqvh1ka3_Zg7oQ0kCOeUcDPuYdBhxwKOFXtMFBCKm0o6CnnPDmo8Zj3zPZmOumYMdD-SI0v1dEatkahc_Qr0qP3TSSMq2InNH3GXnXYQhbvTXZVwrK8R5rz0eyNNE0mNSPmkR06yzx/s320/20240201_170112965_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>Well, here we are in London. I am seeing the sights, although a year of this and I might go a bit stir-crazy if I didn't have family business to attend to. I was up to Bray to meet the cast of what looks like a positively awful science fiction movie<i> </i>and ask searching questions about where are money is going, but by the books they're making money even before we "wash" the silver nitrate movements. Which isn't bad for such cheesy movies! Reggie has also been travelling, flying to Stockport to see (you must shoot me after reading this) Britain's Great White Hope to upset the F-100 speed record. He is officially there to worry over cooling servos, mostly electronic ones (which has implications for air-to-air missiles, too), but Fairey is apparently hoping for fighter sales and wants to get the word out in the USN. I don't know if anyone up there has met Reggie, but he is at least susceptible to a nice machine, even if he does think that fighters are a waste of time. </div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">London, by the way, is much livelier than I expected from stories told by certain older male relatives recently here resident. Perhaps it is just the lack of glum foreboding and uncertainty about the Eisenhower Depression. Or maybe it is because the Prime Minister has already had his stroke, so you don't have to wake up every morning and turn on the radio to find out if Richard Nixon is your new President. (Instead you get to put money down on whether it will be Eden or RAB. Which is fun in a appalling sort of way.)</div><br /><div>Your Loving Daughter,<br /><br /><div>Ronnie<br /></div><div><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><i>The Economist, </i>3 October 1953</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Leaders</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir0dQwt75zOvCX8fTwnNwEpOz8dYWmc4D4aTtrSxHx5mKgdyLhU95fda4pPPmwdDMueY4px6zg11NJKA0Df3ZYsT8GISBwmwwVrxVvvdNMU3GqE264hQq7PFapVzfkmCpohAYKxO8FYWbORBDpfi_bRY1vVsy_NRUsQhKDpZkMWm0Ohdk7hdje-109Aauz/s4032/20240129_001856309_iOS.heic" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir0dQwt75zOvCX8fTwnNwEpOz8dYWmc4D4aTtrSxHx5mKgdyLhU95fda4pPPmwdDMueY4px6zg11NJKA0Df3ZYsT8GISBwmwwVrxVvvdNMU3GqE264hQq7PFapVzfkmCpohAYKxO8FYWbORBDpfi_bRY1vVsy_NRUsQhKDpZkMWm0Ohdk7hdje-109Aauz/s320/20240129_001856309_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"Corrosive Myth" It turns out that Labour's latest statement on foreign policy is idealistic and fails to take into account the fact that Communism is terrible! Also, because that's not enough for three pages, here is why the latest Soviet diplomatic note is bad and terrible, and also why Churchill is a dotard. (A separate <b>Leader </b>spends two pages on the prospect of the party political conferences will be televised starting next year, which might be good, or possibly bad. More likely bad, though.)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"M. Laniel Before the Assembly" The ongoing French political and constitutional crisis is making it hard to manage the economy. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Doctors Under the Microscope" <i>The Economist </i>looks at a BMA report in last week's <i>British Medical Journal </i>and supposes that general practitioners might be going extinct due to the National Health Service. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>From <i>The Economist </i>of 1853 </b>comes "Two Views of Bank Rate," explains that even though it is not obvious why it should be so, it is "wise discretion" that the Bank of England rate has gone up from 2.5% to 5% in the last two months. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Notes of the Week</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Labour's Truce" <i>The Economist </i>explains what happened at the Labour Party Conference some more. And then again even more in the next <b>Note</b>! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Bases in Spain" The negotiations between Spain and the United States are over. The Americans get their bases, Franco gets some money, but not as much as he wanted, and diplomatic recognition, but not as much as he wanted. So it's a compromise, and not a disgraceful acquiescence to Fascism. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIw-YjwWtyOwQ2vVBzvB8nPRZdVcdalLupq4EPahfrX__lq2Y15tVaHg4nZCRRpeKqhOUOpB5B0CBfjbJ9I5oRnNWMQqEDkTTeS9xSq9YJGTNR4u5Tuefa4_Oa_sFozd9rqUbBvedHCI60whJ38k-83GA4BYNkmRr8S8_vL67fDG2fqLWSUW4aYdnwdu7L/s4017/Olivetti%20Ad5%20Oct%201953.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4017" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIw-YjwWtyOwQ2vVBzvB8nPRZdVcdalLupq4EPahfrX__lq2Y15tVaHg4nZCRRpeKqhOUOpB5B0CBfjbJ9I5oRnNWMQqEDkTTeS9xSq9YJGTNR4u5Tuefa4_Oa_sFozd9rqUbBvedHCI60whJ38k-83GA4BYNkmRr8S8_vL67fDG2fqLWSUW4aYdnwdu7L/s320/Olivetti%20Ad5%20Oct%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"Alternatives on the Canal" The settlement of the Suez Canal situation this week may not be ideal (says <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Cunningham,_1st_Viscount_Cunningham_of_Hyndhope">Admiral Cunningham</a>, which tells you all you need to know about the agreement between Naguib and Robertson), but what else is there to be done when the Treaty expires in 1956, anyway? The British garrison out in twenty months, British technicians to remain to operate the Canal until the Company winds up in 1968, per the Treaty, since the Egyptians can't possibly run anything as complicated as a canal on their own, I mean,what do Egyptians know about hydraulic management?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Peace Talks on Indo-China" It is now official that the French are open to peace talks with the Communist bloc (the magazine sagely advises them to exploit divisions between the Chinese and Viet Namese), since General Navarre is winning the war with his vigour and complete independence within the French Union is a splendid offer that the colonies of Indo China would be insane to refuse. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The Rationing Score" The end of sugar rationing was little marked, the Government didn't want to make an issue of it, and there must be enough sugar to go around, because the stores weren't stormed over it. The real difference will be on the industrial side, especially the soft drinks industry. That leaves bacon, cheese, and meat as the last rationed items. Bacon and meat rationing are mostly formalities that are maintained to protect the British farmer. Derationing butter will drive the price up, the problem being that a shift to margarine means a shift to fats from the dollar countries. (Because we decided that the Groundnut Scheme was nuts!) Also in short supply are applicants to the Civil Service, which, <i>The Economist </i>ingeniously decides, is because there are too many of them. (Civil servants, that is, not applicants.) <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM9dRla1x9al5fqp5GOz_OtIFyCnyggzBCXyLibhlJF66f7PxtBA3djBWbBKc1N2YBwff0yT__yu_qXvK_yLdYrDc6dET8Fck-80Pxw6P1VatCvgY62xeS17pH8CgPzd34c09EYavqqYESAn1a_wsRblgyPDc4IYZi_Bk2MPia54hk8kR9ZqbcBQa-dbX5/s3226/Chicago%20by%20night.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2848" data-original-width="3226" height="566" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiM9dRla1x9al5fqp5GOz_OtIFyCnyggzBCXyLibhlJF66f7PxtBA3djBWbBKc1N2YBwff0yT__yu_qXvK_yLdYrDc6dET8Fck-80Pxw6P1VatCvgY62xeS17pH8CgPzd34c09EYavqqYESAn1a_wsRblgyPDc4IYZi_Bk2MPia54hk8kR9ZqbcBQa-dbX5/w640-h566/Chicago%20by%20night.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Somebody's plant, seen by night across the Chicago Ship Canal, in <i>Fortune </i>this month because it's pretty. </span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"From Bricks to Earth" The Ministry of Housing is building smaller houses and using land more efficiently to cut costs. Two stories follow about Communist governments fighting with their Catholic (and Orthodox) bishops, in Poland and in Jugoslavia. Japan's 'National Safety Corps" is to be promoted into a "defence force" under the agreement between the Liberal and Progressive Parties, removing the final barriers to Japanese rearmament against outside attack. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Troubles in Nyasaland" Latest reports are that "the worst of the rioting is over." <i>The Economist </i>is convinced that this means that the Africans are giving up their resistance to the Federation and will move to getting more political power within it. Oh, and crime is up, but not solved crimes, which is bad, and there is going to be a board to set police pay, which is better than the Home Office doing it. (Says the police.) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjydYYA7JgkkFwr8FW9HNtmTd3YExAC1IqEcpwqQurETqr_Q_uxg5bD5F7-y_B9EdiKBLVvf0bYcveNT3HWxGS-DTm96mC5Nb2niBJT3bjOcN-t1fnWGKjkJsY35HPkwXFN03ASkztITOkVBF_Da_FNubAO8Zt5ZJ36FjAr1KQI1tWfB7qTWOaa0b7ewsVB/s311/John,%20Otto.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Now there's some forgotten history" border="0" data-original-height="311" data-original-width="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjydYYA7JgkkFwr8FW9HNtmTd3YExAC1IqEcpwqQurETqr_Q_uxg5bD5F7-y_B9EdiKBLVvf0bYcveNT3HWxGS-DTm96mC5Nb2niBJT3bjOcN-t1fnWGKjkJsY35HPkwXFN03ASkztITOkVBF_Da_FNubAO8Zt5ZJ36FjAr1KQI1tWfB7qTWOaa0b7ewsVB/s16000/John,%20Otto.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Dr. Otto John in 1954</span></td></tr></tbody></table>Ernst Reuter has died, and protests in Berlin have caused Adenauer to deny that he plans a "ministry of information and propaganda" that would "revive some of the practices of Dr. Goebbels." There is even talk that it was intended to unite the ministry,or "coordinating office" with the security services under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_John">Otto John.</a> <i>The Economist </i>supposes that German journalists will have to remain vigilant, because the country is full of (ex-)Nazis. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Letters</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">John Ramage of the Draper's Chamber of Trade explains that the Chamber isn't against "cheque trading," which is retailers who take cheques, so much as it is against the fees the banks charge for processing cheques, which reduce retail profits even as the convenience of check trading increases their sales. I'm sure they will figure out a solution soon! G. R. Y. Radcliffe is a livestock farmer and wants <i>The Economist </i>to shove its free enterprise capitalism up the part that they only eat on the continent these days. Our Editor, being magnificently well acquainted with the said part, has no intention of doing any such thing. "Mortgager" thinks that tax-deductible home mortgages are much too sweet a deal. T<a href="https://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CT%5CI%5CTimoshenkoVladimir.htm">wo economists</a> <a href="https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Swerling%2c%20Boris%20C%2e%20%28Boris%20Cyril%29%2c%201920%2d&c=x">from Stanford</a> explain the International Sugar Agreement. Cuba is going to keep on pushing sugar into the market to maintain its share, and everyone else can like it or lump it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Books</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDACVhSw1P1nWNYy4GcS13sg0Q11HssxZnKNp3x-brPUNpCToPlDADJ2jydJ7gKErAKQ9TFVTFvKs9YKXJ8MgMYBxsgWJCIeA_1ZpU2-orJDwmwX3tsEftXKzDRIR_clQDIiiGVXSQChXUSYqLcIfRERl3LeGpUfclUbUzJ3qYKX9PndGF0fYftkjYTPCt/s841/Spy%20Who%20Loved%20Me.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="841" data-original-width="592" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiDACVhSw1P1nWNYy4GcS13sg0Q11HssxZnKNp3x-brPUNpCToPlDADJ2jydJ7gKErAKQ9TFVTFvKs9YKXJ8MgMYBxsgWJCIeA_1ZpU2-orJDwmwX3tsEftXKzDRIR_clQDIiiGVXSQChXUSYqLcIfRERl3LeGpUfclUbUzJ3qYKX9PndGF0fYftkjYTPCt/s320/Spy%20Who%20Loved%20Me.jpg" width="225" /></a></div>A combined review of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutheesing_family">Raja Hutheesing</a>'s <i>Window on China </i>and U Kyaw Min's <i>Through the Iron Curtain Via the Back Door</i> is entitled "Asians Look at China," turn out to have nothing in common. Hutheesing visited China as part of an official delegation and was snowed by the Communists, while Min's book is an amusing diary of a brief trade delegation visit to Moscow via China in the course of which he makes amusing observations. R. T. Paget and Sidney Silverman have <i>Hanged: And Innocent?</i>, which is a "tract" and Paget's contribution is very partisan, which either "sways or repels" the reader, while Silverman simply dissects a case in Manchester where an innocent man was almost certainly hanged, which the authors think is basically the case against capital punishment. There's nothing you can do if you make a mistake! Is that enough to make the case against capital punishment? <i>The Economist </i>won't say one way or the other. Luigi Albertini's <i>The Origins of the War of 1914</i>, vol. 2 is more of the same, and not news, since it is the translation of a 19443 edition. It's for everyone who is really, really worried about who started WWI, but couldn't be bothered to read it in Italian. Why, yes, that's your Romance Studies major condescending! Christopher Morris' <i>Political Thought in England from Tyndale to Hooker </i>was well advanced when the publisher refused to bring out a "book" that was just a coffee table-sized Iron Maiden. So instead Morris had to scrape together something about Protestantism, Anglicanism, all that stuff, for which there is more material than anyone today would ever volunteer to read. In fact, there's so much of it that there's probably some good stuff buried in all the cant, and maybe <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Morris_(historian)#:~:text=His%20survey%2C%20Political%20Thought%20in,as%20a%20%22brilliant%20summary%22.">Professor Morris found it!</a> Mario Pei's <i>The Story of English </i>doesn't need comment. Everild Young's <i>The Land of Three Worlds </i>is a sympathetic South American travelogue; and we finish the review section with a promotional blurb to a new magazine launch, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encounter_(magazine)">Encounter. <br /></a></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>American Survey</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikGrc5lZotN25IAkSLQSrsInPG6x49aNtDFo8XB3X27HZZyE41YnVjhtayYiSc6jTNB08eRklWM9cnpxrdMhiFxRSHEiTd6YGDV8oi6sV_Gpo1FjmEdg2qYmHUOitXGte6i7MpxfPTP3p4IwT2E25khcaH9-1bh919tKb3Mb8LVntGQsM5j-D2_0Ms1rt_/s4032/20240129_001957407_iOS.heic" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikGrc5lZotN25IAkSLQSrsInPG6x49aNtDFo8XB3X27HZZyE41YnVjhtayYiSc6jTNB08eRklWM9cnpxrdMhiFxRSHEiTd6YGDV8oi6sV_Gpo1FjmEdg2qYmHUOitXGte6i7MpxfPTP3p4IwT2E25khcaH9-1bh919tKb3Mb8LVntGQsM5j-D2_0Ms1rt_/s320/20240129_001957407_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"The Little Conventions" The welcome-home party for Adlai Stevenson somehow turned into a "little convention," because there was nothing else going on in politics, the President and McCarthy being in hiding in Colorado and Mexico respectively, and who cares about anyone else these days. So then the Republicans decided that they deserved all that press attention just as much as the next party, and so they had theirs at a previously scheduled meeting of the Midwest women's auxiliary. The Democrats seem to be fired up for '54, while someone decided to lecture the women's auxiliary about being too fat and comfortable, because if the GOP accidentally held Congress next November we'd never be rid of Senator Joe, and even the Republicans don't want that, especially after the hard work Secretary Benson has done to make sure they lose. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>American Notes</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The New Chief Justice" After a few weeks of silliness, the inevitable denouement. Governor Warren is the new Chief Justice. He is middle-of-the-road, relatively young for a Chief Justice, and in good health, and so popular that the President dared to make him a recess appointment, the first Chief Justice so appointed since George Washington tried, and regretted it. (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rutledge">The things you learn!</a>)<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"War on the Waterfront?" The docks strike in New York coincides with the AFL's attempt to get rid of the International Longshoreman's Association, which means that the strike is going to coincide with a labour war between the Teamsters and the ILA, and that many men "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterfront_Commission_of_New_York_Harbor">will take a long walk off a short pier</a>." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz0-XQuorwc1q1ZSNtfB7BzDx-raUT1Y7g3yASprnQo_QlOgzTOtwY2lqmOTEQjHPkA5xVwP69PbbufWMVcBPLMae-qwsEriyFMK5STZw5MxPXvkUUYdvkzIELwSotjWadLnuSiOKL2UyLXlID_BvynLdu0fz5SMozPzOdq-CkZ_LGXdruQrsSARuei7XX/s4032/20240129_002317309_iOS.heic" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjz0-XQuorwc1q1ZSNtfB7BzDx-raUT1Y7g3yASprnQo_QlOgzTOtwY2lqmOTEQjHPkA5xVwP69PbbufWMVcBPLMae-qwsEriyFMK5STZw5MxPXvkUUYdvkzIELwSotjWadLnuSiOKL2UyLXlID_BvynLdu0fz5SMozPzOdq-CkZ_LGXdruQrsSARuei7XX/s320/20240129_002317309_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"Depression in Washington" Instead of talking about the increasingly obvious recession, <i>The Economist </i>is fascinated by the IRS strike and the imbroglio that Harold Stassen has stirred up at the Foreign Operations Administration,which has people depressed, but not so much as Beardsley Ruml, who has been told that his scheme to get rid of the deficit by reforming the way the federal budget is calculated is not on, because politicians <i>like </i>having a deficit. It gives them something to talk about! The Department of Agriculture seems set to shovel $250 million in previously-allocated foreign aid money out the door in the form of exported food surpluses, just as soon as farmers are persuaded that it won't crowd out regular exports. No word on what <i>foreign </i>farmers think! The Reconstruction Finance Corporation is dead, long live the Small Business Association! Judge Medina has thrown the Federal anti-trustaction against investment banking syndicates out of court. There will not have to be a special session of Congress to raise the debt ceiling, as the Treasury Department now thinks that it can eke it out through the summer. Warren Stephenson will not be sanctioned for asking 4% to facilitate contracts, because it turns out that all his inside information was bar talk, and that's A-OK! <i>The Robe </i>is setting attendance records with its CinemaScope production. Mr. Truman is off the hook with the IRS for royalties on his memoirs. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The World Overseas</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Mr Stassen on East-West Trade" Mr. Stassen's "third semi-annual report" to Congress on the progress of the whatchamacallit he runs (see above!) says that Laurie Battle's bill to cut off pinko socialist countries that trade with Communists is unworkable, and that's why he's not working it. Senator McCarthy isn't the only one to blow up over it. <i>The Economist,</i> understandably, makes a lot more out of it than actual Americans do, since we can hardly keep straight all the ways that pretty much everyone that even looks foreign is sapping our national strength. It thinks for that reason that the report should have gone further in hammering the point that there isn't actually much trade going on with the East Bloc, and what is going on is pretty closely controlled. Really! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5IcdCs0Rv89KjsCttGkwE5cUx1s3OVJf3FYTBFBHUXtIsE0Mp0_0Eczbrs-tKEbp_KJjEza4lwHyt-MaXrUfCuEZOrgUcyHNq-Nxhl31ZS-3bi4baVX0erIGHdo2H0KQZr8UidSC6CHlwGiRzSMm_zfN2evspqX7_YsX2i5U1Bfain8Nuv_Xj6jKnXXFZ/s4032/20240130_221206013_iOS.heic" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Graphic shows up without any context in the original, too!" border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5IcdCs0Rv89KjsCttGkwE5cUx1s3OVJf3FYTBFBHUXtIsE0Mp0_0Eczbrs-tKEbp_KJjEza4lwHyt-MaXrUfCuEZOrgUcyHNq-Nxhl31ZS-3bi4baVX0erIGHdo2H0KQZr8UidSC6CHlwGiRzSMm_zfN2evspqX7_YsX2i5U1Bfain8Nuv_Xj6jKnXXFZ/w240-h320/20240130_221206013_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It turns out that the wave of strikes in Italy are due to people not getting paid very much. Since it's Italy, <i>The Economist </i>is willing to indulge some sympathy for people living in "hovels and caves," as they are in the south. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Linguistic States in India" <i>The Economist </i>is <i>not </i>on board with the creation of new states for linguistic minorities in India, but on the other hand it's probably not a big deal, either? The point is, the creation of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andhra_State">Andhra State</a> is a big deal in India and we have to talk about it, but we're at a loss at what to say, because we might chance to say that the Nizam has to go, and someone wouldn't like that. </div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Fishy Tales for Argentines" Argentina is having a beef crisis, leading to the government promoting more fish in the diet. At least, that's the conclusion from the way that eating fish is being promoted, even though officially Argentina has never had as many cattle as it does now. Was the 1951 cattle census falsified to cover up corruption close to Peron? It says so here! Argentina is not likely to make its beef export quota, either, and what about other Argentinian economic statistics? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Norway at the Polls" Norway is having an election. <i>The Economist </i>is convinced that the Socialists are ruining the country with all their economic controls and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Norwegian_parliamentary_election#:~:text=Parliamentary%20elections%20were%20held%20in,150%20seats%20in%20the%20Storting.">hope the election will embarrass them, even if losing is unlikely</a>. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Federal Politics in Central Africa" <i>The Economist </i>previews the upcoming elections at some length, giving the major parties and leaders a brief rundown just because there is more to cover than space allows.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Business World</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Conversion Without Strings" Three pages on the Treasury's refinancing scheme. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMM5xwau_fVA_zYlt90Oo7Ry7oreOnfAEb_JzGD9JnD4eCm7z_8S0OtZ_vKpZBzKX1hKJxnys5ZCFQcE6Y-716YKJzYqxtyS_SLprxV4OdW6GFHnyWFrDwukKlwsVYJi7zFRu6wGXNWZxr6VJvK_ksXSFdC58dRRIOAVk_6Y4mrEtIwr8NdZhOC0M0cReC/s2761/British%20Electricity%20Supply%201953.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2761" data-original-width="2023" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMM5xwau_fVA_zYlt90Oo7Ry7oreOnfAEb_JzGD9JnD4eCm7z_8S0OtZ_vKpZBzKX1hKJxnys5ZCFQcE6Y-716YKJzYqxtyS_SLprxV4OdW6GFHnyWFrDwukKlwsVYJi7zFRu6wGXNWZxr6VJvK_ksXSFdC58dRRIOAVk_6Y4mrEtIwr8NdZhOC0M0cReC/s320/British%20Electricity%20Supply%201953.jpg" width="234" /></a></div>"Making Airlines Pay" The BOAC and BEA reports show that just increasing traffic isn't enough to put the airlines in the black, as costs have been rising faster than revenues. BOAC lost £800,000, BEA, £1.5 million. The year was bad for all airlines, with the IATA meeting in Montreal ringing with tales of rising costs and falling net income. Is it just because more capacity was added than traffic will bear? No. rising costs pushed the break even capacity from 665% in 1951--2, which yielded a profit for BOAC of £275,000 on a rate of 65.7%. This year, rising costs pushed the break even point to 66%, so utilisation at 64.5% on an increase from 195 to 215 million ton-miles led to an increase in revenue of 7.7%, costs by 12.4%, which would have been a wash, except for interest payments. In contrast to BOAC, BEA is not having trouble filling planes, and isn't likely to in the near future. The problem is that 90% of BEA's service is in obsolescent machines like Vikings. By the time the Ambassadors were fully in service (and the Rapides withdrawn from the Isles), BEA's ton-miles cost fell from 51.5 cents per ton-mile to 49.5. The first six months of 1953, with 20 Ambassadors and the fleet building up to 26 Viscounts, profits should have gone up, but didn't, probably mainly because too many services were scheduled at tourist rates. Also, allow me to retract the comment at the head about BEA not having a traffic problem, since in fact it needs 69.9% to break even and drew an average of 62.9%, the average being the tale, as utilisation plummets in the off season., especially return flights from Europe during the holidays. Maybe there needs to be an airmail-like subsidy on domestic routes?<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Business Notes</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZuD1R3P_mwlrET62PxuB_OyBJFUXADn3HJyX0_qtyayusKfZl-eiGySpgE0PlOyuQsnVHEMVfS7sKEn-meeuZEwixRte-b44brjjXlYjspVxP-gYyC9-jtx1Ll615rnBhABL5Xyei0QjVtqJO_7Yqg-AyNE4wQUd6QAAZ1EmAWght908QM7yAo-x8rPeg/s276/Ford%20Anglia.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="276" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZuD1R3P_mwlrET62PxuB_OyBJFUXADn3HJyX0_qtyayusKfZl-eiGySpgE0PlOyuQsnVHEMVfS7sKEn-meeuZEwixRte-b44brjjXlYjspVxP-gYyC9-jtx1Ll615rnBhABL5Xyei0QjVtqJO_7Yqg-AyNE4wQUd6QAAZ1EmAWght908QM7yAo-x8rPeg/s1600/Ford%20Anglia.jpg" width="276" /></a></div>Finances and the upcoming Commonwealth talks bring us galloping to "Electricity Recovers Too" (like the prices of industrial shares, is the "too"). The electricity supply is up almost 10% as seven new plants come on line with higher thermal efficiencies. The winter was long rather than severe, leading to a very high operating surplus, although not as high as originally hoped. In the long run, the favourable depreciation rates on the still-predominantly over-aged plant are going to go away, but for now we can be happy that "electricity is cheap," up only 25% since 1939. A separate <b>Note </b>has the magazine hoping that prices will go up and forestall the BEA's hoped-for expansion of generating capacity to 1.9 million kwh by 1959. Follows two financial <b>Notes </b>and one about cotton futures trading, before we get to the new Ford cars for 1954, the Anglia and Prefect, "neither baby cars nor austerity cars." Ford is so eager to make a splash in the small car market that it has abandoned its claim to sell the cheapest car in Britain. It is more important to make a splash on styling.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNEzQqNGtXokEB5azlMUwxnNYCR-FTzFdASyEx927qjtA3FVg_b2MfyZMQpgkstWRaoV8riIAhYVpBOqIiKFt12pIYZ_8CS2AOJHQAMVvgiqoQQBjb47dgG5apryH_AmeLzMWNhzJB2xpBey7E0lq9JbT5ma-GF7gd5JxAfMNEuG8-uvaFztgzofgeKual/s4032/20240131_234134543_iOS.heic" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNEzQqNGtXokEB5azlMUwxnNYCR-FTzFdASyEx927qjtA3FVg_b2MfyZMQpgkstWRaoV8riIAhYVpBOqIiKFt12pIYZ_8CS2AOJHQAMVvgiqoQQBjb47dgG5apryH_AmeLzMWNhzJB2xpBey7E0lq9JbT5ma-GF7gd5JxAfMNEuG8-uvaFztgzofgeKual/s320/20240131_234134543_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"Japan Before Gatt" Britain's argument against admitting Japan into the Gatt is that inevitable Japanese export dumping would be met with pre-emptive tariffs, and the result would be catastrophe. The Americans were not impressed. Retailers are worried about a "buyer's strike" due to the expected reduction in the sales tax in the next budget, while the third piece on sugar derationing in this issue makes a little more sense than the others if you're not following the story anywhere but <i>The Economist, </i>as it notes that derationing was made possible by a special purchase of a million tons of Cuban sugar at $65 million. Since the exportable Commonwealth surplus is expected to rise from 2.05 million tons this year to 2.375 million tons in 1956, there will be no dollar costs for the derationed British demand. Unless the Canadians drop some of their "free market," that is, dollar-source imports. The Film Agreement has been extended for another year. The American film companies are allowed to repatriate $17 million plus anything they can get through loopholes. Sicne they are earning $40 million a year in the British market, the surplus is accumulating at $20 million per year. But while the Americans are increasingly eager to have the money at home given the slump in the industry, they have managed to find profitable investments for it in Britain, and no-one knows whether the profits will continue, so this is not a good time to upset the business.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Flight, </i>2 October 1953</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Leaders</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHrmEmLufZulBgz4SLf1tKGHBG8yiwAhenWFK15keosDAVp33TQTovI593mLwdkOOlxc8XjKiLbAHB8-JDTA49FKe_rMf-fE0AFAKeZ0eFpch0v52DfoTFYlv_5MnH_1xoNCsuzmfkvxWD_R8-TqivuHjK3o2ZZu5-W9SWu81HS5BXALl9EqvUo6Pn0s8d/s1024/Douglas%20F4D-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="1024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHrmEmLufZulBgz4SLf1tKGHBG8yiwAhenWFK15keosDAVp33TQTovI593mLwdkOOlxc8XjKiLbAHB8-JDTA49FKe_rMf-fE0AFAKeZ0eFpch0v52DfoTFYlv_5MnH_1xoNCsuzmfkvxWD_R8-TqivuHjK3o2ZZu5-W9SWu81HS5BXALl9EqvUo6Pn0s8d/s320/Douglas%20F4D-1.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And lose it within days to an F4D1</td></tr></tbody></table>"Supermarine Record" This is going to be a special Supermarine issue, and it is only a coincidence that a Swift will <a href="https://www.baesystems.com/en-uk/heritage/vickers-supermarine-type-541-swift#:~:text=The%20prototype%20Supermarine%20Swift%20F,3.">probably set a new speed record this week.</a> <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Dividends and Deficits" <i>Flight </i>has a more optimistic interpretation of the airline financial results. BOAC is not not being subsidised. BEA's consistent losses over thirteen years show that it is impossible to do what is being asked of it. The Corporations do not like being asked to show a deficit when other national airlines receive direct or concealed subsidies. It is bad for morale, giving the impression that they are uniquely inefficient, and think that something should be done.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>From All Quarters </b>reports that the Swift speed record, made in Libya to take advantage of warmer air. The record time of 737.3mph seems to have been exceeded on Saturday, but recording equipment broke down, more flights are planned next week. A Douglas F4D Skyray is now flying in competition with the Swift at Edwards, and has reached 742.7mph, but this is not the 1% increase needed to set a new record, and further flights are planned next week. An F-100, which is by any measure the world's fastest plane, may try to set a new record soon, providing it is decided to risk a proving flight, which according to the rules must be made below 100m. Scary! Flight Refuelling has branched out with a contract to build rear fuselages for Sea Hawks being produced under a Mutual Aid offshore contract. Under a separate title ("The Docile Victor"), <i>Flight </i>celebrates Harold Talbott's favourable comments about the Victor, which he recently flew in as a passenger, and watched as it demonstrated its ability to "land itself." The success of the <a href="https://www.key.aero/article/handley-pages-proposed-civil-and-military-transport-victor-variants">HP97</a> transport version seems assured. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj514Uc5yj8AR2Fx5t9gsn9z4IFR0uJrh-bzZ-e2PCtlg56EtRm-WWYBNbxnlj67Hgk3ZfHJbYWFoH8ZOyH8N9C99iOiuaE_qjeXMhj6CFIQFFRn9q6ZLEm__x_haLjz4Lu4J7VGvdF9YN4Za-jPBDkmI7C30TCp65XJAGMK6c9vUSA5EGwRYr7NLX6VhnB/s4032/20240201_165344027_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj514Uc5yj8AR2Fx5t9gsn9z4IFR0uJrh-bzZ-e2PCtlg56EtRm-WWYBNbxnlj67Hgk3ZfHJbYWFoH8ZOyH8N9C99iOiuaE_qjeXMhj6CFIQFFRn9q6ZLEm__x_haLjz4Lu4J7VGvdF9YN4Za-jPBDkmI7C30TCp65XJAGMK6c9vUSA5EGwRYr7NLX6VhnB/s320/20240201_165344027_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_London_to_Christchurch_air_race">The England-New Zealand Race</a>" There are twelve entries in the race, a DC-6, Hastings, Viscount, and Hudson on the civil side, two Mosquitos, 5 Canberras and a Valiant on the military side. The race will be run from 5 October, there are four prizes in each section of the race. The KLM DC-6 will fly with 53 Dutch emigrants, but at restricted luggage weight and hardly any time on the ground. The RNZAF Hastings is carrying just enough freight to meet the handicap. The Viscount has passengers, but it doesn't say here whether it is carrying enough load to satisfy the handicap. (You may remember that in the 1934 London-Australia race a De Havilland racer won by time, and a DC-3 by handicap.) The Hudson is a strange home-brewed composite aircraft from <a href="https://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Serial=171455">Rausch Aviation</a>. The Valiant's performance is top secret, but it is making the flight in only three stages. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnAc-3qoN0kZaa2Mxl8U206JOxoSia7PgZCJWHzxbpv1o-4VrVMGXEHMwCD7j0l4cfURJcbZbmYo-Ijpyxbi7q_v_ytLHNcCryJeanU9PY_QqSEEHpiDX-sDIvMnR3hkiapsjpopiLpLUe5WD1vpm51VUSMtoCA8MVxfqgTqO4gPPlX0LBHFIHEH_-9rKY/s3986/Supermarine%20Woolston%201929%20and%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3986" height="243" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnAc-3qoN0kZaa2Mxl8U206JOxoSia7PgZCJWHzxbpv1o-4VrVMGXEHMwCD7j0l4cfURJcbZbmYo-Ijpyxbi7q_v_ytLHNcCryJeanU9PY_QqSEEHpiDX-sDIvMnR3hkiapsjpopiLpLUe5WD1vpm51VUSMtoCA8MVxfqgTqO4gPPlX0LBHFIHEH_-9rKY/s320/Supermarine%20Woolston%201929%20and%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b>Here and There </b>reports that the US-Spain base deal includes air bases at Barcelona, Seville, and Albacete, the latter two particularly valuable as they are "out of the range of Russian fighters." Flying from WHERE? Shangri-la is taken! The US is embarrassed enough about the whole "pbounties for defecting MiGs" that it is withdrawing the offer and will return the MiGs recently landed in Korea, although the bounties already earned will be honoured. Two more Avon models are reported. As we go to press, the Rausch Hudstar has withdrawn from the London-Christchurch race. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"B-57s Start to Flow" The first B-57 was handed over to the USAF last week, and now they're coming thick and fast. Reggie reminds everyone that even though he was there about flying boats, he did pitch in with the B-57. Just don't ask him about it or he'll start talking about servos and writing out equations. Martin executives commented that, in the end, the amount of jigs and tooling in Baltimore and at English Electric Preston was pretty comparable, but that might not entirely reflect British practice.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The history of Supermarine goes on for many pages and I'm sure is going to be very interesting for many, but I don't see any <i>news </i>in it, even if I'm not going to be all sarcastic and go on about "years ago, before the war." I'll save that for the letter page, unless they're worrying about cap badges and Auxiliary uniforms instead! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV1eGCFYSLB7e3_vA59TvshWKVRdgAUf3i6ndwiojZm119Me3bg81EOPrOKiaX5XdSgmidRCMwM_-VKhN4LlUnSlJbfbSYROyjk0ukFMw4ND4G7P6QGCaToDd2c5CqnBRS_rSiAj7NuUj7_37_axf__urKnkBXEjDAIQu2bxb4N3Gy0Tz6q07UOPagjkq1/s3305/Supermarine%20Swift6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2801" data-original-width="3305" height="542" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV1eGCFYSLB7e3_vA59TvshWKVRdgAUf3i6ndwiojZm119Me3bg81EOPrOKiaX5XdSgmidRCMwM_-VKhN4LlUnSlJbfbSYROyjk0ukFMw4ND4G7P6QGCaToDd2c5CqnBRS_rSiAj7NuUj7_37_axf__urKnkBXEjDAIQu2bxb4N3Gy0Tz6q07UOPagjkq1/w640-h542/Supermarine%20Swift6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <b>Civil Aviation </b>reports that Johannesburg Airport is officially open, and covers the BEA annual report in more detail to make its case that low air mail rates and "social services" weigh on its finances. Silver City, on the other hand, made a handsome profit, and, speaking in Boon, Germany, Hall Hibbard said that the upcoming Douglas and Boeing jetliners would be "Comet killers." A Lockheed prototype is said to be under construction with 50 degree sweepback, thin wings, and a 120 seat passenger cabin entirely ahead of the leading edge of the wing, with four turbojets set in the fuselage aft of the wing. Meanwhile ANA has ordered some DC6Bs and a civil Fairchild Packet is said to be under development. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Correspondence</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">P. H. Russell, late of the Royal Artillery, harrumphs that world speed records that depend on temperature are rubbish. D. J. Weaver is upset that Bill Waterton was disciplined for "pointing his Javelin at the crowd" at Farnborough. Basil Arkell is upset that no heliport is planned at London airport, but the Ministry says that we still don't know what a heliport would look like, so there. And then there's hat(hat<i>ish, </i>as it is another of those discussions about how one or another brand of RAF reserve pilot ought to be deemed qualified to fly for money somehow in a way that they're currently not) and "years ago, before the war" style letters round off. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS3xUa0thc-HRnsB60AVtXrpcjXaJKtjU1U_u1sc8KMILYkngpdNACcqvdQmEEEhHswHD15m2vLlpZ5a-tD_BB5shl8K1Oc5oveOgvkH41zNooyUdn7skNMMC3-v-RMMB1AxBfQN4nBM5WE9kTMlzOg6WUqbtUR7eMm2TlaV68AHvi1bni7_SxaGL7QUVN/s4032/Lycoming%20Helicopter%20Bullshit%20Ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Someone, somewhere, should feel embarrassed about all the wasted money this implies" border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhS3xUa0thc-HRnsB60AVtXrpcjXaJKtjU1U_u1sc8KMILYkngpdNACcqvdQmEEEhHswHD15m2vLlpZ5a-tD_BB5shl8K1Oc5oveOgvkH41zNooyUdn7skNMMC3-v-RMMB1AxBfQN4nBM5WE9kTMlzOg6WUqbtUR7eMm2TlaV68AHvi1bni7_SxaGL7QUVN/w300-h400/Lycoming%20Helicopter%20Bullshit%20Ad.jpg" width="300" /></a></div>"The Anglo-American Conference" The back of the issue is devoted to summaries of R. H. Miller (Kamen) on "Some Factors Affecting Helicopter Design and Future Operations," Richard Rhode on "The Fatigue of Aeroplane Structures," H. Pearson on "The Aerodynamics of Compressor-Blade Vibration," J. L. Orr and others on "Aircraft De-Icing by Thermal Methods," R. A. Neale on "Prerequisites for Production," A. C. Campbell on "The Introduction of the Comet Into Service," Dr. N. A,. Bruyne on "Structural Adhesives for Metal Aircraft," and the open session version of Reggie and Preston Bassett's "The Control of Flight." Okay, okay, not a breath of Reggie in <i>Flight</i>, so Bassett's paper. Various methods of increasing helicopter speed depend on improving the fatigue qualities of materials for rotating parts. Rhode concludes that it is not possible to predict fatigue life of airliner structures analytically yet, and partially endorses concerns that new parts made of materials with higher strength-to-weight ratios are likely to have shorter fatigue lives, although he says that this is because they will be used in higher fatigue situations. Compressor blade failures call for more wind tunnel testing because they are related to blade stall. De-icing is facing big challenges with the new radomes. Planning for production is not an an absolute science. The Comet is fine. Boundary layer control isn't magic. Adhesives are a way around falling fatigue life with higher strength to weight ratios. If you're going to talk about control of flight without math, you won't be boring, but you will be pointless. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>The Economist, </i>10 October 1953</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Leaders</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge711YbE1JixyJu9MvA-Pl_kDSHK4E32DzxSJCpAggXc_CTWBrb8rDlTMVFm77x0QqF2L1U5h9DNgpd1vBdYhXPcYaDDQY1B3ymrP0Hut1pElU4OiwREQX5V2mBSYL1p7EkTUbQ0taM5s2JMz9Ep8L3tyZymWnfany0ui87AnXB1ZLn6PfMG6EBMZc3ltg/s4032/20240201_171036587_iOS.heic" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge711YbE1JixyJu9MvA-Pl_kDSHK4E32DzxSJCpAggXc_CTWBrb8rDlTMVFm77x0QqF2L1U5h9DNgpd1vBdYhXPcYaDDQY1B3ymrP0Hut1pElU4OiwREQX5V2mBSYL1p7EkTUbQ0taM5s2JMz9Ep8L3tyZymWnfany0ui87AnXB1ZLn6PfMG6EBMZc3ltg/s320/20240201_171036587_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"Retreat to What?" Has Labour retreated to liberalism from socialism by giving up on nationalisation? No, don't be fooled into voting Labour! They're still awful! Not like the Liberal Party that <i>The Economist </i>would support if it had any chance of winning an election, which, sadly, it doesn't, so vote Tory! They may be unpleasant, but they're our only hope. (And are they <i>really </i>that unpleasant?) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Security for Russia" Dulles has floated the idea of a security guarantee for Russia, which seems odd, but we do have to have that before we can declare victory in the cold war. Churchill proposed a Locarno-style treaty, while Dr. Adenauer wants interlocking non-aggression and guarantee treaties between America, Russia, and the European Defence Community. The devil is in the details. For example, a border guarantee would, from the Reds' point of view, include the East Bloc, and would western Europe accept that? <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Second Thoughts on Education"If there's one thing Labour did that <i>The Economist </i>supports, it was the educational reforms of 1944, with free secondary education for all through comprehensive schools. So it scolds the party at great length for the "educational counter-revolution" in "Challenge to Britain" that was voted down by the party conference. Typically, it's a bit two-edged. The new policy envisioned sending poor children to public schools, which is "counter-revolutionary" in the sense that Labour doesn't, or shouldn't, like public schools. But if you look at it cross-eyed, the magazine looks a lot less revolutionary and more counter-revolutionary for <i>opposing </i>it. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Scandinavian Insularity" The nerve of those Scandinavians. It's not as though they live on an island, because they are connected up at the top! That's why their "present condition" isn't "strategically or politically reassuring." They're too neutral, and their small parties are disturbingly and radically reactionary. No good will come of it!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Notes of the Week</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4KL5epgTQ6Mr-9HRB9PArXgs_hSjcRpf7EYnXFjteGIIIw1spksVZbLGWjM2qRQf8TBAXgMzNS6paz8JL3tuMyIql51j4UNtSwfZ58yJhgyrjnjcRKYiy0Fp9CE5vTp-EvUE9YXUpT-Mcoib3VfmT0wqvmpHNfuGqUpgNDuXQKdK47VDKyPYL_C0gkQ42/s4032/20240201_170959883_iOS.heic" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4KL5epgTQ6Mr-9HRB9PArXgs_hSjcRpf7EYnXFjteGIIIw1spksVZbLGWjM2qRQf8TBAXgMzNS6paz8JL3tuMyIql51j4UNtSwfZ58yJhgyrjnjcRKYiy0Fp9CE5vTp-EvUE9YXUpT-Mcoib3VfmT0wqvmpHNfuGqUpgNDuXQKdK47VDKyPYL_C0gkQ42/s320/20240201_170959883_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"<a href="https://idsa.in/system/files/news/CUNPK%20-%20Blue%20Helmet%20Odyssey-68-72.pdf">Indians in No Man's Land</a>" India is quite upset that President Rhee is being allowed to carry on over the recent shooting of "riotous prisoners" by the Indian Army, and Delhi is implying that it might withdraw the troops. On the one hand, the magazine, being British finds Indians obnoxiously supercilious whenever they have a criticism. On the other, it strongly supports the shooting of "riotous prisoners." I wonder if the troops that did it were from a manly martial race, tall, with good calves? <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Peering at tea leaves, it is determined that the Politburo is none too happy about Stalin's legacy of killing lots of people. Anthony Eden's return to the Foreign Office means that Churchill is going to carry on, and that there will not be a general election this spring. The Conservative Party Conference is worried about competitive television (it's in favour), housing (more needs to be done than just build houses), coal, agriculture, the Suez withdrawal, and the upcoming speech by the Prime Minister, the first since his stroke, and probably a scolding over the fumbled Four Power conference. We graduate from tea leaves to entrail as we contemplate Tom O'Brien's speech to the Labour conference. Is the TUC going to withdraw (but not <i>withdraw </i>withdraw) from the Labour Party? No! Maybe! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Shuffle and Cut in Capetown" Things are getting heated in South Africa, where Malan has withdrawn the bill to strike Coloured voters from the rolls that was about to be overruled by the Supreme Court and has introduced a "shorter" one in parliament so that the United Party can fight over it and maybe get rid of Strauss, unless the extremists in the Nationalists <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._G._Strijdom">get rid of Malan first.</a> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMUcme-Ti_ud84Tmi72-RwlP-cSjslvvi9g-8Cop9y-7QFA0y4jqp9cfj7mj0yA-Zv6RXcG0AGRmuAfRb-v4__wTYc-o8g0p0d-aKGIet1lL73CPoRvN95dj7up-RVN00Oz1oJ2U9Uz7_i_4DKxCg6FFva4uGCBbLE4s45UqjADYpNiyoTtHuEFyflNWk_/s4032/20240201_171010651_iOS.heic" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMUcme-Ti_ud84Tmi72-RwlP-cSjslvvi9g-8Cop9y-7QFA0y4jqp9cfj7mj0yA-Zv6RXcG0AGRmuAfRb-v4__wTYc-o8g0p0d-aKGIet1lL73CPoRvN95dj7up-RVN00Oz1oJ2U9Uz7_i_4DKxCg6FFva4uGCBbLE4s45UqjADYpNiyoTtHuEFyflNWk_/s320/20240201_171010651_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"America Still Aids Europe" Progress in closing the dollar gap seems to have a lot to do with the $1.4 billion in goods and services received by Europe in the year ending June 1953, and the $1.5 billion in contracts with European suppliers, with France getting $690 million and Britain, $460 million. This is s besides the transfers to cover US forces in Europe and US building in Europe, some $500 million, and nearly $3 billion in US military equipment. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">People are talking and planning and talking and planning about the upcoming Colombo Plan conference in Delhi. <i>The Economist </i>is not convinced that sending troops to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_British_Guiana_general_election">British Guiana is the right answer to the current unrest, as it might just provoke more. </a>Squabbles over prices seem to be disrupting the European Coal and Steel Community enough to be worth one long and one medium-sized paragraph. Finland is hoping to be able to trade more with Britain and France to clear its large surplus of rubles from its Russian trade, allowing accounts to be settled with a purchase of such Russian goods as might be wanted hereabouts. Well. If you have a current account deficit with the <i>sterling </i>bloc, that's just terribly sad. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Mau Mau in the Capital" The recent spate of Mau Mau outrages in Nairobi show that the campaign to pacify the countryside is working, because the gangs are coming into town. Now the government and the Inniskilling Fusiliers are going to clear the capital of its "drifting population" of 15,000 to 20,000, "or nearly one-fifth of the population," and so solve the problem by driving them into the country. Should work! Although Kenya is now running a £2 million deficit, and higher taxes would discourage foreign investment (read: Selling "highland estates" to gullible smart setters). An "all party delegation" is expected any day for the obligatory sales job according to which peace, good government, and ta view of a thousand acres of tea from the verandah is just around the corner granted a few million in aid. The Rhodesian part of the Central African Federation is celebrating racial progress by having a complete breakdown over the "apartheid" policy favoured by the Confederate Party. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Federation_of_Rhodesia_and_Nyasaland_election">Hopefully they won't do well in the elections</a>. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaug_9eA6rZexayfrCb3gTJs68wpZdKecWsn25wUXTUxxc0s75pUIfVPPuyCptjjM3KksObCRRAjOWtInm1YualqgMmxwZN564g-poj-5jigpUd7xCgb8dWoOv8JTX-tMiuBGLvmQz-AYw-L9y9F1oTH1MRD6VQNMeg99oDoySs4lLqffqatFmv6Z955Pk/s4032/20240201_171018014_iOS.heic" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaug_9eA6rZexayfrCb3gTJs68wpZdKecWsn25wUXTUxxc0s75pUIfVPPuyCptjjM3KksObCRRAjOWtInm1YualqgMmxwZN564g-poj-5jigpUd7xCgb8dWoOv8JTX-tMiuBGLvmQz-AYw-L9y9F1oTH1MRD6VQNMeg99oDoySs4lLqffqatFmv6Z955Pk/s320/20240201_171018014_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"Clearing the Air" London County Council is considering establishing a smokeless zone in the capital in the wake of the "great fog" of last winter, which caused four thousand deaths. "[L]osses to industry and commerce must have been considerable." Which is getting things backwards, because after saying that, the <b>Note </b>goes on to explain how the number is arrived at. It is deaths in excess of expected, mostly due to bronchitis or pneumonia, and believed, on the basis of recent American research, to be caused by sulfuric acid opening the way for particles to get deep in the lungs. The problem is that it will be hard to produce enough smokeless fuel, and harder still to get people to use them. Of 37 million tons produced annually, only 5 million is burned by domestic users, and that number will have to be doubled to have a sensible effect. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvyTgza0H21gGweSobM0syiKxA4W9_hnWsj9o7TURFAFSAFNciJqQbjLea3PejZocJuUjLifiILpvbJy7QBoTTCrd0u232-ky3zBTCooNexKG4MpW7L94Z2WttIuvYeCGrs4M41eNooNLAdUXEO1w3o6rnzFVyGDzqgnHFCr_eA44wijI9cJXZUkYStW4k/s4032/20240201_171025646_iOS.heic" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvyTgza0H21gGweSobM0syiKxA4W9_hnWsj9o7TURFAFSAFNciJqQbjLea3PejZocJuUjLifiILpvbJy7QBoTTCrd0u232-ky3zBTCooNexKG4MpW7L94Z2WttIuvYeCGrs4M41eNooNLAdUXEO1w3o6rnzFVyGDzqgnHFCr_eA44wijI9cJXZUkYStW4k/s320/20240201_171025646_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><b>From <i>The Economist </i>of 1853 </b>comes "In Defence of the Right," which explains what Britain should be doing about the confrontation between Russian and Turkish forces on the Danube, and why. We are <i>not, </i>it explains, "defending an Infidel dominion." Islam might have its good points, but it is wrong and bad. We have nothing in common with these foreigners. Turks are racially "languid and lethargic," while Britons are "boiling over with life and energy." But they are our allies, we do have a sacred obligation to help them, and they are the victims of oppression. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Letters</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The High Commissioner for Southern Rhodesia writes with a correction. R. N. Higinbotham of Robertsbridge, Surrey, and G. R. Y. Radcliffe, continuing the conversation, try to explain to the Editor why livestock farmers want a marketing board. The Editor refuses to understand. John Ryan of the Metal Box Company explains why statistics about tinplate production and sales is so inconsistent. Some of it was made up during the war, and his company can do better using its sales statistics. P. J. Donnelly of Writtle, Essex, finds comments about the artistic decadence of Hyderabad to be a bit much. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Books<br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuxcjFuxWIPzM6KMmKqaORz4uctF1UMj93Ku4K3eMPBoGM0C9p-Wqeu0nm1nyUBy5XyNw354yIkILqdGxZUPi2QDAlEINmw_mtyqLyv6tkVnpgWkvKLSaTOAhNu4xs7_5FbwYXSEE3YGE54Q0-i344psSNVslvVEmUhmBQjpMUGSfSBvAcCVF-CVHGinWu/s4032/20240201_171032860_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuxcjFuxWIPzM6KMmKqaORz4uctF1UMj93Ku4K3eMPBoGM0C9p-Wqeu0nm1nyUBy5XyNw354yIkILqdGxZUPi2QDAlEINmw_mtyqLyv6tkVnpgWkvKLSaTOAhNu4xs7_5FbwYXSEE3YGE54Q0-i344psSNVslvVEmUhmBQjpMUGSfSBvAcCVF-CVHGinWu/s320/20240201_171032860_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>Gunnar Myrdal's <i>The Political Element in the Development of Economic Theory </i>gets a long review entitled "Time Bomb for Welfare Economics." I read it waiting for an explanation, but the review doesn't seem to actually mean anything. Fred Hoyle's <i>Decade of Decision</i> is a book by a really smart and accomplished man talking about something he doesn't know anything about, and is boty "illuminating" and "silly." Specifically, Hoyle believes that Britain can't support 50 million people, what with the world population pressure, the scantness of world food supplies, and the industrialisation of the primary producing countries. He thinks it should be cut in half by an emigration of a million a year to the Dominions, accompanied by their industrialisation. The Russians, he thinks,should be told to go play in Asia on pain of atomic attack if they even look at the West cross-eyed, where it will impose contraception and prevent Malthusian catastrophe. The tropics should be developed for food and for solar energy in some fashion to cover the future shortage of oil, coal and uranium. This is the part that is silly. "Britain's deficit, at the worst part of the worst postwar crisis, was . . . five percent," and a "hundred percent dismantling of the British economy" can't possibly be the best way of dealing with that. I'm not sure what the "illuminating" part is supposed to be. The reviewer liked Freya Stark's latest autobiographical volume, <i>The Coast of Incense. </i>An edited collection of essays on economic history, Fred C. Lane and Jelle C. Riemersma, who share a love that dare not speak its name, encoded in their choice to change their middle initials to "C.," <i>Enterprise and Social Change, </i>is all jumbled up, but parts are good. Paulo Monelli's biography of Mussolini, <i>Mussolini: An Intimate Life, </i>establishes that anyone who wanted to be in timate with Mussolini is at least as suspect as<i> Il Duce</i> himself. <i>Native Administration in the British African Territories </i>Vol. 5, <i>The High Commission Territories: Basutoland, the Bechuanaland Protectorate, and Swaziland,</i>is 447pp, so don't worry that it doesn't come up to the title, and is the final volume of Lord Haley's "authoritative (it should be!) reference work." The only drawback is that it doesn't have a blueprint for the next stage of British African colonial policy. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>American Survey </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwMFFrTZnzxkT4f_x5GiVm4ADry8eqHbpxO9cqTEyJSjCM3zZh6zAXvjNbT6IJ7q-8ET5NgUUFyiYCY1F1i37nXdnhUjyYjWQIUKvNfn9gFmlkBtCyYBro2hM38EtbLC74cWtQkoxqerZmHrDJv9JoatyQYHW4vHLq2i4by2tGUAxMXWpPz9CKqVwARneQ/s4032/20240201_171121105_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwMFFrTZnzxkT4f_x5GiVm4ADry8eqHbpxO9cqTEyJSjCM3zZh6zAXvjNbT6IJ7q-8ET5NgUUFyiYCY1F1i37nXdnhUjyYjWQIUKvNfn9gFmlkBtCyYBro2hM38EtbLC74cWtQkoxqerZmHrDJv9JoatyQYHW4vHLq2i4by2tGUAxMXWpPz9CKqVwARneQ/s320/20240201_171121105_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"Feeling for Flexibility" In the old days Washington used to empty out into "elegant New England watering holes" for the summer, and even nowadays it gets slow around here in the summer, and then everything picks up in the fall. For example, this fall the allied ambassadors are going around from office to office to see if Americans are going to continue to be wild-eyed maniacs, or whether they might be thinking about getting something done around the world. Adlai Stevenson and John Foster Dulles have both given speeches about needing to be nicer to the Soviet Union, while the President gave one on the importance of not alienating the allies and not giving the impression that America would rather drop atom bombs than negotiate. At the end of the week, Dulles repudiated Senator Ferguson's assertion that talking about security for Russia was "appeasement." Unfortunately, these seem like trial balloons testing <i>American </i>public opinion. Or the Republican caucus in the Senate, to the extent that there's a difference. And, sure enough, <i>they're </i>still wild-eyed maniacs who, as Presidents go, prefer Rhee to Eisenhower. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Whose Public Domain" The Federal government still owns a vast part of the Western states, locals, and particularly the 25,000 ranchers with grazing rights, still want it all turned over to them, and the Eisenhower Administration is still not willing to cross public opinion to do it. Meanwhile, Interior would like more money so that it can act as responsible stewards of the land and improve grazing, but that's not going to happen, either. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>American Notes</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"It is denied at the White House that the President's speech in Atlantic City . . . marked the launching of the much-heralded new policy of telling the American people about their vulnerability to an attack by atomic or hydrogen bombs." He talked about it, sure, but if it were <i>policy, </i>he would have to tell Wilson to stop denying that the Russians can conduct a hydrogen bomb attack, and sign on with that $10 billion civil defence effort. Meanwhile, the Office of Defence Mobilisation has been giving tax breaks to companies that strengthen their plants against atomic attack since May, and believes such attacks might be possible in a year or two. The issue, it turns out, is paying for it, which would mean no tax cuts. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqtAFCNnoAQ_-pMaR_j5YhyxGn23ANlZIJxguO45iH3uYvKJdzaGC-SmJtob-HdG-psjWIWG2ECapfasZYcQBBFc-IibTthSfzWQOGjdCDtCtTp4FFduxw-kkUKsjIn2JYts3z-RAm2drJspnbtp-Jbkwzt08YS0epvvu2VWi0V1mZBFJGYMc0ornwi-c6/s4032/20240201_165416957_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqtAFCNnoAQ_-pMaR_j5YhyxGn23ANlZIJxguO45iH3uYvKJdzaGC-SmJtob-HdG-psjWIWG2ECapfasZYcQBBFc-IibTthSfzWQOGjdCDtCtTp4FFduxw-kkUKsjIn2JYts3z-RAm2drJspnbtp-Jbkwzt08YS0epvvu2VWi0V1mZBFJGYMc0ornwi-c6/s320/20240201_165416957_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Easier Money" Complaints about the Administration's hard money policy are becoming harder to sustain as the Treasury intervenes to cut interest rates. The invocation of the Taft-Hartley Act to sustain an injunction against the East Coast docks strike is said to be a blessing for the AFL's organising campaign against the ILA. US Steel is going to start absorbing freight charges again, which is here deemed the return of free competition in steel and a return to the multiple basing point system of 1948, and will have Uncle Henry out of his tree. Steel capacity, which is up to 112 million tons a year, is running at 90% of capacity, and that is bad news for the industry. Harold Stassen is trying to decentralise his office and revive Point Four. The price of chlorophyll is down from $110/lb to $45/lb as the craze fades out. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The World Overseas</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We check in with Malaya, where Malayan Chinese are getting more politically active even though Muslim Malayans say that concessions to them will be concessions to Communists down the road. In Russia, Khrushchev says that the livestock situation is dire, although agricultural production is up. It's important because Russians are starving to death, and would like clothes and houses, too, thank you very much. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Algerians in France" There are 300,000 Algerians in France, and 100,000 of them are unemployed, and only 60,000 are "satisfactorily housed." Algerians are theoretically French citizens and free to come and go from France at will, and most of the Algerians in France are there to work, save money, and send it home, so this is bad news for public order. In spite of the low employment rate, Renault rates 85% of its Algerian workers as satisfactory at least, and 25% as superior, and would like to train the 25% more, if they would only stay for more than three years, which they don't, because of housing difficulties, mainly. They are also being mistreated on mainly racial grounds, and it is amazing that they're not becoming Communists, and that would be a bad thing if it happened. Jugoslavia is having another round of agricultural reform, and China is holding sham elections.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Business World</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We lead with financial news. Shares are up, I guess. ("Bulls," right?) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUarfKA5tJvn2jKZFxP6kcMNybG8Q-2rxE0q7LNEBi0GGtCFlwxnCP4DIDUUpHdBT8Zo4ZDMx7iKAIsot3FHyhMw3G6MjMXqfTxvZMLYLJlysUVyaxGlPSBz25ZX5-8rDPIY41z4dgTTL255ysZhvgqk4szuIPUwXirjUVL58XuGJbBpWxSmpyAsASRoD2/s2526/Dry%20Dock%20construction%20trends%20britain%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2026" data-original-width="2526" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUarfKA5tJvn2jKZFxP6kcMNybG8Q-2rxE0q7LNEBi0GGtCFlwxnCP4DIDUUpHdBT8Zo4ZDMx7iKAIsot3FHyhMw3G6MjMXqfTxvZMLYLJlysUVyaxGlPSBz25ZX5-8rDPIY41z4dgTTL255ysZhvgqk4szuIPUwXirjUVL58XuGJbBpWxSmpyAsASRoD2/s320/Dry%20Dock%20construction%20trends%20britain%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"Deficiencies in Dry Docks" Most of the larger dry docks in the United Kingdom were built more than 40 years ago, and they're not up for modern tankers, which keep getting bigger and bigger, and will until they get too big to fit through the Suez Canal. Big new dry docks now under construction, at Greenock, Belfast, Liverpool, two in South Wales, one on the Clyde, and three in the Northeast, able to take tankers of up to 32,000t dw. There is some question about whether utilisation will cover the costs of digging and building them, but if they are used for shipbuilding as well as repair, as is now the trend, that will help. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Business Notes</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Finance, dollar surplus, European balance showing signs of weakness, as American demand for commodities "wobbles." Another 120,000 young workers joined the labour force in September, but the unemployment rate still fell, to 1.4%. Rubber prospects are "bleak," see "Eisenhower Depression." The trade agreement with Brazil has FINALLY been closed. At the IATA Conference in Montreal it is warned that air travel still isn't paying its way, and apparently the solution is even more competition. Wool prices are settling down, there is more premium gas on the British market, from more brands, and cheap cars were the coming thing at the Paris Motor Show. Finance, finance, wheat prices stabilising, magnesium decontrolled, shoe sales are rebounding and manufacturers are investing in new machinery that moulds the sole (sometimes of new synthetic materials) and attaches it to the upper in a single step. Unfortunately, cheaper shoes means lower sales for retailers. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Flight, </i>9 October 1953</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Leaders</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Salute to Sweden"</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-c2NEFPqTwY" width="320" youtube-src-id="-c2NEFPqTwY"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Sweden has bought some Avons for its jets,so <i>Flight </i>is going to say something nice about Sweden. It's a country! Full of blondes and stinky fish! But that's enough of <i>Flight</i>'s special brand of inane stodginiess, so the second <b>Leader </b>is a celebration of sport gliding. My opinion of flying without engines remains unchanged. But if they listened to me there wouldn't be motorcycles or cigarettes, either, so obviously no-one listens to me. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJWFRbqUkItxH5LygmgICOlGLb3WpMrfwbyt4Eg4IB8WQbUpS4jVkBfVtVa69mLggMgcPUowqXvXuvMjIZDIv0Tzgvo2ck3O84W-Fz_EFlo7kP_QeyTTG-iffj-ZxN3FqHCe4YsaZxBodP-pPY8E8adsSwqveyg4YXydbfNoEy_FGFH0bsydB-LrW5DQYc/s4032/20240201_165250843_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJWFRbqUkItxH5LygmgICOlGLb3WpMrfwbyt4Eg4IB8WQbUpS4jVkBfVtVa69mLggMgcPUowqXvXuvMjIZDIv0Tzgvo2ck3O84W-Fz_EFlo7kP_QeyTTG-iffj-ZxN3FqHCe4YsaZxBodP-pPY8E8adsSwqveyg4YXydbfNoEy_FGFH0bsydB-LrW5DQYc/s320/20240201_165250843_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><b>From All Quarters </b>The big story is the Skyray's 753.4mph record, on the Salton Sea, not at Edwarsd, as I said last week, because it is below sea level and so has even higher air pressure. It is a prototype, with the prototype J40,, developing 12,500lbs thrust with afterburner. The Skyray numbers are so high that neither the Hunter nor the Swift can meet them, and Vickers-Armstrong has ended the Swift flights in Libya. The only practical way to beat the Skyray record is to fly faster than sound, which is an engineering challenge from all sorts of angles. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_F-100_Super_Sabre">There may be an F-100 record soon</a>, but, if not, it will be a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairey_Delta_2">few years before those challenges are sorted out.</a> The Westland presentation on helicopters in Korea and Malaya was very interesting and <i>Flight </i>wishes more MPs had come out to be duly panicked by the American lead on helicopters. Eight of the original 19 entries are off in the England-New Zealand (London-Christchurch Race; Piccadilly Square--New Regent Street Race. I had to look up name of a major Christchurch street for this joke; I hope you're happy at what you made me do!) are off. "The final number of entrants was regrettably low." The Valiant and two Mosquitos are now out, too. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Goodwill on Swept Wings" The feature story on the visit of the Swedish jet fighter squadron goes here, ahead of short bits announcing the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_Seamew"> Seamew for the FAA</a> and the purchase of the Orenda works by Avro Canada. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikBWLivMxMYbtjnxL-jLhfHRyTIO_Gg6NfIW84XDCYeAPR6OP-TP_xi6gSipVbBNC6kFcD0ty_knZTz7pfmRHz__TyOg_CsVn76aj-024leNAG0XR6zmi59bziRTOC93TX2T4xOsKTBMYPmxJZHizkXgk0ORwHX3D14kdhXkkYCowFIeyrFhAcZTEvGhB6/s4023/High%20Altitude%20Flight%20Suits%20and%20Details.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2691" data-original-width="4023" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEikBWLivMxMYbtjnxL-jLhfHRyTIO_Gg6NfIW84XDCYeAPR6OP-TP_xi6gSipVbBNC6kFcD0ty_knZTz7pfmRHz__TyOg_CsVn76aj-024leNAG0XR6zmi59bziRTOC93TX2T4xOsKTBMYPmxJZHizkXgk0ORwHX3D14kdhXkkYCowFIeyrFhAcZTEvGhB6/s320/High%20Altitude%20Flight%20Suits%20and%20Details.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b>Here and There </b>reports a Comet crossing of the Atlantic in 5h, 26min, the breaking up of the Brabazon, and the stationing of a USN Neptune squadron in Malta. <i>Mechanical Handling </i>is a thrilling documentary film about advances in mechanical handling, available fee of charge through Dorset House. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kenneth Owen, "Engines: Are They Necessary?" Yes. Next question, please! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The Well-Dressed Airman, 1954: High-Altitude Clothing: Recent Developments by British Manufacturers" At very high altitudes, cabin pressurisation isn't enough, here's a look at some suits and helmets for flying at those altitudes. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Gas Turbine Development: Armstrong-Siddeley's Chief Engineer Lectures on Eleven Years Progress By His Company" <a href="https://www.designchambers.com/wolfhound/">W. H. Lindsey, director and chief engineer of Armstrong-Siddeley</a>. <span style="font-size: xx-small;">[<a href="https://foils.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/0189-Hovercraft-Propulsion-Lindsey-Apr-68.pdf">more relevantly</a>]</span> gave an interesting talk to the City of Coventry's Freemen's Guild on 24 September. It was mainly historical, but he did mention work on the Snarler rocket, which will be necessary for really high performance at high altitudes. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">J. M. Stephenson, "Axial-Flow Engines: A Consideration of Their Lower Size-Limits" Once the numbers are crunched, all turbojets should have axial compressors, even the small ones, but small turboprops benefit from centrifugal compressors. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0UUGDRNIvN-BkEmI6YyGYbd7Q1XMB_3u2P2VBK1XLkSX6ftKiEpPKUs5HVKFjJp1zDY3cX02NQTtrkkQ3xrRCqlPgEoAyN6NIo7jkdkelA7SHS9qLZtm_XcZA9RhUUCTyFdGWK8s6iAAIXy-3OFSKqPcqm3PeTsQsZRnsFS_BK5Xe4SZa4nHoj7tOgfxX/s4032/hawker%20hunter4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0UUGDRNIvN-BkEmI6YyGYbd7Q1XMB_3u2P2VBK1XLkSX6ftKiEpPKUs5HVKFjJp1zDY3cX02NQTtrkkQ3xrRCqlPgEoAyN6NIo7jkdkelA7SHS9qLZtm_XcZA9RhUUCTyFdGWK8s6iAAIXy-3OFSKqPcqm3PeTsQsZRnsFS_BK5Xe4SZa4nHoj7tOgfxX/w400-h300/hawker%20hunter4.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><b>Aircraft Intelligence </b>reports that per <i>Aviation Week, </i>a Fairey Gannet, electronics included, costs $224,000. De Havilland has a $257,000 dollar contract from the Canadian government for a new light transport. The latest B-47 variant is the RB-47E, with a longer nose to accommodate the camera. The USAF has ordered the American industry to put a turboprop in pretty much everything to see if it makes things better. (C-97s, Super-Constellations, Convairliners, and a Globemaster to be fitted with various Allison turboprops and a turboprop version of the J65. It <i>says here, </i>anyway.) The Americans are looking at the Avon RA.14 to replace the now-cancelled Westinghouse J-40 in various planes that have been hung up to dry without an engine. The Ouragons being built for India are now well under way, and Kurt Tank is reported as working on a jet transport with a revolutionary engine installation down Argentina way. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Flight </i>visits the Farnborough miniatures show to look at model airplanes, then the debut of the RAAF's Avon Sabre, then a helicopter crop-spraying operation in East Anglia. (If the correspondent is very nice, they'll let him come back to London.)<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Industry </b>reports that Kelvin and Hughes is giving its apprentices awards for originality now, and British Standards has a new set of standards for nuts and bolts approved for aircraft use in Britain, Canada and the US. Companies want us to know about starters for the Olympus-Vulcan, new types of Magnuminium alloy, O-rings, a bench saw (how'd that get in here?), self-locking nuts, a new high nickel protective coating for upset anvils for drop-forging turbine blades, and a very compat radio receiver unit from Adcola; plus, in a separate feature, the "Airborne" data recorder from the electronics division of Boosey and Hawkes, which is an improvement on the traditional notebook. Feeney and Johnson are up to something with pneumatic couplings. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Correspondence</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcq-ShwO-y0IEH3zjH_QgHXFDcStB5X3PoR5ARJQKHBLs-yWXmFh0XBHEkHMnpRlf56MgVc_yICSN91vxmoG8sJs8-Jxn7tJmAP9zYUNzEasf50ZFZYmaltv61DZR5csySDSxgcsTks0TLYXCWv9mHJJmUQu6nx7cl_gF2CbL4CtBqn-cdqCuMqZjvHjC6/s4032/20240202_223443256_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcq-ShwO-y0IEH3zjH_QgHXFDcStB5X3PoR5ARJQKHBLs-yWXmFh0XBHEkHMnpRlf56MgVc_yICSN91vxmoG8sJs8-Jxn7tJmAP9zYUNzEasf50ZFZYmaltv61DZR5csySDSxgcsTks0TLYXCWv9mHJJmUQu6nx7cl_gF2CbL4CtBqn-cdqCuMqZjvHjC6/w300-h400/20240202_223443256_iOS.heic" width="300" /></a></div>Nothing else is up, so let's have some letters on the causes of sonic "bangs," one about rocket testing in the old days, before the war, from "Pedantica," (British stealing American work, though, so that's new), Geoffrey Dorman reminds us that he is still alive with a letter about years ago, before the war. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Civil Aviation </b>goes to the IATA meeting, reports on new Comet and Viscount services, and lights into that recent <i>Newsweek </i>article claiming that the British have lost confidence in their new airliners and that production is chronically tardy, pointing out that confidence has not been lost in the Comet, that deliveries of Comets and Viscounts compare well with Super Constellations, although the Britannia is behind, and that bit about Americans being content to wait while the British proved the new technology is just sour grapes. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Brazil has a new civil plane, more about the model display, and the North Greenland Expedition sounds like a regular Boy's Own adventure. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHxqaYPcqvEI0XHKhYnF5lKqILlhWg8APBgCkCSfQl7HSnOun6LoEawDAb9vtP9bdCWl10l1xND9TzdIpfHg79sbBweDIQBnaipOAvCAoO3CkXp4wwURiijgxEKh75OLATePwLMaJnzBpX8VAOYcdLKdESnM9qoZR8ovwzeFv0fDZ1sHEG_biUuQp63oRX/s4032/20240201_165219445_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHxqaYPcqvEI0XHKhYnF5lKqILlhWg8APBgCkCSfQl7HSnOun6LoEawDAb9vtP9bdCWl10l1xND9TzdIpfHg79sbBweDIQBnaipOAvCAoO3CkXp4wwURiijgxEKh75OLATePwLMaJnzBpX8VAOYcdLKdESnM9qoZR8ovwzeFv0fDZ1sHEG_biUuQp63oRX/s16000/20240201_165219445_iOS.heic" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Fortune's Wheel </b>explains that advertising is big, and previews the big articles on the vogue for religiosity among businessmen, the inexplicable shift of consumer income from spending 23% on food to 28%, and its implications, and tries to explain why there's yet more navel-gazing about what makes an executive in this issue. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOMCPjzxm5q7bpTQKx70WBxY-TMwcq7XI2yu-Aj6nXruaR-kcz2mi5UL4VFZgRbsbiUKLFdjt__hc-lJLsMFoR0rZwsmQV-hedD5Utb-Q565zdf4Wr4nmCP1-r3r3geCwY24pFjjpNf6-jMCLzrwcMUiwDCM75ZQANJOnDUqRChoJYPk_iX3vzznLz_GVw/s1898/Soft%20goods%20hardening%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1668" data-original-width="1898" height="281" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOMCPjzxm5q7bpTQKx70WBxY-TMwcq7XI2yu-Aj6nXruaR-kcz2mi5UL4VFZgRbsbiUKLFdjt__hc-lJLsMFoR0rZwsmQV-hedD5Utb-Q565zdf4Wr4nmCP1-r3r3geCwY24pFjjpNf6-jMCLzrwcMUiwDCM75ZQANJOnDUqRChoJYPk_iX3vzznLz_GVw/s320/Soft%20goods%20hardening%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b>Business Roundup </b>looks at the way that "mounting evidence of a business downturn" is hitting, well, it says "the stock market," but then we're off to cover the slow down from what is, after all, a record GNP from a bunch of other perspectives. Consumer credit is slowing, steel production is down, inventory is up, housing starts are down; but consumer spending is likely to be sustained by healthy savings. Clearly, business has to go for a hard sell, or profits will continue to lag wage increases. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Defence and Strategy </b>looks at the lessons of the Korean air war. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSpG3uO_WJr1iCFjZ-o6sAlxV0dbLrn0TuzbwFiqu-C_OupLajo2fCuNQlBN9ikcqRYxQs6AnTzWRioEKgC6B1xj_zCj6U5qtzbHoVIjOppEBOOwW4mvDnO5h9NUw0affJiP4y3fR8DKzFD0NXQVyxIOdhW5yrjEnSx3x2_J0eWWK_zOjJ0RNimnoMtTHk/s4010/Uiji%20Airfield%20Korea.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2587" data-original-width="4010" height="412" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSpG3uO_WJr1iCFjZ-o6sAlxV0dbLrn0TuzbwFiqu-C_OupLajo2fCuNQlBN9ikcqRYxQs6AnTzWRioEKgC6B1xj_zCj6U5qtzbHoVIjOppEBOOwW4mvDnO5h9NUw0affJiP4y3fR8DKzFD0NXQVyxIOdhW5yrjEnSx3x2_J0eWWK_zOjJ0RNimnoMtTHk/w640-h412/Uiji%20Airfield%20Korea.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFY6cwfUCP_Hk4KS3D-uSUiVyDnq2XQk-Yciz6xUTXimSyKs89j_9174M6E3MxkHSjL5qypf89eJpWAwJlcFnSS-rEsO7NCnbdw_9pBctSbGyX6XrLkqJkAZAoEf_xXBulsPNkmC3vRDHxrDsbG8RzhbulsTldtdg_p5EpleZjjC8t66M_u5gMWRBpffNg/s3572/Map%20of%20the%20Korean%20Air%20War.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3572" data-original-width="2377" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFY6cwfUCP_Hk4KS3D-uSUiVyDnq2XQk-Yciz6xUTXimSyKs89j_9174M6E3MxkHSjL5qypf89eJpWAwJlcFnSS-rEsO7NCnbdw_9pBctSbGyX6XrLkqJkAZAoEf_xXBulsPNkmC3vRDHxrDsbG8RzhbulsTldtdg_p5EpleZjjC8t66M_u5gMWRBpffNg/s320/Map%20of%20the%20Korean%20Air%20War.jpg" width="213" /></a></div>During the last year of the Korean War, Fifth Air Force operated 16 wings; five wings of B-29s, two of F-86, five fighter bomber wings of F-84s and F-80s, two of B-26s, and three over-sized troop carrier wings, plus an atomic-capable F-84G wing in Japan. At the time they were committed, they did not represent a large share of any part of the Air Force except for the jets, but were all the bombers SAC was willing to spare. In the course of the war, the Air Force lost 1760 aircraft. Only 58 in air-to-air combat, all F-86s, lost behind enemy lines. Six hundred bombers were lost to AA fire, the rest were operational losses. The total write off was equivalent to twenty-five wings, which doesn't seem like that much, at a cost of $1.6 billion, which, against the kind of numbers we're throwing around these days, also doesn't seem like that much. By the third year of the war, the Reds were operating 1500 MiGs in 40 air regiments, plus several regiments of light bombers (Il-28s), and a composite regiment of Tu-4s. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MiG_Alley">The minimum MiG loss in combat was 800, established by gun cameras, establishing a kill ratio of fourteen to one</a>. The air commitment exceeds the total fighter interceptor complement of the 143 wing air force, which is pretty big for such a small war. The logistical effort was also great, and the Russians were presumably happy to do it to build up war experience. There was never a bombing offensive from Manchuria, but there could have been, and it would have been "touch and go."<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibgkXGadPfqWgOAasS3jVllEE-2_EGbRsa38Q-Bh0LIXxGD1y0cXsAXCU4r5O5HXlBd1gDGvz2C0Ro0eFkXqgOYF6EiDs7ERxl8RkbrXrslhDGn0Li7QzRAnaszcB-QAPIFWzc-ckPMUD82KYl5o7pMYQUIxorx7do_ZtxPhc_mBNnd1xo4E3-15Uo3liv/s4032/20240201_170140466_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEibgkXGadPfqWgOAasS3jVllEE-2_EGbRsa38Q-Bh0LIXxGD1y0cXsAXCU4r5O5HXlBd1gDGvz2C0Ro0eFkXqgOYF6EiDs7ERxl8RkbrXrslhDGn0Li7QzRAnaszcB-QAPIFWzc-ckPMUD82KYl5o7pMYQUIxorx7do_ZtxPhc_mBNnd1xo4E3-15Uo3liv/s320/20240201_170140466_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>An <i>eleven page</i> advertisement for Colorado follows (and eight pages of full page ads after <i>that</i>), so it's good that there was an apology in <b>Wheel </b>to start. <b>Businessmen in the News </b>reveals that Sewell Avery has lost another vice president and that the utility partnership set up to build a power plant for the AEC's new gaseous diffusion plant had to sell out to Bechtel because it wouldn't allow workers to sign union cards. (Which is illegal.) <b>Labour </b>has a feature on the expansion of the AFL over eleven years of prosperity, and another about the difficulties the CIO is having organising department stores. <i>Fortune </i>is worried that this will mean that declining wage differentials between skilled and unskilled labour will impact technological progress. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Interior Secretary McKay's fight against federal power gets a page.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Editorial </b>reports that the French like America more than we think, that an ongoing debate in the <i>Journal of the Operations Research Society of America </i>tests whether computing machines can help formulate major business decisions. "The entrepreneur describes his world (quantitatively), chooses his policies, and turns on his machine. The machine then 'looks into the future' at the high speed permitted by modern design, and delivers the answer on what will happen if the model fits reality." <i>Fortune </i>is uncomfortable with the idea that it can all be reduced to numbers. <i>Fortune </i>concludes that higher education is becoming increasingly available to the children of workers and less to the children of executives because there are too many scholarships these days and the best colleges charge more, and also because of progressive taxation. Crawford Greenewalt, president of du Pont, used a guest column in a Baltimore paper this week to point out that if you don't talk about the Eisenhower depression, it won't happen. Or at least he won't hear about it!Not even <i>Fortune </i>is impressed. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Fortune </i>really liked <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Hutton">Graham Hutton</a>'s <i>We Too Can Prosper, </i>which explains that the British can be as rich as Americans if they just try to be more like Americans. Perhaps this is not the month to be talking it up. New England industrial towns are doing well because they are now diversifying wisely, whereas they used to diversify into "feminised" industries without steady, year-round work, which was bad for communities like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester,_New_Hampshire">Manchester, New Hampshire</a>. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Labour </b>looks at the unravelling of the Administration's plan to carry through its election promise to amend the Taft-Hartley Act due to Taft's death and leaks that led to the President being attacked from the Right. More proof that the Republicans are desperate to lose in '54. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzYctpDbTNZ3W-OIOqtq_E8056NSbAEZPzctx407MSOiQH4KifWNfG7UzrJNPjCV6ACSwdHK-D4N4H0lCEFC4iP37qPaeOMbgsv4XD_jzyt9IlZgejz8dUEv6r033kqTu5KSIZRChhzFJKICt6Ei9iUpmABN-INC38Ihui3m4LqvhNVgRVtELHe9iossvB/s4032/Food%20Market%20US%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2922" data-original-width="4032" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzYctpDbTNZ3W-OIOqtq_E8056NSbAEZPzctx407MSOiQH4KifWNfG7UzrJNPjCV6ACSwdHK-D4N4H0lCEFC4iP37qPaeOMbgsv4XD_jzyt9IlZgejz8dUEv6r033kqTu5KSIZRChhzFJKICt6Ei9iUpmABN-INC38Ihui3m4LqvhNVgRVtELHe9iossvB/w400-h290/Food%20Market%20US%201953.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The Fabulous Market for Food" <br /> </div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">American food sales have risen from $20 billion in 1941 to $60 billion in 1952. Although prices are up 118%, food has soaked up more additional spending than increases in consumables, durables,and automobiles combined. <i>Fortune </i>thinks that people could eat like they ate in 1941 for $52 billion; it is the additional $8 billion that needs explaining. That and the violation of "Engel's Law," that the higher a family's income, the lower the proportion spent on food. Americans are getting more prosperous as a rule, with the lowest income group falling from a third of the population to less than a quarter during the 8% runup in incomes from 1941 to 1947. <i>After </i>1947, it was spending in the prosperous group that drove up food prices. The conclusion is that it is basically down to convenience. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">An interesting feature on the rise of the Greek shipping magnate, but I don't have to tell you your trade, a feature on religious businessmen, National Distillers' expansion, and a pictorial on "Chicago Industry by night," followed by one about the plight(?) of small business in America to celebrate the new <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Business_Administration">Small Business Administration</a> and one about Scripps-Howard. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2tP_A3HTuACXR4ZNwT0xJ3ROwmAvgU_5R7vL-Xwn9oFTubEEayYo6XtdCF6gvRxpByX-fvbtqopKZhJwgDD_-IDgEcY2nxc0kY7Qzv0C7N0gELlge5ig1nTbWSCsWCQGUqBQib1qdBei_qbON3COt9cMONBKQurC6MbGvqrsWyUsdvpn9oQP7k14o-_Wy/s4032/20240201_170636024_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2tP_A3HTuACXR4ZNwT0xJ3ROwmAvgU_5R7vL-Xwn9oFTubEEayYo6XtdCF6gvRxpByX-fvbtqopKZhJwgDD_-IDgEcY2nxc0kY7Qzv0C7N0gELlge5ig1nTbWSCsWCQGUqBQib1qdBei_qbON3COt9cMONBKQurC6MbGvqrsWyUsdvpn9oQP7k14o-_Wy/w640-h480/20240201_170636024_iOS.heic" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">"The Automatic Factory: A <i>Fortune </i>Round Table" <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Unbound_Prometheus">Will historians say that there was a Second Industrial Revolution in America at mid-century?</a> If they do, it will be one in which machines replaced men's senses and brains in the same way that the Industrial Revolution replaced (AHEM) men AND women's muscles. The Round Table generally agrees that the tight labour supply of the next eight years makes an ideal moment for industry to go in on automation. However, automation currently works best for special purpose machines performing simple tasks, and they have to be economical. Much of the talk about automating factories envisions a "flexible" factory, and it is not obvious how you create flexible automatic machines. Electronics and computers are often invoked, but electronics are fragile and computers are expensive, and, also, how would they actually work? It's al very well to say that a computer can be the "brain" of a factory, but what does that mean? Besides, computers aren't magic, they're just calculating machines. And once the machines do all the jobs, everyone will be unemployed, and that's not good! <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_S7L4Olx0ViHTkA1uyfaYI-3oCaAWxiOmoDK6GBFZyzt6Yz9pSxMz0TXIgvP1RygelVeTF5VXKUBFJPgWVNBsEkTlgtEy80SoLBNsucBXMpXfrtGAU9EjeULYNZn3kYkr0unvr5SO1Onxo1LoLv1MLOTzqV_n202Sx5QJxQcnw06vEDUrLv-K88hUVlx0/s3634/Fortune%201953%20Roundtable%20on%20Automation%20participants.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="926" data-original-width="3634" height="164" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_S7L4Olx0ViHTkA1uyfaYI-3oCaAWxiOmoDK6GBFZyzt6Yz9pSxMz0TXIgvP1RygelVeTF5VXKUBFJPgWVNBsEkTlgtEy80SoLBNsucBXMpXfrtGAU9EjeULYNZn3kYkr0unvr5SO1Onxo1LoLv1MLOTzqV_n202Sx5QJxQcnw06vEDUrLv-K88hUVlx0/w640-h164/Fortune%201953%20Roundtable%20on%20Automation%20participants.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Maybe some guy named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sidney_Weinberg">Sidney Weinberg</a> will know! Let's go to lunch with Stan, claim the liquor bill as a business expense, and publish a profile so we won't get in trouble with the IRS for those hundred-dollar bottles of wine, if you know what I mean! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div>Erik Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-76475344958388916732024-01-27T15:06:00.000-08:002024-01-27T15:06:16.172-08:00A Technologo-Scientific and Popular Cultural Appendix to Postblogging Technology, September 1953, II: Soylent Green is Etc!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AlVczvB4FQk" width="320" youtube-src-id="AlVczvB4FQk"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I'm sure everyone has seen 1973's "Soylent Green is People" clip, and the opening credits are actually pretty fun. And a good reminder that Harry Harrison's <i><a href="hhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Make_Room!_Make_Room!">Make Room, Make Room</a></i>, came out in the same era as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brunner_(author)">John Brunner</a>'s Dos Passos-inspired pseudo-found novels beginning with 1968's overpopulation-centred <i>Stand on Zanzibar</i>. I'm not sure how the movie money came to be left on the table for Harrison. but he did have the good sense to write a police procedural instead of a quadrology of sprawling, experimental novels. Harrison was, if anything, too succinct for his own good, hence <i>Deathworld </i>not being <i>Dune. </i></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifou33Cz-NQ4q7gLuFCWuHC2mGonkDS5-52d19Fc70FE57h9p02Mxj_btPK_Ctok18fuSU5NAGg2HBloqpLKkuwe1mQ8jFq850yEScIJTA39de7HToaVdbV999m1qg7G8wKFnVpLBhRG4OsERCixj0mCHqOmRXl-IFpRU37gxHiMtCQXLfQKsE-YGqYSUB/s1024/Algae%20blooms.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="1024" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifou33Cz-NQ4q7gLuFCWuHC2mGonkDS5-52d19Fc70FE57h9p02Mxj_btPK_Ctok18fuSU5NAGg2HBloqpLKkuwe1mQ8jFq850yEScIJTA39de7HToaVdbV999m1qg7G8wKFnVpLBhRG4OsERCixj0mCHqOmRXl-IFpRU37gxHiMtCQXLfQKsE-YGqYSUB/s320/Algae%20blooms.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Blue green algae might also be too succinct for its own good. It's small, and short-lived; There have been a million generations since blue-green algae started out being the next big thing in fighting overpopulation and the "limits to growth," and as far as I can tell, we're still waiting. But, then, that's the point of the movie, isn't it? "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_(meal_replacement)">Soylent</a>" is the food of the future; Blue-green algae would should have been the food of the future, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Godwhale">but it turns out that there's a problem</a>. <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I know, I know, that's a link to a weird and poorly reviewed science fiction novel from the early Seventies. The Ballentine second hands are everywhere, so I suspect it sold well but was received coldly, and I can see why, because it is a strange, if epic, story. And it happens to be the place where the idea of the empty oceans was introduced to me --along with a lot of other very weird stuff. T. J. Bass probably deserves some kind of attention, and the idea of a dead ocean was definitely resonating in the early 1970s, replacing earlier optimism about the bounteous harvest to come of "<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074812/">Fish and plankton, sea greens and protein from the sea</a>." Protein. It's always protein. And cannibalism. Yum!</p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyanobacteria">Cyanobacteria </a>are a simple, single-celled lifeform growing in a water medium. They photosynthesise, form bacterial colonies consisting of algae mats, and have some capacity to either fix nitrogen obligatorily or shift to nitrogen fixation in anaerobic environments. Unlike the hardy and universal life of the dreams of the Forties, and more like the nightmarishly fragile Nature of the 1970s, cyanobacteria have difficulty coping with open ocean environments and excessive light, especially ultraviolet. More modern visions of their past place them at the centre of the first global biogenic catastrophe, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation_Event">Great Oxidation Event</a> of 2.5 billion years BP. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE7qPyJTDRJzw4qUiuKbApoZk_SAlsrnl2NAb2vpXV0eZmpQOhup5pSDcBtZDoiRokN8U8mUiGEH-LS_hU7ze5bkE_WaijiJE4JiJQ6UQva6mrB3k70UyXh59K2erDgc-np4Y9hljLW8GX1Hau55_ZISz1B9wuwzIGmhQCZ2DvBJsro__koLpD_AERA739/s1024/Ivy%20Mike.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="680" data-original-width="1024" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE7qPyJTDRJzw4qUiuKbApoZk_SAlsrnl2NAb2vpXV0eZmpQOhup5pSDcBtZDoiRokN8U8mUiGEH-LS_hU7ze5bkE_WaijiJE4JiJQ6UQva6mrB3k70UyXh59K2erDgc-np4Y9hljLW8GX1Hau55_ZISz1B9wuwzIGmhQCZ2DvBJsro__koLpD_AERA739/s320/Ivy%20Mike.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>We are not, however, here to read about "blue green algae" in the modern vision of a lifeform complicit in ecocide on the one hand, perhaps a convenient source of biodiesel on the other, and otherwise best known as a dietary supplement. To the visionaries Eric Hodgins visits in the fall of 1953, it is also the most plausible way of exploiting solar energy. Six months from cover date, on 25 April 1954, Bell Labs would demonstrate a photoelectric silicon cell with 6% efficiency, enough to power a toy Ferris wheel in their demonstration. (Interestingly, it uses silicon at a time when transistors are still being made exclusively from germanium.)<br /><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> It is actually a bit appalling just how obscure all of this is. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_F._Kettering"> Charles Kettering</a> ("Ketteridge" in the blog post) is a well known figure in the automotive community, but his experiments with solar power and blue green algae are forgotten. In running down early scientific literature, I came across "<a href="https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-1-4419-0851-3_436">J. S. Burlew</a>" as the co-author of multiple papers, as well, as interestingly enough, one on the cryogenic dewar used to transport the cryogenic first hydrogen bomb. (Although the article doesn't mention this top-secret connection.) Do you think I could find out who Burlew was? No! (Well, he's "John S. Burlew," which leads me to archival fonds of his correspondence with Linus Pauling and others, but no collection of his papers.) I only hope that he was related to Rich Burlew, so that this link to the <i><a href="https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots.html">Order of the Stick</a> </i>isn't completely off-topic. The Wikipedia article gets us started down the road to thinking of blue green algae as food for an overpopulated world: apparently assorted anthropologists of the 1930s. A French researcher, publishing in 1940, when you would think it might be at risk of being overlooked, found it in use as a food in the Lake Chad basin, and in historical references to its harvesting from the lakes of the Valley of Mexico in Pre-Columbian times, but it seems as though there were skeptics.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/document?repid=rep1&type=pdf&doi=98f738fd291769ae9e3a9c5b872e68c732dd440e">The Carnegie Institute apparently arrived at blue green algae via the wartime search for new antibiotics</a>. Following up with this source, an introduction to the edited volume by Vannevar Bush, of all people, we learn that it was first investigated as a food source in the winter of 1947--8, a time when, we'll recall, the idea of biodiesel must have seemed particularly ridiculous with famine incipient in so much of the world. The Carnegie Institute dropped blue-green algae research in 1950, when it was taken up by some universities, and by the Arthur D. Little company, which might be how Burlew got involved. The need for a new, high-protein food source seemed obvious to those worthies, although in fact blue green algae is no richer in proteins than any number of foods, and in general the obsession with protein in the old days, which also gets you to soylent, makes one a bit queasy these days since it turns out that, overpopulated as the Earth might be, it can still produce a <i>lot </i>of meat. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5sw8nVFQuWQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="5sw8nVFQuWQ"></iframe></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">Now <i>that's </i>an overpopulated Earth! Unfortunately for the fans, apart from the algae blooms and the fragility of algae mat colonies, eating blue green algae turns out to <i>not </i>be the perfect culinary experience:</p><p id="sp0005" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, STIXGeneral, "Cambria Math", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Microsoft Sans Serif", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Arial Unicode MS", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;"></p><blockquote><p id="sp0005" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, STIXGeneral, "Cambria Math", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Microsoft Sans Serif", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Arial Unicode MS", serif; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">"Human feeding of algae was studied in volunteers by adding algae as a supplement to the diet in amounts varying from 10 to 500 gm per man per day. Although the bitter, strong, spinach-like flavor predominated in all foods supplemented with algae, the most acceptable preparations were cookies, chocolate cake, gingerbread, and cold milk. Amounts up to 100 gm per man daily were tolerated by all.</span></p><p id="sp0010" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, STIXGeneral, "Cambria Math", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Microsoft Sans Serif", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Arial Unicode MS", serif; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">When larger amounts were added, gastrointestinal symptoms were more prominent. These included nausea, vomiting, abdominal distention, flatulence, lower abdominal cramping pains, and bulky hard stools. No other evidence of toxicity was found and the gastrointestinal symptoms disappeared shortly after the algae was discontinued. It was concluded that algae in this form (heat treated, dried algae) can be tolerated as a food supplement but further processing will be necessary if algae it to be useful as a major food source. Methods to improve both acceptability and digestibility are needed."</span></p></blockquote><p id="sp0010" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #1f1f1f; font-family: ElsevierGulliver, Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, STIXGeneral, "Cambria Math", "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Microsoft Sans Serif", "Segoe UI Symbol", "Arial Unicode MS", serif; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 16px; padding: 0px;"></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div style="text-align: justify;">Yum! Again! When you notice algae coming to the fore beside talk about birth control in India, I have to wonder to what extent it is a conflated metaphor: Too many brown people are <i>kind </i>of like a giant mat of algae in bloom. So I guess it makes sense that we end up eating people, and not the algae harvested from the dead seas. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">But I'm sure that this time around, blue green algae will definitely save the world by producing enough biodiesel to keep the aviation sector going just like it is today. Have I made a snarky comment about the 737 Max recently? </div><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Erik Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-28424380296418704692024-01-18T14:04:00.000-08:002024-01-18T14:04:33.712-08:00A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, September 1953, II: Missing Plugs, Missing Rebuttals<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/foTtqIdh5_A" width="320" youtube-src-id="foTtqIdh5_A"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_-gyJW6mWjbODVF7qQJy-vIHupct14X3ZAzDDb9lj1_bk0MWljYTkTtf-H4BUXN9Vwx1Ne9409dZEP7NSnNmnz6ViXSzsxlM8B8ur6JoI2GgmRLiagARPa9N5elweMiOPCs2EY3WODX_9PAaz7f5M_Bn98K9tMHPzFXzp1HOUZWZ2D7gxg3_rN9m8I4Ev/s463/Boeing%20737%20Max%20detail.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="309" data-original-width="463" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_-gyJW6mWjbODVF7qQJy-vIHupct14X3ZAzDDb9lj1_bk0MWljYTkTtf-H4BUXN9Vwx1Ne9409dZEP7NSnNmnz6ViXSzsxlM8B8ur6JoI2GgmRLiagARPa9N5elweMiOPCs2EY3WODX_9PAaz7f5M_Bn98K9tMHPzFXzp1HOUZWZ2D7gxg3_rN9m8I4Ev/s320/Boeing%20737%20Max%20detail.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Is that a bandwagon going by? Let me hop right on that thing! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I am going to go with the assumption that no-one wants to hear my potted history of Boeing's ongoing struggle to not embarrass itself with the millions of 737s-only-slightly-different it is currently selling to the airlines that only want 737s. (Even if they are slightly different.) I'm not saying that there's anything wrong with an industry being locked into an airplane that looks and acts like an old-time 737 in spite of having a ridiculously large pair of engines dragging off their wing and a whole app on its computer set up so that it will fly like a 737 even though if you use the app wrong you crash and die. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Because if I was going to make fun of this situation I'd say something like "Good thing grandparents don't fly planes," and then the dam would burst and I would point and laugh and laugh and laugh, and we're <i>way </i>more serious about that around here. And anyway it frankly doesn't even crack the top fifty of inexplicable institutional malfunctions we've got going on these days. (Just kidding about "inexplicable." It's obviously all the old people we've got these days.) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On the other hand, I <i>can </i>go back to 1953 and the approximate moment we got locked into this path and try to understand how we <i>started </i>down it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOPt1nVFUWcJqmIXCTxsoIcIdHBsMeyvqWracUfUuN26-MLfwbcEt1tMc5S6WXZLgoq04195Yi5SQFmt9bKOrwwaHWFuuB_FAgn8x_Z0rY6ijMlvNN2tIMkfZNJafemxjRdFWiK_vZOux9scN0p_df9WOmujufnqNGks4x79ZJ9sTwJUlfH2D14ITFQbLf/s3024/Avro%20Atlantic.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2487" data-original-width="3024" height="526" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOPt1nVFUWcJqmIXCTxsoIcIdHBsMeyvqWracUfUuN26-MLfwbcEt1tMc5S6WXZLgoq04195Yi5SQFmt9bKOrwwaHWFuuB_FAgn8x_Z0rY6ijMlvNN2tIMkfZNJafemxjRdFWiK_vZOux9scN0p_df9WOmujufnqNGks4x79ZJ9sTwJUlfH2D14ITFQbLf/w640-h526/Avro%20Atlantic.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> When I first encountered the Avro Atlantic, not that long ago, it was for a bit of eyerolling. On the one hand, you could see why the various V-bomber builders would float airliner variants. <a href="https://www.aerotime.aero/articles/26543-brunelli-lifting-fuselage-100-year-old-conspiracy-theory">On the other, pull the other one, it's got bells on!</a><i> </i>The VC7 was a quite sufficiently radical departure from existing airliner practice. If anything, it would be a Victor descendant that would fill the role, not that any such thing ever happened. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGf_FKmXcGdTZv-fvjjRpi7qme34z3PwL3nrWAD-mrwDMuKhAEojzWucCWP6EP8XXWvBOxSvbSduIjwKL99i-gl8UmAtvDABIWNZo4JGqW4j5WzWAGMkZ69fnxDg1YE6-H0H4p7rKhVR7cgl4jA5XNvFs3faoBALJZCFc0cNNwY_q6bBnVX2w-K19Kj_86/s2882/de%20havilland%20comet5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2882" data-original-width="2210" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGf_FKmXcGdTZv-fvjjRpi7qme34z3PwL3nrWAD-mrwDMuKhAEojzWucCWP6EP8XXWvBOxSvbSduIjwKL99i-gl8UmAtvDABIWNZo4JGqW4j5WzWAGMkZ69fnxDg1YE6-H0H4p7rKhVR7cgl4jA5XNvFs3faoBALJZCFc0cNNwY_q6bBnVX2w-K19Kj_86/s320/de%20havilland%20comet5.jpg" width="245" /></a></div>On the other hand, what's an established airliner practice? The Comet doesn't look anything like a Boeing 707, and it wasn't a problem with the design that caused problems with the Comet, but rather the corporate irresponsibility that led De Havilland to float a lightweight airliner structure in the first place. There was nothing wrong with the Comet 3, apart from its poor economics. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">We know the story: Boeing put the engines in pods, de Havilland put the engines in the wings, and while pods are winners in the long term due to their ability to accommodate very fat turbofans, with their fuel economy and silencing, they were also winners in the short term. That is, there were reasons for buying the 707 or DC-8 instead of the Comet 3 or the VC10 based on the podded engine design, even before the appearance of high bypass turbofans. These arguments were put forward by Boeing's George. S. Schairer at some or another SAE session and subsequent venue, including the Fourth Anglo-American Aeronautical Conference, held in London in September of 1953. What we don't know is the contents of the refutation to be given by Avro's<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuart_Davies_(engineer)"> S. D. Davies</a>, who was understood to be coming to the podium "loaded for bear" until the talk was cancelled out of security concerns. William Farren suggested that this was because the Vulcan was still secret, but I am pretty sure that this was a facetious comment, and several British attendees referred to the argument that podded engines were less likely to damage the aircraft with flying turbine blade fragments in the event of a turbine explosion. Davies pointed out that "We don't have turbine failures," while A. A. Lombard of Rolls Royce pointed out that American engines used austenitic steels, which got "spongy" at high temperatures, whereas British engines used chrome steels, and did not have this problem. F. R. Banks made the most reasonable point, which is that you shouldn't be taking turbine failures for granted any more than you should be taking cabin pressurisation failures for granted. (Not that that would age well, with the first mid-air Comet loss only four months away.) A very young Bill Gunston provided advance notice of the Davies' criticism in <i>Flight </i>a few weeks prior, placing heavy emphasis on engine failures in the B-47, and at some point, someone pointed out that, with the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_B-47_Stratojet"> B-47</a> the only useful Western atom bomber in service, this was not the time to be talking it down.* Thanks to the wonders of the Information Age we need only search the Aviation Safety Network for the B-47 and find that, through the Fourth Conference, <a href="https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/type/b47">25 B-47 total hull losses had occurred</a>, 3 definitely due to engine failures and another 3 due to unexplained explosions in mid-air. A more extended discussion would look at the J47's safety record in other installations, but the losses through September of 1953 do not paint a particularly pretty picture of a plane that was already known to be predictably difficult to fly and land due to the high wing loading and flex, leading to aileron reversal. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwMXfJtFksxcQiJVdQfAtVebIHK5eA_UYk4etKO-QlyRlnuc32qdfG9r2jOkwFyGHDKPKMNbBxj3l6Yb7U4GpkgVxSOK9nFNY_VNy9W_x9stFwnbkyfJPpC1Sk9UxgSv9rtdoRUgMyWSXV8uQXzyrQ1wahsRGBtbN8vUacPzwneyMFaO8UQXCfc_TSd0bW/s300/Convair%20B-58.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="300" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwMXfJtFksxcQiJVdQfAtVebIHK5eA_UYk4etKO-QlyRlnuc32qdfG9r2jOkwFyGHDKPKMNbBxj3l6Yb7U4GpkgVxSOK9nFNY_VNy9W_x9stFwnbkyfJPpC1Sk9UxgSv9rtdoRUgMyWSXV8uQXzyrQ1wahsRGBtbN8vUacPzwneyMFaO8UQXCfc_TSd0bW/s1600/Convair%20B-58.jpg" width="300" /></a></div>At this point it is perhaps more explicable that, per Wikipedia, "Avro is reported to have considered a civilian version of the Vulcan as 'inevitable' in 1954--55." Advantages including lower ground weight, lower landing speed, and higher cruising speed would seem to justify this confidence. And although at the time it would have had no chance to be the first turbofan-powered airliner, since the VC7 had not yet been cancelled, the Atlantic was proposed with Conway engines. Altogether, the airlines' decision to pass over the Atlantic in favour of the 707 and DC-8 needs more explanation than it gets. Delta wings can, and have accommodated podded external engines. The Atlantic obviously could never have been retrofitted with such engines, but <i>at the time </i>British manufacturers were thinking of relatively short production runs of aircraft (and much less capital investment in tooling) taking advantage of steady improvements in aerodynamics and engine technology; the question would have been taken up in the Atlantic's successor.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It was obviously not to be for all sorts of good reasons, so it is just as well that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denver_International_Airport">Everything is Fine</a> in modern commercial aviation. Maybe one day we'll even know what the good reasons were! <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">_____</div><div style="text-align: justify;">For them as likes a citation, that's David A. Anderton, "Security Scuttles Pod Debate, <i>Aviation Week </i>59, 13 (28 September 1953): 19; and W. T. Gunston, "Pod Pros and Cons: Some Reflections on American and British Engine-installation Methods," <i>Flight </i>No. 2329, Vol. 64 (11 September 1953): 371--4<br /> </div><p></p>Erik Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-10122401154302386892024-01-13T15:24:00.000-08:002024-01-13T15:24:56.107-08:00Postblogging Technology, September 1953, II: Sweetness, Thorazine, and the Madness of Howard Hughes<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/S2jj8SD3nqY" width="320" youtube-src-id="S2jj8SD3nqY"></iframe></div><br /><div><br /></div><div>R_.C_.,</div>Shaughnessy,<br />Vancouver,<br />Canada<p><br /></p><p>Dear Father:</p><p style="text-align: justify;">You will be pleased to hear that Reggie's paper went well, with none of the security-related theatrics that scuttled the conference's most anticipated paper, the Avro reply to George Schairer on pods. (I think pretty much everyone knows that the paper was considered far too embarrassing and dangerous because it discussed the extraordinary frequency with which B-47 engines explode, and J47s by extension, but the face-saving story is that it couldn't be given because the Vulcan is still on the Secret List, or something like that. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Aside from attending conferences and sad associated"wine and cheeses," I have been enjoying London, although that must come to an end next week when I head out to the studio and find out what they've been doing with our money. Hopefully there will be a convincing explanation and some wonderful film is in the can, and I will spend the day enjoying out-takes and what passes for British food, which is even worse than Californian. </p><p>Your Loving Daughter,</p><p>Ronnie</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_2hyKmBl8Ac" width="320" youtube-src-id="_2hyKmBl8Ac"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiavkX5gAusNMCKBjeVPJYRSRIoDvbenQrfWi1JbSCdhk3enw1Mw8NxTfBlr9qF-RtmVMCSdkfL4J-jyiAARlNwsjfFHW1kaVueEzNE1oOAFqreUv5Q9YB4HGBmDhsOEsBwUDq90Yy1fDmjPUq7Q0kD24m94arvQ-Qbu8WKaGul9CA_Z-78ulkhuDKBHt9Z/s4032/20240108_130801923_iOS.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiavkX5gAusNMCKBjeVPJYRSRIoDvbenQrfWi1JbSCdhk3enw1Mw8NxTfBlr9qF-RtmVMCSdkfL4J-jyiAARlNwsjfFHW1kaVueEzNE1oOAFqreUv5Q9YB4HGBmDhsOEsBwUDq90Yy1fDmjPUq7Q0kD24m94arvQ-Qbu8WKaGul9CA_Z-78ulkhuDKBHt9Z/s16000/20240108_130801923_iOS.heic" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p><b>Letters</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi8QLePZe9RWxvBcD2GHuZEc6ijdLM7DiJ49VP23JzUxo7QmGVYM7vJp0fWiOYjYekmUmv2WOyswL51wAaxUbxx3dieW2-OFaghoXj3EEO9_fonAP9KYrpPcnbt7FDRMPhYgChfBiuW8wA9fimkY-QTR6UQ05RQSnF4AbWtAITaQQIg2QuPDmChmJi-NG9/s4032/20240106_210841719_iOS.heic" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgi8QLePZe9RWxvBcD2GHuZEc6ijdLM7DiJ49VP23JzUxo7QmGVYM7vJp0fWiOYjYekmUmv2WOyswL51wAaxUbxx3dieW2-OFaghoXj3EEO9_fonAP9KYrpPcnbt7FDRMPhYgChfBiuW8wA9fimkY-QTR6UQ05RQSnF4AbWtAITaQQIg2QuPDmChmJi-NG9/s320/20240106_210841719_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Various readers enjoyed and appreciated the recent article about the Air Force Reserve, but have concerns, and not just about hats. Daniel B. Scully raises several financial considerations that can make service difficult; Name Withheld by Request thinks that reservists are appreciated enough; Name Withheld By Request Number 2 is not impressed with being a "Reservist" when it means a year in Korea and a year in the next Korea. One reader (a secretary of the Montana State alumni association) wants more pictures of Aline Mosby's story about the nudist colony, while another thinks Mosby should see a chiropractor. H. G. Hartgerink of Guatemala City is a dirty old man. Mrs. Kelsey Gould of Suffield, Connecticut, writes to mention that she was part of that very high-brow art course in Pompei, which makes her better than the little people. <b>For Your Information </b>explains how the teletypesetter allows <i>Newsweek </i>to print in distant plants around the country, because for some reason this is still news. </div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7nnyv2WPODKE-bBHR7lH0l7hOK9H2zu5oLE8dbk7V8mfhBza_0JMFKXxTBVHOkNvgK7uLIBnyjK7iIIPLHTs7CprYj584pXhkfmfFo51FMSVd60IzouC2e_2TfOk7RxoJkgvZoX-gcvYPjueuW9_-qOROA_sEw7MWz9G7emPj2zED_UoaNaVk6CLeDQRH/s4032/20240106_210846829_iOS.heic" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7nnyv2WPODKE-bBHR7lH0l7hOK9H2zu5oLE8dbk7V8mfhBza_0JMFKXxTBVHOkNvgK7uLIBnyjK7iIIPLHTs7CprYj584pXhkfmfFo51FMSVd60IzouC2e_2TfOk7RxoJkgvZoX-gcvYPjueuW9_-qOROA_sEw7MWz9G7emPj2zED_UoaNaVk6CLeDQRH/s320/20240106_210846829_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">The Periscope </b>reports that Western Intelligence has learned that the Soviets have developed a V-3 missile (like a V-2, but one better) which can hit anywhere in western Europe from bases in the Baltic and Poland. The US Army won't admit it, but they are quietly urging returning POWS to press charges against collaborating fellow POWs so that the progressives can be put on trial before discharge. The French may have "cut their own throat" by leaking word of a secret $385 million aid package for the Indo China war before it passes Congress, which will be peeved. NATO is going to hold an all-missile exercise soon, and <i>Newsweek </i>just heard about the Canberra height record and the Gnat. "Top policymakers" are tired of all this talk of civil defence, which would be vastly more expensive than a few bombers that will blow up an enemy bombing wave before it can take off. The US is going to use food aid against the Reds more, and is weighing an attack on the Soviets for continuing to hold vast numbers of Axis POWs for labour. The private papers of Senator Taft will be embargoed until the present generation of politicians are gone, while the Justice Department is looking at the original debates over the Fifth Amendment in cae Thomas Jefferson said that it is okay to put Reds in the iron maiden to make them talk. Secret Service agents were upset when President Eisenhower and Vice-President Nixon took the same plane. Russian UN ambassador Andrei Vishinsky is a very sick man with critically high blood pressure. Democrats are complaining that the <i>Democratic Digest </i>is too expensive when the party has a deficit. Assistant Defence Secretary John Hannah has suppressed a Defence Department report on the way that the Department treats peple because it isn't critical enough. You'll be hearing more about the amaazing Ontos anti-tank killer soon. <b>The Periscope </b>has learned about army dissension in Czechoslovakia. Russia has started exporting cars to the satellite countries, pro-American sentiment is on the decline in Japan, and the Dutch are more worried about the French threat to European unity than the German one. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO0N6h1OwSN4BmUiy214IACZdt4Ioibw1RSTWj1U7NihDwm5XK-XZ4dWI7iUoUvV92YSiLu2-vzPmiL9eIh_Ayh2CZOVMSehO4SmYcH10HhTdkNAeJLe5udhksKczK5UxVu3MSSQuaL20az9Xr3VOX6FFt8IX_U1CL52Uho5SIay52pFbBgTmv-Xo1k8ua/s4032/20240106_210905883_iOS.heic" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjO0N6h1OwSN4BmUiy214IACZdt4Ioibw1RSTWj1U7NihDwm5XK-XZ4dWI7iUoUvV92YSiLu2-vzPmiL9eIh_Ayh2CZOVMSehO4SmYcH10HhTdkNAeJLe5udhksKczK5UxVu3MSSQuaL20az9Xr3VOX6FFt8IX_U1CL52Uho5SIay52pFbBgTmv-Xo1k8ua/s320/20240106_210905883_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="Bing Crosby and William Holden will co-star in Country Girl">Bing Crosby and William Holden will co-star in </a><i><a href="Bing Crosby and William Holden will co-star in Country Girl">Country Girl</a>. </i>Eddie Fisher will have his screen debut in <i>Away We Go</i>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_the_Rue_Morgue">Claude Dauphin will do a colour, 3D version of Poe's <i>Murder in the Rue Morgue </i>for Warner</a>. Tex McCrary will be producing <i>The President's Week </i>for a fifteen minute NBC Saturday spot, Ann Harding will have a five-minute chatter/interview show on TV this fall, and Bob and Ray have signed a long term contract with ABC. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Where Are They Now? </b>reports that Estelle Taylor, former wife of Jack Dempsey, is now single. Three Georgia insane asylum workers convicted of involuntary manslaughter three years ago are out and working various jobs around Milledgeville. Billy and Bobby Mauch, "leading Hollywood juveniles" of the 30s, are assistant film editors at Warners, are 28, and single. <br /> <br /> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NVPybDl-Bpw" width="320" youtube-src-id="NVPybDl-Bpw"></iframe></div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">This actually comes from the 1 September issue, which I mistakenly began working on before checking the date/. The column was 1/5/5 on showbiz rumours and Pier Angeli is much more charismatic than anyone in the column this week, so she's staying. </div></span> .<p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><b>The Periscope Washington Trends </b>reports that "you can expect some of Eisenhower's top aides" to advise him to stop spending so much time away from the White House. You (and the President) head it here first, as it should be. The President is not upset at<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Patrick_Durkin#:~:text=Martin%20Patrick%20Durkin%20(March%2018,Millionaires%20and%20a%20Plumber%22%20cabinet.&text=Chicago%2C%20Illinois%2C%20U.S."> Labour Secretary Durkin</a> and didn't ask for is resignation. The President wanted to liberalise Taft-Hartley, but the mean old GOP Congressional delegation wouldn't let him do it, <i>and </i>made him sit at the supper table until he'd finished his spinach. But when he does get back to the White House, he will make momentous decisions, such as increasing the defence budget, or not increasing the defence budget. He will definitely make more of atomic weapons, but maybe not that much more. Atomic weapons are here to stay, and will be used more widely. For example, if the 280mm cannon can fire atomic or regular explosives, why not all artillery? </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><b>National Affairs</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXA8jWvnvMTpZ25dSn-nzepocuPD0XlYss_uEfd1PnI9l1R5utNlK0iwkbR12ALAuyrZF9c1qxW2XRrEiLo-IAjfIgkb30_5Ej7galR2t1Du2-J76gQ07rxYDpbg5Lx_8vkNOBq_syoAqzFQcw6wPa_eJVr9sh_kBEmv-5hGZc_gau1qH6Kn_6Uq9Kf-O9/s4032/20240106_210914062_iOS.heic" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXA8jWvnvMTpZ25dSn-nzepocuPD0XlYss_uEfd1PnI9l1R5utNlK0iwkbR12ALAuyrZF9c1qxW2XRrEiLo-IAjfIgkb30_5Ej7galR2t1Du2-J76gQ07rxYDpbg5Lx_8vkNOBq_syoAqzFQcw6wPa_eJVr9sh_kBEmv-5hGZc_gau1qH6Kn_6Uq9Kf-O9/s320/20240106_210914062_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;">"Vinson and Durkin Vacancies Make New Problems For Ike" The President is continuing his "half-work, half-play" routine, hanging around with regular, fun guys like Richard Nixon and John Foster Dulles as he gets ready to nominate successors. The next article says that Durkin resigned because Nixon and Weeks --and how is that man still in the Cabinet after the Bureau of Standards fiasco?-- and not "Congressional leadership," torpedoed the changes. Fred Vinson gets an obituary. Ernest K. Lindley's column explains that Durkin's resignation is no big deal, and that Governor Warren can't be Chief Justice because he has no judicial experience and isn't an ex-President (Taft) or an ex-Senator (Vinson). Warren L. Stephenson, chairman of the Taft committee for the District of Columbia, is up for what it says here is the first influence peddling scandal of the Eisenhower Administration, and forget Weeks and Talbot because they haven't resigned yet. It turns out that Lucille Ball registered as a Communist in 1936, but no-one cares because it's Lucy and not some bookbinder or stenographer or Jewish housewife we can push around. The Army is going after Senator McCarthy for publishing their top secret high school vacation essay, "Siberia, Land of Contrasts." Senator McCarthy says that it isn't anti-communist enough, while the Army said there's no anti-communist way to say "there are seals in Lake Baikal." So the Army says that McCarthy leaks secrets, and McCarthy says that it the Army is a bunch of pinkos, and now they're going to meet behind the Capitol after recess on Friday and settle it up. Also, McCarthy is going after the United Nations in his spare time. </div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVq6p_aQ5aYd3VPlMt7RnZRgKZ2STxwWMTuaaYlaYMAWQFNuR2Oxtbj48M4kcIPFbOOEg8XudkYtTBcLvxCOBKiXgGiR5EXoE2x7LGhRo6u1Q3HjmHqUNB9CaWbCkNlg9AAmxir2UfwS91u41utPNaeCO9waamQawfGvhqihENWLA0SSiBzOOHEkwvMHIO/s4032/20240106_175221726_iOS.heic" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVq6p_aQ5aYd3VPlMt7RnZRgKZ2STxwWMTuaaYlaYMAWQFNuR2Oxtbj48M4kcIPFbOOEg8XudkYtTBcLvxCOBKiXgGiR5EXoE2x7LGhRo6u1Q3HjmHqUNB9CaWbCkNlg9AAmxir2UfwS91u41utPNaeCO9waamQawfGvhqihENWLA0SSiBzOOHEkwvMHIO/s320/20240106_175221726_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></span></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;">"Atom Subs: To the Earth's End with a Sunday Punch" <i>Nautilus, </i>or SSN-571 in the Navy's "fancy mumbo-jumbo," looks like just another submarine, only bigger, but she will be over 20kts, be able to submerge indefinitely, sail under the North Pole, and has a top secret depth limit because we don't want the Reds to know how deep to set their depth charges, the way that loose-lipped Congressman gave it away in WWII. The Navy won't say how you fight an atomic submarine, but it does give Admiral Rickover all the credit for promoting it, and retired Rear Admiral Andrew McKee for leading the design team. General Spaatz points out that once atomic submarines can carry guided missiles, no aircraft carrier or city is safe, and the atomic submarine is necessarily the predominant naval vessel of the future. Air antisubmarine patrol from land bases is essential. my husband's job is guaranteed! </div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>"Chicago Optimism" Democrats are going into their party for Adlai Stevenson full of optimism for the future, or at least the 1954 midterms, as Eisenhower's personal popularity might be too much to crack. Inland states like Arkansas and Missouri are suing for "their" share of Tidelands money. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><b>The Korean Truce </b>is a section, at least this week, as we wonder if there ever actually will be an international conference over Korea. Chou En-lai has cabled the UN that neutrals as well as participants should be invited to the conference, and that North Korea and Red China should be able to send delegates to address the General Assembly, and the U.S. is opposed to both. General John Edwin Hull, who is well known as a self-effacing, modest, all-around good guy, say sources close to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._Hull">General John Edwin Hull</a>, is taking over Far East Command, because he is Eisenhower's man. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><b>International </b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwvags42M5wEDmA86_a9FdpnP0SFiZ9qrWhiZxY9ZHugwHGwV9aSr_uvAhLAfFoxbw6rxzZ7i-9zAYH24FjhB4JRRfeEeHWKERpky99ecXMPJeH45Ng_NjMzR3hq-fGp5iw5nTeHvzaJf7nQdmtMdLnjN7L7vi6-aOTXnHc-Cejr60MJpJeZkMrHRy-ir3/s4032/20240109_131854908_iOS.heic" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwvags42M5wEDmA86_a9FdpnP0SFiZ9qrWhiZxY9ZHugwHGwV9aSr_uvAhLAfFoxbw6rxzZ7i-9zAYH24FjhB4JRRfeEeHWKERpky99ecXMPJeH45Ng_NjMzR3hq-fGp5iw5nTeHvzaJf7nQdmtMdLnjN7L7vi6-aOTXnHc-Cejr60MJpJeZkMrHRy-ir3/s320/20240109_131854908_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;">There is "new pressure" to ratify the EDC says one story, while another interviews Konrad Adenauer pushing for the ratification of the EDC. It seems like the only thing standing in the way of an EDC is that France doesn't want it, and that since America is fine with a German national army, that's probably what we'll have. Hopefully, Adenauer will have the sense not to put any Nazis in his new general staff (or whatever it's going to be called). Leon Volkov's column notices new "Reverses for the Kremlin." Specifically, the West German election, the East German riots, and, Volkov presumes, bad advice from his ambassadors, who are too dogmatically Marxist to see reality. </div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>"Prototype Supremacy" <i>Newsweek </i>reminds us that, as impressive as Farnborough is, all the really exciting planes are prototypes, existing production is of obsolete types, because the Treasury delayed the completion of rearmament until the 1955--58 period, and because not enough have been ordered, and "modern designs rendered obsolete Britain's traditional hand production methods." </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0U-ArLq6t-K8-YDvXv_-m7gv-7Lh7hDOM_1xddxoKXHK2i-_KbysSrPGG3Es4dDC6LpW1tL5sfqlGHxQHCdzq_k1AwobUvzP5C_-9v6xKUNLN47qD7hCtHTlmN-XgkhNBdypyuUCbgoxtAr2IHMuQGNXtQ2waDkCMp0UvyXjxbIjC5YkuK7oOWepaEm2y/s3971/Farnborough%2053.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3971" data-original-width="2597" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0U-ArLq6t-K8-YDvXv_-m7gv-7Lh7hDOM_1xddxoKXHK2i-_KbysSrPGG3Es4dDC6LpW1tL5sfqlGHxQHCdzq_k1AwobUvzP5C_-9v6xKUNLN47qD7hCtHTlmN-XgkhNBdypyuUCbgoxtAr2IHMuQGNXtQ2waDkCMp0UvyXjxbIjC5YkuK7oOWepaEm2y/s320/Farnborough%2053.jpg" width="209" /></a></span></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;">In Russia, Nikita Khrushchev is the new number 2 man behind Beria. In Iran, Mossadegh is on a hunger strike, for which <i>Newsweek </i>has no sympathy, the government is grateful for $45 million in US emergency aid, but says that it is not enough, ditto <i>Newsweek, </i>and negotiations are under way to get Iran's oil flowing in sufficient quantity, and quickly, and to compensate Anglo-Iranian for its losses. In Morocco, the new Sultan's first public appearance was marked by an assassination attempt. In Finland, lots of people are getting married, prompting the headline, "Finnsey Report," and for some reason King Farouk's latest divorce folly gets a full page. </div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>"GI-Ville, West Germany: Relaxed and Combat Ready" The team <i>Newsweek </i>sent over to cover the defeat of the Adenauer government has nothing to do, so instead it visited the GIs at home and checked to see how they're faring. Germany is pretty swell!</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>In Canada, "summers are likely to be long, hot, and dull." Even the general election was boring, it says here. (It was! Jimmy Byrne gave a speech at the community centre and the CCFer (I forget his name) threw a picnic in Burton, and that was it for the Upper Lake.) At one point, James McCallum was the only cabinet minister in Ottawa, and was appointed acting Prime Minister in case the Prime Minister had to act while Uncle Louis was at the lake. But recently we had Hurricane Carroll,<a href="https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/religion-spirituality/sons-of-freedom"> the Doukhobors</a> getting restive, and the Prime Minister announcing that he was off to see the world and would send postcards. So that's exciting! It's actually a sect of Doukhobors, the Sons of Freedom, who are opposed to mandatory state education, which has led the Attorney General to send in the RCMP to seize the kids and take them to residential school (which hasn't been reported), and to arrest 18 activists, which has, in part because they are on hunger strikes. This has lead the Sons to blow up railway lines, burn their own homes, and hold public nude demonstrations. "There is no patent-medicine solution for this kind of problem, Premier W. A. C. Bennett admitted." Which reminds me that there hasn't been much coverage of old "Wacky Bennett," who has been a breath of <i>something </i></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXW3EPVCPma2HHruYhAYLRvu8p8d5dyA2c5L3hNvYHXAkw9IrKv_AA_41UztT-OC2IxyRTPSLmAEmp3bNjjf0zTe7VcBfQFuOh4D1LZkrcUv6yiJpF6WLVwon0CRE3s5_5bbXo-AF65wA3qP9HLN8Ok9v5BQOB7w4Qlo-wxhbJoqaU4D0gg2SJujoLA9MJ/s3538/Gloster%20Javelin%20and%20Handley%20Page%20Victor.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1921" data-original-width="3538" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXW3EPVCPma2HHruYhAYLRvu8p8d5dyA2c5L3hNvYHXAkw9IrKv_AA_41UztT-OC2IxyRTPSLmAEmp3bNjjf0zTe7VcBfQFuOh4D1LZkrcUv6yiJpF6WLVwon0CRE3s5_5bbXo-AF65wA3qP9HLN8Ok9v5BQOB7w4Qlo-wxhbJoqaU4D0gg2SJujoLA9MJ/s320/Gloster%20Javelin%20and%20Handley%20Page%20Victor.jpg" width="320" /></a></i></span></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>around here, but you knew that, of course. Canada is also set to rule that Ontario can't import Texas natural gas because if it did there would be no funding for an<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TransCanada_pipeline"> all-Canadian pipeline</a> to take Alberta natural gas east, which is goig to be a problem for the government's official holier-than-thou position at trade talks. Sam Carr,, the last espionage conspirator in the Gouzenko ring, has been let out of jail.</span><span style="text-align: justify;"> </span></div></span><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><b>Business</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><b>The Periscope Business Trends </b>reports that even though sales and activity are trending downwards in key industries, it won't be much of a downturn, nothing to worry about, just some minor layoffs. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsvwS_kn8YXqpi5y1-M3PZqv7tZQtb8qlEzbDzWR0cxkq-jPYkFVYg_zjRDysydGFCwX2DBgP5MyE7Fhaxzhx-oqNgifP4cUnugnPaLwV5zwYHlphAqV68GyYqPYVaxjqQ5PJH1F4KC37TBxXd0IQEXU08-a9g91TNlBz5YIg3XRDBJQ4-QSZzFPYmssjK/s3487/Stevens%20Development,%20Boston.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3487" data-original-width="2940" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsvwS_kn8YXqpi5y1-M3PZqv7tZQtb8qlEzbDzWR0cxkq-jPYkFVYg_zjRDysydGFCwX2DBgP5MyE7Fhaxzhx-oqNgifP4cUnugnPaLwV5zwYHlphAqV68GyYqPYVaxjqQ5PJH1F4KC37TBxXd0IQEXU08-a9g91TNlBz5YIg3XRDBJQ4-QSZzFPYmssjK/s320/Stevens%20Development,%20Boston.jpg" width="270" /></a></div><span><div style="text-align: justify;">"Cars, Tanks, and Stocks" Further on various indicators: Will Detroit hit its target of 6 million passenger cars and a million trucks? Probably, in spite of Studebaker's announced one-third cut. Also, under Wilson's "most efficient producer" policy, GM will produce all the M-48 tanks and Chrysler will get nothing. I'm not sure what that has to do with anything except some people's low opinionof Wilson, but I'm glad to be up to speed! A separate "box" story explains that the plane cutbacks won't affect the larger economy because they are confined to cancelling satellite production of B-47s at Wichita, Tulsa, and Marietta, while the additional B-47s, F-84s, F-86s, trainers, and helicopters were all "gleams in the Air Force's eyes," with contracts not even placed. The $75 million earmarked for these aircraft may be shifted to procure more B-52s, F-101s, and F-102s.</div></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>"Everyone Makes Policy" <i>Newsweek </i>checks in with Robert C. Hood, President of Ansul Chemical Corporation, who has implemented "participative management," which replaces the old "boss-and-subordinate concept" with one in which everyone participates in making policy. The Post Office is considering a 6 cent airmail stamp that would <i>almost </i>guarantee that the letter went by air. <br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><b>Notes: Week in Business </b>reports that the President will personally decide if the American handblown glass industry gets tariff protection, that the first step in the liquidation of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation will be an auction of its $9 million holding in municipal bonds. Volkswagen is opening a car plant in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Kennecott Copper is shutting its electrolytic refinery in Garfield, Utah, down. Crane Corporation is opening a $25 million titanium plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee. John Dow Farrington is doing a great job of sorting out the Rock Island and Pacific. Not a <b>Note, </b>but worth about a <b>Note, t</b>he current National Homefurnishings Show will be the last exhibition at the Grand Central Palace, which is being sold to the Internal Revenue as office space. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1e6dSb7irtvHNCSQMCDpdAheP2nLveGZLc6DnpoQee0pAaWk-Wl0urY0u_8Zsp1SWTcmOLof4Pvaz5xFFRx7mRrprbfO_3F4V2nUJ9SOhCYsyqFyR8hnrxaYaPJPUrO59XPAFcKcK9uBxiEdqQKq6BdNuGKGRwWL6QUNgDGXosVWraR3Tpabe_ow7cUsm/s4032/20240110_134305023_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1e6dSb7irtvHNCSQMCDpdAheP2nLveGZLc6DnpoQee0pAaWk-Wl0urY0u_8Zsp1SWTcmOLof4Pvaz5xFFRx7mRrprbfO_3F4V2nUJ9SOhCYsyqFyR8hnrxaYaPJPUrO59XPAFcKcK9uBxiEdqQKq6BdNuGKGRwWL6QUNgDGXosVWraR3Tpabe_ow7cUsm/s320/20240110_134305023_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><span><b>Products: What's New </b>reports instant jelly, which can be made for a cost of about 5 cents a glass from powder, sugar, and water<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jell-O"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[?]</span></a>, from American Brands Corporation, "envelopes by the yard" from Uarco of Chicago, rolled out on a paper mill in continuous strips with perforations for separation, a quiet outboard motor from Johnson Motors of Waukegan, Illinois, which has some kind of dampener between motor and hull, and a bobby pin with a finger ring and ridges from Master Products of Clearwater, Florida, will spare women's teeth. <br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Henry Hazlitt explains that he does "not attempt to forecast business conditions" and does not even believe that economic forecasting is possible, and he often says so in the column when he is not predicting imminent doom for any country that dares to implement anything but the full rigours of free enterprise. So he is very happy to see a recent column by John Jewkes attacking "the fashionable idea that economists can predict the future." And not just because it spares him the need to come up with a column! Except Jewkes goes too far. Some predictions are just ideologically wrong. "Secular stagnation" is specifically called out here. Others, well, businessmen have to have <i>some </i>idea of what the future holds, and all other things being equal, increasing the money supply will lead to inflation, for example. Well, v<i>elocity </i>of the money supply, says Keynes. But aside from arguing in a circle, not a bad column. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><b>Science, Medicine, Education </b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>"Sweet Synthesis" Two chemists at the Canadian National Research Council, Drs. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Lemieux">Raymond Lemieux and George Huber</a>, have synthesised a carbohydrate (sucrose, that is, sugar) in the test tube after first synthesising maltose. Although artificial sugar isn't really a practical idea, synthesised sugar with radioactive carbon atoms would be very useful for studying body chemistry.</span> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>"Steel's Hell Broth" What should be done with the sulphuric acid used to pickle steel? It can't just be dumped down the drain, because it could be harmful to "man, livestock, or vegetation," which is why there are stringent regulations against it, leading to steelmakers accumulating ponds of liquid waste. Now "officials at Salt Lake City's <a href="https://www.flsmidth.com/en-gb/company/about-us/product-brands/dorr-oliver?utm_source=google&utm_medium=paid-g&utm_campaign=legacy-brands-x1-mining-NAMER&campaign_id=16590354620&utm_adgroup=EIMCO&adgroup_id=133257692103&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiAnfmsBhDfARIsAM7MKi0d9YQBooeVysIlKAzarQrq-gAsxYfOMvZ84woF63VdSjAhDJ7fPYEaAuznEALw_wcB">EIMCO</a> Corporation" have announced <a href="https://patents.google.com/patent/US2692229A/en">a method</a> using the carbide lime byproduct of acetylene welding to neutralise the acid, ultimately producing a brown cake which can be trucked off to city dumps. Reggie points out that this is <i>ridiculously </i>wasteful, since the whole point of having lakes of sulphuric acid around after <i>using </i>it is that it can be reclaimed, and that throwing away the sulphur you have spent good money on buying as sulphuric acid is even dafter. Why not just truck it over to your competition instead, if you're that determined to go out of business? </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5wGqs0u2AYtnV1guLgcj3E1RHwLIHTnNQ0BNAaqH8B9Gw9yovKi3CIQo0uztci-GibufUp5RkE1tB5-aGSClQ7QQZE0acs9baHVEdRNULrlPiDS6g2O_H9YCkImRKEf1u90rFInpYfweJDHqbs36Pt9ZdLscC6E6Yky_LEZ_0RoCfLU39INR-0CP2HKsn/s4032/20240112_205525189_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5wGqs0u2AYtnV1guLgcj3E1RHwLIHTnNQ0BNAaqH8B9Gw9yovKi3CIQo0uztci-GibufUp5RkE1tB5-aGSClQ7QQZE0acs9baHVEdRNULrlPiDS6g2O_H9YCkImRKEf1u90rFInpYfweJDHqbs36Pt9ZdLscC6E6Yky_LEZ_0RoCfLU39INR-0CP2HKsn/s320/20240112_205525189_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>"Doomsday Warning" The <i>Bulletin of Atomic Scientists </i>has advanced its "doomsday clock" warning from eight minutes to twelve to two minutes to twelve, because of the hydrogen bomb, and has dedicated its entire current issue to civil defence, with an editorial criticising the military for not doing enough. We live in "tragic times," when the threat to American security has never been greater, the <i>Bulletin </i>says.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>"Doctor Surplus" As with jet fighters, the end of the Korean War has left the armed forces with more doctors than it needs, and Wilson has had to step in to let them go. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><b>Medical Notes </b>reports that the new tuberculosis drug,<a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/isoniazid-oral-route-intramuscular-route/side-effects/drg-20064419?p=1#:~:text=Isoniazid%20is%20used%20to%20treat,as%20determined%20by%20your%20doctor."> isoniazid</a>, is showing promising results treating a dangerous fungus infection that I am not even going to try to spell out here. Red blood cells from cancer patients seem to lose phosphorus faster than regular red blood cells, say University of Texas researchers.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chlorpromazine"> Chloropromazine</a> is a new drug with a potent anti-nausea effect, say Kline and French Laboratories of Philadelphia.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><b>Education </b>needs some filler, so here's that story about how vocational high schools are great and you shouldn't be ashamed that your kid is too dumb to get into a better school because he'll be a rich plumber some day! Speaking of plumbing school, the University of Delaware at Newark has introduced an "American Civilisation" class for people who want to say smart things about jazz instead of Sartre. I don't disapprove! </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4UE8U7xU-1qbmHaVjFYG02FRmDmW3s-OvdHpXwE4lAP9VnRCOOsMwtbuTR7vMOLaQCDhHPrsUJrjr-0aBX8VgDxTkF88n1B2b7nzcBgpHyFU3gsCA5rU4qsGGR_AmbTYDDLf29hQKWH3Heb8eBJQvUcRPBUJerZamRmL4_2m7nRNspE86Qn2hs-bC8qJo/s1024/Dennis%20Miller%20Bunker_-_The_Pool,_Medfield.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="767" data-original-width="1024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4UE8U7xU-1qbmHaVjFYG02FRmDmW3s-OvdHpXwE4lAP9VnRCOOsMwtbuTR7vMOLaQCDhHPrsUJrjr-0aBX8VgDxTkF88n1B2b7nzcBgpHyFU3gsCA5rU4qsGGR_AmbTYDDLf29hQKWH3Heb8eBJQvUcRPBUJerZamRmL4_2m7nRNspE86Qn2hs-bC8qJo/s16000/Dennis%20Miller%20Bunker_-_The_Pool,_Medfield.jpg" /></a></div><span><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><b>Art, Press, Radio and Television, Newsmakers</b> <br /><br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._H._Ives_Gammell">R. H. Ives Gammell</a>'s life of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Miller_Bunker">Dennis Miller Bunker</a> explains why the tortured artist died young. He was too sensitive for this world! And also he caught the flu. Continuing with the book reviews, Alfie Frankenstein's <i>After the Hunt </i>is a look at a "bizarre phase" in American art, seventy years ago when <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Harnett">William Michael Harnett</a> (and Dennis Miller Bunker!) was painting. It turns out that "dozens of pictures recently ascribed to Harnett are forgeries." It turns out that Harnett was famous back in the day, and got a big revival in '48, and didn't sign his paintings, leading to similar paintings from back in the day with likewise no signature, being signed as by him.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Harry Truman is writing for the Hearst Press because they offered him a lot of money and he's not made of stone. If you want to know who has the most friends in the newspaper business, it's like that crop duster plane at Texas Agricultural, just look for all the stories about him in <b>Press. </b>(It's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucius_Beebe">Lucius Beebe</a>.) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_N._Oatis">William Oatis</a> is back in the free world but isn't going around denouncing Communism. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Bob Siegrist has been scooping the military with news of POW releases down at WGST in Atlanta, but now he's used up his information and some people are pretty broken up about it. Are there any POWs left in Korea? Ezio Pinzo's new TV show is called <i>Bonnino. My Favourite Husband </i>is a new show that's been put up against <i>Your Show of Shows, </i>so don't blink or you'll miss it. John Womack Vandercook has a daily news commentary soon, sponsored by the CIO, which hopes that it will help organising, especially in anti-union areas. <br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Leo Durocher, Carl Furillo and Rocky Marciano are in the column for that fistfight. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Ay_Sempier">Evelyn Margaret Ay</a> is this year's Miss America and wants to help the starving people of India. Eva Snyder is Mrs. America, and wants to share her recipe for devilled clams. Harry Truman, Artur Rubinstein, Dag Hammerskjold, Helen Traubel, Rita Hayworth, Lola Montez, S<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samia_Gamal">hepphard King</a>,and Babe Didrickson Zacharias are in the column because they are famous. Representative John J. McCarthy is being feted all over New York City in his run for city council because people confuse him with Senator McCarthy, even though he's a Democrat. <br /></span></p><p><span>Tyrone Power has had a baby (with the help of Linda Christian), Senator Kennedy of Massachusets has married, former AEC chairman Gordon Dean has divorced. Abe Nobuyuki, W. E. Playfair, Curtis Whittlesey McGraw, Lewis Stone, and Reginald Werrenrath have died. </span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PAIcHB4BE0M" width="320" youtube-src-id="PAIcHB4BE0M"></iframe></div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">Evelyn Ay said that being Miss America was "like being Doris Day in real life." Her Wikipedia biography is longer than Samia Gamal's.</div></span><span><br /></span><p></p><p><span><b>New Films</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><i>Little Boy Lost </i>is for Uncle George three times over. It's Bing, it's in Paris, and it's not terrible. <i>Desperate Measures </i>is from Britain via Universal, a "middling adventure-pursuit story." <i>Vicki </i>is a remake of a 1941 mystery for Fox, starring someone named Jean Peters, who mainly acts like she's trying not to scratch an itch, and a director who hopefully will do better next time. Warner's <i>Islands in the Sky </i>is about the survivors of a plane crash in the Canadian Arctic. It's not bad. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><b>Books</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Augie_March">Saul Bellow's latest book</a> is pretty good, they say. That's all I'll say about that, having met the man.Delos Lovelace's Bible thriller about the Holy Family's journey is a bit jarring because it uses modern slang, but <i>Newsweek </i>still liked <i>Journey to Bethlehem. </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Borton_de_Trevi%C3%B1o">Elizabeth Borton de Trevito'</a>s <i>My Heart Lies South </i>is about how Mexico used to be a pretty good place back when the locals knew their place. H. St. John Philby's history of the Hause of Saud, and biography of Ibn Saud, <i>Arabian Journey, </i>is an insightful look by the man who was there. Well, not the part a hundred years ago; the part with Palestine! </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Raymond Moley gives the endless Big Government War on the virtuous American businessman/segregationist a rest to explain why he's taking the train back from California instead of driving, as much as he loves motor touring. It's because there's CARNAGE on the highways! Carnage! And he's not wrong. Forty thousand dead and <i>2 million </i>injured last year. Why? Part of it is bad roads. Part of it is all the trucks on the roads these days. Part of it is that speed limits are just plain too high, says Robert Moses, whose opinions form the meat of the column. And part of it is that there's not enough traffic police.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/l2JWHaFwn14" width="320" youtube-src-id="l2JWHaFwn14"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Is it just me, or does this kind of scene land differently these days?</span></div><span><i><p style="text-align: justify;"><span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWbWrMm4YIBOOwtI9kHokIK1IAzEEx5EPrGaeR55SgFk9t2vMDq-UdVc8kSLeYBSUeheUnNQDOc2Q6D22wIv9uUwQONNn7UYhqCECvjSwSx6x9iKJOIAQpSACWBzXJZNREsaf6wLpJbEYrXWILNZALB-zwQB55QMqz-k2Yn1UkIrLtEf-i220yiZgC6jgs/s4032/20240113_181636747_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWbWrMm4YIBOOwtI9kHokIK1IAzEEx5EPrGaeR55SgFk9t2vMDq-UdVc8kSLeYBSUeheUnNQDOc2Q6D22wIv9uUwQONNn7UYhqCECvjSwSx6x9iKJOIAQpSACWBzXJZNREsaf6wLpJbEYrXWILNZALB-zwQB55QMqz-k2Yn1UkIrLtEf-i220yiZgC6jgs/w480-h640/20240113_181636747_iOS.heic" width="480" /></a></span></div><span><br /><i><br /></i></span><p></p>Aviation Week, </i>21 September 1953</span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><b>News Digest </b>reports that the Navy has cut orders for 91 McDonnell F3Hs and the entire Douglas A2D Skyshark order, because their engines have been abandoned. The USAF has cut orders of the J47 to match cuts in plane orders, while the Wright J65 might be cancelled entirely. An American Airlines Convair 240 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Airlines_Flight_723">has crashed near Albany killing all 28 on board</a>, apparently after hitting a radio tower. <i>Aviation Week </i>scoops <i>Newsweek </i>with a story that, as framed here, is about the Navy's pilot :automatic machine factory" for assembling electronics components. In news from the masthead, Alexander McSurely has died. Did you know that he was a friend of Orville Wright and is the source of much of our written record of the Wright brothers? He died at his brother's house, which suggests an extended illness, and is survived by his wife and two daughters, both co-eds, at Duke and Miami.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Are you interested in pictures from Farnborough? There are pictures from Farnborough!</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnAROG-DupYlWB8CHKjJJ_nbvy8aig9R8TvWiIVvbBZW6GcyOK9DtttLcXzbTJjDkZI2sjtYDj5qj0X1xCw3wmeb2AZLN7sLllpBuyoMxxJxxSjuNfKJn-f8Cb8ZQaY3ilTdoih1x301GGksdEAvnBx_IsPdvoG5BhVCFPJ07T5_LjLFzbar_U2SJzdUVd/s4032/American%20Aviation%20DC-7%20ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2785" data-original-width="4032" height="221" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnAROG-DupYlWB8CHKjJJ_nbvy8aig9R8TvWiIVvbBZW6GcyOK9DtttLcXzbTJjDkZI2sjtYDj5qj0X1xCw3wmeb2AZLN7sLllpBuyoMxxJxxSjuNfKJn-f8Cb8ZQaY3ilTdoih1x301GGksdEAvnBx_IsPdvoG5BhVCFPJ07T5_LjLFzbar_U2SJzdUVd/s320/American%20Aviation%20DC-7%20ad.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><b>Industry Observer </b>reports that the Comet I that crashed in Dakar is being rebuilt. British sources point out that on at least three occasions, all three of the jet turbines on one side of a B-47 have been lost to a turbine disintegration, and so much for the argument that pods are better because blade fragments won't penetrate the wings. The loss of the prototype DH110 last year is being attributed to loss of lateral control due to flutter. The Rolls Royce A14 is the best Avon yet. Westinghouse will be getting one or two in the near future as a result of its deal with Rolls Royce. That company is pressing the USAF to accept the RA7 for the F-86Ds being assembled in Italy, which would be good for the British Avon surplus. Westland is fiddling with its S-51 to get more work out of the installed Alvis Leonides. Armstrong Siddeley is working on a long-life version of its Viper. Production versions of the Fairey Gannett will cost $224,000 and are delayed due to Admiralty requirements, and not because of Fairey. "Washington belief that Russians do not have an imporant axial-flow jet" is preventing Rolls-Royce engine sales, it says here. Anglo-American clearance is required before the sale of Avon Comets to countries like Japan, is the specific example given. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4fRbdqr0pbiPM3DmDUb7UUPnWLBw3I8M82xuAXRxayZxmcENzkEzGncU6kPjfmr7sl-4wHWxHQ1L-uqEO5ghm0BDPhZss0VckFKodBALNt-98ym9RF9wUrs789ggu7kDEX89F_b3mhU2ZS5LE2KFxSaMB-nhXCL219AxwFkHUbRlCiAJdjmVQV_6gWFwG/s2391/Bristol%20173.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1251" data-original-width="2391" height="167" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4fRbdqr0pbiPM3DmDUb7UUPnWLBw3I8M82xuAXRxayZxmcENzkEzGncU6kPjfmr7sl-4wHWxHQ1L-uqEO5ghm0BDPhZss0VckFKodBALNt-98ym9RF9wUrs789ggu7kDEX89F_b3mhU2ZS5LE2KFxSaMB-nhXCL219AxwFkHUbRlCiAJdjmVQV_6gWFwG/s320/Bristol%20173.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span><b>Aviation Week </b>reports from Farnborough that "British Accent Need More Production" Except Avons. There ae far too many Avons. "If they can't produce the Hunters and Swifts and Britannias that raced through the bright skies over Farnborough, they can't survive as an independent nation. It's as simple --and tough-- as that." Britain has too many prototypes and not enough new planes in production. Also, there are not enough new new prototypes at Farnborough this year, just the Seamew. The Valiant 2 doesn't count, because it wasn't cleared to land at Farnborough and just flew by overhear. The real low was the pathetic huddle of airliners, just a familiar Comet, Viscount, Heron, and Britannia, and the Bristol 173. There were hardly any missiles, and the models at the static show were just that. Boo, England!<br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Well, of course no-one wants Comets if they're going to let you pretend that the DC-7 can fly New York-LA in eight hours. Actual speed versus regulators in your pockets. Which one do YOU choose?</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span>Erwin J. Bulban reports that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AUM-N-2_Petrel">Fairchild Petrel guided anti-submarine missil</a>e was on display (as a model) at the National Aircraft Show in Detroit last week. Other than that it was mostly propellers and new small engines, and the FBI was patrolling the halls to make sure that Red spies didn't come away with any secrets. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAJdojn6rWzLu0bSzOW9yjiDwiF_HRMCGBd69xaSU1kZC8WmrEtFI03fzKUerZyAjeXr0kwWVS8BD7yrR_0qNY0zSwrmlTITgw7JaDg8v4r9piLDQuXAezVg_ykxXxSxMlBzKqOtGlKOzThgZ1COYuoC_0YA-BBd23C02mDQ_WggsN7Ml54feu0pKZDmv9/s3984/Piasecki%20YA-16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2096" data-original-width="3984" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAJdojn6rWzLu0bSzOW9yjiDwiF_HRMCGBd69xaSU1kZC8WmrEtFI03fzKUerZyAjeXr0kwWVS8BD7yrR_0qNY0zSwrmlTITgw7JaDg8v4r9piLDQuXAezVg_ykxXxSxMlBzKqOtGlKOzThgZ1COYuoC_0YA-BBd23C02mDQ_WggsN7Ml54feu0pKZDmv9/s320/Piasecki%20YA-16.jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span>In his last story for <i>Aviation Week, </i>Alexander McSurely reports from Philadelphia International Airport about the rolling out of the new, giant <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piasecki_H-16_Transporter">Piasecki YA-16 Transporter</a>. The Air Force is not going to recall its leased-out C-54s, after all. CAB is going to hold hearings into the two recent mid-air collisions. GE is working on a new and more powerful rocket motor, with a 20,000lb thrust. An Army demonstration of helicopter shuttle flights in Dayton has drawn crowds. The aircraft delivery backlog stands at $19 billion. Whoo-hoo, Douglas Skyrocket! <span style="font-size: x-small;">Iraq Airways has bought three Viscounts. </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span><b>What's New, </b>from it's new bottom-of-the-page, mid-issue spot, reviews eight manuals, catalogues, and brochures devoted to various machine tools, welding techniques, electronic parts, material handling systems, and industrial coatings. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span>William J. Coughlin reports for <b>Production Engineering </b>that "'Beast Tests New Connie Developments" The "Beast of Burbank" is the first Lockheed Constellation, which was retained by Lockheed as a testbed. It is ugly and not very nice, and that's why they call it that, and it shows the influence of the P-38, and it still has the radome fairings for the early warning and nose collision-avoidance radar prototypes. It has also tested various engines and propellers, leaving memories of those installations in its flight engineering panels, and tested the de-icer boots used in the modern Connies, antenna, and high-stress wing panels, and has a water ballast system for changing the centre of gravity in flight. So that's the story of the beast, which is much more interesting than the following story about "New Drill Speeds B-47 Production," which is about a table installation replacing hand drills for making the rivet pilot holes. Hufford wants us to know that it is selling the curver developed for Northrop, while Kaiser is happy with its new stretcher and the Chance-Vought F7U-3 uses Redux-Metalite panels to reduce weight, and Robinson Aviation has a new vibration-dampening mount. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdhNg4Wy5fM1NlfE7af6wLNz-bqomMysk1iDw00OOG3Q-5ZB6g_5RcAk-xXqDwxvfMud7nFhRtyF94HpNGIwjZA7ZditRLtjDx4Cnx4G7TYXx2YFLosjTG_mi_11uNChK1blToN2PZ3culAhFgwvDtuN5dcZGh18FC-VLKiSQRWojRdeTmxFkXYJ4rOEnk/s2662/Logrinc%20Digital%20Graph%20Follower.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2662" data-original-width="1705" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjdhNg4Wy5fM1NlfE7af6wLNz-bqomMysk1iDw00OOG3Q-5ZB6g_5RcAk-xXqDwxvfMud7nFhRtyF94HpNGIwjZA7ZditRLtjDx4Cnx4G7TYXx2YFLosjTG_mi_11uNChK1blToN2PZ3culAhFgwvDtuN5dcZGh18FC-VLKiSQRWojRdeTmxFkXYJ4rOEnk/s320/Logrinc%20Digital%20Graph%20Follower.jpg" width="205" /></a></span></div><span><br /> Philip Klass reports for <b>Avionics </b>that "F-86D Flies With New Automatic Engineer," which is about how the new model of GE J47 has an automatic engine control unit, which makes it easier for him to handle the complex fire control system. It's a feedback system that uses rpm, inlet and outlet temperatures to adjust fuel and air flow. The real trick is in the amplifier setup, which gives rapid response without surging. Four companies have new potentiometers for aircraft use on the market, including G. M. Giannini Corporation. Banking is not enough! Or there are possibly <i>two </i>families named "Giannini." L<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALWAC_III-E#:~:text=The%20ALWAC%20III%2DE%20was,the%20Alwac%20III%20computer%2C%201959.">ogistics Research, Inc</a>'s Logrinc Digital Graph Follower is an automatic digital plotting device which can be used as a curve follower, just like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calcomp">California Computer Products</a>' Model 701 Digital Point Plotter. <b>Filter Centre </b>reports that Ford Instruments has set up a fellowship at Cornell, that the NBS has developed the most sensitive micromanometer yet, while Mellon Institute's nonlinear resistors have a resistance that varies as the seventh power of the input voltage. The Engineering Research Associates Division of Remington Rand developed the data reduction computers to be used at the Arnold Centre. Wright Field has a CRT for air navigation, Hughes is expanding its diode production facility, Bendix has a new flush ADF antenna, RCA's premium 6101 vacuum tube is a ruggedised version of the 6J6, and Lear's new 12 channel VHF light plane radio is very small.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRCXqYFd-N4Nb26h9cKCRZ-OjIa24bQU4aWYwkcKYK7ecMHDpqZ6HzH9a2TThjLlKHmSxCxoyT3f0iapssnjciY6umKNZC0gRjUAd9YZVXYwuiesp1dwjcfqrK8vk6_NONOctCD5sO7bDpYvS3p_AyvBsaHSvr4x0Tkv6wOHvMXOtTQoCkEPr6gMIr0WU-/s4032/20240113_184810720_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiRCXqYFd-N4Nb26h9cKCRZ-OjIa24bQU4aWYwkcKYK7ecMHDpqZ6HzH9a2TThjLlKHmSxCxoyT3f0iapssnjciY6umKNZC0gRjUAd9YZVXYwuiesp1dwjcfqrK8vk6_NONOctCD5sO7bDpYvS3p_AyvBsaHSvr4x0Tkv6wOHvMXOtTQoCkEPr6gMIr0WU-/s320/20240113_184810720_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></span></div><span>George L. Christian reports for <b>Equipment </b>that "CPA's Varied Air Fleet Covers Canada" Mainly its some DC-6s and a pile of junk like Ansons and Catalinas, but at least it makes life interesting at the Vancouver maintenance base! GE has a new flow meter, Northwestern is testing the Grimes rotating beacon. <b>New Aviation Products </b>has a self-cleaning hydraulic servo valve from Saunders Associates, a "new air-ground radio communicator" from Aircraft Radio Corporation. Also, steel clamps, hose couplings and a work station grinder with knee pad control. <b>Also On The Market </b>has a rummage sale sort-of ad from Vickers for "all sorts" of gyro components, as well as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axonometric_projection">usual junk too cheap to advertise above the fold</a>. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span>"Newer Connies" Lockheed has worked out a plan to compete with the Britannia by putting turboprops on the Constellation 1249B model. No-one's ordered one yet, and the proposed engine was cancelled by Pratt and Whitney, but other than that it's a go! </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span><b>Letters</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span>Allen Hayes of Chartair disagrees with Captain Robson on the subject of mid-air collisions. It's the fault of the overtaking plane, period. Richard Boutelle of Fairchild liked the "Airpower Sabotaged" article and congratulates <i>Aviation Week </i>for predicting unfolding developments back in 1950. Robert H. Wood's <b>Editorial </b>buys into the passenger helicopter buzz and prints an obituary for Curtis W. McGraw, the third son of James McGraw, who died at home on 10 September at the age of 57. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span><br /></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsn3JmDZ9ho5CHiR_PMNj6AAnpVzHRiSsUZO6Ohy9Erf9bByIpUHsq3ysLGHBqDDuzGXSC4zYgXY76Qx8_5-Xb41eDvU3OxDDtmQuj6PVoKj3X1Cpz3mpGSr4WdRajepJMns-pFxWuziMq1mkLrDt5j2N3tvDgkGfmI9wEZJlLulb2ARGpc7P0NZCq0KN1/s4032/20240112_213403505_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsn3JmDZ9ho5CHiR_PMNj6AAnpVzHRiSsUZO6Ohy9Erf9bByIpUHsq3ysLGHBqDDuzGXSC4zYgXY76Qx8_5-Xb41eDvU3OxDDtmQuj6PVoKj3X1Cpz3mpGSr4WdRajepJMns-pFxWuziMq1mkLrDt5j2N3tvDgkGfmI9wEZJlLulb2ARGpc7P0NZCq0KN1/s16000/20240112_213403505_iOS.heic" /></a></span></div><span><br /><b><br /></b></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><b>Letters</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Various Alaskans are upset about the article about religion in Alaska that suggests that's it just a Catholic mission field. There are Episcopalians, too! Harry Menezes and Andy Collins really liked the latest article about Joseph Brown, the sculptor who does all those undressed male athletes in intimate poses. A. R. Bartlett of Sebring, Florida and Charles A. Smith of Kingsland, Georgia, are upset in advance in case the Administration comes out against segregation. Joe Santley of the <i>Los Angeles Examiner </i>is upset that <i>Newsweek </i>is promoting scuba diving as "skin diving." <i>Four </i>other writers liked it, except that Charles Barham of New York City wishes that there was more about Hawaii in it. Frederick Richardson of Minneapolis doesn't like drinking, but Dr. C. O. Thienhaus does. <b>For Your Information </b>reports that <i>Newsweek </i>is very impressed with how hard <i>Newsweek </i>works.</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-muYtqcsnNvAO3z79XpO7Wl-cY2jq7A1o8GHYNQMhToz3KRjqrhUszQ3_IrzcFoxendnWLLJufpzD8OlNTAjVmsPYfS1b41bCx0M41FJGUYBVfQDtpB8QvbW5C-nIs4NEkupuLR9fcpoTFnJTsq8VXLhgSSXrnAaXt6wBO-86jVAT7_JV7cIdjxSsSwdN/s2866/Farnborough%2053(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1875" data-original-width="2866" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-muYtqcsnNvAO3z79XpO7Wl-cY2jq7A1o8GHYNQMhToz3KRjqrhUszQ3_IrzcFoxendnWLLJufpzD8OlNTAjVmsPYfS1b41bCx0M41FJGUYBVfQDtpB8QvbW5C-nIs4NEkupuLR9fcpoTFnJTsq8VXLhgSSXrnAaXt6wBO-86jVAT7_JV7cIdjxSsSwdN/s320/Farnborough%2053(2).jpg" width="320" /></a></span></div><span><br /> </span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><b>The Periscope </b>reports that "this is pretty drastic talk," but people are saying that Nikita Khrushchev is going "all the way to the top." Fifth Air Force intelligence has word that there might be 944 Americans still held in Manchurian detention camps, including 300 fliers. The Reds are building up their air power in North Korea in flagrant violation of the armistice conditions. Some 150 Chinese and North Korean soldiers have defected south since the armistice. Ike is going to make an appearance in Boston this week to quash rumours that his long stay in Colorado has been a "medical necessity." Meanwhile White House staffers have persuaded the President that he needs to travel with a doctor. The Administration is cracking down on leakers, while the RNC plans a newsletter. Stephen Mitchell is going to get twenty-five grand a year to be DNC chairman because his firm was going to pot while he was holding down the fort. Estes Kefauver is upset that there was hardly any attention on him at the Chicago Democratic shindig. Bryce Harlow is taking over speechwriting duties for the President, Herbert Hoover is going to advise the Administration on oil, no-one expects Brownell's campaign against "wetbacks" to come to anything in the face of Imperial valley growers' resistance, and no-one can understand why the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Sobeloff">Administration still hasn't got a Solicitor General.</a> Eisenhower is reminding his buddy generals that being against the atom bomb is like sticking to horses in the Thirties. Admiral Nimitz has joined the "submarines are the capital ships of the future" crowd. Egypt will see a series of bloody purges due to Communist backing of the Wafd. Malenkov is being mean to Stalin's daughter. A Portuguese shipping company has been selling steel, copper and nickel to Communist Poland through London. The Central Committee of the Austrian Communist Party thinks that something is in the wind. The next Philippine general election will be he bloodiest yet unless the Quirino Administration allows an honest vote. <br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ08k09NdG5nWpN0ERdFMqaD1DBKzlGc1g-pl6KA-5lZXiK5PF-N_vil0j4TffI3Z5ai8U0m36LVFbbh2-R9xjzPuQVClnhhyphenhyphenW5Cu5knff_1j9R3pk3ezeNgBf32uUE68b7fHJAxqYjcz7Se9uC8XXe4pLYCB83JANqmWf5oKA56rEiyh9ECwAY23NTdmr/s3218/Morocco%20September%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3218" data-original-width="3004" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJ08k09NdG5nWpN0ERdFMqaD1DBKzlGc1g-pl6KA-5lZXiK5PF-N_vil0j4TffI3Z5ai8U0m36LVFbbh2-R9xjzPuQVClnhhyphenhyphenW5Cu5knff_1j9R3pk3ezeNgBf32uUE68b7fHJAxqYjcz7Se9uC8XXe4pLYCB83JANqmWf5oKA56rEiyh9ECwAY23NTdmr/s320/Morocco%20September%201953.jpg" width="299" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Gregory Peck will star in <i>Lawrence of Arabia. </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Me_(film)#:~:text=Lucky%20Me%20is%20a%201954,process%20and%20filmed%20in%20Warnercolor.&text=Warner%20Bros.">Doris Day, Robert Cummings and Phil Silver will do a musical for Warner, </a><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Me_(film)#:~:text=Lucky%20Me%20is%20a%201954,process%20and%20filmed%20in%20Warnercolor.&text=Warner%20Bros.">Lucky Me</a>. </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Harder_They_Fall_(1956_film)">Humphrey Bogart will do </a><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Harder_They_Fall_(1956_film)">Nick the Greek</a>, </i>and an independent is shopping <i>Mossadegh and the Shah </i>around Hollywood. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Fortune">Frank Sinatra will play a private investigator in an NBC radio series, </a><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Fortune">Frankie Galahad</a>. Whom Am I </i>will be a children's quiz show on NBC in the fall, with Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR0wIq_3Sj0">Bing Crosby's first show for GE will be on CBS at Christmas</a>. Film of the ill-fated K2 expedition will be shown on NBC this fall. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><b>Where Are They Now </b>reports that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Scott_(engineer)">Howard Scott</a> is living on a farm and earning a living as "director-in-chief of Technocracy."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Talley"> Marion Talley</a> is living with her sister in California and raising her daughter. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/fAQT1v77AQQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="fAQT1v77AQQ"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">So very, very white.<b> The Periscope </b>is downright accurate this week. </span><b> </b></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><b>The Periscope Washington Trends </b>reports that we can completely disregard rumours that the :President wants to get rid of Dulles. They are <i>not </i>quarrelling, but rather are in perfect agreement. That's why you'll hear more about Communism and "creeping socialism" going into the '54 election. Meanwhile, Congressional Republicans are confident that they'll finally get their tax cuts next year. On the other hand the Administration is going to move heaven and earth to keep farm prices from sagging further. Democrats will come out swinging, are worried less about "winning the South," and will abandon the loyalty oath at the next convention. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><b>National Affairs</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0cIwd-1W83v5He4YEAgSRdvHBZpRQvpQR8W5VruBlHvn9hnJRskxDKGWfmmIl2BgKHIXRLfT7xtt32gdAyOlv5ndXfZmHzeScgQQq4aXCqqNphKPbTzOGY4SvxCFHPHX34NAnvYmg_UCIOrK31uLRblOOIZ0en6IdzkU3k5yO9R9Xi1GaoLYyUJwdgDle/s4032/20240112_230320941_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0cIwd-1W83v5He4YEAgSRdvHBZpRQvpQR8W5VruBlHvn9hnJRskxDKGWfmmIl2BgKHIXRLfT7xtt32gdAyOlv5ndXfZmHzeScgQQq4aXCqqNphKPbTzOGY4SvxCFHPHX34NAnvYmg_UCIOrK31uLRblOOIZ0en6IdzkU3k5yO9R9Xi1GaoLYyUJwdgDle/s320/20240112_230320941_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><span>"Ike Back at the Old Grind, Facing Time of Decision" The President is back and will probably maybe fight McCarthy a bit, and launch a new programme of aggressive candour with the American people. Except about a national sales tax. No national sales tax for us! Farmers still hate Ezra Benson, the Secretary of the Interior says that the Administration's power policy is to jump right back in the private utilities' pockets, because it is so warm and cozy there, and the main theme of the Republican convention in Chicago is that Stevenson is soft on Communism. Two returned Korean War POWs were killed in a car crash last week, because everyone is doing it. Unions are fighting a non-union barber chain in Detroit, a nice Czech lady who fled Communism is happy in Sioux City. Senator McCarthy is in trouble for having<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Unger"> Abraham Unger</a> evicted from a hearing by force and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1953/09/29/archives/mccarthy-now-sees-hoax-in-the-beria-escape-story.html">because his committee is talking up</a> a rumour that Lavrenti Beria has escaped from Russia and is in the committee's custody at some undisclosed place in eastern Europe, ready to talk. Sinclair Weeks has decided that his <a href="https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/cen-v031n039.p4016">Assistant Secretary, Craig R. Sheaffer</a>, was responsible for the whole <a href="https://www.nist.gov/system/files/documents/nvl/SP925_08_CHAPTER_TWO-_TESTING_CAN_BE_TROUBLESOME.pdf">Bureau of Standards thing</a>, and has asked for his resignation, like the leader he is. Harold Talbot has a nice interview in the paper explaining "USAF Still Best."All criticisms are without merit, the Red Air Force is larger but less effective, we have plenty of A-bombs, practically have a 143 wing air force when you count all our planes, and those crybabies at SAC better shut up about training. And like the cover says,people in Illinois still like Ike. Ernest K. Lindley's column explains how Dulles is going to pull the European Defence Community out of his hat and counter all those complaints about American rigidity with one masterful UN speech. <br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><b>International</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>"West Approves Dulles Speech As UN Faces Grave Problems" Everyone liked Dulles speech but they are very impatient with the whole "no Red China at the UN" thing. Another MiG-15 has defected. All POWs have been returned now, the Reds say. The other 3404 names on the UN list have either escaped, died, or been released. All 23,000 Red POWs have now been turned over to the Indians, who will start admitting Red "explainers" to persuade them to return to the East bloc soon. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglCHrkc11nReBcHoWdtwjRp5FZldwc6NkPkqUxr4N4pdmtPYidNh8N-xpAPTw2-n0o8JNCDoDY4w4c0kEp61jYiqgiNu0D4Y3LbNh5o2TTZDdStvkEEY3CzmwWgLGe81h6sNBuTgMyL-B7pZQdw6qrORz-2wRzuLuNzmg2pwms3SRqDJuS72bB8ASI-8vM/s2640/British%20POW%20returns%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1844" data-original-width="2640" height="224" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglCHrkc11nReBcHoWdtwjRp5FZldwc6NkPkqUxr4N4pdmtPYidNh8N-xpAPTw2-n0o8JNCDoDY4w4c0kEp61jYiqgiNu0D4Y3LbNh5o2TTZDdStvkEEY3CzmwWgLGe81h6sNBuTgMyL-B7pZQdw6qrORz-2wRzuLuNzmg2pwms3SRqDJuS72bB8ASI-8vM/s320/British%20POW%20returns%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span>"The Long Voyage to Oblivion: Melinda McLean Disappears" <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Maclean_(spy)">Donald McLean</a>'s disappearance is still officially unexplained, but now his three children and his wife have also disappeared. Because obviously McLean and his pal Guy Burgess were Red agents, and now McLean's family has gone to join him. Even though they looked like they were on the path to divorce before McLean disappeared. Go figure!</span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>"Peace or War?" The Egyptian authorities have arrested the leadership of the Wafd. The crackdown was inspired by rumours that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mostafa_el-Nahas">Mustafa Nahas</a> had been meeting with General Sir Brian Robertson. Senator Knowland is in Cambodia this week to warn Prince Sihanouk not to be so "neutralist." Ambassador <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vijaya_Lakshmi_Pandit">Vijaya Lakshim Pandit</a> is to be the first female head of the General Assembly. <i>Newsweek </i>is predictably overjoyed to hear her say something that can be construed as anti-feminist. If only there were some few, rare, voices of anti-feminism to be heard in the world today! (That's sarcasm.) Also, the United States of Europe (also known as the EDC) is just around the corner! <br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Away down south Latin America way, Panama is pushing to increase rents on the Panama Canal, feeling that $450,000 a year isn't much of a cut on the $31 million the US collects in tolls. They're also a bit less than impressed with the white supremacy rules in the Canal Zone. <i>Newsweek </i>points out that even though the Canal Treaty is cordially hated in Panama, the recent agitation is <i>still </i>the cause of the rabble-rousing Panamanian president. <i>Newsweek </i>gently suggests throwing him a bone, anyway, because the Canal is kind of important. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6wqCS2hI7vzMzw2Dtg_Ng7NgaHcjqJMC_mCn30x5x6ZppHxC2DrgGs9t30513rM8VJBKYVJDe5pTQcU9pTcnRjy_jBD9nvO8U7mEzRjMWh6F6DvWQ7szWJmz_b5SaLOAOqgZsqR-dedtVWu5AGwBg2gMoLed9ZK6VaJalqnDxb9JoQ9RHQxLayDr6ApQw/s4032/20240113_144709390_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6wqCS2hI7vzMzw2Dtg_Ng7NgaHcjqJMC_mCn30x5x6ZppHxC2DrgGs9t30513rM8VJBKYVJDe5pTQcU9pTcnRjy_jBD9nvO8U7mEzRjMWh6F6DvWQ7szWJmz_b5SaLOAOqgZsqR-dedtVWu5AGwBg2gMoLed9ZK6VaJalqnDxb9JoQ9RHQxLayDr6ApQw/s320/20240113_144709390_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><span><b>Business</b></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Periscope Business Trends </b>reports that there's not going to be a recession or it will be over by Christmas. Meanwhile the Administration is trying to save money over at business regulation by cutting the budget of the ICC and the FTC. Beef prices are likely to remain steady, the pork shortage will continue, some American businesses will invest in Germany now that Adenauer has won re-election and the Office of Defence Mobilisation is going to mothball all those machine tools it bought, instead of trying to sell them to private industry, which would be bad for machine tool makers. <br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"The Economy in U.S. Industry: It's A Time of Readjustment" The Treasury Secretary says that it isn't a slump, it's a readjustment. The various bankers <i>Newsweek </i>talk to think that either everything is great, or that the need to fund the public debt is going to keep interest rates low and consumer credit easy for the foreseeable future. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Notes: Week in Business </b>reports that General Sarnoff is saying that tiny radios you can carry in your pocket are the next big thing. Dividends are up 4% over the same period in 1952 at $4.8 billion. Bethlehem Steel is building a ship at San Francisco. It's the "rebirth" of American shipbuilding. I'm going to be cautious and wait to celebrate until the <i>second </i>hull is laid down. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvzkvDXjKHMB9JpuGjl8VpOkY1Io56oREmNQuBckoBz-Gr4_pWp8aELNx_uN1ayY7Q7ynj5H-uUwCPYxsWjVny1OI-CqOyVzM2QL1Xahf6AUxRTLCFHVrz3QHjiioAFdP4vqOcsUZZIA4NjG2B9X48fPqxqTKS7ZpcRtfi1cr_0fK0_VK1DT2iNsmeFTvG/s3115/Operation%20Tinkertoy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3115" data-original-width="1848" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvzkvDXjKHMB9JpuGjl8VpOkY1Io56oREmNQuBckoBz-Gr4_pWp8aELNx_uN1ayY7Q7ynj5H-uUwCPYxsWjVny1OI-CqOyVzM2QL1Xahf6AUxRTLCFHVrz3QHjiioAFdP4vqOcsUZZIA4NjG2B9X48fPqxqTKS7ZpcRtfi1cr_0fK0_VK1DT2iNsmeFTvG/s320/Operation%20Tinkertoy.jpg" width="190" /></a></div>"Operation Tinkertoy" The Navy is very excited about same, a project, farmed out to the Bureau of Standards and worked on by the Electronics Division of Kaiser Motors and the Doughnut Corporation (<a href="https://restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com/tag/doughnut-corporation-of-america/">no, really, that's what it says</a>), of fitting electronic components into a "ceramic module of electrical grade steatite," allowing a mechanical structure for electronic assemblies. <br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"It Costs Dough" It is super-expensive to drive in New York City. For example, one national baking company says that it costs $1.25 a mile to deliver in NYC compared to 40 cents on average in the rest of the country. A major oil company says that its trucks need clutch jobs very 40,000 to 50,000 miles outside New York, 18,000 inside. The total wage bill for traffic stoppages in New York City is $350 million, while the delivery costs add up to an extra $1.25 with gas mileage about half (9.77 compared with 19). </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Products: What's New </b>reports that G. W. Davis is marketing lawnmowers with head lamps for those who want to mow their lawns at night to beat the summer heat. Kendall Corporation of Walpole, Mass., has fragrantly scented diapers. B. F. Goodrich has a conveyor belt which can be adjusted to either drain its load or contain the water. Du Pont's Dacron is soft and strong. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Can Britain Keep Jet Transport Leadership?" Turbojets are not promising. The Comet is small and uneconomical by modern standards, and requires 80% seat booking to make a profit for BOAC, although bookings are reported at only 65%. The Comet II is better, but still not the plane the market wants, and doesn't have trans-Atlantic range. Turboprops are more fuel efficient and have been held back by military investment in speed. (Reggie: "Bullshit! It's the propellers and gears!") Miles Thomas thinks that the Britannia is ready to make an 8 hour Atlantic hop. Turbocompounds sound promising, and the British are full of pessimism because they have become disillusioned by the Comet and are worried about chronically slow delivery times. "They are still worried that American manufacturers will catch up," and that second generation American planes will be as good as British. Someone should tell <i>Newsweek </i>about the Conway! </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Henry Hazlitt's column is titled "Italy's Creeping Capitalism," and it is about how Italy is getting more capitalist and its inflation has disappeared thanks to its corrected thinking. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Science, Medicine, Education</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Man Against the Gods" The National Research Council's study of peoples' reaction to the kind of disasters that already happen (tornadoes, floods), shows that people are surprisingly tough and sensible, so even with H-bombs there's hope! However, ringing church bells isn't as helpful as you might think unless people already know what it means. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"India's Birth Control" India is promoting birth control to solve its overpopulation problem, and a new medical encyclopedia could enlighten patients about their conditions or just make Dr. r. Lee Clark of the M. D. Anderson Hospital for Cancer Research rich. (Richer.)</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh16z9kzBTOzjYL7wa5L4lfEDjfft9r6GJkFwMgUNz8T-uyoDIGsJNNkri0_RGtQOeLt0CvNYlSJPM6fOZMgdSn12280dt-WS1xP9YyxogsUlUrjkiOLEOHLG_-Ub4sLr2OI-56uUERA1hTiF8mxV3Pdmm3w-iNJqjxGR-G67Pra01z-3efnL8ExxNXkjux/s2499/Dell%20City%20Texas%20school%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1647" data-original-width="2499" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh16z9kzBTOzjYL7wa5L4lfEDjfft9r6GJkFwMgUNz8T-uyoDIGsJNNkri0_RGtQOeLt0CvNYlSJPM6fOZMgdSn12280dt-WS1xP9YyxogsUlUrjkiOLEOHLG_-Ub4sLr2OI-56uUERA1hTiF8mxV3Pdmm3w-iNJqjxGR-G67Pra01z-3efnL8ExxNXkjux/s320/Dell%20City%20Texas%20school%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>School is in, the numbers are a record, here are some colourful stories. Also at record size is the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's incoming class of engineers, which is an illustration of how engineering class sizes are increasing. I'd be worried if my husband weren't already an engineer. If you're running from a bear, you don't have to be faster than the bear, just everybody else! The Student Marketing Institute is helping college students make money in door-to-door sales. <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><b>Radio-TV, Press, Newsmakers</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuUaqWMY4po">Red Buttons</a> is on the cover, and a profile runs in <b>Radio-Television </b>as part of a longer article about up and coming TV comedians like Walt Cox, Joel Gray, and Sammy Davis, Jr. Buttons claims that there is a shortage of TV comedians because most people on the comedy circuit lack his kind of intensive training in the Catskills "Borscht Belt." Meanwhile, the Ford Foundation is sponsoring lots of children's television story hours. the new school in the new town of Dell City, Texas, is quite nice. <br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In <b>Press, </b>some attempted censorship by Fulgencia Batista has blown up in his face because everyone hates Batista, including the Archbishop of Havana. New York newspapers have discovered another way to have a price war, The <i>Ashville Citizen </i>has a very annoying subscriber, which is <i>obviously </i>national news. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_M._Norton">Howard Norton of the </a><i><a href="https://www.baltimoresun.com/1994/03/14/howard-norton-pulitzer-winning-reporter-for-sun/">Baltimore Sun</a> </i>is a really good reporter. Like, once he found some people getting unemployment insurance who didn't deserve it, and another time he did a profile of Wallace and the Progressive Party, and still another time he found some corruption at Maryland mental hospitals. Just such a wonderful reporter. So good. Everyone, my good friend, Howie! When the Russians started granting exit visas to the wives of American newspapers in Moscow, all the reporters jumped on it and now the bureaus are unstaffed, but they're working on it. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Evelyn Ay, Christian Dior, the Queen, Mamie Eisenhower, Margaret Truman, John Sparkman, Joseph Martin, Gandhi's son, Perle Mesta, Ava Gardner, Frank Sinatra, Gregory Peck, General William Dean, Eartha Kitt, Dick Haymes and Sophie Tucker are in the column for the usual reasons, and Sing Sing prison for being done up in a new pastel green finish.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span> </span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UDS5RAaCl3U" width="320" youtube-src-id="UDS5RAaCl3U"></iframe></span></div><span><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">Gotta have a little Christmas!</div></span></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Joe McCarthy is engaged, so much for those rumours. (No-one who is <i>that </i>way ever got married to throw them off the tracks before!) Rosemary McMahon and Colette Marchand are married. Vincent Astor is divorced. <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/18759211">Bill Maguire</a> is dead, as is General Isaia Medina Angarita, Lewis Corey, Dr. Colin Fink, and Percival Wilde. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><b>New Films</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEOtFTh-2oc8zBVNQ4yrEeC2OnumevGkVm67YCTsX6_vqb8YKdJEYL_EVV_LsTfKDdnSyTwxVUgn8h6LcFiLR5aPiS5uQ-0x9KNIfMYklclsZJpOCUbFFA4m4J0L7RPWpNiNwOShZrTqffmHvmmMzFUkUzL9m6RZorkRRcwSGliwPeE8Eu73oM4E5AB04G/s2303/Mature,%20Victor.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="So that's what they're calling it now." border="0" data-original-height="2303" data-original-width="1522" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEOtFTh-2oc8zBVNQ4yrEeC2OnumevGkVm67YCTsX6_vqb8YKdJEYL_EVV_LsTfKDdnSyTwxVUgn8h6LcFiLR5aPiS5uQ-0x9KNIfMYklclsZJpOCUbFFA4m4J0L7RPWpNiNwOShZrTqffmHvmmMzFUkUzL9m6RZorkRRcwSGliwPeE8Eu73oM4E5AB04G/w211-h320/Mature,%20Victor.jpg" width="211" /></a></span></div><span><i><a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046247/">The Robe</a>, </i>from Fox, is a Bible epic in CinemaScope. It's something, and so is Victor Mature, but the drama is not up to the scope of the movie. <i>Half a Hero </i>is a Red Skelton vehicle from MGM. It's about Red being a regular guy, only funny, and it's pretty good even if he isn't showing off his muscled chest like certain dreamboat actors I could name. Also from Fox is <i>Dangerous Crossings, </i>"a satisfying melodrama." With Mary Anderson! <i>The Actress </i>is a "sentimental and intermittently funny" movie from MGM, a period piece from before WWI, so costumes and old collegiate times. But it's got Spenser Tracy, so there. <br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><b>Books</b></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caroline_Kirkland">Caroline Kirkland</a>'s (1839) <i>A New Home: Who'll Follow? </i>is back in print,, which is good news, even if it needed a bit of editorial touch-up, especially because it combines the original with two sequels. This in way of introducing a discussion of all the American classics no longer in print, before we get to recent editions of John Lloyd Stevens, Gouverneur Morris, Theodore Winthrop, and Thomas Wentworth Higginson. The feature article compresses reviews of new novels by Jerome Weldman (<i>The Third Angel</i>) and Ramsey Ullman( <i>Sands of Karakorum</i>)<i> </i>into a brief <b>Other Books </b>section. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tuUaqWMY4po" width="320" youtube-src-id="tuUaqWMY4po"></iframe></div>Raymond Moley says his taxes are too high. You can tell, because he's not working very hard! But he is going to work if Sumner Schlichter says that high taxes might be <i>stimulating </i>investment. Or at least long enough to round up some criticisms in the clippings. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQcvEvGbU2xgy5dlz5hZcnGcNT8mK_aG733UyXszKwEjXP0y_fTDIXsquEwh6a6IFmJ79cv29KKEJf0N-QPaMvcKN5GrzHc8KFc8rASBQecAlEyD3KTQ0qpnHTyRx-KqtR2mopowoyNh6WV4wZ01OYpDZGg3eX4wLRUa3TMKUmDtkPewfdRKtwkndNuCiq/s4032/20240113_185753907_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQcvEvGbU2xgy5dlz5hZcnGcNT8mK_aG733UyXszKwEjXP0y_fTDIXsquEwh6a6IFmJ79cv29KKEJf0N-QPaMvcKN5GrzHc8KFc8rASBQecAlEyD3KTQ0qpnHTyRx-KqtR2mopowoyNh6WV4wZ01OYpDZGg3eX4wLRUa3TMKUmDtkPewfdRKtwkndNuCiq/s16000/20240113_185753907_iOS.heic" /></a></div><br /><span><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><i>Aviation Week, </i>28 September 1953</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizvWiTFIDK_tmkj8NtCqizHA9qpMIxva0shn3TsmovjNaGHdSPiaCKCZPpwJgF0Re1_2w8J296cuq2eOsk9uhE8hTWlJMa1GVQvQmBiLzNAxTtCimLwDZUCQmYv6KoVnsys2qbDvyHhbcrMSBPfThEUw5dXA76ZFQz_XmiIuYAHGULP2oo05ovq2QtconP/s4032/20240113_185745564_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizvWiTFIDK_tmkj8NtCqizHA9qpMIxva0shn3TsmovjNaGHdSPiaCKCZPpwJgF0Re1_2w8J296cuq2eOsk9uhE8hTWlJMa1GVQvQmBiLzNAxTtCimLwDZUCQmYv6KoVnsys2qbDvyHhbcrMSBPfThEUw5dXA76ZFQz_XmiIuYAHGULP2oo05ovq2QtconP/s320/20240113_185745564_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></span></div><span><b>News Digest </b>reports that the Administration might be digging in its heels against would-be defence budget cutters. Donald McGraw will succeed his brother, Curtis, as President of McGraw-Hill. The CAB is planning to shift more airline traffic from L/MF routes to VOR routes by filling gaps in partially-completed VOR routes with VHF aids such as ILS localisers, visual-aural ranges, and low-frequency beacons. Neville Duke's record now has to be homologed. BOAC registered an operating deficit in the most recent quarter after paying off issued capital. Australian National is receiveing some DC-6s, Japan Airlines some DC-6Bs. <b>Industry Observer </b>reports that the Russians are equipping fheir first combat groups with the new turboprop, possibly designated a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-95">Type-31 or Tu-75</a>. Russian sources have confirmed production of the Il-28 jet bomber. <i>Aviation Weekk </i>reports that American officials are upset that the Avon RA-14 will be available on the Comet 3, because it is a great new axial engine and will end up in Commie hands, and they need it, because <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumansky_R-11">Commies can't figure out axial jet engines</a> any more than they can grasp the H-bomb. (Yes, not really an H-bomb, but that's what we're calling it!) GE's atomic aircraft engine will be designed by a special division at the company. Aerojet is building rato units for the air force, Curtis-Wright will start testing a Bristol Olympus soon, Piasecki has terminated its subcontract to Goodyear, the Navy has issued a contract to GE for an 800shp turboprop, because why run before you walk, oh, wait, too late! Current cost of British airliners to the corporations is: Comet 1, $700,000; Comet 2, $1.4 million; Comet 3, $2.1 million; Britannia, $1.68 million; Viscount 701, $700,000; Viscount 801, $784,000, including initial provision of spares. De Havilland will crystallise the final design for the Comet 3 as soon as the CAA has finished its evaluation of de Havillandn proposals. USAF officials will reveal the F-100 and J57 next month. </span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>A. W. Jessop reports for <b>Aviation Week</b><i> </i>that "Fugitive MiG Heads for U.S. Test Centre" This is apparently the first break in a three year search, not counting the two wrecked MiGs recovered in Korea last year or the Polish one. It can still fly, and so is worth the bounty and all the bad publicity over it. Or over the realisation that the defecting MiG-15 reached Kimpo Airfield with no warning whatsoever, meaning that an offensive raid by jet bombers based on the MiG-15 could do the same, which makes allegations that the Red Air Forces are moving aircraft into North Korea in violation of the armistice. The Hughes flying boat has been damaged in a flood, while Temco is working on a basic tainer for the Navy.</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjnl62DQICw075YXxtph03b5rV7PWnA2etNf1cx-oexpPpn58dAjjoaObk-ITNB0V0kcfPIhe7AH_552uxbuTDhLM1kAhukZSMl7876I_z_41DjIBt_krUJ9cXymZzBzcVVvKwRMgA90dL0dhAYHPWWFyoAwbuALtDWj6UW9GYryz4rdVuaXhnSgCKHdEV/s4032/20240113_185732233_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjnl62DQICw075YXxtph03b5rV7PWnA2etNf1cx-oexpPpn58dAjjoaObk-ITNB0V0kcfPIhe7AH_552uxbuTDhLM1kAhukZSMl7876I_z_41DjIBt_krUJ9cXymZzBzcVVvKwRMgA90dL0dhAYHPWWFyoAwbuALtDWj6UW9GYryz4rdVuaXhnSgCKHdEV/s320/20240113_185732233_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><span>Richard Balentine reports for <b>Aviation Week </b>that "Engine Cuts Save AF Half Billion" The cuts, between engines ordered and the ones only programmed, will save the Air Force up to $400 million, although the details have not been finalised. Secretary Talbot is on a press offensive asserting that it will not affect the 143 wing target. It is due, Talbot says, to the surplus engines on hand as times between overhaul keep increasing and the general decline in attrition. The largest number of engines cancelled are GE J47s, and secondary suppliers including Packard, Buick, Chevrolet, Studebaker and Nash will have their contracts cancelled for J47s as well as R2800s and J65s. The J33 will be affected, and the Air Force will officially have all their eggs in the J57 basket. </span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>"Hughes Blowup" Six officials have quite at Hughes in protest over owner Howard Hughes' policies. Harold Talbott flew to LA in an attempt to forestall the resignations, but was unsuccessful. Departing officials have urged their subordinates to remain with the company as is their patriotic duty. (The seniors have a patriotic duty to spend their bonusses to stimulate the economy, and these have not been paid.) The senior engineers have left to form their own company, the plan to sell the company has fallen through, and no-one can speak to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Hughes_Medical_Institute">financial health of the firm</a>. Oops! </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1mCUgF_Y2zZb6dE2slmInLEO6qHJUwhjRGo-E-G6pXac6WlGVIZsl1i6Z0QYh1dkTt0MvKuD-GkDdpbF_iA1jweup1wbrJ4VZ0L-qnBTRL_ZuYoVlT9qT092_FSabJ10LeVAx1eP8UJYbdhBEtVmVrxlm8QBZ-6_pJ0BMkM_Wo90C54497aF4hevBNmUR/s4032/20240113_193748272_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1mCUgF_Y2zZb6dE2slmInLEO6qHJUwhjRGo-E-G6pXac6WlGVIZsl1i6Z0QYh1dkTt0MvKuD-GkDdpbF_iA1jweup1wbrJ4VZ0L-qnBTRL_ZuYoVlT9qT092_FSabJ10LeVAx1eP8UJYbdhBEtVmVrxlm8QBZ-6_pJ0BMkM_Wo90C54497aF4hevBNmUR/s320/20240113_193748272_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></span></div><span>"Don't Sell Piston Power Short" Roy Hurley of Curtiss-Wright confidently predicts another round of piston-powered airliners before turbos replace them. Meanwhile, NAL denies that it is in negotiations to buy some Comets. And the Project Tinkertoy "automatic factory" gets the longest story yet. The Channel wing is in the news again, demand for jet fuel will surpass demand for aviation gas in 1954, it is predicted, and something that <i>isn't </i>in the news is the debate over jet pods at the Anglo-American air conference, where Avro was going to reply to Boeing, but now won't, because of security concerns. The latest Post Office Airmail experiment is underway, a Comet 2 made a record run from London to Rio last week, Hiller is subcontracting Doman designs, residents around Van Nuys Airport are upset at the recent T-33 crash and want jet flights over southern California curtailed, and even picketed Lockheed over it, and France is revising the Air France setup. </span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Irving Stone reports for <b>Production </b>that "AMC To Test All-Magnesium F-80C" An extensive article on metal forming practices with aeronautical grade magnesium follows. Many forming techniques had to be worked out before magnesium products could replace aluminum in the structure. Lockheed wants us to know that it is modifying a DC-6B to use more plastic in the structure. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>George Schmidt, formerly of Focke-Wulfe, "reports" for <b>Aeronautical Engineering </b>that "Noise is Cut in New Pulse Jet Engine" His pulse-jet, the Para-Copter 2, is in production at a New York factory and is intended as a one-litter aerial stretcher for evacuating wounded soldiers. Saunders-Roe is also experimenting with <a href="https://www.pulse-jets.com/valveless/">a pulse jet for helicopters</a>. No indication on the effectiveness or not of the silencing. <br /></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Philip Klass reports for <b>Avionics </b>that "Single Computer Combines Flight Data" The Air Force wants to replace the multiple instruments that receive altitude, air speed, air density and temperature information with a single flight data computer, and Kollsman Instruments has a candidate. It's an electro-hydraulic analog computer, and Kollsman hopes that it will be an intrinsic part of the new "weapon system" concepts. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhhOFscV-7gmOd0lTwMOo-ZUDEwV1JI95hyphenhyphenEhX4ahHkIiOWRDD3MlN8ey8LUsI2OW_KWbPWQkVudboayUy_RxaZ2arts1hxubdODBc9KTxaJG_BtLuRBFscxSW40ZvJJdzWCdC5WV_DoAHa3hx8bSXMZyZcZq_HBHJlx2bIxEwEbMC9DbgIbdUGkaI3iyN/s4032/20240113_200138705_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhhOFscV-7gmOd0lTwMOo-ZUDEwV1JI95hyphenhyphenEhX4ahHkIiOWRDD3MlN8ey8LUsI2OW_KWbPWQkVudboayUy_RxaZ2arts1hxubdODBc9KTxaJG_BtLuRBFscxSW40ZvJJdzWCdC5WV_DoAHa3hx8bSXMZyZcZq_HBHJlx2bIxEwEbMC9DbgIbdUGkaI3iyN/s320/20240113_200138705_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><span>George L. Christian reports for <b>Equipment </b>that "Runway Visibility Reporting Improved" Sperry's ANDB Low Ceiling/Visibility Programme is sponsored by the Air Navigation Development Board and the US Weather Bureau. It uses continuous reading ceilometers and transmissometers at the end of the runway for up-to-the-minute weather reports from the ground station to the trial aircraft, which has an elaborate photographic installation to measure visibility conditions itself. I think. I kind of faded out for a bit of the article and I am not rereading it because it's got the NBS in it <b>New Aviation Products </b>has a B-47 shut-off valve. So that's what the Air Force used! No, on second read, it is from Standard-Thomson for fuel systems, not satellite plants in Kansas. GE also has a pump for jet bombers, while D and R Limited has a miniature high frequency alternator with lots of power. <b>Also on the Market </b>is really long and I would break down and tell you what is in it if there was anything interesting, which there isn't. <br /><br /> Captain Robson's <b>Cockpit Viewpoint </b>reports that he really appreciates the report on the May 1952 IATA meeting on air transport safety, and he is going to make it the subject of a follow-up column. That's great, because it was a good report, and I am actually interested in what Captain Robson has to say, and I might even share some of it depending on when the column is printed. <b>Editorial </b>is devoted to Robert Wood's personal reminiscence of Alexander McSurely and letters of condolence. <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUUyO9afp0f3kr7veUmHbQQmCnArfAdbqWP9T_NyzlcJ6tn6An4amrDVgliqM0Gmh3juiVdtqZqdRiGcEddL_PVTUxTIW337EZj6r8FRsLOnQDcQlKmkxlo2BmtvpDgFj9t_qGCnAHZ7TAkg7vCCAOHF2wHgwPR0hGf5PpWWgLpjaa3W_YNHUSZIaYfghb/s1436/Bristol%20Britannia(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="900" data-original-width="1436" height="402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUUyO9afp0f3kr7veUmHbQQmCnArfAdbqWP9T_NyzlcJ6tn6An4amrDVgliqM0Gmh3juiVdtqZqdRiGcEddL_PVTUxTIW337EZj6r8FRsLOnQDcQlKmkxlo2BmtvpDgFj9t_qGCnAHZ7TAkg7vCCAOHF2wHgwPR0hGf5PpWWgLpjaa3W_YNHUSZIaYfghb/w640-h402/Bristol%20Britannia(2).jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span><i>The Engineer </i>for 18 and 25 September 1953</span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>For the 18th, <b>Not The Seven-day Journal </b>reports that the Public Lighting Engineers are having a party, R. A. Riddles has retied, Dr. B. Mount Jones has died, the NCB is offering some mining engineering scholarships, and a joint announcement by Duncan Sandys and the Australian minister indicates that work on guided weapons is going ahead swimmingly at Woomera. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>For the 25th, we are told the Birmingham Engineering Centre will open early in the new year, that the associated British Chambers of Commerce have submitted a report on roads and bridges (they are old and worn out) to the Ministry, the Institute of Marine Engineers had a party, there was a Commonwealth Conference on Aeronautical Research in London last week, and various appointments to the Transportation Board have been made. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>We will be visiting the "Engineering, Marine, and Welding Exhibition" at Olympia for the next two weeks. We lead off with some marine diesels from Perkins and Dorman, followed by a "weigher recording unit" from Williams, which has something to do with dock cranes, pumps, tanks, oxygen generators, a mobile diesel engine from Kelvin, am arc-welding machine, an x-ray control desk, more crane accessories, more welding machines, and a BTH exhibit including its latest marine radars. More diesels and one mixed-fuel engine, a plotting table (<a href="https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Dobbie_McInnes">Dobbie McInnes</a>), a petrol engine from Coventry Victor, and a Flow Indicator are seen on the 25th. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Also continuing and to be continued, T. W. Chalmers' "A Short History of Spectroscopy" devoted on the 18th to refraction. On the 25th, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan%E2%80%93Boltzmann_law">Stefan's Law of Total Radiation</a> is explained. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Also worth a visit is the "Third European Machine Tool Exhibition" in Brussels, where 2500 machines are being exhibited, although nothing too new considering all the <i>other </i>machine tool exhibitions lately, but that doesn't preclude coverage both weeks. </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;">At the British Association this week's coverage of the proceedings looks at electronic methods of telephone switching, colour television, management training, and flight, years ago, before the war. Oh, and some frauds from America are over to talk about time and motion studies. Okay, okay, they're not <i>all </i>frauds! Getting two exciting pages is GEC, with an article on "Speed Control of AC Winders" Which are things that wind things, mainly spools of wire and cable. Controlling their speed turns out to be surprisingly complicated. Probably because the power at the winding drive is coming from AC current, <a href="https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5477541">not that I care to parse the details</a>. On the 25th, papers and subsequent discussion on heating (districts and buildings) are reviewed. There was also a session on calculating machines. The most promising are digital machines, In the future, one could expect more use of numerical analysis to solve problems, "the revitalisation of many areas of applied science," greater insight into the brain, and so psychology and medicine, and greater use of automation in all spheres of activity. Other discussants proposed the use of punch cards to greatly expand our ability to encompass the vast amount of research going on these days, and the incorporation of mathematical tables into computers for greater facility. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">On the 25th, Short Brothers sends in a long piece about "A General Purpose Electronic Analogue Computer," which they have been using to solve difficult problems with flutter and dynamic stability. Also on the 25th we get <b>Metallurgical Topics, </b>with papers on the strain aging of aluminum, the<a href="https://www.gibbswire.com/hydrogen-embrittlement-in-stainless-why-some-alloys-are-more-susceptible/"> diffusion of hydrogen from pickling through cold-worked steel and its possible detrimental effects,</a> and the use of titanium as a desulpheriser. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Leaders</b> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Afterthoughts on Farnborough" After the war, Americans were confident that they had the world air transport market to themselves, but now they know how wrong they were! But they will come back, now that they have had to admit that the turbine really did sweep the piston away. Britain has the advantage that its engines are still better; but America is building the B-47 in vast numbers, so it has experiencve, and production, which Britain doesn't. And then there is the matter of the podded engine and the thin wing. This is a big divergence between the two industries! Who is right? </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYLLlAe0qCVTNpxZEMtPumcKmSY4KBq6qsipyxX429rOlffLDO6Lv2EODnZ4Z-WkC6FPEVo8pMY-eev7shCAvNVQxty1qdeT3uj-VHFv0IwUorCkjVEeA_FxMMfy8MV0rAet3E3PZ8CutPaFmVxAisB-68Pd5KDHIuezYhcA_NZqJOnHaQPnd7Fk0HdqRm/s296/Boeing%20737%20Max.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="170" data-original-width="296" height="230" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYLLlAe0qCVTNpxZEMtPumcKmSY4KBq6qsipyxX429rOlffLDO6Lv2EODnZ4Z-WkC6FPEVo8pMY-eev7shCAvNVQxty1qdeT3uj-VHFv0IwUorCkjVEeA_FxMMfy8MV0rAet3E3PZ8CutPaFmVxAisB-68Pd5KDHIuezYhcA_NZqJOnHaQPnd7Fk0HdqRm/w400-h230/Boeing%20737%20Max.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"The Rival Bombs" <i>The Engineer </i>makes an effort to understand the H-bomb news. As it notes, fusion requires that light elements be heated to millions of degrees, and for an H-bomb to be possible it had to be triggered somehow by an A-bomb,, which raises the question of whether an H-bomb is necessary at all, considering how powerful an A-bomb already is. It also doesn't appear that there is a civil use for the thermonuclear reaction, at least as currently initiated. Perhaps it makes more sense to ban the hydrogen bomb? </p><p style="text-align: justify;">On the 25th, <i>The Engineer </i>discusses "Mechanising Colonial Agriculture," which, it turns out, is going forward on its own without any need for grand initiatives on the one hand, or hand-wringing on the other. Then it celebrates the centenary of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Coast_Main_Line">Doncaster Railway</a> and reports on developments at the Transport Commission and the NPL, where W. P. Jones has taken over the theoretical aerodynamics division.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Letters </b>draws a painfully long-winded dissertation on "the role of experiment in applied science," framed as a response to <i>The Engineer's </i>review of the author's <i>Studies in Elastic Structures,. </i>A. J. Sutton Pippard explains his understanding of the role of experiment over and against that of the reviewer. C. W. Whitmore writes that it is his son's eyewitness position that the recent "Harrow Incident" was a "footplate accident." <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcSqM00z3lyUaxbMN7QPbbQhyphenhyphenymrYqtBZf5Wx-RZ5sWUsVcqTSNin6g_bGZqn1YSepv45azID3xaZXlFTScR9mjbpgDqe8TM1TRoXDZcEJD-maxRiRPa9OhJJn_TuiZtPlzRFGz31uBr7lAZXcBpIXo0hRafUfq_PBvxwealvyZNKwsISywQtkeShhuHDC/s1024/Doncaster%20Railway%20today%20attr%20needed%20wiki.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="689" data-original-width="1024" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcSqM00z3lyUaxbMN7QPbbQhyphenhyphenymrYqtBZf5Wx-RZ5sWUsVcqTSNin6g_bGZqn1YSepv45azID3xaZXlFTScR9mjbpgDqe8TM1TRoXDZcEJD-maxRiRPa9OhJJn_TuiZtPlzRFGz31uBr7lAZXcBpIXo0hRafUfq_PBvxwealvyZNKwsISywQtkeShhuHDC/w400-h269/Doncaster%20Railway%20today%20attr%20needed%20wiki.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The Doncaster today. By Walter Baxter, CC BY-SA 2.0, <br />https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=110865879</span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Fifty Years of Undercarriage Development, V" appears in the 18 September issue, and brings us upt to the Valiant, B-52 and Blackburn Freighter. Then we head off for yet more Farnborough coverage. <b>American Engineering News </b>checks in with the NBS working on radiant glass heating panels as a technique for heating houses, concluding that they might be more efficient than current systems. A uranium rolling mill is visited, the e<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Elevated_Highway">levated South Street highway in Manhattan</a>, and a very large tractor from Allis-Chalmers. <b>Industrial and Labour Notes </b>has British exports still doing well, the electricians' strike dispute still not settled, and the price of raw materials index at its lowest level in three years. <b>Launches and Trial Trips </b>records three ships, all motor vessels, one banana boat, one oil tanker, one cargo ship. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">On the 25th, the first After-the-Lead piece is a review of the Institution of Naval Architects meeting, starting with a paper on developments in Dutch ship model research, which I think we can skip, discussion and all. The British Standards Institute has published a unified machine screw and machine screw nuts standard, while the NCB is quite proud of its new prestressed concrete bridge, and proposals for development at London Airport have proceeded as far as a model of a monstrously large new terminal building. George Schairer's much extracted "Pod Mounting of Jet Engines" follows and scarcely needs a summary at this point. Farmers Company writes about its splendid new phosphoric acid plant at Barton-on-Humber, B. C. Bond talks about locomotives in a "year of transition," to diesel, that is. <b>Industrial and Labour Notes </b>has British overseas trade still on the up and coal doing middling, a wage dispute developing on the railways, the Ministry of Labour encouraging the employment of older workers, the role of films in industrial training and the problem of training foremen. No <b>Launches and Trial Trips </b>for the week of the 25th. </p>Erik Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-52750490357459341962024-01-06T13:43:00.000-08:002024-01-06T13:43:15.213-08:00Postblogging Technology, September 1953, I: Scupper me Skull-and-Crossbones!R_.C_.,<br />Shaughnessy,<br />Vancouver, Canada<p><br />Dear Father:</p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4mkVY4PQJrmC4SSF1IGk1VKi41GRk8p-G3zzPHbPDirWZm8HQUI0zq5pjyBOXdOzhSXuA2Wg3jLUW7dzk-3uUDWC5HegGKZVNX9RUTTJsN_OAZXFWat4AEdObbshRnPXcoMPI1KSYArld4MMbWARz5M6RU0bPy8cg0o4ij9PpFNoCF6Fjrj94Aumxp2ds/s1000/Eagle%20Magazine%20Cover.webp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="925" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4mkVY4PQJrmC4SSF1IGk1VKi41GRk8p-G3zzPHbPDirWZm8HQUI0zq5pjyBOXdOzhSXuA2Wg3jLUW7dzk-3uUDWC5HegGKZVNX9RUTTJsN_OAZXFWat4AEdObbshRnPXcoMPI1KSYArld4MMbWARz5M6RU0bPy8cg0o4ij9PpFNoCF6Fjrj94Aumxp2ds/s320/Eagle%20Magazine%20Cover.webp" width="296" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It was so good to see you in London, and you were so sweet with Nat. McGraw-Hill certainly didn't where it is by paying its correspondents too much! now I know why they were so slow to admit that the Russians had a hydrogen bomb. Actually, <i>no-one </i>has a hydrogen bomb! I suppose I shouldn't be any more clear than that, lest I reveal the big secret here in my secret letters. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I'm still mad that you couldn't stay long enough to take in Farnham. I do understand. You're only back in the land of your disgrace on Her Majesty's Secret Service. I hope you will find Vancouver well and that you will listen to your doctor, no matter how badly that is working out these days for someone taking the new wonder drugs, and have a good long rest. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I would to, but I'm in <i>London</i>! </div><p></p><p>Your Loving Daughter,</p><p>Ronnie<br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/J02-_7K-10Q" width="320" youtube-src-id="J02-_7K-10Q"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>The Economist, </i>5 September 1953</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Leaders</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmMayRBNFzF2VxgdYv91skAKsU4mWEdeqR3Lax8uu_KCApwWkPZwSYAy6WtPAHjsXh6w1kyTm7I7UAMi4LBzRl_-T-xxrtE9s3y89e36LofoUiGNlRdW5PKLn4gHxEwZjlBbrg8EWYoBIssYpHk83QiUMCaGpmeDnrRvQsweklBE1-VagJpxC7dz0sFPBk/s4032/20240101_225123880_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmMayRBNFzF2VxgdYv91skAKsU4mWEdeqR3Lax8uu_KCApwWkPZwSYAy6WtPAHjsXh6w1kyTm7I7UAMi4LBzRl_-T-xxrtE9s3y89e36LofoUiGNlRdW5PKLn4gHxEwZjlBbrg8EWYoBIssYpHk83QiUMCaGpmeDnrRvQsweklBE1-VagJpxC7dz0sFPBk/s320/20240101_225123880_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"The Unions and Socialism" The TUC's annual congress is coming up so <i>The Economist </i>takes a couple of pages to argue with what they're probably going to say, unless they don't, in which case it will be the trade unions admitting that <i>The Economist </i>is, as always, right. <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Demagogy at the Uno" <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Cabot_Lodge_Jr.">Henry Cabot Lodge</a>'s speech to the General Assembly on the Korean armistice negotiations was just a series of public opinion-approved velleities, and that's not going to get us anywhere. Bring back secret diplomacy!<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Money for Malaya" The annual subsidy for the Malayan Federation is up for discussion, so let's have a couple of meandering pages about the future of Malaya. It will be independent, but what does independence <i>mean</i>? It will be multicultural and multiracial, but what does <i>that </i>mean? Etc. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Middlemen of Travel" <i>The Economist </i>paid far too much for its summer tour, in spite of which the industry isn't making as much profit as you would think, considering that its gross revenues are up threefold since 1938. Why is that? Well, there's probably a reason, but we're just going to close out with a meditation on how hard it is to run a small travel agency, and how you really have to know your market. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Notes of the Week</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Qjw0XEErmKi8AQ7fobg6TgbYoJaM5HAmt0LHZ0OLG2Lf4mbFRYcNRoRUpiw6SIcwoZ8hdX2inwcPyji-xF0pRUtYyUgBzS-uQWMM196dEMck3in-4DIQowgTZtxzUVZXtzmYh0xyIYv-o8B9kSMOdofvKLzlOhrUbvvcAAQBdJsocToRPOsycXXFr7yM/s4032/Coventry%20Climax%20forklift%20ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2551" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-Qjw0XEErmKi8AQ7fobg6TgbYoJaM5HAmt0LHZ0OLG2Lf4mbFRYcNRoRUpiw6SIcwoZ8hdX2inwcPyji-xF0pRUtYyUgBzS-uQWMM196dEMck3in-4DIQowgTZtxzUVZXtzmYh0xyIYv-o8B9kSMOdofvKLzlOhrUbvvcAAQBdJsocToRPOsycXXFr7yM/s320/Coventry%20Climax%20forklift%20ad.jpg" width="202" /></a></div>"Invitation to Lugnano" Malenkov says that he wants to resume normal diplomacy, so the Western powers have invited him to Lugnano to talk about Germany and Austria, and if that goes well, other things. The conference will open at the same time as the Geneva talks over the Korean peace, so maybe the Soviets will be suckered into thinking that the two can be linked. It seems like it is going to be harder to trick them that way if you say right out in <i>The Economist </i>that it's just a clever ruse, but what do I know about diplomacy? More than Cabot Lodge the Younger, but that's not saying much! There might be a way to get Red China into the UN and Formosa its own place in the world, if the Chinese will just abandon North Korea, <i>The Economist </i>supposes.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Greenwood"> Arthur Greenwood</a> and Herbert Morrison will go head to head for the position of Labour Party Treasurer at the upcoming annual conference, and it will be a sad and uncomfortable thing to watch, although Labour must be doing something right considering that official membership is at 6.1 million, up 250,000 from last year. The Electrical Trades Union is going to strike, and that's terrible. Everyone is chipping in to help the Ionian islands after the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Ionian_earthquake">August earthquakes.</a> Churchill is meeting with various ministers individually to sort out whatever needs to be sorted out ahead of the next Parliamentary session in October. Is Churchill too sick to sit in Parliament? Are his preferred deputies too sick? Is everyone else fighting? Speculate now, find out later! Rome and Belgrade are fighting over Trieste again, but this time it's probably serious and deserves a long <b>Note. </b>The Soviet Union has loaned China 5 billion rubles so that it can buy Russian stuff, so it's aid for both countries! There's still no agreement on whether private television stations will have sponsors. <i>The Economist </i>really hoped that the new politicians of the new Central African Federation would just ignore race issues, but it turns out they won't, and that one party wants segregation, one doesn't, and the middle party <i>kind </i>of wants segregation. It's all most disappointing, so the Colonial Office is going to put more Africans in the legislative council and possibly add them to the executive council so that the Federation is a country, and not a convenient place for a race civil war. <i>The Economist </i>suggests expanding the African franchise, as well.<br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOkQhuRpMW2acErc2RqxI0p8EnTS3Y5jof32MaDVSZxqquXxCA_ujJvn1SXrhUSbKaFHVKzzooi76xm79Er1bfj7VNItAU49PVIWbY1JW7f4uXrVFx29MOgvpnEd6q_Z_fqTMfJa0dUKhroJgSfw3C1yg6XM_um2c-9eABKWpRUC5cj_0BfPS16ii-WpwG/s4032/Albright%20and%20Wilson%20Captain%20Reese%20Ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOkQhuRpMW2acErc2RqxI0p8EnTS3Y5jof32MaDVSZxqquXxCA_ujJvn1SXrhUSbKaFHVKzzooi76xm79Er1bfj7VNItAU49PVIWbY1JW7f4uXrVFx29MOgvpnEd6q_Z_fqTMfJa0dUKhroJgSfw3C1yg6XM_um2c-9eABKWpRUC5cj_0BfPS16ii-WpwG/s320/Albright%20and%20Wilson%20Captain%20Reese%20Ad.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>"Arms and the Arabs" The Arab League is meeting to implement the defence council envisioned in its 1950 security pact.Egypt is hoping for a joint Arab force to take over Canal Zone security, command on the strength of having the largest army, with four divisions to Iraq's three, Syria's two, and Jordan's one, and weapons standardisation, with Egypt's small arms factories getting the contracts. It is hard to see how the other three countries would agree to this if it were not for the $1.8 billion in Mutual Security money on the table, but even it isn't certain because the Americans want peace with Israel, and Iraq doesn't want to spend enough money on guns to qualify. The Balkan security pact talks continue, it is suspected that the Soviets are publishing false or misleading economic statistics. The "settler's plan" for Kenya now released by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Blundell">Michael Blundell and the Electors' Union</a> seems about as suspicious as the turn in politics in the Central African Federation. The Ministry of Education's report on the school building programme has reached the twelfth volume, on night school. There aren't enough night schools, either. The situation is, in fact. "squalid." The World Medical Association has held its first conference on doctor's education. It has concerns, mainly having to do with doctors' relations with patients. Mauritius has had an election, and has elected a Labour government because the <i>Ralliement Mauricien </i>is the party in power and Mauritians are dissatisfied with various things. As usual, they are intractable problems requiring "coordination," which in this case seems to mean that all the Commonwealth countries should take their fair share of Mauritian migrants so that the islands' overpopulation problem can be solved.<p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Books</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBuIcHg-CKPkeWw7_vAu021Ua0N_czK4MMz2CaxoF1YTXw43EMxkp1NOSvEUw1WhFMItpKh823QDPcFhxbd0kAU-dsKCnIlYBX29tFQ1uMr9R2ChhnsCV9p1-DfOuzZ3tXkhqsc9De4fnYAg85piEu6yT8csCavtQSkpuCdLKCR42K6FZZK7FnK35yExlX/s4032/ICI%20imprisons%20atmosphere%20ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2929" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBuIcHg-CKPkeWw7_vAu021Ua0N_czK4MMz2CaxoF1YTXw43EMxkp1NOSvEUw1WhFMItpKh823QDPcFhxbd0kAU-dsKCnIlYBX29tFQ1uMr9R2ChhnsCV9p1-DfOuzZ3tXkhqsc9De4fnYAg85piEu6yT8csCavtQSkpuCdLKCR42K6FZZK7FnK35yExlX/s320/ICI%20imprisons%20atmosphere%20ad.jpg" width="232" /></a></div>Fritz Ter Meer and Josiah Dubois lay out the "ugly record of I. G. Farben" in <i>Die IG Farben Industrie Akten Gesellschaft </i>and <i>Generals in Grey Suits. </i>Which is to say that Dubois does. Ter Meer gives us a nostalgic account of a gentle and socially-minded organisation, and it is left to Dubois to use extensive Nuremberg testimony to portray a company that made extermination gasses with slave labour and used its Nazi connections to take overe its competition all over occupied Europe. Hugo Pipping's <i><a href="https://archive.org/details/standardofliving0000pipp/page/n6/mode/1up">The Standard of Living: The Concept and Its Place in Economic</a>s </i>is an attempt to investigate the concept sociologically in respect to individual needs. That is, one person needs to save, another to look after their family. That same person's priorities will shift over a lifetime. Coming up with a way of stating the "standard of living" for every individual in a way that would be useful for econometrics sounds hard! And it's made worse by the fact that Pipping is an academic writer, which, if you know, you know. The suffering makes it worth reading! <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Balfour_(historian)">Michael Balfour's </a><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Balfour_(historian)">States and Mind</a> </i>is "a treatise on the limits and functions of . . a liberal democracy or a people's democracy." Interesting but disappointing. James Sutherland's <i>The Oxford Book of English Talk </i>explores six centuries of the way that people talk in England. <i>The Economist </i>liked it. Ralph Partridge's <i>Broadmoor </i>looks at the famous inmates of Britain's asylum prison. G. W. Keston and G. Schwarzenberger edit <i>Current Lega Problems, 1953, </i>fifteen studies of various legal problems from discrepancies between the German and French texts of the Bonn and Paris Treaties to the constitutional crisis in South Africa and the Unesco copyright convention. How do you even review such a thing? It's very interesting, though. Eric Partridge's <i>You Have a Point There </i>is a fun book about punctuation, and yes there so can be such a thing! Sydney Bailey's <i>Parliamentary Government in Southern Asia </i>is yet another worthy book from the Institute of Pacific Relations. Demitri Shinkin's <i>Minerals: A Key to Soviet Power </i>has a summary for a title. H. A. Wrenn's <i>The Parent's Guide to Secondary Education </i>is a good guide to the recent changes in British public education. <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Letters</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">John McCallum Scott explains why traditional liberal parties <i>aren't </i>conservative parties, even though they sure look like it. It's because other parties are even more conservative! "An American Reader" is worried that Rhee will ignite a new Korean war. R. Kelf-Coffin agrees with <i>The Economist </i>that there are far too many cars parked in London, thanks to all the bombed-out sites and the inclusion of cars in "remuneration," and something should be done about it. A. R. Low of the Reserve Bank of New Zealand corrects some statistics. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>American Survey </b> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1aTL6RgYsDZFbybeATjYIAqVwEqZHxJxiEqFJ1lUv6j2UTiYn9GFwPeHgu7OdxBZinsaq5UqKlHVYwH60tCyA1QzeWyzBHi0qzTcqiUApDiEfqRKku9ixe9cSDRvOFCrc90GQkYt-q39O5-ODU-EPTTjxIXZccqX9YOSt7SnsTpJZiPnePQIWCEJxH3gV/s2360/Lodge%20and%20Dulles%20at%20the%20UN%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="It's all white supremacy with these guys, isn't it?" border="0" data-original-height="2360" data-original-width="1762" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1aTL6RgYsDZFbybeATjYIAqVwEqZHxJxiEqFJ1lUv6j2UTiYn9GFwPeHgu7OdxBZinsaq5UqKlHVYwH60tCyA1QzeWyzBHi0qzTcqiUApDiEfqRKku9ixe9cSDRvOFCrc90GQkYt-q39O5-ODU-EPTTjxIXZccqX9YOSt7SnsTpJZiPnePQIWCEJxH3gV/w239-h320/Lodge%20and%20Dulles%20at%20the%20UN%201953.jpg" width="239" /></a></div>"Cleavages Among Allies" The United States' decision to coerce its Latin American and other dependent allies to vote against Britain, the entire Commonwealth, and all the Arab countries that Secretary Dulles has been wooing, the entire Nato alliance except Greece, and the Soviet bloc, on the proposal to seat India at the Korean peace talks. French abstention was purchased by opposing demands to seat a Moroccan representative in the Assembly, ruffling further feathers. The original American position might have been that India would be invited if the Communists agreed to broaden the negotiations, but Lodge did such a bad job of presenting the American position that the whole thing quickly blew up even before Dulles gave that idiotic speech about how the UN is bad and wrong. Although to be fair that was probably an attempt to ward off the Bricker Amendment.<p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>American Notes</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Budget Turns a Corner" It's been only two months since the Eisenhower Administration turned in its fiscally prudent 1954 budget deficit of $9.4 billion, but now Secretary Humphries thinks it will come in at $3.8 billion and that the <a href="https://www.thebalancemoney.com/us-deficit-by-year-3306306">1955 budget will be balanced</a>. This also means that the national debt will not hit its legislative limit this year, especially given the current Treasury bond offer, over which the magazine salivates for an entire <b>Note's </b>worth of "news." The wool tariff is up for discussion again, and the American Bar Association has decided to kick out all Red lawyers, and investigate why some lawyers keep trying to defend Red clients like they're people or something. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Fire Changes Gears" The Livonia fire is bad for GM, but not terrible because it has so much money it doesn't matter that it was underinsured, and has such a large share of the market that its competitors can't use the opportunity to gain a larger share of the market. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The World Overseas</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvsncsOB_V-QQbobAJmsY3gL2Iu90gFjQlta22JG31SR5cp_KEbFeyQnscfkgA_GLR14x5c1NwdjwTAwLEepOdA1QyZ3vI7EiZs7JuhD9_ao8c05wW2SxNqYuUG_p9Z45eMr-741CagR41wSIZeRnVVn7oZHzbmi0tGM_6P2JFwVfpiwXJwEcD8a_64Zip/s4032/20240104_133043285_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvsncsOB_V-QQbobAJmsY3gL2Iu90gFjQlta22JG31SR5cp_KEbFeyQnscfkgA_GLR14x5c1NwdjwTAwLEepOdA1QyZ3vI7EiZs7JuhD9_ao8c05wW2SxNqYuUG_p9Z45eMr-741CagR41wSIZeRnVVn7oZHzbmi0tGM_6P2JFwVfpiwXJwEcD8a_64Zip/s320/20240104_133043285_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"Electioneering in Germany" Will the Germans <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_West_German_federal_election">elect</a> Adolf Hitler in disguise? <a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Reichspartei_(1950)">Well, no, but maybe.</a> Also, two articles in the Soviet press seem to contradict each other (actually one article and a poem about the hydrogen bomb in <i>Literaturnaya Gazeta</i>), and that probably means something maybe. Kashmir blah blah! East Germany is probably in trouble with all that planning going on. It is also having trouble trading with China because it can't supply the Chinese with the kinds of machine tools they want, while the Chinese are tied of the East Germans re-exporting Chinese goods at a profit when there are alternative ways to get Chinese exports of tung oil, bristles, and feathers to the West. <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Business World</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizYimYPY673HbeFxs6VKQzQtAt-QDZF8o1dKmGrCFit76_kUsuHuE1bQerO6NN3kMabn6TmrJvaz0WYfpmuSzHk3G7mNVDvATFis08-tFXhbiscJ9Qf5SlNJBb3MOgDtXXmV_Moj-JDvSPFmCiA7eZUqRKlOkqhH4Yn1hbmeXAW78dO3hZUrcMUOdeDjtj/s1794/British%20national%20income%201953%20and%20calculation%20method.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1697" data-original-width="1794" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEizYimYPY673HbeFxs6VKQzQtAt-QDZF8o1dKmGrCFit76_kUsuHuE1bQerO6NN3kMabn6TmrJvaz0WYfpmuSzHk3G7mNVDvATFis08-tFXhbiscJ9Qf5SlNJBb3MOgDtXXmV_Moj-JDvSPFmCiA7eZUqRKlOkqhH4Yn1hbmeXAW78dO3hZUrcMUOdeDjtj/s320/British%20national%20income%201953%20and%20calculation%20method.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"Where Real Resources Go" Excluding 1946 and 1947 because of the after effects of the war, it is time to look at trends from 1948 to 1952. Britain's national income of £13.65 billion is up a bit more than a third from prewar, about two-thirds of that increase being due to inflation. Of the "real" increase of £1.1 billion, half has been absorbed by government expenditure, a fifth by increased personal consumption, and £447 million by "improving the external balance," but £84 million of that had to be found by running down capital stock. ((Increase in fixed investment was about £150 million, but stockpiling expenditure fell by about £230 million, eyeballing a bar chart that isn't worth clipping.) Defence absorbed two-thirds of public expenditure, rising from £747 million to £1.48 billion, or by about £400 million in real terms. Since wages rose by 10%, it seems surprising that personal consumption only rose by 3%, but it is reflected in the rise in personal savings, which does not factor into the national income calculation. Capital formation seems to be up between a quarter and a third from the Thirties slump, and it is far from clear that it is enough to offset actual (as opposed to tax-deductible) depreciation. <br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Limited Freedom for Grains" The decontrol of British grain imports is discussed. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzhoDoYHDths3tvjD27tL0WzMZAc8kI58a_S8JbrDZbavBhPwSMqrPfjMi3wl7F3ZZWylmaN_1Bb9uwOigi9eFXuUEy29_g2REgrlg533bvJLcz0aaPyESbdorkYYQw2n8abBOcj0XSa93JZ_3WsITtkSUX-1h1GQ5I66IwsZSWqf5qVHRjzFkybQYGEoE/s2015/Capital%20investment%20by%20industry%20Britain%20postwar%20through%201952.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1226" data-original-width="2015" height="195" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzhoDoYHDths3tvjD27tL0WzMZAc8kI58a_S8JbrDZbavBhPwSMqrPfjMi3wl7F3ZZWylmaN_1Bb9uwOigi9eFXuUEy29_g2REgrlg533bvJLcz0aaPyESbdorkYYQw2n8abBOcj0XSa93JZ_3WsITtkSUX-1h1GQ5I66IwsZSWqf5qVHRjzFkybQYGEoE/s320/Capital%20investment%20by%20industry%20Britain%20postwar%20through%201952.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Business Notes</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Apart from what seems to be the first signs of the next balance of payments crisis and a brief breakdown of the 3% increase in industrial production over 1951, led by steel and cars, the first three pages of <b>Notes </b>is all finance. We also learn that the next Gatt talks have a full agenda, including the accession of Japan, Australian demands for a full revision, and British resistance to same. Employment is down 32,000 in the metals, engineering, and automobiles group, producing a net decline in engineering employment in spite of aircraft increasing by 12,000 and scientific instruments by 7000, plus 5000 in radio, and 2000 in railway wagon making. Also, autos are at record production in spite of losing 2000 jobs. The Radio Show is on, which is a good opportunity to complain about the electricians strike. British radio exports are facing limits in expanding their market in Latin America. the Finance Corporation for Industry is getting out of steel with the upcoming denationalisation because it just doesn't have the money. The International Bank for Reconstruction is giving South Africa another $60 million line of credit. <i>The Economist </i>is worried that approval for importing other artificial fibres from Commonwealth countries is the thin edge of a wedge that will doom rayon. (At least, I think that's what I'm supposed to think when the magazine talks about "rayon's peak.") </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuS0Bt0ayqCjhFXRQtncXhf1UX0IUoS9Z5Gm-4lnYEvV7zf012gjSjq43HOPb9l2-JvtgS9qCYfXF3ubVcFGFXGOKJcvMsOhlQqV2F3q5hWOAamgY3Hm_Hlvy70ULovss85v9FvbDpQXnSJhvOqnMdWwf2pMb8NZpJjvGgYFE8L9DCNOJEpclCaJ0r9g7V/s4032/20240106_174713095_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuS0Bt0ayqCjhFXRQtncXhf1UX0IUoS9Z5Gm-4lnYEvV7zf012gjSjq43HOPb9l2-JvtgS9qCYfXF3ubVcFGFXGOKJcvMsOhlQqV2F3q5hWOAamgY3Hm_Hlvy70ULovss85v9FvbDpQXnSJhvOqnMdWwf2pMb8NZpJjvGgYFE8L9DCNOJEpclCaJ0r9g7V/w480-h640/20240106_174713095_iOS.heic" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Flight, </i>4 September 1953</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Leaders</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Flight </i>welcomes visitors to the Farnham Display with a trilingual message to the effect that fall is time for turkey, pumpkin pie, and low-flying jets. Seriously! Celebrating the harvest, which happens to include said jets. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>From All Quarters</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Uk4WQnjQLJ23RYPrS_0JeeuUZKTS9jm-GNJ5odAaC9_wUghOtGcn6t6DkVmACW8ydpCpDNs5pVerZDKn8f1JEyUinMURgKlpUWNv5hLKM2xta-iiwHF3TnssGlc_gOarqjMyaniO8RYddEuErZCsAs2-MlUq-mIQBNF09_4fz30L1z52cREBIYvLZOlx/s4032/20240106_174722878_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Uk4WQnjQLJ23RYPrS_0JeeuUZKTS9jm-GNJ5odAaC9_wUghOtGcn6t6DkVmACW8ydpCpDNs5pVerZDKn8f1JEyUinMURgKlpUWNv5hLKM2xta-iiwHF3TnssGlc_gOarqjMyaniO8RYddEuErZCsAs2-MlUq-mIQBNF09_4fz30L1z52cREBIYvLZOlx/s320/20240106_174722878_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">It is hoped that Squadron Leader<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neville_Duke"> Neville Duke</a> will set the world speed record in a <a href="https://www.baesystems.com/en/heritage/hawker-hunter">Hawker Hunte</a>r before Farnham opens. Employment is up in the aircraft industry at last, Air France has its Comets in service, the Comet 2 (Avon) prototype was in Zurich the other day. <i>Flight </i>is happy with the TUC's temporising position on aircraft industry nationalisation. Sabena's passenger helicopter service is operating. The big Soviet Air Show that was postponed in August was held on Sunday. No new types were seen, but there were more jets in the display and the show was good. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Here and There </b>reports that the Rolls Royce Conway high-bypass turbojet is off the Secret List. Canada has tested an air-to-air guided missile on the Sabre. A Canberra Mk. 7 PR is reported, although the Canberra 6, if it exists, is still on the List. United Aircraft Corporation says that a new engine (presumably the J-57) is pushing a new fighter (presumably the F-100) consistently above the speed of sound. The Douglas Skyrocket has achieved a new high altitude of 83,233ft. (a record for rocket planes launched from B-29s!) Fokker is to build 460 Hunters under license for European air forces. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipTJ4DDDgBEpSs9D7miZuh4W9rDOGrI9qNq9BjuLnhgPPOJAtuuun4CQ-yYj_hFbEHt7EGinNMbUVy2viOtfyjBA7y7sPX5EzcPyxA99V71AYY_aUpO1ONl3pJMFgtMVIu4EdHnboBnN5PAwHP2dX1rEPD0GTzfoJZWJPohmgT7cVFmrTG15-faDavOvcW/s4032/20240106_174730825_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEipTJ4DDDgBEpSs9D7miZuh4W9rDOGrI9qNq9BjuLnhgPPOJAtuuun4CQ-yYj_hFbEHt7EGinNMbUVy2viOtfyjBA7y7sPX5EzcPyxA99V71AYY_aUpO1ONl3pJMFgtMVIu4EdHnboBnN5PAwHP2dX1rEPD0GTzfoJZWJPohmgT7cVFmrTG15-faDavOvcW/s320/20240106_174730825_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"Preludes and Overtures" We can expect to see a Britannia with Proteus 750s, a Bristol 173 with stub wings, models of a Saunders-Roe fifty sea helicopter "rotor coach," hydroski fighter, and pulsejet stage for existing engines. Vickers will show its newly-completed Valiant B. Mk 2 "Pathfinder," with a second completed Mk 2 being held back to prepare for the New Zealand Race. A Comet will be on show, and a Blackburn Beverley, Short Seamew, Non-planes on display will include new wide-angle cameras for photo reconnaissance, new materials with high stability in the presence of high temperature materials, for detecting same, a fatigue meter which uses electrical current to detect and count the number of times that six pre-selected acceleration limits are exceeded.<br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">And that's the editorial content for the Farnborough Special Issue. I could exhaust myself listing all of the ancillary equipment on display, but I would be summarising what are already very brief summaries (Example: "De Havilland Propellers . . . are licence-producing the Hamilton-Standard cold-air unit for incorporation into all types of high-altitude cabin systems. Fed with compressor-bleed air at high temperature and pressure, this neat unit cools th eflow by expansion across a turbine, the turbine being braked by a fan which draw a separate flow of cooling air through heat exchangers in the cabin-air circuit. The cold-air unit is robust and simple, and has a particularly noteworthy lubrication arrangement; a grease cartridge exude oil which flows to the bearings; when the unit cools after use the oil flow ceases.") Given Reggie's interests, I've kept an eye on control devices, and there are some "cybernetic" ones, including an autopilot from Elliott for the Jindivik drone, but even there offerings are likely to be more "mechanical," as for example the same company's autostabiliser for countering high speed yaw, which is a rate-gyro that sends an electrical signal through a magnetic amplifier to a control unit which commands a servomotor.The "cybernetics" is all in the rate gyro, and while gyros are mysterious, they are cybernetic. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNpfg2u1uqreHQ8E935k-VRBXMgnfn4F2pm9_8ErbKsH3cHt2WApG3cwDDu2TuypCw4UNn6ayvDdMwz7kBBZLbOLsLOIs9Zm1bxKj3lsyjzIxJD0KoQni7CDrsYLq_0WDEuKU0mBPrAPKo91S0dUEScjlPul376pYISTXAbKz-TSkWNNvQVP3qig-2_f33/s2957/Farnborough%20Aircraft%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2296" data-original-width="2957" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNpfg2u1uqreHQ8E935k-VRBXMgnfn4F2pm9_8ErbKsH3cHt2WApG3cwDDu2TuypCw4UNn6ayvDdMwz7kBBZLbOLsLOIs9Zm1bxKj3lsyjzIxJD0KoQni7CDrsYLq_0WDEuKU0mBPrAPKo91S0dUEScjlPul376pYISTXAbKz-TSkWNNvQVP3qig-2_f33/s320/Farnborough%20Aircraft%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /> <i>The Economist, </i>12 September 1953</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Leaders</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM62yXDovXu671mfFyeXlmiKdVS2XppBwBcVZ2y8h54RkAJ4mVtuBh5ekm-gI4c0UuERUIsaYjhMVMOVeOoJ7JwKlWnDsA1mlC5_Go2FLamnic5H02B7xdCVZqJhzN0WA_FVz5QfFfoEqwe20TNzY4tbK83c6c1HqeqBaPDMzL5z7EkjPVaU5enALePKvR/s4032/20240105_201916917_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM62yXDovXu671mfFyeXlmiKdVS2XppBwBcVZ2y8h54RkAJ4mVtuBh5ekm-gI4c0UuERUIsaYjhMVMOVeOoJ7JwKlWnDsA1mlC5_Go2FLamnic5H02B7xdCVZqJhzN0WA_FVz5QfFfoEqwe20TNzY4tbK83c6c1HqeqBaPDMzL5z7EkjPVaU5enALePKvR/s320/20240105_201916917_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"A New Germany" I guess there was nothing to worry about after all! It's okay though, because we can start worrying about the next election! But not too much worry, because that would be "timid." Just the right amount of worry about the German voters going authoritarian or the old militarists coming back! <br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Marking Time in Cabinet" <i>The Economist </i>is disappointed with the cabinet shuffle, as it thought that the idea of coordinating ministers had merit, and is disappointed to see the experiment abandoned. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Handling China" America is insane on the subject of China and Britain isn't, but you can't <i>say </i>that without starting a screaming fight at the dinner table that they'll hear at the neighbours even over the Iron Curtain. So instead we'll pretend that Washington has a <i>policy </i>that isn't closing your eyes really tight so you can't see Red China and paying the French to drop bombs on the Viet Minh because they're sort of like Red Chinese. So as an alternative it is suggested that Britain discretely prop up Formosa, too, just to show willing. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBYW1yCRWojJtxmuEu1aGlPPRdX5T3hq3rzmjR_b2aLF933saQg1DvfxsA8CLfG_zNc36gb7Ftlgu6VmKBIt0F7LAqpv__TpPokqvt0nVPerxWhSmYgN0LTzzXtCgKmNkjFSaUu0YzfS89hrX7GKsunfL9Td5vpMkOTnhsranK6kEMGAD9cf3-hBlUsXTP/s4032/20240106_194336794_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBYW1yCRWojJtxmuEu1aGlPPRdX5T3hq3rzmjR_b2aLF933saQg1DvfxsA8CLfG_zNc36gb7Ftlgu6VmKBIt0F7LAqpv__TpPokqvt0nVPerxWhSmYgN0LTzzXtCgKmNkjFSaUu0YzfS89hrX7GKsunfL9Td5vpMkOTnhsranK6kEMGAD9cf3-hBlUsXTP/s320/20240106_194336794_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"Vertical or Horizontal Living" On the one hand there is the garden city; on the other there's now Le Corbusier's <i>Unite d'Habitation, </i>now out as a book in Britain, and a building in France. Le Corbusier is very argumentative in his new book, and he is a very annoying Frenchman (or Swiss, to be precise) but it looks like the "big block" is here to stay.<br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Notes of the Week<br /></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The TUC seems to be moving to the right, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eirene_White,_Baroness_White">Labour is fighting over interparty peace</a>, Nothing is happening in Trieste again, France is about to have another crisis over the cost of living, as absolutely nothing else could possibly go wrong there. Speaking of which, everything is just fine in North Africa notwithstanding young Mr. Mitterand's resignation from the cabinet. Why Marshal Juin, French settlers, the Moroccan feudal nobility, and the Bey of Tunis are all fine with the current situation. Which even <i>The Economist </i>has to admit is an "odd coalition." The Minister of Labour has intervened in the electricians' strike, water companies are upset that the TUC wants to nationalise them, and the latest Conservative Political Centre report has determined that the only way to increase the personal saving rate is with more tax incentives, since savers seem to ignore interest rate changes according to this study we did by grabbing a few likely numbers off a big chart, ha ha, wrong again, Lord Keynes! The Soviets have finally resumed publishing information about the size of their armed forces, which might be in the range of 2.5 million. Nato might get some kind of consultative assembly, because why not? The Turks are working to improve their balance of payments difficulties, the BBC is losing money, South Africa's Unity Party had a caucus revolt because more members want white supremacy than don't, the POWs who confessed to carrying out "germ warfare" in Korea have repudiated their confessions on release. On the one hand, I'm not surprised. On the other, I'm still not, and it is hard to believe <i>The Economist </i>is being serious when it says that this is "new light" on the allegations. Tortured then? Maybe! Under pressure now! Also maybe! The Ministry of Food is looking into the catering industry because there's just too much food poisoning going on. And we close with a weird editorial masquerading as a <b>Note </b>about how there was inflation under Dalton and Cripps, but it was "hidden," and now that the public understands that it will join the battle with inflationary policies that don't produce price increases.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx_mNPifRx_rXa4baYpInckclq69m6P0_w9njjN1Ke2u86MTQcwaCf2hpzRcKNKBcxz_PEAKSV_LJKXsP3S1QIYIindmveIotqvJG-gDs6DlEru4OHaMMuNSMBymYSh_XmKNyK9QVoWXW8uh_BUbMNiPj92EdVqyVImBmpRbGAqy9gKrYVSxcZIW62OUeO/s4032/20240105_202712140_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx_mNPifRx_rXa4baYpInckclq69m6P0_w9njjN1Ke2u86MTQcwaCf2hpzRcKNKBcxz_PEAKSV_LJKXsP3S1QIYIindmveIotqvJG-gDs6DlEru4OHaMMuNSMBymYSh_XmKNyK9QVoWXW8uh_BUbMNiPj92EdVqyVImBmpRbGAqy9gKrYVSxcZIW62OUeO/s320/20240105_202712140_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>From <i>The Economist </i>of 1853 </b>we have "The Price Mechanism," which explains why price controls are bad. What about wage increases, oh sage?</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Books</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">E. F. L. Birsch's <i>The Principles and Practice of Management </i>sounds like a very worthy book. Isobel Ryan's <i>Black Man's Town </i>is an excellent reminder that the Commonwealth exists and is really, really important. Benjamin Thomas' <i>Abraham Lincoln </i>is an excellent biography that "reconsiders" Lincoln. (Just wait 'till the <b>From </b><b style="font-style: italic;">the Economist </b>series hits 1860!) A. E. Smailes' <i>The Geography of Towns </i>is also worthy, but G. S. Fraser's <i>The Modern Writer and His World </i>is "inadequate," which hardly captures the devastating tone of the review, which makes Fraser out to be an idiot of the first order. Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin's <i>Stars in the Making </i>is "handsomely produced" and "sane, sound, and sympathetic . . ." E. Moberly Bell's <i>Storming the Citadel, </i>about women's battle to join the British medical profession, is given a sympathetic review. Apparently, all problems are on the cusp of final solution! Some legal books are also out. <br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gR3ZUCGhA_g" width="320" youtube-src-id="gR3ZUCGhA_g"></iframe></div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><i>Captain Pugwash</i>'s creator, John Ryan, had a daughter named Isobel, but she's not the author of <i>Black Man's Town</i>. But the timing's right!</div></span><br /><b>American Survey</b><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2vzd4q4_EyQ0Ctcp70d_2xX3r5uQewDz1yV_ITccwsJDIXQmIJvKv1Is0Tb1SnSbMYQyLC5BDbYl6AIlIw44hAxyLHTJ0kbMKmzkU-IE_l2VFOuOekN1_rknuxgB7T3nhSUjLWV18hMHBVRY9eX8k62KNdExCGYF_4onyOSM6wc1XoJYJocL50YoJZ-i1/s780/Civil%20Defence%20All%20Purpose%20Survival%20Crackers.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="493" data-original-width="780" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2vzd4q4_EyQ0Ctcp70d_2xX3r5uQewDz1yV_ITccwsJDIXQmIJvKv1Is0Tb1SnSbMYQyLC5BDbYl6AIlIw44hAxyLHTJ0kbMKmzkU-IE_l2VFOuOekN1_rknuxgB7T3nhSUjLWV18hMHBVRY9eX8k62KNdExCGYF_4onyOSM6wc1XoJYJocL50YoJZ-i1/s320/Civil%20Defence%20All%20Purpose%20Survival%20Crackers.PNG" width="320" /></a></div>"Vulnerable America" The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Alsop">Alsop brothers</a> have been warning about America's vulnerability to atomic attack for six months, drawing attention to an alleged National Security Council study, Project Lincoln, which ostensibly shows that the Soviet Union will be able to carry out a devastating atomic attack within two years and that a vast programme of fighter, radar, and rocket defences must be launched immediately. The Soviet hydrogen bomb shows that it is much more urgent, because America has lost its presumed four-year lead. America must cooperate on atomic matters with its allies, and, if it is to build defences and deep shelters, abandon the balanced budget. But is there any will to do this? Gordon Dean and Robert Oppenheimer think that the American public needs more information about atomic matters, as does <a href="Paul Block of the Toledo Blade">Paul Block of the </a><i><a href="Paul Block of the Toledo Blade">Toledo Blade</a>, </i>the senior man on the atomic secret beat.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ralph_Lapp"> Dr. Ralph Lapp</a>, the Research and Development Director of the AEC, wants more information about Project Lincoln and Project East River (the civil defence study). He would also like more information about the Red Air Force, and actual existing American atomic defences.<br /> <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqbYCyyt7rg_IvVkiR7YdQPgF1AVJmZ3HTIW1cSGRvcHqfZHkujBdUPc1adp2Wf11BGYWpriBWNEmdlAk6v_3qjrMBbinWjr4hdoBZGSfXXnARy39v5Pxp_mBWsi2-c6HFmjKX-OCiZK0kicVcNvZJK5GkE0usYrddEN5co0460jIq8mS5AIGWY5r9f5WJ/s4032/20240106_175556882_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqbYCyyt7rg_IvVkiR7YdQPgF1AVJmZ3HTIW1cSGRvcHqfZHkujBdUPc1adp2Wf11BGYWpriBWNEmdlAk6v_3qjrMBbinWjr4hdoBZGSfXXnARy39v5Pxp_mBWsi2-c6HFmjKX-OCiZK0kicVcNvZJK5GkE0usYrddEN5co0460jIq8mS5AIGWY5r9f5WJ/s320/20240106_175556882_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>Against all of this is Lewis Strauss, the new head of the AEC, notorious for opposing the shipping of medical isotopes to a Norwegian military hospital three years ago, on secrecy grounds. He is supported by Eugene Zuckert of the AEC board, and unmoved by the British atomic bomb or recent developments in British guided missiles. However, the critics have a strong ally in the SAC, which believes that the best defence is a good offence, and is effective enough that last year's civil defence vote was a mere $38 million. So the question is whether the President will back Dodge's economy move, or boost civil defence spending. <br /><br /><br /> <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Professional baseball cannot decide whether broadcasting games is a good idea, in spite of the New York Yankees deal selling the rights to advertise on their game broadcasts for $600,000, far more than their heavy payroll.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-FYiMpu4q7ExAjNiWMO4r9MiwgNm_d1YuaPi2tm63Xa97TgjC75nRpuaIJ-SvB_XcnMFtTwuBUTb4RKxVBrD-ON-IyVLwcGPtHfJTfdjtcafBpXD6Wyc3cEQDRgnZEnjxCT9khK0-uwKUyA-dZ2ws4bZ6PEuyL9YCSbhMYHz3Jhs2Cw3yxgMYfigNKdDu/s4032/20240106_175603432_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-FYiMpu4q7ExAjNiWMO4r9MiwgNm_d1YuaPi2tm63Xa97TgjC75nRpuaIJ-SvB_XcnMFtTwuBUTb4RKxVBrD-ON-IyVLwcGPtHfJTfdjtcafBpXD6Wyc3cEQDRgnZEnjxCT9khK0-uwKUyA-dZ2ws4bZ6PEuyL9YCSbhMYHz3Jhs2Cw3yxgMYfigNKdDu/s320/20240106_175603432_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><b>American Notes </b>speculates on the replacement for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_M._Vinson#:~:text=Frederick%20%22Fred%22%20Moore%20Vinson%20(,branches%20of%20the%20U.S.%20government.">Chief Justice Vinson</a> after his unexpected death. Governor Warren is said to be in line for the next Supreme Court opening. He was expected to replace Justice Frankfurter, now past the retirement age of 70, helping the President begin balancing the court politically after twenty years of Democratic nominations. Only one Justice is Republican, and Warren is a progressive Republican with support from Democrats as well as Republicans. On the other hand, while judicial experience is not a prerequisite for a seat on the Supreme Court, and a "disturbing" number of sitting Justices lack it, the Chief Justice is another matter. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_H._Burton">But the President can hardly elevate the one sitting Republican,</a> or a Democratic Justice. So it looks like Governor Warren will be bypassed, possibly in favour of former Senator Danaher or Judge Carroll Hincks. <br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Expansion Under Review" The cancellation of 1000 aircraft, more than half of them fighters, reflects the end of the Korean War, and isn't some hint of a retreat from the 120 wing air force. On the other hand, the curtailment of stockpiling <i>will </i>delay completion of the expansion beyond 1954. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Hot Work for McCarthy" Senator McCarthy has been at work in Washington through the July heatwave, and also the threat of a sub-committee investigation of his tax records, which the Justice Department has now decided would not be appropriate. Now he is pushing to review Army loyalty board findings after catching those secret Communists at the GPO. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjud_BYM0kSIkIgkGXrSCDw2qRimFxlknnF3xLSKMByiyvzgWDJQDtOQiljDjPDTMf1fCXdPrJNcRgT8bSnn9AxjyfZ-Bq1pgoyNQnW40exK3B22UWtcdRu-9ors7jZRrLe9nkIBE0rniLpnFAB7n4jtALW11shWHh2WN2jemw_lJCgMtVTMdbDXJW5iZ-f/s1822/Student%20population%20America%201951%20to%201954.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1702" data-original-width="1822" height="299" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjud_BYM0kSIkIgkGXrSCDw2qRimFxlknnF3xLSKMByiyvzgWDJQDtOQiljDjPDTMf1fCXdPrJNcRgT8bSnn9AxjyfZ-Bq1pgoyNQnW40exK3B22UWtcdRu-9ors7jZRrLe9nkIBE0rniLpnFAB7n4jtALW11shWHh2WN2jemw_lJCgMtVTMdbDXJW5iZ-f/s320/Student%20population%20America%201951%20to%201954.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"Vanishing Gap" The gap between American imports and exports has almost disappeared for the first time since the mid-Thirties due to lower agricultural exports. <i>The Economist </i>hopes that Americans will now learn their lesson about liberal trade policies, as the cause is foreigners <i>surely </i>finally noticing that they can't buy more American wheat and cotton than they sell in engineering oods, and not something else, like, Mr. Jevons would say, the decline of US petroleum exports. <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">All the babies now means all the students, as a record 37 million students registered this year, with 10 million more expected by 1960, and a record $7.5 billion in funding making no obvious impression on the shortages of teachers and classrooms. The estimated present shortage of teachers is 345,000, and another 200, 000 will be needed by 1960. Yet only 48,000 new teachers qualified last year, and 70,000 left the profession. Average salaries went up from $3250 to $3400, but are still far behind the average wage. And there is movement on compulsory third-party insurance for car licenses, with two national insurers offering to underwrite mandatory policies to make them much cheaper, leading to lower insurance for about half of drivers. On the other hand, juvenile drivers will pay much more, but on the other hand again, at least in New York, juvenile drivers must carry insurance. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The World Overseas</b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEDgDzIHTiqDl9u7905XTTI-KRpTFq3UTu6WmdlJm7YtLlu7Kzr5hT5soDWBXGRBgiOYh8__G3Xkllqpv62l3EEgdEZsurtksZGfMqFs8laKS2hqqvtFE7yDowawy438xvI8HkoIVmSKjT4HvlwuCdJ776PTI4wQi6gB-AccKzk-e6V4c3hqPukS4JjAKw/s3788/Farnborough%20Aircraft%201953(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3788" data-original-width="2848" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEDgDzIHTiqDl9u7905XTTI-KRpTFq3UTu6WmdlJm7YtLlu7Kzr5hT5soDWBXGRBgiOYh8__G3Xkllqpv62l3EEgdEZsurtksZGfMqFs8laKS2hqqvtFE7yDowawy438xvI8HkoIVmSKjT4HvlwuCdJ776PTI4wQi6gB-AccKzk-e6V4c3hqPukS4JjAKw/s320/Farnborough%20Aircraft%201953(2).jpg" width="241" /></a></b></div><b><br /></b><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The OECD finds that Europe had a good year, and that a lot of it had to do with trade liberalisation. Italy's weak Christian Democrats have had to look to the right for support in parliament because <i>obviously </i>letting the Socialists into the government was unacceptable. One of the problems for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giuseppe_Pella#:~:text=Giuseppe%20Pella%20(18%20April%201902,the%201950s%20and%20early%201960s.">Giuseppe Pella</a>'s new government is that the Right is quite upset that nothing is still happening, and not happening quite vigorously, in Trieste. If Germany won't go neo-Nazi, maybe Italy will go neo-Fascist! The Soviets are doing their best to produce good products for the consumer, President Vargas is being accused of plotting a "coup from above" in Brazil, people have thoughts on Adenauer's victory over the forces of Red Communism, which is obviously what the election was about, except in France, where it was a blow against true, French-centred European unity. Romania is struggling with running a Communist economy. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Business World</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://docs.wto.org/gattdocs/q/GG/SEC/53-83.PDF">Britain is throwing a giant tantrum at the Gatt</a>, and <i>The Economist </i>has thoughts for financial investors. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Business Notes </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Finance, finance, finance, finance for aircraft exports.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkvfV9yLrubf6nOiDtYEsdaZ0uimu1inbBsyCRcyyiiUyJbF2bX0-3MoPimgQP1H2BPQL-KMtcrXltlsxQgsiyC-YYbP1G_ixj36Fq3yGEqRZT58n06qLKpYIzBF1lCUiofDY1dP9b2ZPlATU81pxQN4JR2cqBheN-xZoRKltLACWKc0I9mroa8S0-d3_J/s3659/Farnborough%20Aircraft%201953(3).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3659" data-original-width="2936" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkvfV9yLrubf6nOiDtYEsdaZ0uimu1inbBsyCRcyyiiUyJbF2bX0-3MoPimgQP1H2BPQL-KMtcrXltlsxQgsiyC-YYbP1G_ixj36Fq3yGEqRZT58n06qLKpYIzBF1lCUiofDY1dP9b2ZPlATU81pxQN4JR2cqBheN-xZoRKltLACWKc0I9mroa8S0-d3_J/s320/Farnborough%20Aircraft%201953(3).jpg" width="257" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlSjtOL2hY56qS0rNdDvupg6D1FvJuIvQ5ZfghNTAWT5PEpQQHUUiuTcpauGfZOwmwdFu43WFsvC0twAouUsSlo0Di1yt-4rglb4hglxyLm3VLcGWx0PLFyiLcPoXGxHuaF2eCVZfHfrxiCI1PTtQI45B-GcN7U6jiOUHuzOJnajkWDz7SYnKsxlgwFCT4/s4032/20240106_194403081_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="'Cuz the high temperature steam plant turned out to be a fiasco, you see" border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhlSjtOL2hY56qS0rNdDvupg6D1FvJuIvQ5ZfghNTAWT5PEpQQHUUiuTcpauGfZOwmwdFu43WFsvC0twAouUsSlo0Di1yt-4rglb4hglxyLm3VLcGWx0PLFyiLcPoXGxHuaF2eCVZfHfrxiCI1PTtQI45B-GcN7U6jiOUHuzOJnajkWDz7SYnKsxlgwFCT4/w240-h320/20240106_194403081_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"Wasted Energy" Fuel conservation is obviously important, but neither Britain nor the United States are likely places to find it, given that Britain used to have cheap energy, and the U.S. still does. So when a productivity working group on "Fuel Conservation" went over to the US a few months ago, you'd expect a short report blaming unions and praising American management. Instead, they decided to "formulate a national fuel policy." A Parliamentary committee said that wasn't on, and now there's to be a national fuel policy from a permanent Power and Fuel Board of the Ministry of Fuel and Power. It all seems very plan-ish and un-American, which we can all agree is where we need to be going. Besides, comparison with American practice, what with the vast stores of hydroelectricity and highest power consumption per head in the world, is stupid. As compared with comparisons with the American <i>spirit </i>of free enterprise, which should rule here, as everywhere, always. Recent news from the British cinema industry is distressingly positive, Australia's tax cuts are just great, and <i>The Economist </i>hopes for some aircraft sales to Lufthansa. Maybe they'll take some Hermes? DON'T DO IT, FRITZ! Copper and cotton are up, down or sideways. Pye, Limited, is planning to invade the gramophone business, which it will have to do in a big way to match up to Decca and EMI. It's true that Britain exports 8.6 million records a year, but Pye might not be ready<br /> to do what it takes to get a share of the business. Softwood lumber is the next to be decontrolled.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4tZjv_SUQy2mc73OU0BhHgcg7jN_26ZxVDymZ0lXh0A9zYwzZ25dlyuZI7yBDfW2HcgGvGaHKLmHpgiCnRmh7Ty1D8ketcoiHxB8yrzUqWwov1sMXrO3b3uznf3pGOwNOAhlidvRHeEsLjzy1ptNwmlhdtmQxjDh5YSN0D6QO5LgvjV_BnSihCfvYtHyt/s4032/accles%20and%20pollock%20ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2882" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4tZjv_SUQy2mc73OU0BhHgcg7jN_26ZxVDymZ0lXh0A9zYwzZ25dlyuZI7yBDfW2HcgGvGaHKLmHpgiCnRmh7Ty1D8ketcoiHxB8yrzUqWwov1sMXrO3b3uznf3pGOwNOAhlidvRHeEsLjzy1ptNwmlhdtmQxjDh5YSN0D6QO5LgvjV_BnSihCfvYtHyt/s320/accles%20and%20pollock%20ad.jpg" width="229" /></a></div>"More or Fancier Shoes?" How is it that, using the same machinery, often British, American workers produce more shoes in 60--74 man-hours than British workers do in 100? This seems like an obvious field in which to search out the Anglo-American Productivity Council's favourite enemies, bad management and restrictive labour practices. They do find that the best British shoe factories match American ones, and that some factories have improved since doing time-and-motion studies, and piece rates are, as usual, a panacea. However, <i>The Economist </i>reaches its limits when the Council gets on its last favourite subject, the excessive number of models and types and the great efficiencies of mass production. IN SHOES??? Have they met a woman? (And actually <i>The Economist </i>isd more feminist than I am willing to be on this subject by pointing out that men like fancy shoes, too.)<br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Flight, </i>11 September 1953</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Leaders </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj4yaQ3zb-jBsvIwHuIe60S4k6O3AlI0keuozBFqwlxQpXrTWT31zMBR_cT50mM7TMbTcUZ0BDQ3Z0upLT1TKmriqULkUWHepGzqOaWczOt4TFAq6StJ_Cb55xC_dyAHJJXUQfZOTSAn1Nt3hqNg2SrZCThuHkwitFCi7fBBQJPSp0CC5qAhmE3lZNJEhw/s4032/Farnborough%20Aircraft%201953(4).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2977" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj4yaQ3zb-jBsvIwHuIe60S4k6O3AlI0keuozBFqwlxQpXrTWT31zMBR_cT50mM7TMbTcUZ0BDQ3Z0upLT1TKmriqULkUWHepGzqOaWczOt4TFAq6StJ_Cb55xC_dyAHJJXUQfZOTSAn1Nt3hqNg2SrZCThuHkwitFCi7fBBQJPSp0CC5qAhmE3lZNJEhw/s320/Farnborough%20Aircraft%201953(4).jpg" width="236" /></a></div>"A Colourful Farnborough" After going on about how fun Farnborough was this year, <i>Flight </i>fixes on <a href="https://cahf.ca/gordon-roy-mcgregor/">Gordon McGregor</a>'s speech to the SBAC Dinner on Tuesday. The president of TCA explained why his company had opted for a British turboprop airliner over American designs. British designs are great, American firms are being driven to fantastic tooling expenses by the high cost of labour in their country, and British manufacturers are able to supply more custom tailoring because of it. There is no doubt that British designs are the fastest in the world, too, but McGregor cautions that he has no time for "hot" ships if it comes at a cost of safety at low speeds and near the ground. <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>From All Quarters </b>reports that "powerful City interests" have established a new firm, <a href="https://www.airfinanceco.com/">Air Finance</a>, to export British civil aircraft under long-term leases. The Air Ministry has managed to offload 10 Tudors to some lucky duck. Short Brothers introduces its new Sherpa. This year's Wilbur Wright Lecture will be given by Professor N. J. Hoff, who is department chair for air stuff at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_University_Tandon_School_of_Engineering">Brooklyn Polytechnic</a>, and who will be talking about "Structures: Buckling and Stability." Plans for the Amundsen Memorial Flight Over the North Pole Because We Want To Do It That's Why continue. Bristol is sending a lad to South America to sell planes and not start coups. General Guenther says that NATO needs more planes. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Here and There </b>reports that the US Navy is still trying to make us excited about the Douglas Skyrocket. New Zealand will have a rescue ship out in the middle of the Tasman Sea for the London-Christchurch Race. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"The Curtain Rises" The weather was great at Farnborough and so were the planes. Here's even more pictures! But not, disappointingly, of the Vickers B2, prototype of the new transport and rumoured bearer of the Olympus engine. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxw_KFooCJbnmnpSA2VlPpWa6hN4ih2H0LzvTjTMk-6pCrQaUWzkyX_StoXciMHogXWgmkD46QWkocfjEWhR1wcSxvdic4l0jK0fCpXQQIRQXzJS67okbV6QVgyfMI_2jVZcHw6fPVglj8RSLUyGmpWKutFpYP0UFy6vrH8gj8TLFWDBpUT_W1qrMqBJU2/s4032/20240106_184031593_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxw_KFooCJbnmnpSA2VlPpWa6hN4ih2H0LzvTjTMk-6pCrQaUWzkyX_StoXciMHogXWgmkD46QWkocfjEWhR1wcSxvdic4l0jK0fCpXQQIRQXzJS67okbV6QVgyfMI_2jVZcHw6fPVglj8RSLUyGmpWKutFpYP0UFy6vrH8gj8TLFWDBpUT_W1qrMqBJU2/w300-h400/20240106_184031593_iOS.heic" width="300" /></a></div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gunston">W. T. Gunston</a>, "Pods Pros and Cons: Some Reflections on American and British Engine-installation Methods" British designs bury the engine, American designs put them in pods! British engines are more aerodynamic, American engines are more convenient! I take this apple and compare it to this orange. One has to be peeled, the other has no citrus-y taste at all! You might wonder why I'm going on about it, but there's already been an article in <i>Aviation Week </i>that I can crib and, Daddy needs a new pair of shoes! Gunston does point out that American wing loadings are enormous, which makes for high landing speeds (British are in the range of 70% of American), but allows for high aspect ratios and high cruising speeds for a given power rating. American wings need to withstand high stresses, and need to be extensively milled from thick sections, requiring expensive tooling. On the other hand, the British designs need undercarriages and engines which will actually fit into the wings, although on the other hand the undercarriages will accommodate much lighter airfields than American. British wings also gain superior climb and manoeuvrability, and don't have the problems with flappage that American planes have. Pods do reduce the amount of ducting , but this is not as great an advantage as American designers make it out to be, and the maintenance disadvantage is less than is claimed. In conclusion, the zesty taste of the British orange makes it far superior to the firm flesh of the American apple. <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisTo03_c3gHh1u3gWpp98TXcyUDXtp49FsmP_83VqI9QnvnRYT6orFjigCRsPSWlejvaUI39PRMAEXUlNJt3dAs4wsA9BIwvBzpfk0KINFoLByvg7MXlJtFd3nUvzE2lr-bZoHE8TMf5hw685xYdAAVxf4eDRhXhcUGrWSdgIseiFzbh9MSjopWnPOyYp_/s4032/20240106_175323848_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisTo03_c3gHh1u3gWpp98TXcyUDXtp49FsmP_83VqI9QnvnRYT6orFjigCRsPSWlejvaUI39PRMAEXUlNJt3dAs4wsA9BIwvBzpfk0KINFoLByvg7MXlJtFd3nUvzE2lr-bZoHE8TMf5hw685xYdAAVxf4eDRhXhcUGrWSdgIseiFzbh9MSjopWnPOyYp_/s320/20240106_175323848_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>C. H. Latimer-Needham, "Hemisphere Bombing" Air Chief Marshal Lloyd says that the bomber "gives us the best chance of preventing war, and of winning it if it should be forced upon us." But that is only true if it is a <i>good </i>bomber! And just in case you are confused enough to think that what I say here has anything to do with my point, here is a diagram that seems to emphasise mid-air refuelling, followed by an entire article about it! One interesting implication is that the tankers should accompany the bombers, and this is best achieved by making tankers of the same aircraft type as the bomber. The current US arrangement with B-29 variants refuelling B-47s is, therefore, not a good idea. As Reggie says, refuelling a Neptune from a Neptune is much less nerve-wracking than refuelling a B-57 from a KC-97. <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"London's Anglo-American Conference" <i>Flight </i>has the agenda for the fourth Anglo-American Aeronautical Conference (but not the private sessions, so Reggie's paper isn't announced, although his co-author's separate presentation is, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Bassett">understandably considering!</a>)</p><p style="text-align: justify;">C. H. E. Warren, "Sonic Bangs: A Year's Theories Reviewed" I thought they had this sorted out! </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Civil Aviation </b>reports that Sir Miles Thomas is very excited about the low costs and long ranges of the Britannia, and that he says he has no further information about the Karachi crash. Mullard announces that it is announcing the "radar sonde," which it can't be announcing, since I've been hearing about them for years. It's a radio weather balloon that reflects radar, it seems, and it will be used to measure wind speeds more accurately. KLM is entering a DC-6 into the London-Christchurch Race, the first KLM race entry since 1934. A mid-air collision between two Convair-Liners fortunately ended with damage but no injuries for the American and United aircraft involved. GEC's new mobile VHF radio extends an airport's telephone exchange system through a man-carried radio, perfect for when an airliner is lost somewhere on a fog-bound tarmac. Handley-Page's announced DC-3 replacement differs from all previous proposed DC-3 replacements in that it will actually work this time, for sure! Even though it is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handley_Page_Dart_Herald">four-engine type, which has been death for "DC-3 replacements," and is using the Alvis Leonides engine, the Great Shoulder-Shrug of the industry</a>. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Air Marshal Livelaw-Chapman will replace <a href="https://www.rafweb.org/Biographies/Brook_W.htm">AVM Brook</a> as Vice-Chief of the Air Staff after the latter's recent death in a flying accident. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Private Eye" Decca Radar's new Type 424 is a high-efficiency, pencil-beam medium-range radar that comes in a "package" form conveniently installed in small spaces. And the new Sabena inter-city helicopter service gets a full page article, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabena">because it absolutely is a good idea whose time has come</a>. <br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NTHD4aBA0Qw" width="320" youtube-src-id="NTHD4aBA0Qw"></iframe></div><b><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoxc526XgN0ay6szI-7R-I07B1qX232iG2RHuv7Tywci37-PKeFIyu0q94gBoRa5LV70BmJyg_llz12g35pit4uu-fUCagad0pccC8ZQ6h1W65KcPvCXIoSsr8XOE3NKsSkiQ0sg0h1d9WPSOcfGxH3R_5T5YnBTwHFXBy5vAOaIvCa5Cpk-6rQVDL_aSf/s4032/20240106_193254767_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgoxc526XgN0ay6szI-7R-I07B1qX232iG2RHuv7Tywci37-PKeFIyu0q94gBoRa5LV70BmJyg_llz12g35pit4uu-fUCagad0pccC8ZQ6h1W65KcPvCXIoSsr8XOE3NKsSkiQ0sg0h1d9WPSOcfGxH3R_5T5YnBTwHFXBy5vAOaIvCa5Cpk-6rQVDL_aSf/s320/20240106_193254767_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><b><br /></b></div>Correspondence</b><div><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">J. H. Stevens is upset that the Air Ministry isn't trying to save a few examples of every plane ever, because of history, and has just recently scrapped the last Hampden. J. M. Bruce recalls the old days, before the war, and especially the SE5. G. W. R. Nicholls seems to ber confused about the regulations for lifeboats aboard planes. J. D. R. Davies thanks <i>Flight </i>for its service to recalling the old days, before the war. J. H. Keller, the Auster distributor in Switzerland, is very disappointed with the geographical errors in the recent article about spraying bugs in Switzerland. It's the Rhone, not the Rhine! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"A New British Air Camera" RAE is showing its new Williamson panoramic camera using long-focus lenses and swinging mirrors to give the wide angle previously provided by eight lenses. This is an application of movie camera technique, but with a moving lens. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS8JJ1DhdGiS9lXC4fAT322qHzV2xZMOfIQStrl2TUwfjXYtX_zzXXUfOBfvyjzd927eFKpFdt_LDDAHXum7C5CwuXo6D0cuL8nYP4GjAA5RPdS7LoKhEdwMGhznDSUhipojHyUHTD27zuc73sgF6XLpSdrGo_HG1JYRc8fnt47XycRPymxUyWKPv5QYn2/s4032/20240106_193625893_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgS8JJ1DhdGiS9lXC4fAT322qHzV2xZMOfIQStrl2TUwfjXYtX_zzXXUfOBfvyjzd927eFKpFdt_LDDAHXum7C5CwuXo6D0cuL8nYP4GjAA5RPdS7LoKhEdwMGhznDSUhipojHyUHTD27zuc73sgF6XLpSdrGo_HG1JYRc8fnt47XycRPymxUyWKPv5QYn2/s16000/20240106_193625893_iOS.heic" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF0HXCO6azPYewSEY67aiyyya26oOn84yWvAFv01lGrShOUsjvGN3-9FKjN4eFKhuusr4WLstYD9W0GIFre-tQHb1oJwNvz3ar7IdKjja7CFmsKNDrbI83p9Kfo3cUCIdWIvC8DHlv0msJXdUfrUqiHdcJ50Z2u5tcCabTbNUu6QKqDeVLdIOGA2QjDUvH/s4032/20240106_194313383_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF0HXCO6azPYewSEY67aiyyya26oOn84yWvAFv01lGrShOUsjvGN3-9FKjN4eFKhuusr4WLstYD9W0GIFre-tQHb1oJwNvz3ar7IdKjja7CFmsKNDrbI83p9Kfo3cUCIdWIvC8DHlv0msJXdUfrUqiHdcJ50Z2u5tcCabTbNUu6QKqDeVLdIOGA2QjDUvH/s320/20240106_194313383_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><b>Fortune's Wheel </b>points out that the business press has to predict the future, which is just about astrology, in that it is hard. I thought that astrology was impossible? And also that predicting the business future was <i>easy, </i>because of politics. If our guy gets in, it's going to be great. If not, the reverse. Kefauver wouldn't have landed us in this fix! So, anyway, the point is that it's September and we've <i>finally </i>got to admit that we're in the middle of the Eisenhower slump, and the important point is that it is just a tiny-weeny little slump, a "businessman's depression," and you're not a businessman, dear reader, are you? You just pretend to be one! No, no, pretend I didn't say that. I mean, it won't be much of a downturn, probably. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Business Roundup </b>reports that the slowdown in Soviet expansion means a redirection to agriculture and consumer production and a reduction in arms expenditure, which means that the West can do likewise. Defence outlays have peaked at 14% of GNP, and will now decline, which is why capital outlays show a declining rate of machinery procurement, one of several signs of that moderate slump that is coming. Or, technically, already here, and which will probably be over by August. GNP is expected to slump by 4% by August. At the moment, incomes are still rising, although savings are falling, so it is not clear just how much this will affect normal people, the question being employment, although it is not asked here, where the writers are more worried about capital goods and home building. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG1FggXhB0E-FmSiXEXGKaAsQxLeTh0KQXOWacTy0yPepqxfPrxyGj6SQCBBSEpS4DlVn725BCS0kaq0drGNimcfG30ACsWepPKhLXSZtGZmvDKbzloXlhoUjIOavapmxTXhVXacjU1EL38XlGceISZWB2uxPbBIXCxkzo41eIpXMfWg04ICgXc4RlHL5z/s3821/Grumman%20F9F%20Panther(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3821" data-original-width="2758" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG1FggXhB0E-FmSiXEXGKaAsQxLeTh0KQXOWacTy0yPepqxfPrxyGj6SQCBBSEpS4DlVn725BCS0kaq0drGNimcfG30ACsWepPKhLXSZtGZmvDKbzloXlhoUjIOavapmxTXhVXacjU1EL38XlGceISZWB2uxPbBIXCxkzo41eIpXMfWg04ICgXc4RlHL5z/s320/Grumman%20F9F%20Panther(2).jpg" width="231" /></a></div><b>Labour </b>looks at the UMW's difficulties organising the Kentucky coal mines, and at how everyone is happy and onboard with the President on the labour side of the Administration. <b>Defence and Strategy </b>checks in with the Chiefs of Staff, who are suddenly faced with a combination of hydrogen bombs and economy drives. A reorientation to atomic war means more focus on things like the <i>Forrestal </i>and the Heavy Press programme, so necessary to make those remarkably long, strong, flexible wings for the B-52 and any competition that might eventually show up from Convair before the day of the supersonic delta dawns. Along with the <i>Forrestals, </i>the Navy is modernising one of its three <i>Midways, </i>and is building three destroyers, a submarine, five mine warfare types, a bunch of amphibious craft, escort ships, and a third <i>Forrestal </i>and atomic submarine. The Navy is worried that the slow building programme means that the Navy is drifting into mass obsolescence, especially the carriers, which are becoming dangerously unstable due to all the changes at flight deck level. The <i>Forrestals </i>are needed not so much because of novel roles in atomic war as because we need carriers, and they are the smallest ones practical for modern jets. (Bad news for the Admiralty!) Speaking of which, the Air Navy has egg on its face after Korea, where its jet fighters were no match for the MiG-15. It needs swept-back wing jet fighters, which it is getting in the Grumman F9F-6 Cougar and Chance-Vought F7U-3 Cutlass, followed by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_F4D_Skyray">F4D</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonnell_F3H_Demon">F3H</a>. Speaking of planes, the Pentagon has now reduced the Heavy Press programme from 25 to 10 presses, costing $300 million as opposed to the original budget of $89 million. Besides escalating costs and the fact that the full programme would be able to process 12 million pounds a month compared to total peak air industry demand for 11 million pounds of metal a month, there were technical problems with the too-ambitious programme, which was squeezing the chrome out of aluminum alloys and failing to achieve the precision needed to avoid expensive machining. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1W5jeQ_DlpJ744SCqeYuMvkYEX42AuoEMgZ82KuFrU7j-I0idK3nF-KwZVrZPvLI3bQD-kH0G8fHPPyX9OCRx3YaGGCwoTrsalT5exE3IQhdjIyzMGxN9WXDxXGrpgmg4dNA8-XrkdnusOGoc9qAH7Ky_ZNa12TlVeZ2LUGe9SCzUNTfDP5FwP8fbqubd/s4032/REmington%20Rand%20Microhone%20ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2872" data-original-width="4032" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1W5jeQ_DlpJ744SCqeYuMvkYEX42AuoEMgZ82KuFrU7j-I0idK3nF-KwZVrZPvLI3bQD-kH0G8fHPPyX9OCRx3YaGGCwoTrsalT5exE3IQhdjIyzMGxN9WXDxXGrpgmg4dNA8-XrkdnusOGoc9qAH7Ky_ZNa12TlVeZ2LUGe9SCzUNTfDP5FwP8fbqubd/w640-h456/REmington%20Rand%20Microhone%20ad.jpg" width="640" /></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2RqGb_sqrwvafpSWoivdKwWPXhmTn6vdc-DQKKH0yI5aUuvPUmZ_7smb8dEQSVFpmDf8_A2trEuYR1LTFUTAvRs-r2kkhbp1ZpsE-Js2xwNHAE4QRttJeKyUHAEg8dvPanlPxrD4GH19CaExWIooBV2kL4enVJ1QPMuJeCpueXdVg-mlXaZsyd2p9tlb6/s4032/M48%20Patton(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2712" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2RqGb_sqrwvafpSWoivdKwWPXhmTn6vdc-DQKKH0yI5aUuvPUmZ_7smb8dEQSVFpmDf8_A2trEuYR1LTFUTAvRs-r2kkhbp1ZpsE-Js2xwNHAE4QRttJeKyUHAEg8dvPanlPxrD4GH19CaExWIooBV2kL4enVJ1QPMuJeCpueXdVg-mlXaZsyd2p9tlb6/s320/M48%20Patton(2).jpg" width="215" /></a></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Whose Business is the Business Cycle" <br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Some people say that the President is in charge of maintaining the stability of the economy. Including the President, a few months ago, but, really, it's harder than it looks, and it is time to take a hrd look at who is really responsible. You, dear reader, you. So we review all the ways that business can promote stability and are dumped back on the Administration. It <i>is </i>the President's job. <b>Fortune </b>is upset at the New York Jeweller's Association for calling for price maintenance and cartels; at British steel denationalistion for promoting corporate concentration, reducing 220,000 shareholders ast 28 firms to whatever buyers the London investment houses. Carbon dioxide is another cartelised industry. Representative B. Carroll Reese continues to find the tax-exempt foundations to be too liberal for his tastes. <i>Fortune </i>finds this too demagogic for <i>its</i> tastes. Eastman Kodak is showing how benevolent capitalism can be by building a hospital. Patent licensing seems to be a great way to fund universities. The US Council of the International Chamber of Commerce says that Americans have to grow up and accept east-west trade. <i>Fortune </i>does not agree! It is also a bit cautious about all this talk about liberalising international trade. Paul Mazur's new book says that it is a patriotic duty for Americans to spend and consume. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Charles J. V. Murphy, "What Dr. Fuchs Couldn't Deliver" Mass-produced atom bombs. That's what Klaus Fuchs couldn't deliver. But the AEC can! This is an odd article, seemingly going back to the days before the debris from the Soviet blast crossed the border, but perhaps trying to get across the shortage of U-238 fissile products indicating a predominantly fission rather than fission-fusion weapon, and, oh, look, we're going up for treason together if anyone ever intercepts this letter. "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDS-37">For Soviet science, far less experienced in the actual technology of atomic-weapon design, to have beaten the AEC is scarcely credible</a>." Murphy supposes that the Soviet atomic arsenal is only a thirtieth the American, and the Soviet intercontinental turboprop bomber is not ready for service. The US, in comparison, might be able to fit all the fissile material ever made into a bank vault, but that is still the most explosive power, etc, etc. The AEC is doing that at a cost of a mere $17 billion, which is far cheaper than tanks. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Vulture">And we should probably use them like tanks, for example if the Korean armistice breaks down. </a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Mark Woolsey, "A 'Business-Minded' Supreme Court" A few recent rulings have been pretty good, so let's write an article about it that won't look at all embarrassing when the chief justice drops dead and we have a whole new Supreme Court on our hands. A look at the American car market concludes that Americans are crazy about cars, a pictorial essay on the giant concrete sphere where they're developing the atomic nuclear reactors follows that, and then a demand for "Currency convertibility Now" from Michael A. Heilperin. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2UOTd5X9DwzQbu1F-80_skbM8-y_rez9T8dd2xxcVYSex6AtLnxokSN_461k51u3PAkX99mZt6y0x86irgha3I8f9BBuxFwaFWu5JF8yOVyByLUKoCPJoWUU79eDL7wtvESECR9VK9iLlXyg7pYVjIjWseDPF3MWYFb9OGnAnX05pCPlUp3cahzoB7RCf/s4032/US%20auto%20market%20possibilities%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2UOTd5X9DwzQbu1F-80_skbM8-y_rez9T8dd2xxcVYSex6AtLnxokSN_461k51u3PAkX99mZt6y0x86irgha3I8f9BBuxFwaFWu5JF8yOVyByLUKoCPJoWUU79eDL7wtvESECR9VK9iLlXyg7pYVjIjWseDPF3MWYFb9OGnAnX05pCPlUp3cahzoB7RCf/w640-h480/US%20auto%20market%20possibilities%201953.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy0JS9eEKfOCQNg4Xbrd_yKt3rUnGGfYJ09UveZ4c_NnHUz69T8veuZRvjxJeg085cqOERb6W96PpMPojdcxI8G6Ax2pCJEQ_MZWWTUDZ99FEmG259qpsMP6e61WFqxkjntnqhImSruHB-ZeWHQcbJiyOt3pud4nMTyXfnr62I8CRidNbRw7lbMLKazhzp/s4032/20240106_205842286_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjy0JS9eEKfOCQNg4Xbrd_yKt3rUnGGfYJ09UveZ4c_NnHUz69T8veuZRvjxJeg085cqOERb6W96PpMPojdcxI8G6Ax2pCJEQ_MZWWTUDZ99FEmG259qpsMP6e61WFqxkjntnqhImSruHB-ZeWHQcbJiyOt3pud4nMTyXfnr62I8CRidNbRw7lbMLKazhzp/s320/20240106_205842286_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"Shock Treatment for Parke, Davis" A <i>Fortune </i>investigatory report looks at the disaster when its new antibiotic wonder drug, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chloramphenicol">Chloromycetin</a>, turned out to be poisonous. Oops! Focussing on the important thing --finances-- we look at how Parke, Davis saved the day for everyone except the 28 people killed before the drug was withdrawn. Dr. Eugene Payne, who took Chloromycetin, discovered in the soil of the Venezuelan rain forest, established its efficacy against typhus, and used it to treat 21 patients in a Bolivian clinic. Further testing on Malayans led to a trial at Philadelphia against Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever, against which it was also effective. So, a year later, the drug was launched onto the market. Within a year there were reports of an unexpected side effect, dyscrasias. And what a convenient place to skip to the pictureless continuation of the article on p. 208, where the first case of death due to aplastic anemia caused by the drug's attack on the bone marrow, was reported in the <i>AMA Journal, </i>followed by the other 27. Parke Davis's response was "meticulously correct." It stopped promoting Chloromycetin. Not guilty, as <i>Fortune </i>says. Three years from discovery to market, three short clinical trials, only one of them in America, and then mass market launch. I don't see any negligence! (I'm being sarcastic. And appalled.) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">In the back of the paper, where we don't have back pages any more, a three page pictorial article about a Japanese abstract sculptor and one on the boom in paperback sales. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglbY9KggNAnKrRPNqAyd84uj1w_pV5oPvtTY6xo2mA8QaU5_tY1wF4hdwrxzDZ0in2fHD0AzPpKz6iJ38WmTfW92xTfDrW-bbP2o7l5m8WEu18Rm8zRShAMGd-8yZ4M3KrYSSVlVWgRYAoasRNbBQ4fY4Ead9OCDd2ygfYAFB1bHBjbn6w1C5AwBUaU6L2/s3520/Solar%20power%20possibilities%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3520" data-original-width="1858" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglbY9KggNAnKrRPNqAyd84uj1w_pV5oPvtTY6xo2mA8QaU5_tY1wF4hdwrxzDZ0in2fHD0AzPpKz6iJ38WmTfW92xTfDrW-bbP2o7l5m8WEu18Rm8zRShAMGd-8yZ4M3KrYSSVlVWgRYAoasRNbBQ4fY4Ead9OCDd2ygfYAFB1bHBjbn6w1C5AwBUaU6L2/s320/Solar%20power%20possibilities%201953.jpg" width="169" /></a></div>Eric Hodgins, "Power from the Sun" The Sun provides us with amazingly more energy than anything else. The question is how to use it aside from farming. It isn't very "dense" energy, so it has to be collected somehow. Once we do that, solar energy will beat out atomic energy, much less fossil fuels, which are, after all, going to run out. Solar energy remains the province of a few eccentric promoters like Godfrey Cabot Lodge, who gave Harvard and MIT $600,000 to work on it before the war, and Charles Ketteridge, who putters with it (large scale puttering, but puttering) since his retirement., mainly in photosynthesis. If we could lick "artificial" photosynthesis, that would be best. We could capture and store energy as efficiently as plants, and plants can be very efficient. Another possibility is generating electricity by turning solar heat into steam, using various ways to "collect" and focus the heat. Or we could use films of algae, which seems to be a very efficient way of utilising photosynthesis. Or, in the long run, perhaps we could use photovoltaic cells to generate electric current directly. </div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Erik Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-74185408645402180852023-12-29T05:08:00.000-08:002023-12-29T05:08:45.082-08:00A Technological Appendix to Postblogging August 1953: Aspheric Lenses<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh94aYZHS4D2usg3N_NV9XifZDjaPuVt6JDowXKpscbmc8cBoiLOMMTOUDrI-VsVZOQA6tmKMhUe52bxx91dnmZc1seYkjSPUofa2KF-l61iZa4ekOrDZflVmi7Mk223LtdWOOD4KcQ6MsLWTB0khI3z6LKvtv2gEuYDU_wfeFP77sCt0pSlfTf8bDI-HLB/s3024/Lenses%20of%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3009" data-original-width="3024" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh94aYZHS4D2usg3N_NV9XifZDjaPuVt6JDowXKpscbmc8cBoiLOMMTOUDrI-VsVZOQA6tmKMhUe52bxx91dnmZc1seYkjSPUofa2KF-l61iZa4ekOrDZflVmi7Mk223LtdWOOD4KcQ6MsLWTB0khI3z6LKvtv2gEuYDU_wfeFP77sCt0pSlfTf8bDI-HLB/w400-h398/Lenses%20of%201953.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p>Nothing particularly complicated here: Aspherical lenses. What's up with that? And how about <i>Lawrence of Arabia </i>for a pop-culture reference?</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/vpsDfVaEUW4" width="320" youtube-src-id="vpsDfVaEUW4"></iframe></div>It's the <i>music </i>that seems old-fashioned. <span><a name='more'></a></span><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmFqpwtMAfRowNExK39POAI_d6kdaFHMGPKQBjtOe7cH6m1rUsqF6AfFSIgAFAJ1bKpcYwKSXPq6fY1iuzk3puFvU3xS2LecmRlP_9rI5OM5hWCFgey1Lt7_p_EXt6ayMrtHJMaQISC1lHu1t0LYfkC5euQrDddXa29INydelQjLnPdsrtX1sGIagarODS/s3875/Anamorphic%20Adaptor%20for%20Widescreen.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2526" data-original-width="3875" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmFqpwtMAfRowNExK39POAI_d6kdaFHMGPKQBjtOe7cH6m1rUsqF6AfFSIgAFAJ1bKpcYwKSXPq6fY1iuzk3puFvU3xS2LecmRlP_9rI5OM5hWCFgey1Lt7_p_EXt6ayMrtHJMaQISC1lHu1t0LYfkC5euQrDddXa29INydelQjLnPdsrtX1sGIagarODS/s320/Anamorphic%20Adaptor%20for%20Widescreen.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><i>Lawrence of Arabia </i>was filmed in Super Panavision, meaning that it was shot with 70mm spherical lenses instead of the 65mm then becoming standard. The intent was to capture extreme wide angles, and distribution was complicated by the need to upgrade theatres with curved screens, which <i>The Economist </i>has been wringing its hands about. Fox's original <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CinemaScope">Cinemascope</a>, new in 1953, is illustrated opposite. Based on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Chr%C3%A9tien">Henri Chretien</a>'s 1926 work,* which Bausch and Lomb quickly managed to patent troll into their own intellectual property inventory, but hopefully not before cutting a big cheque to Chretien to cover a long and arduous journey. It seems that they also did the actual lens designing in their "electronic computing department," which, <i>Fortune </i>notes, is the first in the industry (as of 1953.) In practice, it was Panavision's innovation of a "<span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">new lens set that included dual rotating anamorphic elements which were interlocked with the lens focus gearing" that made the running. </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">None of this has anything to do with aspheric lenses, which are lenses with computed profiles rather than the much-easier-to-calculate spherical and cylindrical lenses in current use as of 1953. <a href="https://www.allaboutvision.com/lenses/aspheric-lenses.htm">The most interesting commercial application of aspherical lenses is in eyeglasses,</a> </div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh191Nv5U7Mp0nHIW8t70ElW9XgWuxQnLVqfH6vacOViCdHqjzVu9C-aKejuOrAHKLjMHmR65tYnyP_iRtgEBfdzxTMrWk0iQfDxkSo3VWcMZTtN46hDDe0s2B8KqeI5_AxEbCWTL4gPVupyfK50lsIISIAI9LnU10HEjN0W4UgWEPL1ggEaiXgfO_tRMAa/s934/Aspherical%20eyeglass%20model.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="503" data-original-width="934" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh191Nv5U7Mp0nHIW8t70ElW9XgWuxQnLVqfH6vacOViCdHqjzVu9C-aKejuOrAHKLjMHmR65tYnyP_iRtgEBfdzxTMrWk0iQfDxkSo3VWcMZTtN46hDDe0s2B8KqeI5_AxEbCWTL4gPVupyfK50lsIISIAI9LnU10HEjN0W4UgWEPL1ggEaiXgfO_tRMAa/w640-h344/Aspherical%20eyeglass%20model.PNG" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>Men don't make passes at girls who wear glasses. Unless they're aspherical! Rowrr! Model uncredited. </i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">where they can reduce astigmatism and, more importantly, give better results in the multipower lenses that we are all getting these days because we are old. However, as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspheric_lens">Wiki article</a> points ou t, asphericals are widely used in consumer optics because they are cheaper than noncomputed lenses. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So what's a computed lens?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN0YK-kJbU9TdsmCa-bzRy068jRlWmEEPOsvnuukk6bAfszakXucDEDNHeEDA8Bn861e10qnrAlIdEWx5Dx9cQFcP8MNV0O8pErMCg_F_OYBszomhbeTQ2EV_X2UOSlbhzO9QyEVNh2WD-vBSIY5TpHygoj_evCNOhsLWWBlq5Qc3tU4e4rr_hPDuLKtjc/s414/Math%20for%20aspherical%20lens.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="84" data-original-width="414" height="81" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjN0YK-kJbU9TdsmCa-bzRy068jRlWmEEPOsvnuukk6bAfszakXucDEDNHeEDA8Bn861e10qnrAlIdEWx5Dx9cQFcP8MNV0O8pErMCg_F_OYBszomhbeTQ2EV_X2UOSlbhzO9QyEVNh2WD-vBSIY5TpHygoj_evCNOhsLWWBlq5Qc3tU4e4rr_hPDuLKtjc/w400-h81/Math%20for%20aspherical%20lens.PNG" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdNc6iDnz631i8OZGvQ5Klt95RVCs9SbcKdKFFvyqxdDG6z9gPOeeNTHa5ExhIJQcX1YV5cW4Vz5N8Oyen_qKcKEbbkyXIX0cr2cyWeFtVSYrokr58SJ6dWscN2G6ltd1Vf23WEOwB4rdcwRCNBHuvbENEq4HZS10CjHQoBvbIPYpQ6Rb7_qgXYoyhljkp/s3973/Lenses%20for%20problems%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3973" data-original-width="1911" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdNc6iDnz631i8OZGvQ5Klt95RVCs9SbcKdKFFvyqxdDG6z9gPOeeNTHa5ExhIJQcX1YV5cW4Vz5N8Oyen_qKcKEbbkyXIX0cr2cyWeFtVSYrokr58SJ6dWscN2G6ltd1Vf23WEOwB4rdcwRCNBHuvbENEq4HZS10CjHQoBvbIPYpQ6Rb7_qgXYoyhljkp/s320/Lenses%20for%20problems%201953.jpg" width="154" /></a></div>People will have probably played with simple cylindrical lenses in high school science class, since the math uses simple trigonometric expressions to explain lens magnification with such simplicity and power. I could go all woolly and philosophy-(or, indeed, sociology of)-science here, but that's not where this post needs to go in the moment of 1953. The above formula will be familiar as a series expansion of a function, although the causality goes backwards, in that we define a function as having the necessary slope in as many points along the "curve" as we are up to specify, then use the series expansion to write a function that joins these points in a mathematically-valid way. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This is why Bausch and Lomb has an "electronic computer" department. It is why <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Gilbert_Baker">James G. Baker</a> gets his own inset, as the "world's fastest lens designer," able to do computations in months that other optics labs take years to do. (He is working on the camera for the U-2 right now.) There's nothing in this digression about aspheric lenses either, but I hope it does put the apocryphal quotes from assorted worthies about the world only needing fifty computers or so in 1950, 1955, or 1960, or 1985, into perspective. If anyone, from the president of IBM down to Bill Gates said that, it was because they had no idea how many fields were working with this whole "maths" stuff to make products that make a lot of money while still being apparently invisible. (Every movie coming out this year seems to have been shot with a new lens, but who cares? It's just <i>movies.</i>)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2so37zDyl3UJ1h2OdhuBe_ZS33NSvfgKIjKlhVGBtGifAzu-RnFMXvKQdp_7otI6spsGgguHw4EbnSWJyxYzV_3Ey10AxELE1bgRFhpibLVgjf_3RniV9qD17Hpu7Z4d-U_A3spSfY14JiXfnpuVeua_XluaK5XVvwyx8PKxsTXxJ0mP3wlIQUHteOOyc/s599/Elgeet%20Ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="432" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2so37zDyl3UJ1h2OdhuBe_ZS33NSvfgKIjKlhVGBtGifAzu-RnFMXvKQdp_7otI6spsGgguHw4EbnSWJyxYzV_3Ey10AxELE1bgRFhpibLVgjf_3RniV9qD17Hpu7Z4d-U_A3spSfY14JiXfnpuVeua_XluaK5XVvwyx8PKxsTXxJ0mP3wlIQUHteOOyc/w289-h400/Elgeet%20Ad.jpg" width="289" /></a></div>The interesting thing here about aspherics is that as of 1953, aspherical lenses are being considered for a much wider range of applications because there is an absolute limit on how precisely spherical and cylindrical lenses can be machined. As the Wiki notes, small aspherical lenses are relatively easily produced from moulds, which presumably can be made by stringing together micrometer settings. Larger ones are producing by traditional grinding and polishing. The process that I just described as "setting the micrometer" turns out to be "point-contact contouring," but there's a great deal more technique,a nd many manufacturing options, for larger aspherical lenses, and the Wiki goes into some detail. <i>rougly </i>150 years after the city's last Seneca householders vanish into a curious lack of comment in the local histories of two generations later. Elgeet's first commercially available aspherical lens was produced by <a href="http://camera-wiki.org/wiki/Elgeet">Elgeet of Rochester</a>, based on its Navitar lens for the US Navy, but it was then introduced as a wide-angle camera lens in 1956, and became a household name, ,eventually leading "Elgeet" to decide that it had a stupid name, and change it to "Navitar." It is by this impressively science-fictiony sounding name <a href="https://navitar.com/?creative=535801728216&keyword=navitar%20reviews&matchtype=b&network=g&device=c&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQiA1rSsBhDHARIsANB4EJZp_uGrgwx9fM1CPfHuC9G_EnRBrWzDxocPls9zkkrU5a672l5rSr4aAjoyEALw_wcB">it does business today.</a> and, no, I have no idea what the Royal Navy was doing for its aspherical lens needs, at least before the founding of Knight Optical, "almos[/a little over] thirty years ago." (It turns out to be 1987. Or 1991! No, wait, that's <i>another </i>Knight Optical. Which is in the United States, but there is also a Knight Optical (USA). Someone's got to sue somebody sometime.) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The best known Navitar today is the Cine Navitar 3" cine lens for home movie cameras, and isn't that a slice of 50s social history we've been skirting to avoid collective trauma! (And that was before I discovered the educational film, the 50s equivalent of the MOOC.)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Another concern here is that in 1953 there was no way to measure radial curvature to more than one part in 60,000, an inherent limit imposed on spherical grinding that did not apply to aspherics. So it is perhaps to an improvement in curvature measure that we can attribute aspherics' failure to become even more prominent. Maybe! I guess we'll find out as the postblogging marches on. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ecodUbUkNNE" width="320" youtube-src-id="ecodUbUkNNE"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;">Widescreen! "<span style="font-family: sans-serif;">T</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">he substance is still insufficient for the vast spread of screen which CinemaScope throws across the front of the theatre, and the impression it leaves is that of nonsense from a few people in a great big hall.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">"</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">______</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> *Check out place and date of birth. I'm choosing to believe that Chretien died after three years of partying on Fox money after a lifetime of shabby academic propriety.</div><p><br /></p><span><br /></span></div><div><span><br /></span></div>Erik Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-32886716642041964442023-12-22T13:52:00.000-08:002023-12-22T13:52:36.077-08:00Gathering the Bones, XXIX: Nose to Tail<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOwM3auf-op64eIuMOk-NbMx3-kljWcIhcQm7QlnK3s23dPo0QoPo8HAT28rRsBHo5B3-aYnfQUVZdiVerKT3it3QsT5ZEcB0s7xhXWv-h7l1rf6abbw1lTyRqjOjzl7xAbNzJuCx0ophGDctict2WpI2wxJXSJvXdH8S2XKbyZqCacq403iyLGa1KcV_1/s688/Charcuterie%20Board.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="688" data-original-width="688" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOwM3auf-op64eIuMOk-NbMx3-kljWcIhcQm7QlnK3s23dPo0QoPo8HAT28rRsBHo5B3-aYnfQUVZdiVerKT3it3QsT5ZEcB0s7xhXWv-h7l1rf6abbw1lTyRqjOjzl7xAbNzJuCx0ophGDctict2WpI2wxJXSJvXdH8S2XKbyZqCacq403iyLGa1KcV_1/w400-h400/Charcuterie%20Board.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">So while I ordinarily don't work very much Christmas week because my contract guarantees me two stat days and my work place is closed on Christmas Day, it has not often been the case that my schedule is written to allow me to enjoy my holiday with holiday visits, and I have plenty of well-spaced time to write during the holiday week. That is not the case this year, and I am off to Vancouver Island tomorrow morning, back on Wednesday. Happy holidays to everybody! However, to satisfy my OCD and discuss an interesting thing which has come up, here is a somewhat culinary, somewhat technological/economic thing which has come up. </p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNXqUmxDKbyKIP3KnNLT94OAiUaiuF8a6iQWcB6aomsQUb_m7aa3puitmhTkc3xWVK1p6LYCRcz3oZ-DaWZv23QnbNQzbTGfwcm2jzRsm_PNAFh3xKHvG_TentZN62d44Kxjd0JXEoTPaNf8KIbXi1jxy3H8hwWQWENY0vMm1pGxmE3nR5alFbmbq5pkN-/s288/Livonia,%20New%20York.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="175" data-original-width="288" height="175" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNXqUmxDKbyKIP3KnNLT94OAiUaiuF8a6iQWcB6aomsQUb_m7aa3puitmhTkc3xWVK1p6LYCRcz3oZ-DaWZv23QnbNQzbTGfwcm2jzRsm_PNAFh3xKHvG_TentZN62d44Kxjd0JXEoTPaNf8KIbXi1jxy3H8hwWQWENY0vMm1pGxmE3nR5alFbmbq5pkN-/s1600/Livonia,%20New%20York.jpg" width="288" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Livonia is a "village" of 7000 people on the<br />outskirts of Rochester with a Seneca history</span></td></tr></tbody></table>Historical writing has a problem with periods, even in the most bizarre cases. American colonial history extends less than two centuries from Jamestown to the Revolution, at which time the self-identifying American population was less than that of contemporary Belgium. (Austrian Netherlands less Liege --you know what I mean!). Not a long time, not a lot of people. One would think, therefore, that a historian's grip would be equally securely on 1620 as on 1776, but that is not the case, and if you want to read into the Revolution you may find Pontiac's Rebellion, never mind the partition of East and West Jersey, to be a obscure background details in a breathless dash to 1776. I suppose it is better than entire monographs devoted to 1859 and 1939, but it can lead to strange places as you are reminded that the Seventeenth Century actually happened. When I first learned that Philadelphia had been previously named Shackmaxon I had a <i>suspicion </i>that it had a history before William Penn showed up; I had no idea that it was considerable enough to host the diplomatic conference where Governor Andros settled the Susquehannock a decade before Penn's Great Treaty, or that it had a S<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloria_Dei_(Old_Swedes%27)_Church">wedish Lutheran (now Episcopalian) church of almost 30 years standing</a>.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtU1JtxPTE1qhikZfxUMoJv5boIN36yFPOfN-kkw6HIoupHS7q7ILX5V_CMkISFp0VaAtg-aiWmsT0FNhl72Xsbwn7yVp87jRNe9UMySxQ-TZ05NLJlo4kcEIUvMt5eD7feEfC5desh_j-Uw1L7IKMcZJaRDtpCKw0zudxchlQp88Bf1Yeqn-9URnpAkq3/s619/Phelps%20Gorham%20Purchase.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="619" data-original-width="428" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtU1JtxPTE1qhikZfxUMoJv5boIN36yFPOfN-kkw6HIoupHS7q7ILX5V_CMkISFp0VaAtg-aiWmsT0FNhl72Xsbwn7yVp87jRNe9UMySxQ-TZ05NLJlo4kcEIUvMt5eD7feEfC5desh_j-Uw1L7IKMcZJaRDtpCKw0zudxchlQp88Bf1Yeqn-9URnpAkq3/s320/Phelps%20Gorham%20Purchase.gif" width="221" /></a></div>And so it is with the Seneca towns of upstate New York. The Seneca were the westernmost of the five, later six nations of the Haudenosaunee League and the "Western Doorkeepers of the League," and in strategic terms acted from the heads of navigation of the Western Branch of the Susquehanna inthe south to the Niagara frontier in the north, and presumably controlled Haudenosaunee communications with the Ohio country. In spite of this, they seem a remote and uncommunicative people in the run up to the Revolution, when Mohawk elites seem to have controlled access to the more populous western Haudenosaunee confederates. The Seneca notably sided with the British in the War of Independence and were the subject of Sullivan's raid, after which, in spite of their numbers, hey seem to have receded, perhaps in part because the Seneca emigration to Canada came under Mohawk patronage at the Six Nations Reservation, so that there was no Seneca nation in exile to maintain its rights. Whcih is strange considering that both Cornplanter and Handsome Lake were Seneca. Geographically speaking, it does not seem to be the fashion to draw the full Seneca claim on maps, perhaps to discourage people from having ideas. The scope of those ideas might be illuminated by maps that are plentiful, of the Phelps Gorham Purchase notoriously ruled legal by the Supreme Court (Vintage of 1896) in <i>Seneca Nation of Indians versus Christy </i>because [<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lochner_era">giant eyeroll</a>]. <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The upshot here is that I was surprised to learn that in the <i>Seventeenth </i>Century, there were Jesuit missions in the Seneca towns, albeit not ones with surviving records, so they may have been mostly wishful thinking. The Jesuits were expelled in 1684 as part of a general reaction in Haudenosaunee country, perhaps reflecting the very different political climate along the frontier during the period of Franco-British entente and alliance that came to an end in 1688. If the Seneca were inclined to be isolationist they did not show it when British diplomat Wentworth Greenhalgh* passed through Ganondagan, just outside Rochester, in 1677. (<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Documentary_History_of_the_State_of_New_York/Volume_I/Chapter_I/Article_II">His unfortunately brief report has been posted online by the State of New York</a>.) We are left with some pretty basic questions, such as whether the "houses" Greenhalgh uses as his basic demographic unit are extended-family long houses or the "simple cabins" described by de la Salle in 1669. It is interesting to note that the four Mohawk "castles," already with their historic names but probably in different locations from the ones in which they were found from 1700 on, were heavily fortified places containing at most 30 "houses," while the four Seneca towns are all unfortified and have more than 100 houses each, although Ganondagan and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totiakton">Totiakton</a> are located on defensible eminences. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">So how did <i>Grande Nation </i>respond to the expulsion of the Jesuits at a time when the Haudenosaunee had not locked down their southwestern frontiers? Not well, and this brings me to my point, which is that the Governor General of Canada, Marquis de Denonville seems to have been cast in the mould of more recent holders of the office, in that he was a flaming asshole, and that this was bad news for the Seneca, as in those days His Excellency was allowed to command armies in the field as well as throw tea parties. (Remember in the Eighties, when the <i>Globe and Mail </i>experimented with a Canadian court circular? Good times.) <i>After </i>seizing the entire ruling council of the League and bundling them off to France, it says here as galley slaves, which apparently even the <a href="http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/brisay_de_denonville_jacques_rene_de_2E.html">Governor General thought was a bit much,</a> and is, perhaps, a distortion of the actual course of events, in which what Denonville was actually trying to do was to bring the Council Fire of the League back to Fort Frontenac, where it had been located for some time previous before the Haudenosaunee moved it to Onondaga. Like I said, the more you look at the details, the more complicated the Seventeenth Century seems.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Anyway, assuming the traditional account is correct, this would seem to be pretty much a declaration of war, and Denonville in 1687 conducted an expedition against the Seneca with 2100 men by established strength in 400 bateaux and canoes. After routing a desperate Seneca <i>levee en masse </i>(reported to third parties by Seneca participants as 800 strong by virtue of enrolling boys and women)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/84AVYn0ZELI" width="320" youtube-src-id="84AVYn0ZELI"></iframe></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">Denonville's force burned 1.2 million bushels of stored and standing corn and, and this is central to my point, killed "a vast quantity of pigs." For some reason this denouement is deemed a failure and not an attempted genocide on par with the Sullivan expedition, but as on Denonville's side there was no hope of continuing the war, he wrote the King, without 4000 men with two years of provisions in hand, there needed to be either peace with the Haudenosaunee or a campaign of conquest against New York, which seems a bit spicy with the Duke of New-York about to ascend to the British thrones as Louis XIV's most reliable foreign ally! Perhaps the narrative in the <i>Canadian Dictionary of National Biography </i>has leaped forward two years to the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution? (The paragraph in which "The spring of 1689 became summer" has Edmund Andros as Governor of the Dominion, when in fact he and the rest of the leadership were arrested by rebels in April of 1689. so maybe the timeline of the article needs some editorial revision? Bill Eccles was a better historian than this, but he might not have spent very much time on the article. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Okay, so the point: We all know, of course, that the North American Indian lived in harmony with the land growing beans, corn, and squash together in Three Sisters agriculture (female-centric <i>and </i>crypto-vegetarian!) until drink, degeneracy and disease caused them to disappear and be replaced by White people, all of whom are descended from Cherokees. Meanwhile, over in Europe, farmers kept one pig (two pigs?) year round, breeding them in fall, with a litter in spring that valiantly kept the ground rooted up and the agricultural waste in check until they had put on as meat as was efficient, in late fall. Whereupon they were slaughtered, put up for the winter with plenty of salt in the most exquisite of farm-to-table charcuteries from "nose to tail."</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHlyNiNEdlxuHsA7U441ZB81DfYcvx0VFlb7JgVswZx9dYC5nneorg_TZCS5BjUgBdohg88rVekpxCZXgPqMZfXGStNq3r4-ewPpaQBHDVSnpwdztG-SXF3r0EX-1FG-Pd69ALTmIZG4Cub8_Dno4JXwNsTZksPuB1eSZE2su0GVaIfIEERQOAZAgKKjjf/s268/blood%20pudding.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="188" data-original-width="268" height="188" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHlyNiNEdlxuHsA7U441ZB81DfYcvx0VFlb7JgVswZx9dYC5nneorg_TZCS5BjUgBdohg88rVekpxCZXgPqMZfXGStNq3r4-ewPpaQBHDVSnpwdztG-SXF3r0EX-1FG-Pd69ALTmIZG4Cub8_Dno4JXwNsTZksPuB1eSZE2su0GVaIfIEERQOAZAgKKjjf/s1600/blood%20pudding.jpg" width="268" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">I have eaten blood pudding, and I do not mind blood pudding. But I think that it is safe to say that if there is one word that does <i>not </i>describe traditional American Midwestern agriculture, it is "charcuterie." And if I had to throw in a few more, they'd be along the lines of "cheesemaking" "vintnering," "brewing," "noodle-making" and even "baking." "European-American farming" has many similarities to European farming in terms of basic technique and crops, but it most <i>distinctly </i>lacks pretty much the whole of the more skilled foodmaking techniques that people are so unsufferable about today. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">This is not to say that Midwestern farming lacks pigs, of course. It has pigs galore. Pigs are, if anything, more essential to Midwestern farming than to Atlantic European farming. No fooling around with a single family pig, either. Your quarter-section corn belt farm operation has <i>herds </i>of pigs, which, in the days before trains and trucks, were herded through the chestnut forests to industrial-scale slaughter in broad-shouldered towns like Cincinatti, Chicago, and, yes, New York City, where the meatpacking district ran from West 14th to Gansevoort and from the Hudson River to Hudson Street, which will hopefully locate any New York residents. It looks like it might have been the edge of town and might even be centred on the original "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattanhenge">Manhattanhenge</a>" orientation of Gansevoort Street, which was laid out on a pre-existing trail. Fascinating! <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meatpacking_District,_Manhattan">Anyway, it might not have been associated with meatpacking before the early Nineteenth Century.</a> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Prior to refrigeration, slaughtered pigs became salt pork, and barrels of salt pork are the traditional definition of political patronage in North American politics for good reason. We might not eat fancy charcuterie here in the Western Hemisphere, but we do put salt pork in with our beans and our peas and our eggs and our grits and our greens and our Johnnycake. (That last a bit of an acquired taste in my experience.)</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilCWX2yZvKSeHCD-nWHsmsxqtcpnZBRRlb3Z_8Abhpzh69LxRjkCMhER5nFa6AARG_wz45JVgIA4xbzY0PisgmkM5ezL_x0Rotmi0jzhbQv1Gs_TATYIoBApSQrfG3VoBNJqCfrXytT1r547vDRw1wAHxpyA-cApIONOh9wRzZUXHyqF4tKJu4BvYGJdb0/s542/Baked%20beans.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="356" data-original-width="542" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilCWX2yZvKSeHCD-nWHsmsxqtcpnZBRRlb3Z_8Abhpzh69LxRjkCMhER5nFa6AARG_wz45JVgIA4xbzY0PisgmkM5ezL_x0Rotmi0jzhbQv1Gs_TATYIoBApSQrfG3VoBNJqCfrXytT1r547vDRw1wAHxpyA-cApIONOh9wRzZUXHyqF4tKJu4BvYGJdb0/s320/Baked%20beans.PNG" width="320" /></a></div>So, and pardon my King's French, <i>what the fuck were the Seneca doing with all those pigs? </i>It seems pretty inescapable that they weren't hanging hams and sausages to dry and making blood pudding, if those skills did not cross the Atlantic and take root amongst self-identifying <i>American </i>farmers. So they must have been herding the pigs somewhere and slaughtering and storing them industrially. We know that there was a pemmican industry supporting the Upper Country trade, and we can see why barrels of salt pork were not an alternative to the much more compact pemmican. But everyone needs to live in winter, and there is a reason pigs are so important to Midwestern farming. Corn is a hungry and late planter, you want a dressing of manure (in the American sense of the word), which might have to hold on the ground until as late as the first week of July for late-harvest sweet corn, which implies cover crops; or you want to plant in rotation with beans. Either way, you end up with a lot of product better fed as pig fodder than as human food, and that's before taking silage into account. In short, it makes sense for the Seneca to embrace the pig when it arrives on the scene. It is just that it seems like it implies the development of some scale of industrial organisation and development, possibly to include barrelmaking, which would seem to imply that someone was making hoops. Who? Where? In the Haudenosaunee towns?<p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Rochester, of course, is very much an industrial city. The urban nickname, it says right here on Wikipedia, was "the flour city," thanks to numerous mills on the Genesee River, and after that you have the flourishing growth of the optics industry, which tells you right there about the copious amounts of salt available locally, which I will not pursue further this sunny afternoon. Rochester was founded on the Mill Yard Tract on the Upper Falls of the Genesee by "Ebenezer 'Indian' Allen," an active patent older in the long succession of defaults that ended with Colonel Rochester and colleagues, who somehow rounded up all the previous ownerships and defaults by buying out Allen's abandoned grist and saw mill, which couldn't have been <i>that </i>abandoned if they had to pay almost $2000 (1808 money) for it. In some mysterious way the 100 Acre Tract became a flourishing community under Rochester as it had never managed to become before. The Wikipedia article celebrates land agent Enos Stone and settlers <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpmjseSy4HU">Hamlet Scranton</a>, Jehiel Barnard and Abelard Reynolds as the first citizens of Rochester, and then in the late apology section at the end notes that the partners had six enslaved persons with him when he arrived in Rochester, and enough in "the late 1810s" to contemplate relocating to Missouri to avoid the New York manumission laws. We are told that the politics of Rochester in its first generation were dominated by conflict between Yankees and Episcopalians, so very much Fenimore Cooper country; and as far as I'm concerned that's two flavours of ethnogenesis and the place to look for a pre-existing town Americanised as Rochester. The Wiki article links to William Farley Peck, <i>History of Rochester and Monroe County, New York</i>, of which I have no high hopes of succinctness since these old county histories often bury the interesting details in a gazeteer treatment, but hey, look at this!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgug5-adydYw4qlqOSZWEEeNz6nocObqmlKeugEH6PkCI38PaDz-BTooX1vw6fDgj2L85FF6vuuEbSb9HDRKapneNYSaZeyAMdJdwDssSnQmVDTvzyVKqhlmWdvDl1f45Z2FovQLTc61_rGmmERo7H69gfWBGPKZd-kUQCxg_72qRr6A8W6YzpPkOI1y44O/s654/Iroquois%20of%20New%20York%20map.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="486" data-original-width="654" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgug5-adydYw4qlqOSZWEEeNz6nocObqmlKeugEH6PkCI38PaDz-BTooX1vw6fDgj2L85FF6vuuEbSb9HDRKapneNYSaZeyAMdJdwDssSnQmVDTvzyVKqhlmWdvDl1f45Z2FovQLTc61_rGmmERo7H69gfWBGPKZd-kUQCxg_72qRr6A8W6YzpPkOI1y44O/w640-h476/Iroquois%20of%20New%20York%20map.PNG" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">From the sounds of things, the antiquarians that the Rochester press anointed the historians of the town's earliest times had a great deal of Ebenezer Allan to expunge, for which we can again resort to the <i><a href="http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/allan_ebenezer_5E.html">Dictionary of Canadian Biography</a>, </i>and my guess would be that his descendants and collateral relations learned very quickly to be quiet about their particular memories of the early history of Rochester. Whether that included a "broad shouldered" phase of pork packing is at best a guess. <br /> </p><p style="text-align: justify;">____</p><p style="text-align: justify;">*Greenhalgh isn't exactly a common name, but it isn't uncommon, either. It took a minute or two to Google up <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Greenhalgh_(governor)">John Greenhalgh</a> (d. 1651), A Mancunian, lord of the manor of Brandlesholm Hall, governor of Man as from 1640, a Stanley client, and a Royalist veteran of the Civil War. While not necessarily Wentworth Greenhalgh's grandfather, it would seem to be the way to bet. <br /> <br /></p>Erik Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-88704993391093736602023-12-16T12:35:00.000-08:002023-12-16T12:35:54.937-08:00A Somewhat Technological and Completely Bananas Appendix to Postblogging Technology, August 1953: Fire!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/SRDHxikluMo" width="320" youtube-src-id="SRDHxikluMo"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i style="font-style: italic;">Of course </i>Celtic Women covered it.<i> </i></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Someone once said that J. H. Hexter would have been a better known historian if he hadn't been like the horse that only ran when it had a burr under its saddle, in his case this being historians with an excessive bent for synthesis, particularly Marxists. I understand, Jack, I understand. For me, it's Correlli Barnett. <i>Audit of War </i>comes out of an era of intense British self-loathing, building on Fordism, with all its Fascist tendencies. Practically everything American is better, and there's a neat convergence between supporter and critic, where the American factory is better for Barnett, while his critics defend laggard British per-person productivity by pointing to the vast floor space possible for American factories.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ3HEtLBeoI1AwMkKxARllin7yu65SNwJ_wwh5uvt_a4pugrPz7sbCX8MjHCwwGVEZH-RDYuP61R91yWB4eSfx2ptsQdtgPusC7_un19R84jjASOHMJ_yVJoAEMToWMOPRHfQoepqUhMsUBZW-NDyEsoujli5jZ4yp1U_X6lIBoEWE6d5P7UO5Lj4kUW-x/s1920/American%20west.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="520" data-original-width="1920" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQ3HEtLBeoI1AwMkKxARllin7yu65SNwJ_wwh5uvt_a4pugrPz7sbCX8MjHCwwGVEZH-RDYuP61R91yWB4eSfx2ptsQdtgPusC7_un19R84jjASOHMJ_yVJoAEMToWMOPRHfQoepqUhMsUBZW-NDyEsoujli5jZ4yp1U_X6lIBoEWE6d5P7UO5Lj4kUW-x/w640-h174/American%20west.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> Of course the factory is big. It's <i>America</i>! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Here's another big factory:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1JSO05pa_HwgT7kKHEF5b2_QTZouEjcZOLc2Z_XWryb8ZW2bcjRGvbDufdmz50zdJY3r2pSS36aNseGKuCOH7x20OUYkSNmOzmujt9UUUkDyhkZYjDpxfAh0iDOhN6hGng-v2XPd7gd5j1DeTmiYyBTZkjFqBvDrU_peTrg-KYPG_XjW2BLfywXY_H3g6/s2394/Hydra%20Matic%20Fire%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1449" data-original-width="2394" height="388" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1JSO05pa_HwgT7kKHEF5b2_QTZouEjcZOLc2Z_XWryb8ZW2bcjRGvbDufdmz50zdJY3r2pSS36aNseGKuCOH7x20OUYkSNmOzmujt9UUUkDyhkZYjDpxfAh0iDOhN6hGng-v2XPd7gd5j1DeTmiYyBTZkjFqBvDrU_peTrg-KYPG_XjW2BLfywXY_H3g6/w640-h388/Hydra%20Matic%20Fire%201953.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div style="text-align: justify;">On 12 August 1953, the nearly forgotten "<a href="https://www.hemmings.com/stories/article/component-substitutions-and-changing-times">greatest industrial fire in metro Detroit history</a>" broke out at GM's Hydra-Matic factory in the Detroit inner-ring suburb of Livonia. Another story we tell about vast American spaces has to do with the strong North American preference for automatic transmissions in our cars. Over here on our vast new continent, we're either counting off the miles on the open road, or lurching through overgrown strip developments from stop light to stop light. Either way, we ain't got time for gear changin'! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4kZLCEZthTAocDd7zpa0bBsbsZ9JhIOmu2kyIgpiBf4LXgDn84IlVH2ulXaNHuIfvOOu3Mg3vmJTzvZxg3JTpwai_9nvXqdLvqC5f3wJ9fYjaFuPHBwjby0lFGxzuVZ3LeShYHVjEgquEznIFhf_aoPDNqbn0YsHTs0hNWZYqqACanvWgvtqc6vzWeugN/s1024/Hydra-Matic%20Drive%20attr%20needed%20wiki.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4kZLCEZthTAocDd7zpa0bBsbsZ9JhIOmu2kyIgpiBf4LXgDn84IlVH2ulXaNHuIfvOOu3Mg3vmJTzvZxg3JTpwai_9nvXqdLvqC5f3wJ9fYjaFuPHBwjby0lFGxzuVZ3LeShYHVjEgquEznIFhf_aoPDNqbn0YsHTs0hNWZYqqACanvWgvtqc6vzWeugN/s320/Hydra-Matic%20Drive%20attr%20needed%20wiki.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">By Michael Barera, CC BY-SA 4.0, <br />https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4011963</span>5</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">It's interesting therefore that the Wikipedia history of the Hydra-Matic begins before the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manual_transmission">synchromesh, caught on, in the Thirties, back when shifting a car's gear might still involve the dreaded "double clutch."</a> This perhaps helps explain the divergence in practice between the two hemispheres. GM pioneered the automatic hydraulic transmission with the Hydra-Matic, first offered for the OldsMobile line in the 1940 product year (<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7A1rO4Wwy0U">which is to say, in 1939</a>.) Wikipedia reports a factoid I've seen elsewhere, that it was a $57 option on the basic Olds, becoming a $125 option on the 1941 Cadillac. It went into the Army's light tanks during the war, and became a Pontiac option in 1948, going into 70% of the cars sold, and inspiring rival Dynaflow and Powerglide options from two other GM marquees. The 1949 high compression Oldsmobile Rocket V8 was only available in Hydra-Matic, sparing the expense of developing a manual transmission for the new generation engine. Understandably, Nash, Hudson and Kaiser-Frazer adopted the Hydra-Matic under license, and even Rolls-Royce took it up in 1952. Ford introduced a rival transmission in 1951, developed by Borg-Warner, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise-O-Matic">Ford-O-Matic</a>. Also-ran <a href="ttps://www.curbsideclassic.com/automotive-histories/automotive-history-studebakers-automatic-drive-borg-warner-dg150200250-advanced-in-some-respects-not-so-in-others/">Studebaker had the best automatic transmission on the market,</a> also from Borg-Warner, but it was too expensive or something. (Studebaker's abiding sin being apparently treating its South Bend employees too well, and not a hapless management team, even if they did bring in Curtiss Wright to turn things around in the mid-Fifties [gigantic eyeroll].) <br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7j28YDO9MQrwtd_oDZZ57eLmAB2xKwRaRLGPxUX5Kmv8dPbTUnr3Hpr3msKOZO0urIUGrDSDETwgFwTzsCpeuAYv7jFg8RSQ5FM3_tt_BI0C3PpsQM7uWTpaJLe4LWU4UnfJkdeYk0W6Y5eDhnMOT4MSMEm1uVpv3OJSRMVWtWwUvzqXPpsPUGu67QWr6/s540/Livonia,%20Michigan.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="312" data-original-width="540" height="185" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7j28YDO9MQrwtd_oDZZ57eLmAB2xKwRaRLGPxUX5Kmv8dPbTUnr3Hpr3msKOZO0urIUGrDSDETwgFwTzsCpeuAYv7jFg8RSQ5FM3_tt_BI0C3PpsQM7uWTpaJLe4LWU4UnfJkdeYk0W6Y5eDhnMOT4MSMEm1uVpv3OJSRMVWtWwUvzqXPpsPUGu67QWr6/s320/Livonia,%20Michigan.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>So the automatic transmission was the Coming Thing, and no wonder that in 1949 GM opened a brand new forty million dollar factory to manufacture it at Livonia, "<a href="https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/the-disaster-that-shook-the-motor-city-the-1953-hydra-matic-fire/">fifteen miles northwest of downtown Detroit</a>" (twenty, per Wikipedia) to replace the ramshackle facilities where the Hydra-Matic was produced in its first decade. I've never been even close to Livonia, but there's pictures at Google Maps give an impression of an industrial development notwithstanding a century of history as an agricultural township. <span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livonia,_Michigan">"<span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">As of 2000, Livonia was the city in the United States with over 100,000 people that had the highest percentage of non-Hispanic white people."</span></a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhohPK4zwmfs2Ui1EEXCPnAX03Svwh8zootNJAEU4dIQpb7Ye_2uV4E93y19pmtl93RpEemRYVm9Wz2BF2ka4mrEN_gyTICF_VjxEPDjU9XTGmdGJgMcD2X_ogqp-K0B9FdzZ7KcXQCOZ6EQQfi1baFRc6ofRjQEaHVccvpl-b_TBGErxaeqKUUFAKXCj9t/s3532/Monroe%20blindfold%20ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Kinky!" border="0" data-original-height="3532" data-original-width="2534" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhohPK4zwmfs2Ui1EEXCPnAX03Svwh8zootNJAEU4dIQpb7Ye_2uV4E93y19pmtl93RpEemRYVm9Wz2BF2ka4mrEN_gyTICF_VjxEPDjU9XTGmdGJgMcD2X_ogqp-K0B9FdzZ7KcXQCOZ6EQQfi1baFRc6ofRjQEaHVccvpl-b_TBGErxaeqKUUFAKXCj9t/w230-h320/Monroe%20blindfold%20ad.jpg" width="230" /></a></div>Pictures can, of course, be deceiving. It has one of the biggest Palestinian American communities in the US, and I bet there's a hidden history behind its being named after Livonia in wester New York, formerly Seneca Conesus. What pictures don't hide is the suburban flight that ensured it wasn't overburdened with property tax liabilities like excessive amounts of fire protection infrastructure. When the Detroit fire department's response to the outbreak of fire at the plant at afternoon shift change on Wednesday, 12 August 1953 was delayed for 20 minutes by "red tape." I'm not going to pull out my Jennifer Lawrence gif for the "red tape" reference, but suffice it to say that according to the <i>Detroit </i>fire department, once all the 30 available reporting engines were hooked up, Livonia municipal water pressure fell well below the threshold needed to supply the Detroit pumps, which were delayed because it took that long for the mayor of Livonia to call the Mayor of Detroit, inasmuch as no contract for standby protection existed, Livonia having baulked at Detroit's price. In the end, first response mainly served to salvage the administrative records and associated impedimenta, "electrical recording and other equipment . . . was moved to safety on forklifts," while ambulances evacuated the more seriously injured, including many telephone switchboard operators who remained at their post until the last minute, and workers trying to protect classified equipment at the separate Ternstedt Division. The scene outside said it all. The Livonia plant's fate was sealed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Or more sealed, anyway. News coverage the week of the fire blamed a fire started by a welding torch lighting a pan on a conveyor belt that spread the fire through the building. In fact, although it did involve a welding torch igniting a "<span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><a href="http://www.autotran.us/TheGreatHydraMaticFire.html">a conveyor dip pan that contained a highly flammable liquid used as a rust inhibitor for transmission parts</a>," the belt was not moving, and initially the fire was successfully attacked with fire extinguishers, until these ran out --not surprisingly since the "pan," or "trough" was suspended seven feet above the floor from which the extinguishers were directed. At this point the fire began to spread quickly through the 1.5 million square foot building, including the separate, partitioned Ternstedt division (making fire control apparatus for the T-41 Chaffee at the time), where the three GM fatalities of the day occurred, but not into the administrative wing, which was protected by the only firewall in the building. This, a scathing <a href="ttps://www.fireengineering.com/wp-content/uploads/content/dam/fe/online-articles/documents/2017/FE195309LivoniaGMPartsPlant.pdf"></a><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="ttps://www.fireengineering.com/wp-content/uploads/content/dam/fe/online-articles/documents/2017/FE195309LivoniaGMPartsPlant.pdf"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFyf_6gXYgvgOnqAW23Q8VESOu079TF6Rk-9hPq3BV9lFZ4MovGQgvxl8TqY0KWnAgAAD_xsbUBBfKa_t88sBMIAYsCeY-spbBiiK2utIAu2nOrvN3ND_w0qevChM4La9uPrMbGGfeJ3SofwaNqM4uszxD1dcq-M70kpP46vzrTunAyHkxQW1wk5T23-85/s489/Livonia%20Hydra%20Matic%20Factory%20Before%20August%201953%20Fire.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="248" data-original-width="489" height="162" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFyf_6gXYgvgOnqAW23Q8VESOu079TF6Rk-9hPq3BV9lFZ4MovGQgvxl8TqY0KWnAgAAD_xsbUBBfKa_t88sBMIAYsCeY-spbBiiK2utIAu2nOrvN3ND_w0qevChM4La9uPrMbGGfeJ3SofwaNqM4uszxD1dcq-M70kpP46vzrTunAyHkxQW1wk5T23-85/s320/Livonia%20Hydra%20Matic%20Factory%20Before%20August%201953%20Fire.PNG" width="320" /></a></div><i>Fire Engineering </i>investigation pointed out, in spite of what GM claimed to be the "most modern fire-prevention and fire quenching equipment." This probably refers to a sprinkler system that originally covered the whole plant, but which was not extended as the plant was hastily built out to its final extent. The state fire marshal report says that 10 to 15% of the building was covered by the sprinklers, but "others" say that it was greater. In any case, it is hard to imagine sprinklers beating a fire caused by burning oil dripping onto oil-soaked wood floors. A National Roofing Contractors of America report, citing the National Fire Protection Association <i>Quarterly, </i>has some of the most complete coverage, with special emphasis, understandably enough, on the 34.5 acres of roof, which covered a facility with 3 400 gallon wash tanks and three 450 gallon dip tanks of rust inhibitors, all under a structure with no roof vents. The roof consisted of a deck of 18 gauge steel plates covered with built-up layers of tar paper and asphalt, a total of 3lbs of tar and asphalt per square foot, 2000t for the entire roof. Soon, hot tar was dripping on the fire, a "literal rain of fire." Two of the inhouse firefighting team were found dead in the bathrooms, a division chief in a locker room. They were safe there from dripping, burning tar, but not smoke. The NRCA retrospective details the changes in roofing regulation that resulted, but also notes that the industry was paralysed for six months after the fire as contractors refused to specify metal decks under tar and asphalt. The real problem was one of putting inflammables under inflammables, preferring tile and concrete until PVC barriers came into general use. </span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">At the time, the general expectation was 250,000 people out of work, 300,000 cars lost, and $750 million in sales. That didn't happen, in part thanks to Henry Kaiser showing his particular strengths as a businessman (because he did have them!) by signing a lease for the Willow Run space vacated by the C-119 cancellation. In the official, heroic story of GM's recovery, skilled GM workers from around the nation were mobilised to salvage and repair the special purpose machine tools at Livonia and transfer them to Willow Run to get Hydra Matics into production within six months, while Dyna Flow and Power Glide production (or even, as much as the dealers fought it, manual transmissions) were put into GM cars until Hydra-Matic production came back. The reality was a bit more nuanced, as was revealed in March of 1977, when a story about GM putting Chevrolet engines in its Oldsmobiles, rebadged as "Rocket 88" engines broke. The went back to the recovery efforts of 25 years before, but consumers of 1977 <a href="ttps://www.curbsideclassic.com/automotive-histories/automotive-history-the-1977-oldsmobile-chevrolet-engine-scandal/">were less inclined to trust GM than their parents.</a> Good on Henry for getting out of the Willow Run albatross, though. I'm amazed that he went back to it after the B-24 fiasco of the war years, but all's well that ends well, and I'm reminded that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_A._Hounshell">David Hounshell's</a> excoriating investigation of that fiasco, in his award-winning <i>From the American System to Mass Production, </i>didn't save him from being an unemployed academic from his 36th year until he was rescued by United Steel in 1991. Goes to show, better a grifter than a grinder! Corelli? Is that you!</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;">So that's the story of how a turgid and sloppy automatic transmission came to just about monopolise American cars, and was built in a firetrap instant factory until a spark dropped in the wrong place damn near shut down the American economy in the summer of 1953. All dug out of esoteric Internet sites because, I mean, fire safety, right? Who even cares about that stuff?</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM0h-674XclJx-rrBgFPwo6QVN73UjRBMLjEtLhbpLhyBN1lZd-HOEpsWXcSMglbhJ3OAY6Bdoc3bKf14LIxIUT7uUuXQAzwdyn6HcZ0diNX7XvVeKAfXF1WNcbDN96N7R2CPWxHQEwbt3kEQfPdPHpyVqK_yjyiPPdBOIPKZ7YiQVeQoQL61wyl-u1Ps1/s251/burn%20victim.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="251" data-original-width="201" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM0h-674XclJx-rrBgFPwo6QVN73UjRBMLjEtLhbpLhyBN1lZd-HOEpsWXcSMglbhJ3OAY6Bdoc3bKf14LIxIUT7uUuXQAzwdyn6HcZ0diNX7XvVeKAfXF1WNcbDN96N7R2CPWxHQEwbt3kEQfPdPHpyVqK_yjyiPPdBOIPKZ7YiQVeQoQL61wyl-u1Ps1/w320-h400/burn%20victim.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> If you want a lot worse, do your own image search for "burn survivors."<br /> </span></div><p></p>Erik Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-44895580840169931982023-12-10T05:40:00.000-08:002023-12-10T05:40:49.488-08:00Postblogging Technology, August 1953, II: One, Two, Many Bombs<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAL0bc111r96BoUP8olMzyNm5PIUe-doe3A5TWLfmpKPu5LwGGXsAGsEzi8ee5j9N9wHGIUTnxXuJT3ifGWVAPapzzkoSySqFlSdcfKF7H-qit6TKO2zR0IlaqrOiqlnveRjakXi5da11t-ekZvdbXjIKaUIZK2Qp353ek67T27ccXdHJ6bvO3NAzwdqfU/s3900/Lockheed%20Super%20Constellation%20Ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2999" data-original-width="3900" height="493" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAL0bc111r96BoUP8olMzyNm5PIUe-doe3A5TWLfmpKPu5LwGGXsAGsEzi8ee5j9N9wHGIUTnxXuJT3ifGWVAPapzzkoSySqFlSdcfKF7H-qit6TKO2zR0IlaqrOiqlnveRjakXi5da11t-ekZvdbXjIKaUIZK2Qp353ek67T27ccXdHJ6bvO3NAzwdqfU/w640-h493/Lockheed%20Super%20Constellation%20Ad.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p></p><p>R_.C_.,</p><p>Oriental Club,</p><p>London,</p><p>England</p><p><br /></p><p>Dear Father:</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Here we are, coming down to the end of summer and preparing for our trip to London. By which I mean, <i>finally </i>making our bookings. I would love to fly, and have a bit more time in Nakusp, but it seems quite impractical with a baby and a toddler in hand, and so we are embarking in Montreal on the 1st of September and so leaving Nakusp on the 26th, which means that I will be finishing this letter on the train, probably in the boring bits. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqROd4oUNB0">There's only so much Saskatchewan scenery</a> you can take! </p><p><br /></p><p>Your Loving Daughter,</p><p>Ronnie</p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/49v0kdCLm50" width="320" youtube-src-id="49v0kdCLm50"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjC55t4sUMCOkU5_cq_FzSc8XoafpHtcUJdsdvKBhZ6OGGxzw6QV6_3sP_vX5vS-uhHlPzj3iTuRVFigAoXu9gcWqYuT1SbykFgvBu9B9j9rHL6y98JVj-mnr7dyNySyrTjwJ3MNuoed1zvG7b5f81sleVVi2FGOUsjxZXzjTE8P1jAwC7Bmj1wckpxh9L/s4032/20231208_143727565_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjC55t4sUMCOkU5_cq_FzSc8XoafpHtcUJdsdvKBhZ6OGGxzw6QV6_3sP_vX5vS-uhHlPzj3iTuRVFigAoXu9gcWqYuT1SbykFgvBu9B9j9rHL6y98JVj-mnr7dyNySyrTjwJ3MNuoed1zvG7b5f81sleVVi2FGOUsjxZXzjTE8P1jAwC7Bmj1wckpxh9L/s16000/20231208_143727565_iOS.heic" /></a></div><br /><p><b>Letters</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Andrew V. Ruckman, of the West Virginia Policy and Industry Commission, earns his salary by writing to point out that maybe the mint julep was invented in West Virginia. Daniel J. Genac thinks something is up with the "ghost town" of El Dorado, California, if it has a garage. Mary Squire of Northboro, Massachusetts, is dealing with the horror of the recent tornado by writing a nonsense letter to <i>Newsweek. </i><b>For Your Information </b>reports from Europe that the French are prosperous and have every reason to be happy, but aren't because they need a new constitution and have no idea how to get one. Also, everywhere in Europe that <i>Newsweek </i>visits, people ask about McCarthy and whether he or the President is running America. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF2ElDc1F9Wc_0eO7JgO_mzR5u7hfZIAa4lgKoD5_c6SacNydxyvMHLzXL8pLBuwzNr3U_sQXMZllnOnQ_TUIz7hSaCFzRALv_rtzrD0H9-3ADDk9O9dx5kGNW6OSs0-KU2-PrixRdmG7CNNE0kbcSnPeDlcwtoqHZ83t_B6Fansu8Y8gHTljZ12__dTAs/s4032/20231208_143859696_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhF2ElDc1F9Wc_0eO7JgO_mzR5u7hfZIAa4lgKoD5_c6SacNydxyvMHLzXL8pLBuwzNr3U_sQXMZllnOnQ_TUIz7hSaCFzRALv_rtzrD0H9-3ADDk9O9dx5kGNW6OSs0-KU2-PrixRdmG7CNNE0kbcSnPeDlcwtoqHZ83t_B6Fansu8Y8gHTljZ12__dTAs/s320/20231208_143859696_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">The Periscope </b>reports that Iran is going to "explode" soon. If the Reds stop East Germans from picking up American food in East Berlin, the Americans will start sending it over by balloon. Russians are now claiming to have a hydrogen bomb, while Americans are planning to "vaporise" a large island in the Marshalls to show that their H-bomb is bigger. Adlai Stevenson really hit it off with Queen Elizabeth, but "some key Democrats," including Sam Rayburn and Truman, are souring on him. The President is spending extra time with press photographers because he read complaints in <i>Newsweek. </i><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/25718831">The new Hoover commission </a>might recommend selling the TVA and other public power to private industry, and will focus on abolishing government agencies rather than reforming them, and "restoring state's rights and jurisdictions." Bill Donovan is talking a large number of former OSS agents with him to Thailand, where he will be ambassador. General Clark won't say whether the US has atom bombs in the Far East because they are aboard aircraft carriers, which are technically US soil. On the one hand, the American Communist Party is split between a "Molotov" and a "Malenkov" faction. On the other, their new plan for the next New York municipal election is to infiltrate the liberal parties. "A leading Southern Senator might have throat cancer." The US is negotiating for bases in Ireland similar to its arrangement with Spain, but it will only go through of Adenauer loses the German elections and "European defence is definitively ditched." Underground agents in Poland report that the Soviets are reinforcing their troops in East Germany. The East German Politburo is in disarray. President Naguib wants to meet with Prime Minister Churchill, while the British are losing between fifteen and twenty vehicles a month in the Canal Zone. "Most are ending up with the Egyptian Army." General Navarre is said to be saying that the reason that his recent parachute raid was so successful is that he didn't brief the French Cabinet on it, so there were no leaks.</div> <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In entertainment news, Donald Crisp, J<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Valiant_(1954_film)">ames Mason and Janet Leigh are going to costar in </a><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Valiant_(1954_film)">Prince Valiant</a>. </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Wonders_of_the_World_(film)">Lowell Thomas will narrate a second Cinemarama feature, </a><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_Wonders_of_the_World_(film)">Seven Wonders of the World</a>. </i>Arturo <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_Symphony_Orchestra">Toscanini</a> will conduct the NBC Symphony and do an opera for the network. V<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pajama_Game">an Johnson is doing a play based on the Book-of-the-Month Club choice, <i>7 1/2 Cents</i>,</a> while Jose Ferrer and Rosemary Clooney are doing a Ferrer-produced show. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Stockings_(1957_film)">There will be a musical version of the Greta Garbo vehicle, <i>Ninotchka, </i>starring Mary Martin and written by Cole Porter. </a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/GG3b2l0-5IY" width="320" youtube-src-id="GG3b2l0-5IY"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Only missed on the Crisp casting. Solid reporting, <b>Periscope</b>!</span></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI9nZqm_arQp9HTpyc-RsyljzGy5dpNPC00Rj0GMETYm4Yo0fmOVDAlioi5UAmCELSXjCGW74miiHg6d_ZT30AfDmRUXbfmK-NF5-4a-3TbdpcMnNLmy7PxVo43gM-haEFEztywKLFHsCiASvjMpYEmbUBkYrVniN7vGJilbKgrpdOFMqDjhzWPSho2qHi/s242/Sakharov,%20Andrei.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="242" data-original-width="220" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI9nZqm_arQp9HTpyc-RsyljzGy5dpNPC00Rj0GMETYm4Yo0fmOVDAlioi5UAmCELSXjCGW74miiHg6d_ZT30AfDmRUXbfmK-NF5-4a-3TbdpcMnNLmy7PxVo43gM-haEFEztywKLFHsCiASvjMpYEmbUBkYrVniN7vGJilbKgrpdOFMqDjhzWPSho2qHi/s1600/Sakharov,%20Andrei.jpg" width="220" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Andrei Sakharov</span></td></tr></tbody></table><b>Washington Trends </b>reports that the Russian H-bomb is no big deal, it's just to impress the rubes, with another "carrot" offer coming soon. On the other hand, <i>Newsweek </i>points out, Washington Kremlin experts are just guessing, so who knows, really? But the Russians have to do something to get more consumer goods into the hands of the people, so if having an H-bomb means fewer tanks, that's good for everybody. On the other hand there's going to be a renewed peace offensive against Japan and France,and that's bad. The White House list of five renegade Republican senators includes McCarthy, both Idaho senators (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Dworshak">Dworshak</a> as well as Welker), Malone in Nevada and Jenner of Indiana. The President says that he has made his last concession to the five, and will be using his presidential power more aggressively in the next session. Defence Secretary Wilson's prestige is rising rapidly due to his common sense approach to problems, his dislike of apple-polishing and doubletalk, and the President's unstinting admiration, say sources close to Defence Secretary Wilson. Reports that Stephen Mitchell will be kicked out as chairman of the DNC are dumb and wrong. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>National Affairs</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_4">Red H-Bombs</a> and Atrocities Fail to Unnerve the Nation" Sure, the Russians tested an H-bomb, but that doesn't mean it's not summer vacation! We'll worry about it in September. In the mean time the President can spend even more time golfing. (If you're wondering about "Atrocity," it's the third story, about American reactions to POW stories about their treatment. Everyone is upset, everyone would like to see something done, and everyone wants out of the Korean war right now. So except for some lady in Las Vegas who is ready to throw some A-bombs at the problem, that's the story.) <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"What About the Reds Among Freed US Prisoners?" <a href="https://scholar.smu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1025&context=hum_sci_history_etds#:~:text=American%20prisoners%20of%20war%20(POW,on%20the%20spot%20when%20captured.">There are some</a>, and they'll be sorted out in the Army hospitals where the sick POWs are going. Like the ones sick with Communism! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">People are talking about all the corruption around former Treasury Secretary John Snyder due to some trials and hearings in New York, some people ex-Presidents should get lifetime Senate seats, others don''t, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_United_States_elections#:~:text=In%20the%20House%2C%20the%20Republicans,of%20the%20Senate%20until%201980.">Republicans figure they will beat the off-year election blues</a> because they are just so darn lovable and there's hardly a recession at all. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijFMfIqSiZdzUmwXBvhyphenhyphenOYEiU1T7wTgOrXSjH_yzR73XI2e-G71e_33llJaZMp6ov3g74ZKE8Mw3Dr6nI6joIdAmuv75Qi5ClDoaY-jqG5_aeJzy5-2mWYAeQ8pICnJLV1oXO2PPWQAi_DqpjDytlROjuUMFuVhUfRyaiQQo0jDmnuiZDp0GgREwlD_9sT/s3961/Kent%20Cigarettes%20Brand%20X%20ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3961" height="244" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijFMfIqSiZdzUmwXBvhyphenhyphenOYEiU1T7wTgOrXSjH_yzR73XI2e-G71e_33llJaZMp6ov3g74ZKE8Mw3Dr6nI6joIdAmuv75Qi5ClDoaY-jqG5_aeJzy5-2mWYAeQ8pICnJLV1oXO2PPWQAi_DqpjDytlROjuUMFuVhUfRyaiQQo0jDmnuiZDp0GgREwlD_9sT/s320/Kent%20Cigarettes%20Brand%20X%20ad.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>I know I accuse Ernest K. Lindley of making sure to knock off his columns before lunch so that he can spend the rest of the day "researching" <b>The Periscope </b>down at the saloon, but this week he's filing from Paris, so he must be hard on the trail of the inside Washington beat! The French figure that Taft was basically Eisenhower's prime minister, and that he'll be lost without him, Lindell reports. Which takes up a whole paragraph, leaving him to fill the rest of the column typing out the <i>Herald Tribune </i>obituary. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Blast at the G-Men" The big surprise at the Governor's Conference in Seattle last week waws Governors Fine of Pennsylvania and Battle of Virginia attacking the FBI for alleged brutality to inmates (of asylums), and the Administration for not reining the G-men in. Also, the President has "pocket" vetoed Congress' repeal of the 20% theatre excise tax, and as frequently reported Congress on its side failed to pass the increase in the debt limit. And the State Department has blown off Senator McCarthy's request to have William Bundy's passport revoked so that he could question the man about his $400 donation to the Alger Hiss defence fund. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Senator Hickenlooper gets an interview with <i>Newsweek </i>in which he says that on the one hand the Russians probably got the H-bomb secret from the old atom spies, and on the other that Washington has no definite evidence that the Russians have shot off an H-bomb. He doesn't explicitly say that America has an H-bomb that can be used in a war, which is the Russian claim, that their H-bomb can be dropped from a plane, unlike the American one. He also points out that America has enough production capacity to build the H-bombs that we need, and there's not much point in accumulating more after a certain point. Given that it's Hickenlooper, it actually sounds pretty reasonable. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Korean Truce</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIKFyLUZTUr_a1yBNcs3DJN_TloiD9WTWsw1ScNqu_GDr1UdCfe34Y2bpmFwKEZERq4csbxv5GyeEcdCn_8O9q7v3Vu7l7Kw6vUSNd61PayI-TnwsecUrKWCpuhvLOd_nwOa67yHUoMWKQaaw6wL6cGuBcNJircCLkFGKkEsmopRMjEYFDWZ96twAzuJNM/s4032/Korea%20POW%20release%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2704" data-original-width="4032" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIKFyLUZTUr_a1yBNcs3DJN_TloiD9WTWsw1ScNqu_GDr1UdCfe34Y2bpmFwKEZERq4csbxv5GyeEcdCn_8O9q7v3Vu7l7Kw6vUSNd61PayI-TnwsecUrKWCpuhvLOd_nwOa67yHUoMWKQaaw6wL6cGuBcNJircCLkFGKkEsmopRMjEYFDWZ96twAzuJNM/s320/Korea%20POW%20release%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"Back From Red Death Camps, POW's Rediscover Freedom" "A Turk sat and wept. A Negro danced an ecstatic jig. A boy from Brooklyn cried out the inevitable query about the Dodgers. A South Korean died almost at the moment of freedom." What <i>Newsweek </i>doesn't know about punctuation, it makes up for in cliches. The Communists, of course, marched home in regimented unanimity, and General Clark is saying that the Reds still might be holding another 2000 unaccounted-for POWs, with Secretary Dulles threatening unspecified reprisals if they don't come clean. Then he went into his meeting with Rhee to yell at the man some more. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSgWkdnny035SGt-_tNb5lOPJyz35G7s_U5og8thC9OZ2J1Vf8dq-q2gWKFreSFdoiKBoip32UeB0WcvpZ-L5S56_J1m61ubyhp1113kPQMKiy_NxqM2ZnInY3RkzC_u0JtUSw79gcbPc0qm-K-_2FKy7vD7WaUJo3U097f3jeOWhzblorCf-CW7uHowo1/s3930/Japan%20'53.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3930" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhSgWkdnny035SGt-_tNb5lOPJyz35G7s_U5og8thC9OZ2J1Vf8dq-q2gWKFreSFdoiKBoip32UeB0WcvpZ-L5S56_J1m61ubyhp1113kPQMKiy_NxqM2ZnInY3RkzC_u0JtUSw79gcbPc0qm-K-_2FKy7vD7WaUJo3U097f3jeOWhzblorCf-CW7uHowo1/s320/Japan%20'53.jpg" width="246" /></a></div>"Fallen Hopes Engulf the Land of the Rising Sun" <i>Newsweek </i>reports from Tokyo that the Japanese "Safety Forces" aren't growing rapidly enough because the Japanese have no time for them after their WWII experience. <i>Newsweek </i>hopes that the good old Japanese national character is still alive in the countryside, which makes me feel like that Belgian cartoon character that talks in exclamation marks, because that's all I need! Japan also has tortuous politics, an inflationary economic boom going on (the Ginza is hopping!), and a trade deficit, so it is all bound to end in tears. Then it is off to Russia to be told for the third time that Malenkov announced an H-bomb test and promised the Supreme Soviet more consumer goods. On the one hand, <i>Newsweek </i>reminds us that no-one is scared of the Red H-bomb even if it does exist, and that the Russians probably stole it from us. On the other, it means that Malenkov is stronger than ever, and that's good, too, because, Leon Volkov points out, he hasn't been very strong so far. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">France is seeing a wave of strikes against the new economy push, Christian Dior's fall line features lower hemlines, Churchill has resumed some political activities. Up in the Canadas, <i>Newsweek </i>is reminded of how Louis St. Laurent said a mean thing about the Republicans last year in his only recorded comment on the '52 elections, but now Canada is having an election and <i>Newsweek </i>wouldn't dream of interfering in Canadian affairs or having an opinion, vote Tory, damnit! (Down in <b>Dance </b>we learn that Canada has a <i>corps du ballet</i> now!)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Business</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Periscope Business Trends </b>reports that the US is still set on handing atomic power over to private business, Red H-bomb notwithstanding, that aluminum, rails, brewing, 3-D, natural gas, textiles,oil, and farming are all booming. For example, the unexpectedly high heating oil inventory might mean a price cut, falling sales of men's clothes is a :prosperity trap," and farm revenues are only down 6-7% in spite of the drought. Everything's coming up roses! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJrc-lhCsX2Ck8K_pjrXFj_oqlzL7KAKg4lGAv6H5ft66ERyx4mNV4SDhWLLostuYwTMnZmpJ9Dd3Ez0iM0WWRo_24Hf0EkqfKDnf7uqC2fe29HQgzDk9a2dGuLjz1q-zLyKRH2DVBGLGP3W8vbb9Tnqe5xqqVp4zow_8UQ_uv5KRWPXLdy8iA6R-M8Rla/s4032/20231208_205551433_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJrc-lhCsX2Ck8K_pjrXFj_oqlzL7KAKg4lGAv6H5ft66ERyx4mNV4SDhWLLostuYwTMnZmpJ9Dd3Ez0iM0WWRo_24Hf0EkqfKDnf7uqC2fe29HQgzDk9a2dGuLjz1q-zLyKRH2DVBGLGP3W8vbb9Tnqe5xqqVp4zow_8UQ_uv5KRWPXLdy8iA6R-M8Rla/s320/20231208_205551433_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"High Hopes, HIgh Earnings: US Takes Post-Truce Stock" Etc. Profits are up, but stocks had a "mediocre week," it says in a quarter-page story about a bird that flew into the trading floor, with enough room for a short paragraph about the actual business of selling stocks at the end. The FCC is going to approve the "compatible" colour television system from GE. The first sets will go on sale at the end of 1954 and cost $700-$1000(!!!) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Notes: Week in Business </b>reports that the rubber plant sale bill has passed, that the RCA "genius" computer, developed at the David Sarnoff Research Centre at Princeton, and the extremely fast new computer at the National Physical Laboratories are the latest in electronic computer news. Hertz is being bought from GM by Omnibus of Chicago, Otis Elevator is getting into the electronics game by buying the Transmitter Equipment Manufacturing Company, and Gunnison Homes is changing its name to United States Steel Homes, because that is what it does now. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"How the US Can Halt a Recession: Five Economists View the Nation's Future" A roundtable consisting of Sumner Schlichter, Martin R. Greensbrugh, Clyde William Phelps, Charles A. Glover and A. D. H. Kaplan. Everything will be fine, except Schlicter is worried about consumer credit, Gainsbrugh about strikes, Phelps about the world betraying Formosa, and Kaplan is worried that people will get into a funk. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Products: What's New </b>reports that Easy Golf automatically tees up a ball for practice, Shell Oil's new lift truck with thin arms can take loads without pallets, that Chicago Molded Products Corporation has a rigid plastic plate which can be quickly formed into a prototype, while Artone Color Corporation's versatile stamper can be used on many materials. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On the auto side, GM is getting into heavy trucks, Studebaker aims to reclaim the market share it lost due to materials control, and Chryslers is sending out a catalogue showing all of its styling options. Star Farm Mutual Insurance has digested auto accident records and concludes that housewives are very underrated drivers, and that older men are safer drivers than younger men. (I paraphrase, because <i>Newsweek </i>doesn't draw that generalisation out of a long list of professions and their associated safety rankings, even though it is pretty obvious when managers and professionals rank high and students and enlisted ranks rate lowest.) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Henry Hazlitt figures that not raising the debt limit is good news because debt is bad and stuff like that. And <i>that </i>is how you write a column between 10:30 and 11, boys and girls! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Science, Medicine, </b><b>Education</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTd5RCGiyuoPX1Af2lRoWN2VFJzpWBgTqEkmOliafrpCNUPfrrq8kpaGtimzDvz245odS9puiez9Yx7HR6PbEeGcVSitepVtD97uUMTjs_TxjmiExS6-NasoXASIo1OBe1aSovVs0YnDME8DKiYvLvY9Qxvg1UrMBP7WYXvdn7gv2rUi9KT_TTP30JX26I/s4032/20231208_211552242_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTd5RCGiyuoPX1Af2lRoWN2VFJzpWBgTqEkmOliafrpCNUPfrrq8kpaGtimzDvz245odS9puiez9Yx7HR6PbEeGcVSitepVtD97uUMTjs_TxjmiExS6-NasoXASIo1OBe1aSovVs0YnDME8DKiYvLvY9Qxvg1UrMBP7WYXvdn7gv2rUi9KT_TTP30JX26I/s320/20231208_211552242_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>C. W. Danforth does a better job of extracting diamond dust from industrial diamond waste than anyone else,and he has a friend on the <i>Newsweek </i>Editorial Board, is all I can figure. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Things to Come" At Caltech, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Benioff">Hugo Benioff</a>'s linear-strain seismograph is designed to take long-term measurements over years and hopefully predict future earthquakes. And <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Christofilos">Nicholas Christofilos</a> of Greece has won a major patent infringement award from Brookhaven after he demonstrated that their new atom smasher was based on his work. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astron_(fusion_reactor)">He is now looking for atomic physicist work.</a> (Or inadvertently copied it, they will argue, I am sure.) <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Comfort for the Polio-Afflicted" Gamma globulin is too expensive, a safe and effective vaccine may be years away, and so the iron lung is still our main tool against polio. Sit-up, standing, plastic-domed, and "coughing" iron lungs are all available now. So, interestingly enough, is a servomechanism-controlled one that regulates air pressure according to the patient's breathing. Polio victims are testing out "frog breathing," (as in, how you burped on command when you were ten) and accessories that help the ladies put on their makeup inside an iron lung(!)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The Sick POW" At the back of the magazine the story of the sick POWs is about the shortage of food and doctors in the Red rear areas generally, which then led to neglect in the camps, instead of "atrocities." In fact, thanks to their extensive immunisations, American POWs were better off than Red soldiers. Also, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Keefer">Chester Hoff Keefer</a> is the first Special Assistant for Health and Medical Affairs at the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. It took Secretary Culp four months to appoint him, but most of the time was spent typing out his title. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The Classical Tour" The Americans doing summer school in Europe are mostly not very serious about it, but <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/41592427">Mary Raiola</a> is happy to be back in Pompeii running one. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy8cnpLvMNSQgEURHpQkt9k_bmDCbRytnnz-9nCapjXBG6Wf5paMyth9EHPQDthblbRs0PhK1GTAZQcR0mRiu7Ag5OT1RNl4v9P8AR57FwVO2HRfwobOujIohyRTUyvt3iwCwD9TS2n17-vZ7kiuc5Pp33rsBs8iYG1kF35IarTsY6UA-xtqYGHh8NaR4U/s3930/Walter%20Steumpfig,%20composite%20of%20three%20oils.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3930" data-original-width="2658" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiy8cnpLvMNSQgEURHpQkt9k_bmDCbRytnnz-9nCapjXBG6Wf5paMyth9EHPQDthblbRs0PhK1GTAZQcR0mRiu7Ag5OT1RNl4v9P8AR57FwVO2HRfwobOujIohyRTUyvt3iwCwD9TS2n17-vZ7kiuc5Pp33rsBs8iYG1kF35IarTsY6UA-xtqYGHh8NaR4U/w432-h640/Walter%20Steumpfig,%20composite%20of%20three%20oils.jpg" width="432" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Art, Press, Radio-Television, Newsmakers</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Stuempfig">Walter Steumpfig</a> is having a show out on Cape Cod so <i>Newsweek </i>can combine some highbrow art coverage with a beach vacation, hurray!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Charles Roos put the <i>Denver Post </i>on the map by chasing Denver's collector of customs, Harold Zimm, who was never in the office because he had nothing to do, but it sure was a scandal. The <i>El Paso Times </i>has persuaded the police and everyone else that some local fisherman was murdered instead of drowning by accident. The American Society of Newspaper Editors couldn't agree that it was wrong, as such, for Senator McCarthy to interrogate <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wechsler"><i>New York Post </i>editor James Wechsler</a> about his membership in the Young Communists twenty years ago, but a minority of four editors on the investigating board dissent from this moderate view and think that it was all some kind of "McCarthyism." Which I report because of <i>Newsweek's </i>gobsmacking use of "moderate" to describe the editors who thought that McCarthy had a point.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blair_Moody#:~:text=Arthur%20Edson%20Blair%20Moody%20(February,from%20the%20state%20of%20Michigan."> Former Senator Blair Moody</a> is definitely starting a new paper in Detroit even if he still denies it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Quiz shows are big on radio, but the big broadcast news is Stu Novins' documentary show, <i>the Quacks, </i>about same, which, Novins assures <i>Newsweek, </i>was lawsuit-proofed by CBS lawyers before it was aired. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglkLPEVZG0vC94K-yabV8ZnwuHwknKjRyK0t4aPJpVTyD43LzARD829o3g9mu4y5NbfizIl9ZL1-vA9XuA2oZNxRvbxkWjjMNb5F1osxApRDW6bCAtNTw0gWs6lRM1lp87SfF_b1jbltq1LXyB33MONiCavosV3iPWYivw1AL3B7CIxYf0xWWSJfER4ZGM/s1000/fluoridation%20anti-vax%20ad%20quoting%20clare%20hoffman.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="593" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglkLPEVZG0vC94K-yabV8ZnwuHwknKjRyK0t4aPJpVTyD43LzARD829o3g9mu4y5NbfizIl9ZL1-vA9XuA2oZNxRvbxkWjjMNb5F1osxApRDW6bCAtNTw0gWs6lRM1lp87SfF_b1jbltq1LXyB33MONiCavosV3iPWYivw1AL3B7CIxYf0xWWSJfER4ZGM/s320/fluoridation%20anti-vax%20ad%20quoting%20clare%20hoffman.png" width="190" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>Dick Haymes is in trouble with Selective Service on top of his tax troubles and divorce proceedings, while gangster Joe Adonis (which is a real name) is going to be deported to Italy. Bob Merrill, Wesley Moon, Marlon Brando, Roberto Rossellini, Will Rogers, Jr, Charlie Chaplin and Zsa Zsa Gabor are in the column for the usual lack of reasons. President Truman is working on his memoirs, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clare_Hoffman">Claire Hoffman</a> is guilty of speeding, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_O._Barnwell">Staff Sergeant Barbara O. Barnswell</a> is the first "attractive, 26-year-old sergeant" to receive the Navy-Marine Corps Medal for Heroism. Just kidding! Plenty of attractive 26-year-olds have received it. She's just the first woman, and the first one to be described as "attractive." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Queen Mother and Herbert Hoover had birthdays. Lord Montagu is engaged to an American. Mimi Clark and <a href="https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/194608238/sandra-jean-luckman">Sandra Burns</a> are married. Major William Clark, son of General Clark, is honeymooning, Jane Powell is divorcing, Percival Farquhar and Abner C. Powell have died. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/WW6Jd7zVpxM" width="320" youtube-src-id="WW6Jd7zVpxM"></iframe></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><b>The New Films</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAgaTKEbhV5j1JwSSN0c71hR0JMHxQfFhD_3x7IfYi-rINNMkc1VUxfHffg-VtlZpHK6VWYmhbpjrCF96cnSonoUdy8KcDtHQFULPziDle6GFJtp6B6Cqz9o3QUioAS0ZUnXWlgzKFGavedTUMj-rB-wM0piP6UAm1-xkrHkJiMGprCGGwLxxIqsRntKv5/s4032/20231208_145339509_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAgaTKEbhV5j1JwSSN0c71hR0JMHxQfFhD_3x7IfYi-rINNMkc1VUxfHffg-VtlZpHK6VWYmhbpjrCF96cnSonoUdy8KcDtHQFULPziDle6GFJtp6B6Cqz9o3QUioAS0ZUnXWlgzKFGavedTUMj-rB-wM0piP6UAm1-xkrHkJiMGprCGGwLxxIqsRntKv5/s320/20231208_145339509_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b><i>The Cruel Sea </i>(Universal-International) is an "admirable" British attempt to capture the spirit of Nicholas Monsarrat's 500 page novel. Eric Ambler wrote the script and it is a good movie and well acted. <i>I, the Jury, </i>is the first Mickey Spillane film, from UA, and is a "very jazzy bit of roughhousing." Unfortunately it is "drably picturesque" and too fast and glib for its own good. A Spillane movie? Fast and glib? Never! <i>The Master of Ballantrae </i>is the latest Errol Flynn, and bears "only the palest and most perverted resemblance" to the Stevenson novel. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Books</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Oscar Lewis' <i>The Story of Legal Gambling in Nevada </i>is quite the story! Franz von Papen's memoirs are out in an English edition that explains how he comes to be still alive and fairly prosperous in spite of managing to be just as bad and dangerous for Germany as he was for the rest of the world during two wars. Ann Petry's <i>The Narrows </i>is a novel with Coloureds in it, set in Connecticut instead of the South, but still one of those novels. (Doomed interracial sex!) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Raymond Moley sees Lindsell's "type two thirds of a column out of a Taft obituary" in the obvious way. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6dbdl8RK0I1clkxu7MrXJGFexajf8hWA3bZk87lOPM28ncg_lvtO4awoNcEdM8aA-K6onUp2BcSZHWGZRqFO9QRggnHt9Z85b3jkI5-pr1VVlgswyog0e7l4oXRiOFnLNQv-U6-dN8uayYdfqU00bwlHTapFOq6nZ_HzMyCPs3U0ka6N4eOIvSAINXvDK/s4032/20231209_205352309_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6dbdl8RK0I1clkxu7MrXJGFexajf8hWA3bZk87lOPM28ncg_lvtO4awoNcEdM8aA-K6onUp2BcSZHWGZRqFO9QRggnHt9Z85b3jkI5-pr1VVlgswyog0e7l4oXRiOFnLNQv-U6-dN8uayYdfqU00bwlHTapFOq6nZ_HzMyCPs3U0ka6N4eOIvSAINXvDK/s16000/20231209_205352309_iOS.heic" /></a></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMU_tuLtAmCGz9eN5MjenoxRmA_5w7dYJTJUc8S6NJ1TafqjLy873JxS04RxLAnx7ubiWnyLEkLnjwx3BQsw8bWOr-mAyjLhvxbrxrBhHY_uLjJjPWbYo_Vkem3XFpKJM1BqSSLIeqTF5sasWhr6hNcBS5yJZEHrHI1W3rvKiCzZ46jfT7buBIxeW3SKr8/s4032/ARDC%20TO%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMU_tuLtAmCGz9eN5MjenoxRmA_5w7dYJTJUc8S6NJ1TafqjLy873JxS04RxLAnx7ubiWnyLEkLnjwx3BQsw8bWOr-mAyjLhvxbrxrBhHY_uLjJjPWbYo_Vkem3XFpKJM1BqSSLIeqTF5sasWhr6hNcBS5yJZEHrHI1W3rvKiCzZ46jfT7buBIxeW3SKr8/s320/ARDC%20TO%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>The cover says "Special Avionics issue." And if by "special" you mean <i>seventy </i>pages of ads before the editorial, then this sure is a special issue. Throw this in with a few of my women's mags and our poor postman is going to have a hernia! Fortunately, there's plenty of good content in here, like a message from General Putt, head of ARDC, which explains that the Air Research and Development Command molds defence by . . doing stuff. In WWII we depended on quantity, but in the next war we'll have quality thanks to a whole bunch of sub offices and boards with long titles that focus on doing stuff. About quality! Though the only picture in three pages is of that supersonic propeller fighter that is buzzing around Edwards Air Force Base and I'm not sure how "quality" that is. We get a history of ARDC, which begins with Dr. Karman discovering that the Germans are ahead of America in research and development by virtue of actually spending money on it, and General LeMay steppping in to organise ARDC and overcoming the postwar budget cuts. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA7ONbEV6OINK-GPxDkPtRqLXa9H_C9MQRMNCwVKnZE51DrjFuiZjtKF3wd6LM9hMudhZQ9yeig_Xuf8DVBhzFKTJ0oeMmawIqY9NzHRwlbbHK6w9dsvdFoyHn8Tj6mwH29rrPGQcchd_RbIKUUCrFgICCZ59uTfEAevfM_Qm7mNGDtXeW4QpCM82x6fS5/s2722/Systems%20Management%20Partnership.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1789" data-original-width="2722" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiA7ONbEV6OINK-GPxDkPtRqLXa9H_C9MQRMNCwVKnZE51DrjFuiZjtKF3wd6LM9hMudhZQ9yeig_Xuf8DVBhzFKTJ0oeMmawIqY9NzHRwlbbHK6w9dsvdFoyHn8Tj6mwH29rrPGQcchd_RbIKUUCrFgICCZ59uTfEAevfM_Qm7mNGDtXeW4QpCM82x6fS5/s320/Systems%20Management%20Partnership.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Weapon System Plan Spurs Development" As you've heard, the Air Force is giving manufacturers sole responsibility to deliver a "weapon system, as managed by ARDC. If you didn't know, it will be explained again, right here, right now. Also involved is the Office of Scientific Research, which is so advanced that it has to be explained cybernetically. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxolBh3QBqzF4V6HoZhauZYPUePMIOolspw3n02XdwdXhjjAIWk1MyPsZ9gOge5t4FwI8lwTVTXYNwld04T7LqRLZrNd1DPMSTdtFsWxgGicv2z1Z00nRGAltm4kiRAfqyCKnBmKmYqQjWKeYytOfiKE4uX63iFnDxq5GnEUPKX1NkyD6hrFZYgojgVw3V/s2939/Office%20of%20Scientific%20Research%20Explained%20Cybernetically.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2080" data-original-width="2939" height="283" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxolBh3QBqzF4V6HoZhauZYPUePMIOolspw3n02XdwdXhjjAIWk1MyPsZ9gOge5t4FwI8lwTVTXYNwld04T7LqRLZrNd1DPMSTdtFsWxgGicv2z1Z00nRGAltm4kiRAfqyCKnBmKmYqQjWKeYytOfiKE4uX63iFnDxq5GnEUPKX1NkyD6hrFZYgojgVw3V/w400-h283/Office%20of%20Scientific%20Research%20Explained%20Cybernetically.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">There's lots going on. For example, Dr. Perry of MIT is working on a computer to automatically translate Russian into English, while Dr. Gordy of Duke is investigating what holds atoms into molecules, and Frank Clauser is working on a theory of the "boundary layer" that is dimensionless, like the Reynolds number. OSR researchers are working on everything from solid state physics to anthropology. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">And then, on p. 91, actual <i>Aviation Week </i>editorial content, as Robert Hotz reports that "Centre Mates Planes to Atomic Weapons" This isn't a lost chapter of the Kinsey report, just a discussion of the Special Weapons Centre's work persuading F-84s and such to carry atom bombs, which turns out to use a lot of glue and double-sided tape. Alexander McSurely is off to Wright Patterson for "WADC: $200-Million Research Key," which has hit p. 139 before I find things worth reporting, the current "tenants" at Edwards Air Force Base, the NACA "stable," the XF-92A delta-wing fighter, D-558-II Skyrocket, Bell X-5 variable-sweep plane, some B-47s for testing, and the X-1, not in a flyable state and to be replaced by the X-2 and X-3 whenever they show up. Edwards also has a school.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD_QCBUMvtvp9q2vg2nOF1ERB3UacnhrMlDC-RiIHGEZNi1dnm2MdO4obA2EJc3QvYcemWos4DJSQNzCzRLiEddiJWvt16vmotGbt17uxJyAWnUw5IW6qhl54Tcz7yNZKyKzBrb3kx49IsG-ccUP5nXu78XGrzjkwCyoHAYJlDQ6dYBPS97EeD3PMuhHNh/s4032/20231209_214016690_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Far be it from me to defend "Chip" Wilson, but this seems completely out of control to me." border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD_QCBUMvtvp9q2vg2nOF1ERB3UacnhrMlDC-RiIHGEZNi1dnm2MdO4obA2EJc3QvYcemWos4DJSQNzCzRLiEddiJWvt16vmotGbt17uxJyAWnUw5IW6qhl54Tcz7yNZKyKzBrb3kx49IsG-ccUP5nXu78XGrzjkwCyoHAYJlDQ6dYBPS97EeD3PMuhHNh/w240-h320/20231209_214016690_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>David Anderton visits AEDC for "AEDC Will Speed Development," an article about all the things they mean to do there once it is built. Evidently no-one is allowed at the Patrick Air Force Base Missile Development Centre, because the Air Force sends in its own advertorial about shooting missiles from Cape Canaveral and receiving them far beyond civilisation in the Dominican Republic. Holloman AFB also doesn't get a correspondent, and sends in its own advertorial. Besides rockets, they are doing space biology, investigating how flies respond to radiation damage to their genetics and to weightlessness. Also Eglin AFB, which is the weapons range. Irving Stone goes to the Air Force Cambridge Research Centre, which does geophysics, atomic warfare,electronics, and "Other." It takes Stone ten pages to move past the guys reseaching the air! Philip Klass goes to Rome, New York to check in with avionics work. They spend a half billion dollars there on electronics. Half a billion! And since some results seem in order, an article on the "K-system" bombing system for the B-36 follows. It is the next step from the Norden and there's a nice pictorial. Rome also works with ground avionics, with a whole bunch of GCA hardware under development, and there's even a discussion of its work on electronic countermeasures.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Putting Avionics Research to Work" By this time you might be getting the impression of an out-of-control Air Force spilling taxpayer dollars all over the sciences. So how about something concrete? Well, in Cambridge they figure you'll be able to dictate to an electronic typewriter in ten years, do more with the same frequencies, have harder-to-crack codes, smaller "microtronics," a faster flow of information, whatever that means, but which has something to do with the auto-dictation mentioned. They are also working on a traffic direction computer and automatic flight control. And then they kind of ruin the first impression by returning to the these subjects again and again in a way that shows no-one even tried to edit this issue down to something comprehensible. It is interesting to hear about klystrons maybe replacing magnetrons and high temperature vacuum tubes and smaller transistors once. Or twice. Again and again, looping through the same projects and one "Centre" after another? Sheesh! Oh, and way at the back the Aero Medicine guys get to show off their g-suits again. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglxd3M25oe2pOBGkf88lRAuHLfrDlZZcVcPOSyocRg6ScRJe1_iOni-NwIgTQad6pJCwwM44bvMBTigC-eKpdZPriOgrbH3ULvCTLoF6DCkqzsHmgf8Abv8q0N_JmX0vHTsYbpUwHXw96RYJoJ3ORXVIoMzQuu5YEsy_il-65ZMzFa9qg-nshKkrAIVxJp/s4032/20231209_214530649_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglxd3M25oe2pOBGkf88lRAuHLfrDlZZcVcPOSyocRg6ScRJe1_iOni-NwIgTQad6pJCwwM44bvMBTigC-eKpdZPriOgrbH3ULvCTLoF6DCkqzsHmgf8Abv8q0N_JmX0vHTsYbpUwHXw96RYJoJ3ORXVIoMzQuu5YEsy_il-65ZMzFa9qg-nshKkrAIVxJp/s320/20231209_214530649_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><b>News of the Week </b>reports that the Air Force will meet its NATO commitments at least through 1956, the RB-45 recently did a long-distance Pacific tour, and DC-6s are replacing DC-4s in Pan Am's South American fleet. Idlewild is still banning the Comet, the Chase Aircraft reorganisation is ongoing, the Army has ordered its first production Firebees, CAB is blaming the American Air Transport crash in Washington on the controller for telling the pilot he could make it over the mountains given his plane's condition. The US is forcing an ICAO cut, the Ferry Rotodyne is out as a concept drawing, and the F-86F is a much better fighter than the A and E. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggwWg4Hwlgc_FRzRCsP7k0j_ELFe9dtYca3787ZCpukb-FVyrse9kurvOT41kgunS6hxSE_c0MaM1K3Q1D953hd12TPgk1kUXzHqLJLzFR-mxOIz3HkTXU7UKARAyEYcbxK0RsPZ41mIxzO8FMHPZjhprGtyI5adT6wFGgYJYPmeRHmi_hUqkPdcoPOEo1/s4032/20231208_213938007_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggwWg4Hwlgc_FRzRCsP7k0j_ELFe9dtYca3787ZCpukb-FVyrse9kurvOT41kgunS6hxSE_c0MaM1K3Q1D953hd12TPgk1kUXzHqLJLzFR-mxOIz3HkTXU7UKARAyEYcbxK0RsPZ41mIxzO8FMHPZjhprGtyI5adT6wFGgYJYPmeRHmi_hUqkPdcoPOEo1/s16000/20231208_213938007_iOS.heic" /></a></div><br /> <br /><b>Letters</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A. C. M. Azoy writes to say that the so-called first flying shot of a football game in the 13 July issue wasn't even vaguely the first. <i>Newsweek </i>explains that the pilot "BELIEVED" it was the first, so good enough! Stella Stern of the American Field Service, Mrs. R. K. Coffee of State Teachers College, Jacksonville, Alabama, and Emil Aftandillian of the University of Maryland are very upset about Ambassador Malik's denigrating comments about the foreign exchange student experience. <b>For Your Information </b>says that Malenkov's speech to the Supreme Soviet confirms everything <i>Newsweek </i>has been saying about the Soviets having consumer goods problems.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQqmkb9QPsvOYo6sz1twoiaCLVH-MOTiYxJZy6hMQfXid2l1mjayWhahYSaKEYIs9X9sjqSpuUu_zKt7ajJNyC16IN_DmRBPXayYzbKCrji85B6GK6N5KvnDEDJgUXrSFnWIIi0TaCeOuw-YZFDh1d8WSJNo2f7mhg1YiZH1iaomxkwvYMnlj5gfOwSFui/s4032/20231208_221403185_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQqmkb9QPsvOYo6sz1twoiaCLVH-MOTiYxJZy6hMQfXid2l1mjayWhahYSaKEYIs9X9sjqSpuUu_zKt7ajJNyC16IN_DmRBPXayYzbKCrji85B6GK6N5KvnDEDJgUXrSFnWIIi0TaCeOuw-YZFDh1d8WSJNo2f7mhg1YiZH1iaomxkwvYMnlj5gfOwSFui/s320/20231208_221403185_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Periscope </b>reports that returning POWs will not be compensated like WWII POWs because there are no foreign holdings to sell off to pay for them. The three big "no-shows" on the first POW return flight are men who have been so heavily brainwashed that they don't even remember their names. Don't count the Shah out now that his coup has failed and he has fled Iran. He might return to the provinces to rally resistance there. The Russians are offering to pull their troops out of Germany if the Allies do the same because they don't really want to be there any more. The President is letting Secretary Wilson award all the posthumous Medals of Honour because the process affects him emotionally. President Nixon is promoting a constitutional amendment giving eighteen-year-olds the vote. The NLRB has noticed that employers are applying for far more strike injunctions since the President reshuffled the board. Reporters at the UN are sick and tired of Henry Cabot Lodge, while newsreaders are sick and tired of hearing about the UN. The Air Force is trying to bury a report from its Arctic, Desert, Tropic Information Centre with less-than-flattering reports about the actions of a general downed in an Arctic accident, and "less-than-heroic behaviour on the part of a famous ex-athlete." We'll be hearing more from that Air Force test range running from Florida to the Bahamas soon, as it is almost ready to run missiles. Churchill looks "as fit as any man his age who has had a stroke." Finland might "slide behind the Iron Curtain" any day now. Washington policy makers are glad to have all those Spanish bases now that "NATO appears to be slumping." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9e_(film)">Marlon Brando will play Napoleon in </a><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9sir%C3%A9e_(film)">Desiree</a>, </i>based on the best-selling novel, Dolores Grav wil co-star with Fred Astaire in <i>The New Orleans Story, </i>Lee Cobbs, Jeff Chandler, and Rhonda Fleming are doing a film version of <i>Yankee Pasha. </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZaSu_Pitts">ZaSu Pitts</a> will have a comedy series on DuMont starting next month, CBS is giving Bing Cosby a musical variety show while Ed Gardner's <i>Duffy's Tavern </i>TV show will be prerecorded to prevent Gardner's trademark racy ad-libs. A "Where Are They Now" segment visits <a href="https://capturedandexposed.com/2021/10/22/arresting-hope-dare/">Richard (Dixie) Davis and Hope Dare</a>, who are living modestly in LA and running a talent agency. Douglas ("Wrong-Way") Corrigan has been spotted running an orange grove in California, and Reverend Charles Coughlin, who is happy doing his pastoral duties in Detroit and has given up the limelight. <br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/eAsexLHt_Lw" width="320" youtube-src-id="eAsexLHt_Lw"></iframe></div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">Overall a return to form, but I'm fascinated by the frank reference to Churchill's supposedly secret stroke. Where did that myth come from?</div></span><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Periscope Business Trends </b>reports that Eisenhower is ready to start the next session by addressing his big four problems, which are, first, Russia, which he will deal with by using "less counterpunching, more punching," as with the food-distribution effort in Berlin, a potential Chinese intervention in Indo-China, where he will rely on US air and sea forces, since Congress won't let him use US ground forces. Second, he is going to try to achieve a real peace in Korea. Third, he is going to do what it takes to stop a recession. Fourth, he is going to assert leadership in Congress and only cut taxes a little, leading to only a slightly ballooning national debt. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>National Affairs</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy2aHERnUeUQjQosY0GG_CrscxnG_pgqw8Jjh-xTlkwAjUlNPupuo9obhtd_imA1NH24K2nsw3Si_MORUkjvtL2K2K-89lrCgSQvqsLrDHBoYxwc2nXH6os6f2YjGGdOVt7oZl3COKmPZ5ztvNQ3BTy_770F6V-cNmk4jZ6IM_51ZjwjzE0erM_emwwfnn/s2722/Fitzgerald,%20Private%20First%20Class%20Peter%20with%20wife%20and%20child.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2328" data-original-width="2722" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy2aHERnUeUQjQosY0GG_CrscxnG_pgqw8Jjh-xTlkwAjUlNPupuo9obhtd_imA1NH24K2nsw3Si_MORUkjvtL2K2K-89lrCgSQvqsLrDHBoYxwc2nXH6os6f2YjGGdOVt7oZl3COKmPZ5ztvNQ3BTy_770F6V-cNmk4jZ6IM_51ZjwjzE0erM_emwwfnn/s320/Fitzgerald,%20Private%20First%20Class%20Peter%20with%20wife%20and%20child.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"War Leaves Bitter Aftertaste But Brings Joy of Homecoming" What it says! Also, Daniel Reed of New York, Chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, is promising a reform of the Income Tax Act, while "sniffers" have yet to detect fallout from the supposed Soviet H-bomb test. The President is doing some business while vacationing in Denver with lots of golf. Beardsley Ruml claims that the national debt can be eliminated with just $2 billion in spending cuts, and with major tax cuts, just by reforming government accounting practices. The new Department of Agriculture quotas for wheat production will probably go through, even though Eastern farmers hate them. Some poor cub reporter had to cover the American Bar Association national convention and sends in a column covering its major conclusions, which everyone proceeded not to read. (Federal judges deserve higher salaries! More legal aid!) Senator McCarthy is going after the Government Printing Office after finding that a Jewish man named <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/03/joseph-mccarthy-and-the-force-of-political-falsehoods">Rothschild</a> works there. As a bookbinder-machinist, yes, but a bookbinder-machinist could do a lot of damage to freedom if he happened to be a Communist! And an anonymous informant says he was, so this is probably a big espionage story. Senator Duff of Pennsylvania gets the weekly interview, where he explains in detail just how great everything is going for his man, Eisenhower. </div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUIJXNPqEfIDJIe5gu_mtcmRPUrlSd-4Z98xemuIV-2z1dyqbbi1ZfosL3DRsNMbtQ8B3k89-0OGO6x7ALmKtJeVdbuv0QHD5bEuPwvo-rFuJTaCqtNvRYUl5bazhxkKe10bXZ75TLHU_LcmDkczBnw5f_M031-vxdPAYA4K7UZujwH9gFVOtzF-EQiiok/s4032/20231208_222723247_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUIJXNPqEfIDJIe5gu_mtcmRPUrlSd-4Z98xemuIV-2z1dyqbbi1ZfosL3DRsNMbtQ8B3k89-0OGO6x7ALmKtJeVdbuv0QHD5bEuPwvo-rFuJTaCqtNvRYUl5bazhxkKe10bXZ75TLHU_LcmDkczBnw5f_M031-vxdPAYA4K7UZujwH9gFVOtzF-EQiiok/s320/20231208_222723247_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Air Reservists: Civilian Bulwark for America" <i>Newsweek </i>admires all the wonderful hat stories that <i>Flight </i>has been able to use to pad out issues for many years, but never had a chance to do the same. But now there's an Air Force Reserve under Continental Air Command, and it's a story! A story about how sometimes former Air Force men have real jobs and families and even houses but sometimes turn out to take training courses and fly troop carriers. There's almost 9000 of them, so it's a big story! With hats. Speaking of giving old Air Force men cushy part time jobs, General Spaatz has a nice <b>Military Tides </b>column about years ago, during the war. </div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Ernest K. Lindley is back in Washington after his European investigative vacation with word that East Germany is a "volcano." He didn't actually see any erupting, but he's pretty sure that there's lava everywhere. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Korean Truce</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"U.N. Works to Keep the Peace But Fears New Red Violations" Nothing is happening but this here <i>Newsweek </i>stringer is stuck in this country and you're going to be as bored as I am! On the POW beat, some POWs are really upset at the "rats" among their ranks. And peace negotiations at the United Nations are going nowhere.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnoB3xKI_sDQRqzxfFv7YY0EjLsIAzbjdSbsDtCWUGDWnCa7Xy_YcjtEOBrc9Drpb8aPJ7pkeLRoGS367rd7QaBhkczw-OMJLpkswYAvcmgEuIZ0NniSbA8Xot92tZvUXMRzPcqZkgtYlXaCvc1YPBmSZN9tYzoVSgou2l1gJ4HKDAzNqgnpsTViOXdOan/s4032/20231208_224934474_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhnoB3xKI_sDQRqzxfFv7YY0EjLsIAzbjdSbsDtCWUGDWnCa7Xy_YcjtEOBrc9Drpb8aPJ7pkeLRoGS367rd7QaBhkczw-OMJLpkswYAvcmgEuIZ0NniSbA8Xot92tZvUXMRzPcqZkgtYlXaCvc1YPBmSZN9tYzoVSgou2l1gJ4HKDAzNqgnpsTViOXdOan/s320/20231208_224934474_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat">Revolt Collapses in Teheran: Will Iran Enter Russian Orbit?</a>" That's been going to happen next week for the last five years, so I figure it's due. People are talking about extending the East Berlin giveaway to clothes, still, the Soviets are pushing German neutralisation, also the same story as last week, and there's a feature insert on how a Russian atomic attack might cripple the U.S. Then, to pad out the word count and justify his expenses, Ernest Lindley tells us about the Schumann Plan in case we haven't heard about this UNited States of Europe that's all the rage these days.</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"France: Not Quite Revolution" The big strike in France is more of a holiday than a revolution. Yes, the trains and garbage collectors are out, but the vacationers are already on vacation, and who wanted to come back on time, anyway? Although there's no food in Paris, which sounds tough. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Morocco Blow-Off" The situation in Morocco is pretty difficult for the French, ad we've heard, and it turns out that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thami_El_Glaoui">Pasha of Marrakesh</a> had a solution, which was to overthrow the Sultan of Morocco and set himself up in the Sultan's place. Even though the Pasha is the French's man, the French didn't want to see him on the throne, so when the Pasha moved, it was only to marginalise the Sultan, ot replace him. NOw everyone is upset at each other and French colonists are nervous about what might happen next.And in Canada, the Liberals won the election handily, only they didn't really win it, because Canadians are fed up with Liberal rule, even if they don't vote like it.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Business</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Periscope Business Trends </b>reports that the wheat acreage quota plan is good news for everyone. It can now be reported that home building is down, which might be an indication of a recession if there was a recession, which there is not, because homeowners will no doubt go crazy for renovations with all that consumer credit they don't have. There is still a major aircraft delivery backlog, and new industries like glass fibres and polystyrene are up, so take that, recession! US exports are up, but non-military exports are down, brought low by declining farm exports. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqqaFronaw35j8IckgCXBjTSKk1RYix2e5NaVHkmQhQNAI6iIyiGtC_wIXI8W9ygngH9OEONr4PpFois5-K3DjP6-CAOS0Cvp4YzWv0k6-FhwMNs3bJHOydP409PlAtSaio0dZ-iyEpr8KWVD1p8yAu_ha4wtbdF5nCZ2rotT8xiiAFbM_xjOsT9rINK8K/s2394/Hydra%20Matic%20Fire%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1449" data-original-width="2394" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqqaFronaw35j8IckgCXBjTSKk1RYix2e5NaVHkmQhQNAI6iIyiGtC_wIXI8W9ygngH9OEONr4PpFois5-K3DjP6-CAOS0Cvp4YzWv0k6-FhwMNs3bJHOydP409PlAtSaio0dZ-iyEpr8KWVD1p8yAu_ha4wtbdF5nCZ2rotT8xiiAFbM_xjOsT9rINK8K/s320/Hydra%20Matic%20Fire%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Is a GOP Labour Bloc Forming in General Shift to the Right?" There's some pretty big moves ahead of the AFL conference, and this is the pattern <i>Newsweek </i>sees. </div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Hydra-Matic Holocaust" <a href="https://www.macsmotorcitygarage.com/the-disaster-that-shook-the-motor-city-the-1953-hydra-matic-fire/">A fire at the GM plant in Livonia, Michigan</a>, the sole producer of the Hydro-Matic automatic transmission, has cost four lives and done $60 million in damage, levelling the factory and cutting off Hydra-Matic deliveries for Cadillacs, Oldsmobiles, Pontiacs, Lincolns, Hudsons, Nashes and Kaisers. This means that not only will 50,000 employees be idled indefinitely at Hydra Matic, so will be production lines producing Hydra Matic-equipped cars. This might curtail auto production by up to 10%. GM hopes to have some production going by the end of the month using second hand machines in improvised facilities. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Women are working in factory jobs in the South! It's news! </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Notes: Week in Business </b>reports that the Federal Reserve is going to appeal the court order setting aside its <a href="https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/appellate-courts/F2/206/163/27376/">anti-trust ruling against Trans-America</a> to the Supreme Court. Several companies are merging, including Massey-Harris of Canada and Harry Ferguson of Britain, and a hefty commercial air backlog of $150 million is mainly late-delivered Lockheed Super-Constellations. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Another story about highway building follows, brought to us by vacationing writers stuck in traffic. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Products: What's New </b>is impressed by a combination scrub brush/sponge mop from Empire Brushes, less so by the usual lot of a hand-operated lawn seed sower by H. G. and D. B. Newman of Edmonton, Alberta, and a plastic glazing insulating material from Arvey Corporation. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Henry Hazlitt's impression of President Eisenhower so far is he got rid of price controls, so that's good, but he's afraid of a little recession, and that's bad, and reflects the fact that the President is far too moderate on economic policy.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Science, Medicine</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Stone Age Revisited" Dr. Edward Meyer of the <i>Natural History Magazine </i>and the Explorer's Club is off to Brazil's Matto Grosso to find out about the fierce and primitive and isolated <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xavante">Chavante tribe</a>. They have stone tools and loin clothes and bite things. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Soon the Moon" <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_Zwicky">Fritz Zwicky</a> holds up the Swiss side of the interplanetary crowd, where he talks up the advantages of shaped charges and balloons over new-fangled atomic rockets, along which "sometimes the old ways are the best ways news" comes a half-mile, two block-wide warehouse for the <a href="https://www.fracturedfairfax.com/Parr_Franconia_Warehouse.html">General Services Administration</a> built almost entirely of timber by Timber Structures of Portland in Franconia, Virginia. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Science Notes of the Week: </b>Stanford has come up with the most powerful microscope ever built by attaching a magnetic "eyepiece" to their new linear accelerator, <a href="https://journals.aps.org/pr/abstract/10.1103/PhysRev.91.760">while MIT professors point out that in nuclear reactions, particles don't actually have to collide to interact.</a> It's like, they say, the Moon whizzing by the Earth at a distance of 30,000 miles was as good as a collision. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Kinsey report on American women is out, <a href="https://kinseyinstitute.org/pdf/Newsweek1953.pdf">which I leave to others to report. </a></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Radio-Television, Press, Newsmakers</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trash_or_Treasure">Treasure Hunt</a>, </i>the Du Mont Thursday show that features Sigmund Rothschild rummaging around in peoples' antiques, is quite the show.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-LVnUspSnW217uex1-aPxvr63IeDtLKKlo0CtzpMYbnIMufF532pWmbENUgMqUwXnyigrmu0-eb2h6lbSw_8y_5TsrrR9j7DUGH5cKbwTOS7WRMSaKLehGOOSo-tj9By7d1EnzyP8UjTOBz5I8u5gpvBl6gXeRq_pxveo7vCBrYeFP2OJlcxn2LHhYKwA/s2686/Mosby,%20Aline.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1794" data-original-width="2686" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-LVnUspSnW217uex1-aPxvr63IeDtLKKlo0CtzpMYbnIMufF532pWmbENUgMqUwXnyigrmu0-eb2h6lbSw_8y_5TsrrR9j7DUGH5cKbwTOS7WRMSaKLehGOOSo-tj9By7d1EnzyP8UjTOBz5I8u5gpvBl6gXeRq_pxveo7vCBrYeFP2OJlcxn2LHhYKwA/s320/Mosby,%20Aline.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Fred Sparks is quite the reporter. We'd say the same about<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aline_Mosby"> Aline Mosby</a>, but she's a girl so we sent her to a "sun-bathing convention near San Bernardino" instead of the frontlines in Korea. And speaking of sparks, what about the Wechsler-McCarthy scrap? You'll recall that some of the members of the ASNE review board thought that McCarthy was out of line; well, now McCarthy has gone after one of those dissenters, Russell Wiggins and figures he's probably a Communist, too. <i>Newsweek </i>wonders whether the ASNE will grow a spine now. </div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Arthur Godfrey, the Vice President, Gene Tunney, Jack Dempsey, Mayor O'Dwyer, Olivia de Havilland, Oksana Kasenkina and Madame <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Bonnet">Henri Bonnet</a> are in the column for the usual lack of reason, as all of <i>Newsweek's </i>regular "people of interest" writers must be on vacation and the vignettes this week are all boring. If you've forgotten who Kasenkina is, she's the woman who jumped out of the Soviet Embassy, either because she'd been recalled, or because she was suicidal. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Virginia Fortune Ryan has had a baby, Princess Anne is 3, Sir Edmund Hillary is engaged, Tay Garrett is married; Tazio Nuvolari, John Horne Burns, Augustus Van Horne Stuyvesant, ,Gouverneur Morris, and Friedrich Schorr have died. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> <b>The New Films</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Mask of the Himalayas </i>is a "weird blending of Himalaya mystery drama with remarkable documentary films in the Karakorum area." The documentary part is a lot more interesting than the mystery drama. Columbia's <i>The Stranger Wore a Gun </i>is a 3D Technicolor Western features Randolph Scott as a heroic Confederate veteran. <i>Inferno </i>is a "taut little melodrama\," also 3D and Technicolor, while <i>Latin Lover </i>(MGM) is a weak comic vehicle for Lana Turner and John Lund with Ricardo Montalban as said lover. <i>The Night is My Kingdom </i>is a French import and the reviewer was just glad to see one movie for adults this week. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ZGNBh-nPgUA" width="320" youtube-src-id="ZGNBh-nPgUA"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">From 10:41</span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Books</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Alan Paton's <i>Too Late the Phalarope </i>follows up on <i>Cry, the Beloved Country. </i>South Africa is still horrible. Ernest Thompson Seton's <i>Lives of Game Animals </i>is a beautifully illustrated eight volume, 3115p edition of his collected works. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Raymond Moley is happy that Congress is telling the President what for. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Aviation Week, </i>24 August 1953</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimhjqwwVoTiicvjXnRUU9UDVsMRmVUpWxzsqLgy2BaPtI-ZgWvJ_GMdVHvHfGlGNXWQdmxjF3gMgPqJxlC5-nbyB7Rm3sJe1GVdwtYl8lEbqf7j-A10yJvWPh6kRw8VlaeAH6I76eb1w0fmgU3Mzq3CEkBa-Rm6gRAlKi5YPszGr4UgAL98kJefO6dvuAG/s2853/Avro%20Vulcan%20Landing%20Gear%20Test%20Rig.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2499" data-original-width="2853" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimhjqwwVoTiicvjXnRUU9UDVsMRmVUpWxzsqLgy2BaPtI-ZgWvJ_GMdVHvHfGlGNXWQdmxjF3gMgPqJxlC5-nbyB7Rm3sJe1GVdwtYl8lEbqf7j-A10yJvWPh6kRw8VlaeAH6I76eb1w0fmgU3Mzq3CEkBa-Rm6gRAlKi5YPszGr4UgAL98kJefO6dvuAG/s320/Avro%20Vulcan%20Landing%20Gear%20Test%20Rig.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b>News Digest </b>reports that the 707 will be in service by 1955, promise. A USAF pilot poured salad oil into the hydraulic actuator of his C-46 to get it to Tokyo.The cause of the Transocean crash off Wake on 12 July cannot be established. <b>Industry Observer </b>reports that first tests of a Russian flying boat fighter are being reported, while a Red MiG-17 night fighter group has been moved to East Germany. De-icing helicopter blades is hard. Westinghouse might build the Avon in America under license since the Navy doesn't have anything else. The AEC continues to sign development contracts for the atomic airplane of the future. Katherine Johnsen's <b>Washington Roundup </b>reports that big decisions are coming in the defence programmes soon, that the Army and Air Force are getting ready to fight, that Wilson wants some kind of yardstick so he can tell if a plane is outdated, and that the Air Force is having trouble persuading Congress that it needs even more research and development money. <br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Alexander McSurely reports for <b>Aviation Week </b>that "Big Copters May Replace DC-3s by '59" Which I will believe when I see it, especially with the track record for "DC-3 replacements." The Air Force is de-regionalising the AMC by cutting a bunch of centres. Not moving it all back to Wright Patterson <i>yet, </i>though. And that experimental crop duster from Texas Aggie, the AG-1, that used to give <i>Aviation Week </i>some free copy once a week, has flown, crashed spectacularly, and is now being investigated, so that's even more free copy. Also it is good news, because the pilot lived, proving that the AG-1 is "crash resistant." Russia has a new fighter coming out, the Lavochkin La-17, and the Air Force is ordering Super Connie radar pickets. Scooped by <i>Newsweek. </i>So embarrassing! Kurt Tank is not impressed by the F-86, and the Navy has found a way to put some cargo in the AD-5, which is good for carrier delivery. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjNrXJXWxIqrZ_RlgnK_69mUYJFDF5zZ0ItgtJ9n0rYvouCSVSTwqC9l7_MkAjLy8fOWR3-IucQ3ZSVYKOU9RMdxFIM26uTKXO4u1sNZ0LDciBPklPH_bTO2_UHykF8McpgkRGjqz8YYZp7yyCJpSlm54GDs1O5aUIPaPQiXBhj19I_Qxd-LgAVFhXAs0V/s2890/Moby%20Dick%20Balloons.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2430" data-original-width="2890" height="269" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjNrXJXWxIqrZ_RlgnK_69mUYJFDF5zZ0ItgtJ9n0rYvouCSVSTwqC9l7_MkAjLy8fOWR3-IucQ3ZSVYKOU9RMdxFIM26uTKXO4u1sNZ0LDciBPklPH_bTO2_UHykF8McpgkRGjqz8YYZp7yyCJpSlm54GDs1O5aUIPaPQiXBhj19I_Qxd-LgAVFhXAs0V/s320/Moby%20Dick%20Balloons.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"Atmospheric Research Expands as Moby Dick Balloons Explore Upper Air" The Air Force is flying off a new series of atmospheric research balloons which are absolutely not flying saucers.<p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Thrust and Drag </b>quotes an anonymous source who explains that the 280mm atomic cannon is actually a great idea whose time has come, because artillery can do things that planes can't. And, after all, the Army is already using 240mm howitzers in Korea! </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Handley Page and Boeing put in rival advertorials about how they are expanding their research and production facilities. And poor George L. Christian has to do a United Aircraft Products advertorial for them, "New Oil De-Aerator Speeds Arctic Starts" UAL is building a cold weather oil defoamer for Piaseckis and SA-16 amphibians operating in the Arctic. Four pages! And if that weren't enough, <b>New Aviation Products </b>has a new crop sprayer, a tiny tape recorder and swing-out cabin seats for air stewardesses.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">From England, McGraw-Hill World News reports that "U.K. Revives Interest in Turboprop Liners" BOAC likes the Britannia because it is cheaper than jets, even if it is 100mh slower. "Sir Miles' decision on a Comet 3 replacement will make or break the British transport manufacturers." A "Super-Britannia" will likely follow, buoyed by the runaway commercial success of the Viscount. "Ceilometers" are the latest thing at LaGuardia and Washington. BOAC has bought Canadian Pacific's remaining Comet and reshuffled its fleet. Captain Robson says at <b>Cockpit Viewpoint </b>that the new avionics support gadgets like GCA and ASR are not perfect. Robert Wood's <b>Editorial </b>celebrates another scalp taken in the open field, as Ernest Hensley leaves the "notorious" Office of Aviation Safety at the CAA. He wants more! <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoPUbKkDxSsGK9qOCEevsZX1r2nbm7cAVGl8K0Lj2b6bj7AA5vGc72AWU8x_LJ7KE-U784IcCoKAInnCfCLRru1eRZKsW_N9NcgxuIXXBQcURXQVGsVT54W5Fy_t6SpuPLeqtMUM5BwqEjU5CV8qhgYvM4X_JU_Ea2cB71QbVjGBdB281u24Z0Y2KIHHVQ/s4032/20231209_000857712_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoPUbKkDxSsGK9qOCEevsZX1r2nbm7cAVGl8K0Lj2b6bj7AA5vGc72AWU8x_LJ7KE-U784IcCoKAInnCfCLRru1eRZKsW_N9NcgxuIXXBQcURXQVGsVT54W5Fy_t6SpuPLeqtMUM5BwqEjU5CV8qhgYvM4X_JU_Ea2cB71QbVjGBdB281u24Z0Y2KIHHVQ/s16000/20231209_000857712_iOS.heic" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Letters</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Morris Grover,of the US Civil Administration of the Ryukyus, was very happy with the article about the Tulane Tropical Medical School, as was former assistant Surgeon General Charles V. Akin. Three railroad enthusiasts write in to point out that the "Train X" is actually a Spanish design. Several correspondents don't care how the word "gringo" actually came about, they just want to tell the story about how it is a distortion of "Green grow the rushes, oh." <i>Newsweek </i>investigates and establishes that people carve their initials in tortoise shells with knives, as you'd expect. <i>For Your Information </i>tells us that <i>Newsweek </i>reporting is credited with saving the life of an eight-year-old boy in Vancouver who was dying of celiac disease after he read Marguerite Clark's coverage of Dr. Sidney Haas' "banana diet" cure. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPGupPPM64wgKTgHjsD6amH_RMhaeUbtaCAGAs_O8VUAwff79nbNtTTJPVfZWsdpoyv5_CIwUsMz6tHhV4_VEqF0TFgyLdjmNCBTbu9ZkZbSUiJpM560ESjgNr9g9ypD5GrgM6Tk7J4WcrRfrvFpwtlRMLNGLmeAZjg-UZuQfmaVpR2iHvtKdUCeNdEsjz/s4032/20231209_132228664_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPGupPPM64wgKTgHjsD6amH_RMhaeUbtaCAGAs_O8VUAwff79nbNtTTJPVfZWsdpoyv5_CIwUsMz6tHhV4_VEqF0TFgyLdjmNCBTbu9ZkZbSUiJpM560ESjgNr9g9ypD5GrgM6Tk7J4WcrRfrvFpwtlRMLNGLmeAZjg-UZuQfmaVpR2iHvtKdUCeNdEsjz/s320/20231209_132228664_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">The Periscope </b>reports that seismographs picked up the Russian H-bomb test but were kept secret because they couldn't tell an atom bomb from an H-bomb. The Administration's clampdown hasn't stopped rumours that the Soviet test was more powerful and more efficient than the Eniwetok blast. There is talk that the President will give a fuller speech on American and Russian atomic capabilities in the fall. The failure of the coup attempt against Mossadegh is being blamed on leaks in Washington and London. Major John Eisenhower is due back from Korea in September and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Taft_Benson">Ezra Taft Benson</a> is expected to leave Agriculture because of the farmers repudiating his "anti-control" position over wheat quotas. <a href="https://library.cqpress.com/cqalmanac/document.php?id=cqal54-1359020">Representative Robert Condon</a> of California is appealing an AEC order banning him from atomic demonstrations. While Attorney General Brownell is cracking down on illegal Mexican "wetbacks," Labour Secretary Durkin is closing down the Harlingen, Texas reception centre for legal Mexican farm workers. Secret Service agents guarding the President in Denver are taking neighbourhood kids sneaking up on them with toy guns "in stride." The DNC is paying off its debts and the Navy's next atomic submarine will be a 35kn, 6000t monster designed to carry guided missiles with atomic warheads and supersonic seaplanes<span style="font-size: xx-small;">[<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Triton_(SSRN-586)">?</a>]</span>. The Batista government is sending out destroyers to patrol the coasts and intercept incoming rebels. The Red Navy is "somewhat bothered" by reports that it is converting some of its cruisers into small aircraft carriers. They are doing some air-sea trials, but it is probably with guided missiles for its cruisers. Swedish fishermen are picking up bullet-riddled Polish pilots' life jackets, showing that they are trying to escape and getting shot down. Moscow is beaming out more Spanish-language propaganda while NATO units are learning first-aid treatments for H-bomb casualties. France is selling 71 obsolete Ouragon fighters to India for $56,000 more than the same number of British Vampires would have cost. A Chinese rail project is bringing "Russia 1000 miles closer to the Indo-Chinese border." </div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">A new television show will feature Ida Lupino, Shelley Winters, and Margaret Sullivan in rotation. Johnny Weissmuller is going to do a Western, produced by Gene Autry. Du Mont is talking with Ronald Coleman about a show based on Somerset Maugham stories while comic strip characters Archie and Tillie the Toiler are coming to TV. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell,_Book_and_Candle">Jennifer Jones is going to be in a David Selznick produced version of </a><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell,_Book_and_Candle">Bell, Book, and Candle</a>, </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Day_at_Black_Rock">Spenser Tracy in </a><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bad_Day_at_Black_Rock">Bad Day in Honda</a>, </i>Yvonne De Carlo in <a href="https://www.comedy.co.uk/film/happy_ever_after/"><i>O'Leary's Night </i>with David Niven and Barry Fitzgerald</a>. "Where are they now" features Jeanette Rankins, managing a Montana ranch, and Jesse Owens managing a dry cleaning chain and owning a Chicago public-relations firm. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Periscope Washington Trends </b>reports that Wilson and the defence chiefs are still fighting over "economies," even though the Russian H-bomb means that further defence "cuts" are off the table. The President may intervene. He is also looking at pushing civil rights harder to gain more minority votes, while personally rewarding Southern leaders to keep them on side, as when he made Governor Byrnes a delegate to the UN General Assembly. Gee, thanks, Mr. President! "So far, Eisenhower is surprising everyone, including himself, with his political skill." For example, he hasn't given the Democrats any issues to hang him on, and everyone around the President is confident about '54 because everyone just loves him. In unrelated news, <a href="https://www.historylink.org/File/7193">Walter Williams</a>, "national boss" of the Citizens for Eisenhower group, is giving up his position as under-Secretary of Commerce to do other important work.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>National Affairs</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI9OymbdnObWEMjOoEzw2CEmy-K_Cbr2k8sfg9FUL94R8HuSo4y2m0X4XPILdChdDyXZo-H_dpm8DU3mie2WHuFLQJsYPAgLrYoSCDd_ObVKw3-OGbFRqJJXH7Dc8elO7isWEE9NbhME37n2j-zeyMaidcLZBj97K3ulfV0XleyhI1aJfiZMzuv0yt5nDF/s2472/Terrell,%20Lieutenant%20William%20with%20wife%20and%20some%20black%20guy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2137" data-original-width="2472" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgI9OymbdnObWEMjOoEzw2CEmy-K_Cbr2k8sfg9FUL94R8HuSo4y2m0X4XPILdChdDyXZo-H_dpm8DU3mie2WHuFLQJsYPAgLrYoSCDd_ObVKw3-OGbFRqJJXH7Dc8elO7isWEE9NbhME37n2j-zeyMaidcLZBj97K3ulfV0XleyhI1aJfiZMzuv0yt5nDF/s320/Terrell,%20Lieutenant%20William%20with%20wife%20and%20some%20black%20guy.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"U.S. Gets Mostly Good News: But, Over All --the Big Bomb" At this point not only has everyone who can write a sentence gone on vacation, so has the gal who knows where the office Strunk and White is. The President is in Denver, the U.N. delegation is for some reason fighting to keep India out of the Koea peace conference in spite of it being Indian troops guaranteeing the armistice. The Pasha of Marrakech has "forced" the French to depose the King of Morocco, which the State Department thinks is terrible, but on the other hand our bases in Morocco are more secure than ever. Mossadegh is finally out in Iran, although no-one is sure how much of an improvement the new boss, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fazlollah_Zahedi">General Zahedi</a>, will be. But no-one knows what the Russian bomb means, and the President flew from Denver to New York to meet with Lewis Strauss, Tom Dewey and Henry Cabot Lodge, and was scolded by Robert Moses for public housing cuts pushed by "a deplorable resurgence of hard-boiled reactionaries. To which the President "ad-libbed a rambling answer" and then got the heck out of town after less than ten hours. The President has been trying to golf and fish in Denver, but his elbow is so sore that he gave up and met with Harold Stassen on Saturday instead. Meanwhile, Harold Stassen is back in town, the AFL and CIO seem to be moving towards unity, and there's talk of a national sales tax.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">I'm sure that's not nearly enough coverage of the President' s golf game for you, so perhaps you want to turn to <b>Sports </b>now for a special report on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burning_Tree_Club">Burning Tree course in Bethesda, Maryland</a>. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhchI15NBeUyRrUDG_7gOuRlhZ9LuE3Et_HsNK2WkQy3p1JEEnVVULo_-ObZaq-RQMOz6qSuhjcL9-lcO32USReI3jtVu4UeNrrNRqETaRg3oHRYbemijgvzDTTPNgHnXhFbNUHp19PKBKVEgEQ5dGtbTqCbd8iC7dp_2P2tGYK45EdRMxsv3WNCCo8lbZD/s2952/H-bomb%20test%20detection%20explainer%20map.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2440" data-original-width="2952" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhchI15NBeUyRrUDG_7gOuRlhZ9LuE3Et_HsNK2WkQy3p1JEEnVVULo_-ObZaq-RQMOz6qSuhjcL9-lcO32USReI3jtVu4UeNrrNRqETaRg3oHRYbemijgvzDTTPNgHnXhFbNUHp19PKBKVEgEQ5dGtbTqCbd8iC7dp_2P2tGYK45EdRMxsv3WNCCo8lbZD/s320/H-bomb%20test%20detection%20explainer%20map.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"The Mysterious Code" Senator McCarthy has managed to get that bookbinder fired. Edward Rothschild tried to recruit a co-worker into a Red cell in 1939, his wife was a Communists, says FBI informant <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Stalcup_Markward">Mary Markward</a>, and he pocketed a book once. A classified book! (The merchant-marine code book.) Now Rothschild has been suspended without pay, McCarthy has flown off to LA to find evidence that the Government Printing Office was leaking atom bomb and H-bomb secrets, and he is fighting with <i>The Washington Post </i>over whether it is too pink to get the newspaper postal rate. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"World Without End?" "The United States and Soviet Russia soon will henceforth be capable of annihilating each other." Henceforth, forsooth! The Strunk and White may be in hiding, but we've still got our Webster's! I shouldn't be so facetious about a little thing like global annihilation, but as terrifying as the prospect is, it isn't new. What is new in this story is an explainer about how America detects atom tests. Besides seismographs, our "sniffer" planes are out, and have found thermonuclear "products."<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNPBNsK1IRmUqzyWCl4KzFXdrcV0z8gxs8H_abAg-lERc7ZlTFw-D1B6DEsLFyizJ1Wrp_IUIvVThHqnMzKQgVpY1UHcXCCuykpR4gtqTJXi5TKsjwMoSdl8h5Nbp19NRhgfB2qHV9Uh33kBlssviE1xTr0YmGWqJaBCq-emo6t6IBVeAzFXdtvA0nRMEa/s3850/Lockheed%20Super%20Constellation%20Air%20Force%20version.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1449" data-original-width="3850" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNPBNsK1IRmUqzyWCl4KzFXdrcV0z8gxs8H_abAg-lERc7ZlTFw-D1B6DEsLFyizJ1Wrp_IUIvVThHqnMzKQgVpY1UHcXCCuykpR4gtqTJXi5TKsjwMoSdl8h5Nbp19NRhgfB2qHV9Uh33kBlssviE1xTr0YmGWqJaBCq-emo6t6IBVeAzFXdtvA0nRMEa/s320/Lockheed%20Super%20Constellation%20Air%20Force%20version.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This week's feature interview has Karen Salisbury of the Washington bureau talking to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Val_Peterson">Civil Defence Administrator Val Peterson</a> on the subject of "Survive the H-bomb!" Karen doesn't know where the Strunk and White is, either. Peterson says that a Russian attack on America would involve 400 heavy bombers carrying atomic and other weapons. Project East River projected that it would kill 20 million Americans, with a like number wounded. "Psychological and chemical weapons" would impair our production and reduce our will to resist. "Russia is capable of hitting every major metropolitan area in the U.S.," but Peterson thinks that it will be some time before the Russians have H-bombs available for use. The key to civil defence right now is advance warning, which, given bombers coming over the poles at 40,000ft, is not going to be more than fifteen minutes warning. Everyone must get to proper shelters, and strategic pre-evacuations may be in order. In ten to fifteen years the intercontinental missile may eliminate any possible useful warning time. Peterson talks about shelters, but says that he will not approve a national programme until he sees an adequate one, so as not to give false hope. General Spaatz's column offers a defence against H-bomb attack: better radar. All-weather fighters and t<a href="https://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/Visit/Museum-Exhibits/Fact-Sheets/Display/Article/196058/lockheed-ec-121d-constellation/#:~:text=The%20EC%2D121%2C%20originally%20designated,above%20and%20below%20its%20fuselage.">he new Lockheed radar plane</a> will give us enough advanced warning to get to shelters.</div>. <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Attorney General Brownell says that we need more Border Patrol officers.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0TLnkWm8-GhpprMK7yUdRwxpbQh9cz63gzXXvwDHuj_pCzW2iCdHCXygfJlMEtgT52c-qIyFtzFIK8tn0Pxpcta3J5PnJPwsjJyXVIbvUDahNzCFy1nIje8MaeoVxtyKBu9irpwhojy5dz5g7w_1Ir0Is77zOzbOHeuDpoIGuxYR1FWJsovXixNF74clR/s4032/20231209_150739916_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0TLnkWm8-GhpprMK7yUdRwxpbQh9cz63gzXXvwDHuj_pCzW2iCdHCXygfJlMEtgT52c-qIyFtzFIK8tn0Pxpcta3J5PnJPwsjJyXVIbvUDahNzCFy1nIje8MaeoVxtyKBu9irpwhojy5dz5g7w_1Ir0Is77zOzbOHeuDpoIGuxYR1FWJsovXixNF74clR/s320/20231209_150739916_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div> <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Ambassador Douglas is the latest Administration official to remind Congress that it can't keep up high tariffs and expect high exports, too. And Ernest Lindell has more bulletins from our Allies in this week's <b>Washington Tides</b>: McCarthy is as embarrassing as the Klan and Chicago gangsters used to be; we need to be less rigid (and also less timid) in negotiating with the Soviets, and we should build up our defences, with special emphasis on atomic stuff. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>International</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"The Shah Returns In Triumph" Premier Mossadegh has been overthrown by a popular uprising spearheaded by General Fazollah Zahedi but ultimately sparked by Princess Ashraf, who visited her brother, the Shah, last week to stiffen him up. The Shah issued firmans deposing Mossadegh and the Army chief of staff and appointing Zahedi premier, then fled, first for the Caspian on the 13th, than for Iraq, on the 16th after the firmans were delivered. At that point, on the it seemed as though the royal coup against Mossadegh had fizzled out, but on the 18th Tudeh Communist mobs rampaged through Teheran, and Zahedi unleashed royalist counter-mobs on the 19th, leading to competing factions of the army trying to restore order in the name of their respective bosses, and, ultimately to the shooting deaths of 62 protestors, mostly outside Mossadegh's home, and the Premier's fall. The Shah flew home in a twin-engined Beechcraft, gave addresses to the people and the US ambassador, and called for prompt and generous American aid, which is likely to be granted. The next story histrionically asks if Iran is going to be "Another Korea." </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBP5e-WTm2cuMvi7bqP6jN-MkzUigZdjA5gqprsLi6-e7DZFpjTvZH468fpWxZSMO77PZX4E98bQv2B_9WBAKyZ1qUMObr-nwsdHXRe4hrJW388GFnaAihgaovaFcBFOhOxusVfFtPbvXBgb9OJSlUSZkR1O4y-NkPtQwgvMme-EuL42i9g9Z9jwvXCTBr/s2514/Bristol%20Bloodhound2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2230" data-original-width="2514" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBP5e-WTm2cuMvi7bqP6jN-MkzUigZdjA5gqprsLi6-e7DZFpjTvZH468fpWxZSMO77PZX4E98bQv2B_9WBAKyZ1qUMObr-nwsdHXRe4hrJW388GFnaAihgaovaFcBFOhOxusVfFtPbvXBgb9OJSlUSZkR1O4y-NkPtQwgvMme-EuL42i9g9Z9jwvXCTBr/s320/Bristol%20Bloodhound2.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"El Glaoui's Man" Berbers from the south are riding towards Rabat to depose the Sultan while "[i]n the fetid slums of Rabat, Casablanca and Fez, leaders of the outlawed nationalist Itsiqlal Party alerted the Arab mobs to fight for their sovereign." US commanders confined their troops to bases, and everyone waited for the explosion that didn't happen, as the French surrounded the palace, kicked out the king, and recognised Glaoui's puppet as the new king. The French strikes are over, as Premier Laniel has cancelled his economy drive and is talking about pay raises instead. However, in spite of the end of the strikes, the strikers are only trickling back. The Socialists, we are told, are still on vacation, while the Communists have sinister motives. Robert Haeger writes in to point out the contrasts between desperately poor and dowdy Berlin, the front line against Communism, and recently struck and supposedly deprived Paris, which is still bright and gay. But in the end they'll see the error of their ways, because we are fighting Communism with food handouts in Berlin and coddling Communists in Paris, and also the current German constitution works better than the Fourth Republic, which goes to show something or other. Communism is bad, that's for sure. Have I mentioned that? Because it is is! Also, the East German government is still sad and weak, while West Germans only care about the election; Carlos Romulo has abandoned the Presidential election in the Philippines because no-one can beat Ramon Magsaysay, the man who crushed the Huks. And in Indian-occupied Kashmir, a new pro-Indian premier has replaced the old one after some irregularities that the Indians are blaming on America. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-IW1CQurH1t1CKWMLPSPZoLmI5wtE-Gd3hHexoa2GAa_QtuLNVuEOivwCLeozQpCPECGaPEsGK0H_rYjmrEmYUxPs3ZgnIUST7Uch4qn5LV57jc9iJIqm0zIlhGJB7A10ShpkGSudsjpdeCdFomn4ikNCs6TkEhOIuy8QeinGq0-i1awOdIIhOZHKhLkM/s3844/DDT%20spraying%20in%20Peru,%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3844" data-original-width="2940" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-IW1CQurH1t1CKWMLPSPZoLmI5wtE-Gd3hHexoa2GAa_QtuLNVuEOivwCLeozQpCPECGaPEsGK0H_rYjmrEmYUxPs3ZgnIUST7Uch4qn5LV57jc9iJIqm0zIlhGJB7A10ShpkGSudsjpdeCdFomn4ikNCs6TkEhOIuy8QeinGq0-i1awOdIIhOZHKhLkM/s320/DDT%20spraying%20in%20Peru,%201953.jpg" width="245" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Tempest in the U.N. Teapot: Over Neutrals at the Peace Table" This is the controversy over seating some neutrals at the UN Korean peace talks, which some participants think would provide a mediating voice, and we Americans realise would be the thin end of the wedge towards some sort of appeasement move like letting Red China into the U.N. The next expected fuss is over the arrival of 5000 Indian troops in Pusan to oversee the POW repatriation. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">In Latin America, there's some kind of fuss over Peron reaching out to left wing parties, but my eyes kind of glazed over when <i>Newsweek </i>started talking about Russian influence. Remember when Peron was a Fascist? So many years ago. What's not at issue is the Argentina-Moscow trade deal, which <i>Newsweek </i>doesn't approve of one bit. And more oil has been found in Peru, hopefully enough to maintain exports and also encourage development in Peru's Amazon basin.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Business</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Periscope Business Trends </b>reports that the first "break of the boom" will definitely not occur this fall. The economy is "bumping close to the manpower ceiling," there are concerns about car production after the GM fire, but, as a separate story says, "What Are Consumers Thinking? No Recession Jitters --Yet." American consumers seem confident in the economy's future and have a rising faith in government. In spite of talk of "shakeouts." The IRS is looking for tax delinquents, Casey and Lasser have their latest guide to tax shelters out, Ford's car of tomorrow has a dictaphone.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCBGqUBr2zGMLtLcO-VkZTuY1NNYEX0axm9YYH5Kp3445NhHc3UUn2fF6Zbxw0Sr1b2OIjWowluCYrqbmQv3UwdUQvZeEJkWdp6u1fLJwj1pSEZ1eIGhE64aHazhIIgwI9Kx1Eau-Is1d_AIdzlmPTIHernNo1739wxxJ_CIMPjX9MowzRXOA6kW_DBDpF/s2055/Ford%20X-100%20Edsel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1798" data-original-width="2055" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCBGqUBr2zGMLtLcO-VkZTuY1NNYEX0axm9YYH5Kp3445NhHc3UUn2fF6Zbxw0Sr1b2OIjWowluCYrqbmQv3UwdUQvZeEJkWdp6u1fLJwj1pSEZ1eIGhE64aHazhIIgwI9Kx1Eau-Is1d_AIdzlmPTIHernNo1739wxxJ_CIMPjX9MowzRXOA6kW_DBDpF/s320/Ford%20X-100%20Edsel.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"The Smellies" I'm not sure how much scents, that is "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smell-O-Vision">Smell-o-rama</a>" adds to the theatre experience, and there are some jokes you could make, for sure. But GE has definitely decided to give it a try. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Notes: Week in Business </b>reports that GM is leasing 1.5 million square feet of Willow Run to produce Hydro-Matics, and in the meantime will put Buick Dynaflows in Cadillacs and Oldsmobiles, and Chevrolet's Power-Glide into Pontiacs. There are 850 price cuts in the fall Sears, Roebuck calendar;, and rubber plants plan a 20% cut on lower demand. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm3Y2wY_noFq-MdotKOv5h_9lNIKXLWkEpthVLEjxHlrr37T9GiriC3kwFfpqrmvPrAWAYyUUydVAtr8SGOPPtFql-eLp0kpZ_lXao3jWhuy-kGvYvdFNAICfbHpBIoBjuxWBwjvChjweWiOpFdaIz797k2WJQzuldAAjw80Y_v_8B2C-1qsYCNYIvlNO7/s4032/20231209_202423482_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhm3Y2wY_noFq-MdotKOv5h_9lNIKXLWkEpthVLEjxHlrr37T9GiriC3kwFfpqrmvPrAWAYyUUydVAtr8SGOPPtFql-eLp0kpZ_lXao3jWhuy-kGvYvdFNAICfbHpBIoBjuxWBwjvChjweWiOpFdaIz797k2WJQzuldAAjw80Y_v_8B2C-1qsYCNYIvlNO7/s320/20231209_202423482_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><b>Products: What's New </b>reports a year-round heating and cooling air conditioner from Westinghouse that doesn't need water, just air and electricity, a magnifying lens to go into welder's helmets from Bausch and Lomb, blended buttons to merge with any surface from Edwards Company, a light, reinforced plastic 7,000lb liquid tank to replace heavy steel ones for moving liquids, and easily assembled wooden toy "Zoo Doo" animals from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fannie_Hillsmith">Fannie Hillsmith</a>. <br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">On the one hand, it's not fair that Henry Hazlitt doesn't get a vacation from <b>Business Tides. </b>On the other, he makes his own time off by recycling columns, this week reminding us, yet again, of the "Futility of Foreign Aid." France gets foreign aid, but spends too much on fripperies like social programmes and is politically unstable no matter how much we pay them not to be. And in fairness I will admit that he is using new arguments and incorporating current news stories into his column. On the other, I'd be embarrassed going through my files and seeing just how many times I had predicted the imminent collapse of France. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Science, Medicine, Education</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Astin Vindicated" Allen Astin will stay as head of the Bureau of Standards, although the NBS loses weapons development work to the Department of Defence and will have its commercial work directed by Assistant Secretary Worthy, and the postal fraud case against Jess M. Ritchie has been dropped, and he is free to keep on lying about his magic battery additive by mail. For the first time in a while, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Schlumbohm">Peter Schlumbohm</a> is in the pages, this time for his mobile 1200w electric stove.<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Newsweek </i>visits the Fort Douglas VA Hospital outside of Salt Lake City, probably because it is the kind of mental hospital where some Korea POWs are going to end up when they get back to stateside. A WHO report on alcoholism finds that it is mostly a "neurotic-response pattern" in the U.S., which is why it is not much of a problem in Denmark, where most drinking is "reactive." ("You drove me to drink.") In Chile, people drink because they are hungry, and apparently in backwards Catholic countries they drink because the water isn't safe, says the University of California's John Gardner, who has found that red wine has a germicidal effect. This is news? </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Medical Notes </b>reports that the headaches experienced by high blood pressure patients is caused by other factors, so drastic interventions to reduce high blood pressure shouldn't target headaches. Chest X-rays are cheap and easy to do, but do a terrible job of diagnosing heart trouble, says R. V. Slattery in a current issue of <i>Journ. AMA. </i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhctMYA7XD-dbZj8EDwbXJTGU7rHDdhfJG_lXds2yDLWh_8Q0HcxTJaBQyATPJvduTrQUlM25cpQL2lSpRldaK5qdAKFolRG0X0TB4-rst7bi8yA8KX2_NBlDgmt9FGopuTek9wXXSRIbjDtFnb9B7DZ6ldzKe3-kj_2mstt50WDLjAhta66K1o62dCGf_9/s4032/20231209_191234459_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhctMYA7XD-dbZj8EDwbXJTGU7rHDdhfJG_lXds2yDLWh_8Q0HcxTJaBQyATPJvduTrQUlM25cpQL2lSpRldaK5qdAKFolRG0X0TB4-rst7bi8yA8KX2_NBlDgmt9FGopuTek9wXXSRIbjDtFnb9B7DZ6ldzKe3-kj_2mstt50WDLjAhta66K1o62dCGf_9/s320/20231209_191234459_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"A Fourth of a Nation" There will be 23,3690,000 public grade school students this year and 3,417,00 private, up from 22 million and 3, 017,000 last year; public high school students are up 234,000 to 6,427,000, private high schoolers are up 47,000 at 818,000. But college students are up only 100,000 at 2.5 million, which is not very interesting since no more details are provided and instead we get a roundup of academic celebrity moves to take us along to the observation that 2 million more grade schoolers will have schools bursting at the seams. School taxes are up a half billion dollars this year, 50,000 new classrooms were built for this year compared with 47,000 last year, and teacher salaries are up to an average of $3400 from $3160 last year. In California, Proposition 3, which would have extended tax exemptions to private schools, went to referendum last year (the canvassing effort in favour was led by Admiral Nimitz!) and won by a slim majority which has inspired court action. Currently, Proposition 3 is unconstitutional and so is right out. Albemarle Hill is a very fancy private school, but not so fancy that the principal can get a puff piece in <i>Time </i>instead of sad old <i>Newsweek. </i><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Art, Press, Radio-TV, Newsmakers</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkUxr2bPBtOxGF1bn1s1l5rgowK-wWoxNv5lRRDi7XRWUH3cPC4jr19csTECCpdbcO-XPpnL-A-eS-cKxYGrlPKw2IILV5XyWEfY2I9c_SiQyMzk3ClDYBpDIZb2_F2FNrDSLVhNttkYpcXz0EhLbloUX9ra4qw9P0gN0erLKHsjDmAtk5-VTpVacTiKJz/s2997/Joseph%20Brown,%20several%20bronzes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2410" data-original-width="2997" height="257" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkUxr2bPBtOxGF1bn1s1l5rgowK-wWoxNv5lRRDi7XRWUH3cPC4jr19csTECCpdbcO-XPpnL-A-eS-cKxYGrlPKw2IILV5XyWEfY2I9c_SiQyMzk3ClDYBpDIZb2_F2FNrDSLVhNttkYpcXz0EhLbloUX9ra4qw9P0gN0erLKHsjDmAtk5-VTpVacTiKJz/s320/Joseph%20Brown,%20several%20bronzes.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"Boxing Sculptor"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Brown_(sculptor)"> Joseph Brown</a> of Princeton combines teaching in the Physical Education programme with Art and Archaeology because he is an artist who does bronze sculptures of muscled athletes doing strenuous things. I don't trust myself to comment --oh, the heck with it, I've found Uncle George's Christmas present. <br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Bombs, H and K" Not only did the Russians drop an H-bomb, Dr. Kinsey dropped a report! The Soviets got into a mess because the bomb wasn't confirmed for a few days, while Dr. Kinsey's dirty, dirty report didn't make a lot of papers. John Knight of the Knight papers gets a profile, the ITU is still publishing its strike papers, and various local newspapers are a bit nuts. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Fred Allen is as hilarious as Charlie Chan and fake Chinese accents. Or more hilarious, even. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Citations for four more Korean Medal of Honour winners <a href="ps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiroshi_Miyamura">include one Japanese-American, whose citation was withheld until his release from captivity to prevent reprisals.</a> Representative William Dawson (R., Utah) is up on state charges of selling liquor to Indians, apparently in the belief that the repeal of the federal law made it legal. Dick Haymes' divorce settlement is going badly while his other troubles with immigration continue. Sonja Henie's show is playing Norway in a homecoming for the 100% never-Nazi. The Dionne girls are going their separate ways as they reach 19, Zane Grey's manuscripts have been acquired by the Library of Congress, Harold Stassen has ordered IQ tests for the 1700 employees of the Foreign Operations Administration, hoping to "lop off several hundred unqualified workers." Michael Patrick O'Brien, the Hong -Kong-Macau ferry rider without a country, still doesn't have a country as Brazil decides not to let him in as a refugee, after all. Bing Crosby golfs, and even Lionel Hampton can't follow that crazy bebop jive lingo. I would also be remiss for not mentioning the special feature on Italian starlets in a week when <a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silvana_Mangano">Silvana Mangano</a> gets the cover.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Oona O'Neill Chaplin has had a son with Charlie Chaplin. Princess Margaret is 23. Dorothy Schiff is married. Gordon Dean is divorced. Mary Purnell, Cameron Morrison, Malcolm W. Bingay, Bert Andrews and Harold Knutson have died.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7UdIOcZ-nK0VJxVEXhQgRf9HdQYeFXt6eX5EMcuIFR9xmpA8ySxKWQfCOUn_uVT8BWOo1iUHfVZu4y6sMZLCMH_TwJqzgOJuCL9CXBnaGgn1eeL2hyphenhyphenIvghK0HiYtzDMkA12bQOTias8fY6P_NtkhpZAAVrbGUK7StTPLrNsRo6X_RVWQHofBRzlg32-Wl/s750/Madeline%20by%20Bemelmans.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="750" data-original-width="500" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi7UdIOcZ-nK0VJxVEXhQgRf9HdQYeFXt6eX5EMcuIFR9xmpA8ySxKWQfCOUn_uVT8BWOo1iUHfVZu4y6sMZLCMH_TwJqzgOJuCL9CXBnaGgn1eeL2hyphenhyphenIvghK0HiYtzDMkA12bQOTias8fY6P_NtkhpZAAVrbGUK7StTPLrNsRo6X_RVWQHofBRzlg32-Wl/s320/Madeline%20by%20Bemelmans.jpg" width="213" /></a></div><b>Books</b><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_Bemelmans">Ludwig Bemelans</a>' <i>Father, </i><i>Dear Father </i>is possibly a memoir of the artist edited by his daughter, Barbara? Can't make head or tail of the review. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gwen_Raverat">Gwen Darwin Raverat</a>'s <i>Period Piece </i>is a memoir of growing up in Charles Darwin's extended family? I think? (She turns out to have been a sculptor of some distinction, not that the review mentions this.) Third try into the section and the review of Madeleine Stern's <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miriam_Leslie">The Life of Mrs. Frank Leslie</a> </i>explains that it is a biography of same, written by Stern, and even explains who the subject was. (A fabulously successful magazine publisher of the Nineteenth Century of whom <i>Newsweek </i>disapproves.) Robert Penn Warren's <i><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/326132.Brother_to_Dragons">Brother to Dragons: A Tale in Verse and Voices</a> </i>is an odd and experimental novel about yet more terrible people (but also Thomas Jefferson's nephews). <i>Newsweek </i>didn't like it, and makes its case better than in the other reviews. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Raymond Moley is upset at the Secretary of Labour for not being anti-labour enough. It's probably because of his conflicts of interest by virtue of being in a union. For such things are otherwise unknown in this Administration! <br /> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Aviation Week, </i>31 August 1953</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhZIRj8SzS7kTfV6YaVXS7vmddtyCjyQqUhQm8uTvUNF8Jg2QjDJwHa1ea_T-UB5NANi0S35wjxX3zFhixawTMfZijb2TmzKGj9vR5B6gLF-PznEIr-uHrdKyP2QE53FG2j1k-ZZrLJDwum8N-mBdOLOsRPvgDYKlPZ-hRSHuyuUE8uKetcVNFl-o-leK5/s4032/20231209_230212342_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhZIRj8SzS7kTfV6YaVXS7vmddtyCjyQqUhQm8uTvUNF8Jg2QjDJwHa1ea_T-UB5NANi0S35wjxX3zFhixawTMfZijb2TmzKGj9vR5B6gLF-PznEIr-uHrdKyP2QE53FG2j1k-ZZrLJDwum8N-mBdOLOsRPvgDYKlPZ-hRSHuyuUE8uKetcVNFl-o-leK5/s320/20231209_230212342_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><b>News Digest </b>reports that avgas will soon be freed of the order requiring increased tetraethyl lead content to save on alkylates, as production of the latter is closer to meeting national defence needs. Transocean flights by massive flights of B-36s and F-84Gs, and one by a C-99 with a 61,000lb load and 23 crew and observers shows that these things can be done. And there's a nice picture of the latest Lockheed P2V Neptune variant with two underwing J34s for takeoff boost. Hey, that's my hubbie's plane! <b>Industry Observer </b>reports that Republic has Air Force contracts for its<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_XF-103"> F-103</a> inverse taper wing with combination turbojet and rocket power, and its<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_F-105_Thunderchief"> F-105</a> delta wing, to be built in both a fighter and reconnaissance variant. Wright R3350 engines being used by the Chicago and Southern Airlines are now approved for 1900 hours between overhauls, the highest for any engine ever. USAF information is that the Russian long-range turboprop bomber shown in air displays recently is almost certainly in production. The XB-52 and YB-52 have logged 700 flying hours so far and exceeded expectations. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermes_program">GE's Hermes short-range ground bombardment missile programme</a> has been sharply cut back. Marines are impressed with their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM-18_Lacrosse">Lacross close-support missile</a>, which boosts with solid rocket propellant and then glides up to eight miles to the target. Saunders-Roe is interested in developing a hydro-ski fighter similar to the Convair F2Y-1 now being tested. The story of the "weapon systems development" contract with Convair for the B-58 was so interesting the many times it was told last week that we tell it again! Cessna is working on a helicopter and Rohm and Haas has a new and improved plexiglas. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiauHwgOBt5HGqMr-NT0jwzeSjqe5wLrFi5PwLVLL3B40vOwmpWSHeAHKwxbq8uRBkF9TC2-uZIVqPfgcmbkSPUN6vix3eVGTUVGoHGvpdX5b44uvir5i-Z5oeH3lJcIGzzLV9sxEeRXWrYR2-oqFAw3hIfSEstV7AqIhhhdyVI7i2ajsEOULIE6TgoSWt4/s706/MGM-18_Lacrosse_02.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="546" data-original-width="706" height="247" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiauHwgOBt5HGqMr-NT0jwzeSjqe5wLrFi5PwLVLL3B40vOwmpWSHeAHKwxbq8uRBkF9TC2-uZIVqPfgcmbkSPUN6vix3eVGTUVGoHGvpdX5b44uvir5i-Z5oeH3lJcIGzzLV9sxEeRXWrYR2-oqFAw3hIfSEstV7AqIhhhdyVI7i2ajsEOULIE6TgoSWt4/s320/MGM-18_Lacrosse_02.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />Robert Hotz reports for <b>Aviation Week </b>that "B-36 Teams Up With F-84 To Carry A-Bomb" The FiCon (for "Fighter Conveyor") project has been around forever, but was eventually repurposed for F-84s flying attached to the wings of B-36s, to the end of an extended probe with room for the pilot to shimmy down into the cockpit. But now instead of being escort fighters, they are to fly the A-bomb the "last mile" to the target, since B-36s are easy prey for MiG-15s. It is one of any number of things that might be done with those buckets of bolts, including use as a tanker or a radar picket. <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">North American is talking about financial penalties for aircraft builders who deliver late on their contracts, the Air Force is worried about how darn hot supersonic planes get, find it difficult to project the future with the new alloys and atomic power. This is all the same story, somehow. If you put them in separate paragraphs you don't have to explain how you got from one to the other! We end the article by wandering over to General McCormick's talk giving the ARDC view, which is that atomic planes, automatic control and supersonic speed will be important in the future, at which point all the space isn't taken up, so we repeat the same points. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0PZ00H5QgAeTtL_hhzhqEsu6iTVSmGUTB5YZEZ38a0WY-yEExjHssVn6t9f4BHtwbZ_rEyzC3a2IonhslzZ36an-iTM60RrnI3r_6P6ubuwMvHTIAlRreF9tH259ZE83OMJxUGvQ_kzus5cYcKsLvhQwxmIktE2CDjUj8pZw9I6KhjpgqkhhOmm4u72Ff/s3734/Martin%20B-57.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3734" data-original-width="2175" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0PZ00H5QgAeTtL_hhzhqEsu6iTVSmGUTB5YZEZ38a0WY-yEExjHssVn6t9f4BHtwbZ_rEyzC3a2IonhslzZ36an-iTM60RrnI3r_6P6ubuwMvHTIAlRreF9tH259ZE83OMJxUGvQ_kzus5cYcKsLvhQwxmIktE2CDjUj8pZw9I6KhjpgqkhhOmm4u72Ff/s320/Martin%20B-57.jpg" width="186" /></a></div>Engine programmes are being cut back as engines are lasting longer than expected, the Air Force is going to be at the Dayton Air Show, the USAF is taking bids on C-123 production, and is up to 98 combat wings. Then it's time to be scooped by <i>Flight </i>with reporting from the Martin B-57 flight demonstrations. The Air Force is now receiving RB-47Es, the reconnaissance variant, with some extra photographic equipment such as intervalometers, optical viewfinders, photocell-operated shutters and bomb bay modified to take a camera pod. De Havilland Australia has curtailed Drover production. The FBI has arrested a front man for a nationwide ring of dealers in unairworthy commercial aircraft parts. The Piasecki YH-21 might be the first helicopter to the North Pole. <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">David Anderton reports for <b>Aeronautical Engineering </b>that "AF Tests Rocket Engines in Giant Stands" A huge rocket test stand at Edwards Air Force Base allows the Air Force to test giant rockets. Three pages, for pictures. Northrop has anti-ice shields for the F-89 while Rotor-Finish Tumblers installed at Ryan Aircraft are saving oodles of time and money on deburring. Everyone likes Alkaline Battery's<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nickel%E2%80%93iron_battery"> nickel-iron batteries</a>. <br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The SAE Production Forum held recently in New York had a panel discussion on experimental manufacturing, that is, on manufacturing an experimental product, and someone from <i>Aviation Week </i>was there to take notes. Lacking anything else to print, here are those notes under the title, "Experimental Shops Pretest Production," for <b>Production. </b>So if you were interested in coordinating production schedules with subcontractors and possibly subsidising them under appropriate oversight arrangements, this is your article! <b>What's New </b>has received three catalogues, two training manuals, a training film, the ASME's new <i>Letter Symbols for Metrology, </i>and Samuel Herrick's <i>Table for Rocket and Comet Orbits, </i>perfect for planning your next trip to Mars. George L. Christian visits Aviation Electric for <i>Equipment </i>and turns in "Canadian Overhaul Firm Expands." It's thinking about producing some Bendix instruments and accessories under license, since it already manufactures out-of-production parts for its RCAF maintenance contracts. UAL has bought the Bendix glide slop receiver for its 25 DC-7s. <b>New Aviation Products </b>devotes its editorial space to just two items, Celastic treated ("doped") cloth from Calahan and Horsey, and a push-pull disconnecting hydraulic coupling for oil fittings from E. B. Wiggins Oil Tool Company. They're always open when connected, always closed when shut, so you can just pull them free and reconnect at need. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhekuUfe9NvWlehA9Mt_9zv3lj3S-fMSQZQeMEqNlOY5VcoZtW4IyLwpWG-5ZY7O2th3JNRlDf4GD7fyRP_3GL2-mt4pHRqHKD4PEtT-pScBiCWq4EwggxRBO-hjU58CYZQYrmuihfHiQ9xx3vM15l1r2XsBDV42bSFozZeB2Gi9yAqaBZ_L-5DnmeH2eIU/s4032/20231210_005231886_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhekuUfe9NvWlehA9Mt_9zv3lj3S-fMSQZQeMEqNlOY5VcoZtW4IyLwpWG-5ZY7O2th3JNRlDf4GD7fyRP_3GL2-mt4pHRqHKD4PEtT-pScBiCWq4EwggxRBO-hjU58CYZQYrmuihfHiQ9xx3vM15l1r2XsBDV42bSFozZeB2Gi9yAqaBZ_L-5DnmeH2eIU/s320/20231210_005231886_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The McGraw Hill Linewide Editorial has free advice for Britain: "Britons Can Have Prosperity --If They Want It" They just need to fix their low productivity. It's simple when you think about it! </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Lee Moore reports for <b>Air Transport </b>that "New Avionics Gear Aids Airline Reliability" Radar traffic control and omnirange is important for winter reliability, but so is higher mechanical reliability. A Comet that landed at a 900ft grass strip instead of the Bombay airport by mistake lost nothing more than its tyres, amazingly enough. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Letters </b>has a defence of Jacqueline Cochrane from Lt. Colonel Frank Everest of Edwards Air Force Base, who explains that her record flights did not disrupt normal activities at Edwards, which was able to accommodate her. John Longhurst points out that the "newsletter," or "publication" recently quoted by <i>Aviation Week </i>was, in fact, an official aviation report from Aviation Studies, Ltd. J. C. Schwarzenbach of U. S. Propellers, Ltd., finds Captain Robson's excuses for airline pilots' involvement in mid-air collisions to be "extremely weak." Robert Wood points out that the fact that traffic on the Jersey Turnpike in its first year matched expected volumes for 1971 to be evidence that Americans love progress, and American business can't go wrong betting on progress. He's very impressed with the Sabre, and expects Red treachery in Korea. They are building up their forces, especially air strength in Manchuria, and have executed numerous POWs on trumped-up charges just ahead of their release. Send in the Air Force to bomb them right, this time!<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">And so what's up as summer winds down at <i>The Engineer</i> (21 August 1953 and 28 August 1953)? </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>(Not the Seven Day-)Journal </b>for 21 August reports that Sir Brian Robertson is the new head of the British Transport Commission. The Ministry of Supply has stepped in to take charge of aircraft for the Navy, while the Commonwealth Telecommunications Board's annual report focusses on the limited number of available frequencies. If more frequencies can't be allocated, it hopes that technology compresses the width of frequency used. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0-xjUTZp4M89M48hvDDNdYXDue0XOtTfog1kkZIF5-Edg9qj6RVX93JvS4B0YMcne6YHTNI59SSkYqLdCwb1aekPLnR3E4uSZ4wZhhLkiZQWQuXpoX-NMG-iID6HUjKAjVodKJF26GPxNK5QyGxOkuoUFJPAiI1OJ735AN4VPAV0XAe1t0MA6J4LgjKcF/s4032/20231210_121407235_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0-xjUTZp4M89M48hvDDNdYXDue0XOtTfog1kkZIF5-Edg9qj6RVX93JvS4B0YMcne6YHTNI59SSkYqLdCwb1aekPLnR3E4uSZ4wZhhLkiZQWQuXpoX-NMG-iID6HUjKAjVodKJF26GPxNK5QyGxOkuoUFJPAiI1OJ735AN4VPAV0XAe1t0MA6J4LgjKcF/s320/20231210_121407235_iOS.heic" width="320" /></a></div>An interesting historical article, E. S. Chalmers, "A History of Spectroscopy" focusses in its third part, in this issue, on the optics of the prisms used to generate spectra for analysis. J. G. Withers' "Measurements of Air Flow" looks at the size of the surge damping vessel needed in a device that measures air flow by sampling it with an orifice. Our American Correspondent continues to review the work on "Nuclear Reactors for Power Generation" that came out of the AEC recently. This week he looks at the liquid-cooled nuclear reactor, the liquid being implicitly water, so this is just a boiler generator. The nuclear physics, with its damping and shielding requirements, is largely passive, so most of the engineering interest is in the power generating train, your turbines. E. C. Poultney continues to look at the locomotives of 1953. By which he means locomotives that are still around, and not ones built in 1953, because that would just be depressing for those who love their steam. V. S. Swaniathan gives us "Iraq Oil Pipelines," a discussion of the giant pipelines being built to service the Kirkuk oilfields by way of the new terminal at Homs, Syria. Anyone who hasn't completely killed the little boy inside will be thrilled by pictures of the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thornycroft_Antar"> Mighty Antar</a> at work. Unfortunately all the work seems to be being done by American and British workers. We get coverage of the Economic Commission of Europe's potted history of the wide strip mill, the latest thing in steel, and the Coal Board's new run of mine locomotive. <b>Leaders </b>comment on the Commons committee on the nationalised industries and the fighter shortage at the Fleet Air Arm, which is down to a few squadrons of Sea Hawks. We have now decided to worry about Russian jet bombers attacking British trade, since those giant turboprops can be intercepted by propeller fighters, never mind Sea Hawks. The Il-28, on the other hand, is a real threat, only provided that Russia's alliance with Atlantis holds up, and those pesky Atlanteans finds some surface land to build a 9000ft concrete runway on. Or several, because the Il-28 has even shorter legs than the Canberra. Fortunately, the best kind of solution is at hand; reorganisation! (The kind that Lord Pakenham has been arguing for for years.) <b>Letters </b>are very active this week, with one from Donald Scammell explaining why big companies are better for productivity, from J. Hodges of Power Jets on a geometry question pertaining to the article on frames not obeying Hooke's Law (area of irregular planes) and more general comments on same from T. M. Charlton and J. W. Turner of the Engineer's Guild. Details of the London-Christchurch Air Race are given, and we launch "Fifty Years of Undercarriage Development" years ago, before the war, moving from simple "v" undercarriages to the first damped suspension on the big bombers of 1918. F. W. Sheppard tells us about its new cement handling method, the British Steel Castings Research Association about its "Radiographic Exposure Calculator" that determines when you have to go have a nap to avoid turning into a radioactive mutant, a bit from the Reclamation Bureau about irrigation in the Columbia River basin, commercials for a carbide tip finishing machine from R. J. H. Tool, the de Havilland Super Sprite, and a marine radar from Kelvin and Hughes, and the conclusion to D. H. L. Lawson's "Solution of Transient Heat-Flow Problems of Analogous Electrical Networks." <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu43Bt9AeGbv7GvEZeIq3XCTzO3Q1AtPXKoPsb-5J5EFf1BDobMTvrZYJMLR-Hkt6S3oxFH9_r7UpHRuhdNqrb40i7VAP4lodO_tYBP8ssfl7AJhrh5VRL-0Ik_QVFvWgEOpb7NpVYI6QYvsAwNk0nPGb5wIcrtfZmteabSuvdWQye9g3JOjSDebcxTWlf/s275/BAe%20Harrier.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Something will come along eventually" border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu43Bt9AeGbv7GvEZeIq3XCTzO3Q1AtPXKoPsb-5J5EFf1BDobMTvrZYJMLR-Hkt6S3oxFH9_r7UpHRuhdNqrb40i7VAP4lodO_tYBP8ssfl7AJhrh5VRL-0Ik_QVFvWgEOpb7NpVYI6QYvsAwNk0nPGb5wIcrtfZmteabSuvdWQye9g3JOjSDebcxTWlf/s16000/BAe%20Harrier.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Industrial and Labour Notes </b>attest to the still upward-swinging trends in Britain's economy (more steel, more exports). Four British Standards reports are buried down here, but no <b>Launches and Trial Trips. </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvYHPnqVUWH6Pd0Oy_RRJK1GgvhOFL40MC_YH2mSKr2_VKhKxpHzPidIlZR6e8hTiHPDjzHRDeiViHO_lJyBHK3IQSUJ2CEfho2Gmz-opg6mrKc3HMeQQjfMl-2mSJ_318SX6xpCysihgzOm1tSrzkdxa9LOrEhJ4Q3iOdhL9EdTCv4CBG0Lrodd267JAs/s1764/Temper%20Mill%20Drive%20for%20tinworks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1764" data-original-width="1593" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvYHPnqVUWH6Pd0Oy_RRJK1GgvhOFL40MC_YH2mSKr2_VKhKxpHzPidIlZR6e8hTiHPDjzHRDeiViHO_lJyBHK3IQSUJ2CEfho2Gmz-opg6mrKc3HMeQQjfMl-2mSJ_318SX6xpCysihgzOm1tSrzkdxa9LOrEhJ4Q3iOdhL9EdTCv4CBG0Lrodd267JAs/s320/Temper%20Mill%20Drive%20for%20tinworks.jpg" width="289" /></a></div><b>(Not the Seven Day-)Journal </b>for 28 August reviews D. F. Anderson's alarmed article in <i>National Provincial Bank Review </i>explaining why it is impossible to replace freighter fleets with current depreciation rules and notices the British Industries Fair for 1954, some awards and reorganisations, and some kind of pull-off between steam and diesel locomotives to determine if the steam locomotives go to the Home For Old Locomotives this year or next. Chalmer's history of spectroscopy explains Huygen's interference theory and its application to a "Spectrograph room" illuminated by a diffraction grating. J. S. Clark and L O. C. Johnson describe the "Resistance Thermometer in the 50 Meter Comparator at the NPL," which is used to "standardise the taping used for geodetic surveying." The latest historical treatment of Cornish mining engines by W. Tregoning Hooper looks at pumping engines, while C. F. Armstrong tries to give us the most detailed look yet at "Overseas Appointments for Civil Engineers" in spite of having only two pages to work with as it is on to commercials for the Temper Mill Drives at the Trostre Tinplate Works and Walker Brothers' new diesel-electric crane. <b>Metallurgical Topics </b>looks at papers on defects in hot-worked mild steels, an attempt to say something definite about just how much better open hearth steels are than Bessemer steels in identical applications, another on the use of rare earth elements in stainless steels, and on "Rapid-Life Tool Testing," which is attempts to speed up wea-failure tests of tools by increasing the cutting speeds and such. The authors think that radioactive tracers are the answer. <b>Leaders </b>point out just how interesting the Tregoning Hooper article is and comments on the guided missile test that we saw photos of in <i>Aviation Week. </i>No-one knows much about them, but the Ministry of Supply suggests that manned bombers cannot possibly outmanoeuvre them, suggesting that the future belongs to the long range missile, unless they can be shot down, too. Given their inherently limited range, they might be an appropriate shipborne weapon. <b>Letters </b>has Gerald Lacey on "regime change," by which the civil engineers mean the silting-up of chanels, particularly irrigation canals, in a general enough way to actually guide them to remedial measures. R. G. B. Gwyer defends the reputation of the "Britannia" class of locomotives, which might as well have provoked J. H. W. Turner (the honorary secretary of the Engineer's Guild seems to have time on his hands) to write on "The Old Engineer." The unsigned article on undercarriage development reaches the early internally-sprung wheels,, retraction, and oleo-pneumatic shock absorbers in a mad rush as far as the Lancaster and Halifax. Duncan Sandy's statement on guided missiles gets a bit more attention, followed by the work of the Fuel Research Station on turning coal into oil, lead into gold, empty space into text. A "Limpet Dam and Tnnel for Lock Gate Renewal" is good news for those who work with canals and dams, while Glasgow's water supply marches and advances, and the latest British Railways devices for ballast cleaning are quite something. In India besides a dam and the latest developments in engineering manufacture, the big news for <b>Indian Engineering News </b>is <a href="http://rontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/india-at-75-epochal-moments-1953-air-india-nationalised/article65722229.ece">the nationalisastion of the airlines.</a> Echometers from Marconi, an infrared heating lamp for farms from GE, and a pillar drilling machine from Kerry's get commercials. <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Industrial and Labour Notes </b>pivot from everything going up to the TUC clearing its throat about wages and the latest on foreign technical assistance; <b>Launches and Trial Trips </b>checks in with three steamships and one motor vessel. The steam ships are a single old-fashioned collier and two very complicated-sounding turbine plants, including a "<a href="https://www.dieselduck.info/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1764">triple expansion, double-reduction</a>" machinery for the cargo vessel <i>Patinga</i>. The motor vessel is just an oil tanker. Does the coup in Iran mean we need more,a fter all?</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFp6te0XeBype9aCj7OXtKUHpk4oSoGleTVmgEkY7wkYI-2DfrzzE1_SzfvJ3O4KaE8iGgSyhZHb6XgkfO1glU8qEAk0pchJmslbTpfWij4bggX4eXwVZxRiCv6X5vHMXrJ6vA5RsBHJNxaEijAQpX-Nco-JvGjwdoQmhdZxDzBPT_FE-z0oT8kx6VqyR1/s905/SS%20Patonga.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="605" data-original-width="905" height="428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFp6te0XeBype9aCj7OXtKUHpk4oSoGleTVmgEkY7wkYI-2DfrzzE1_SzfvJ3O4KaE8iGgSyhZHb6XgkfO1glU8qEAk0pchJmslbTpfWij4bggX4eXwVZxRiCv6X5vHMXrJ6vA5RsBHJNxaEijAQpX-Nco-JvGjwdoQmhdZxDzBPT_FE-z0oT8kx6VqyR1/w640-h428/SS%20Patonga.PNG" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Usually when I find a typo it is me, but <i>The Engineer </i>definitely says "<i>Patinga," </i>and everyone else says "Patonga."</span> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PEZW3N9nXfE" width="320" youtube-src-id="PEZW3N9nXfE"></iframe></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /><br /></p></div>Erik Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-11177113154845619632023-12-02T12:52:00.000-08:002023-12-02T12:52:42.779-08:00Postblogging Technology, August 1953, I: Snack-bars, Milk Bars, Baby Booms<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/PrfdGQYL_ZM" width="320" youtube-src-id="PrfdGQYL_ZM"></iframe></div><br /><div>R_.C_.,</div>The Oriental Club,<br />London,<br />England<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Dear Father:<div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRs6uxM9j3B1D6pA69WviLUDzatSWcVCNANwjpPCYmX51Zkf-MEfLhq-wer43ngRgD2ELROO8KlaUKsCtOuPj5uMQP7qxJKcKMrC71ToYBRQ9uv8UpyErq_3D0wORHPGYcCRXEL8UOdeBKaT2dMMMFDUBwliYe0COK5c_VwqFKL6ZHDFJ1PCgFYFWksCRx/s4032/20231202_184831564_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRs6uxM9j3B1D6pA69WviLUDzatSWcVCNANwjpPCYmX51Zkf-MEfLhq-wer43ngRgD2ELROO8KlaUKsCtOuPj5uMQP7qxJKcKMrC71ToYBRQ9uv8UpyErq_3D0wORHPGYcCRXEL8UOdeBKaT2dMMMFDUBwliYe0COK5c_VwqFKL6ZHDFJ1PCgFYFWksCRx/s320/20231202_184831564_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This letter finds you from a <i>delightful </i>summer vacation with Reggie and Uncle George's arrival on the <i>Minto </i>last week to enjoy August before we leave for London from Revelstoke on the 3rd. We've now made housing arrangements. We'll be rooming with Nat McKitterick! It's very strange to think that we will be living across the hall from the man I've quoted in these letters so many times, but he finds he has space to spare and the dollar is starting to go a little less distance in London these days. He says, anyway. I hope we won't arrive and find that he's gone to booze and seed like the dissipate journalist I hope he is! However, the connection was made through one of Uncle George's Glenn Martin friends, who has not steered him wrong before. It certainly won't be the kind of palatial quarters we've been enjoying here in Nakusp, and I do wonder about the food, but we're to be in London for two years as Reggie does his vaguely defined liaison duties which are <i>absolutely </i>not cover for developing the "carcinotron" and flying it into Russian radar stations to see what's up over there. I'm not sure what I think of poking the bear when the bear has atomic bombs, but at least they're not hydrogen bombs, and I am told that Lockheed and the CIA have a swell trick that the Communists can't beat in a month of Sundays. </div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Sure. Absolutely. Anything the Dulles brothers touch is sure to turn into <i>something. </i></div><div><br />Your Loving Daughter,<br /><br />Ronnie<br /><span><a name='more'></a></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>The Economist, </i>1 August 1953</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Leaders</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM-RPRthHy6y1BA5BYecZSk5mhpDULuvscpxt2iTGpV_lx2S9JFLXL98HJY1Gl_Rcez1Tdo7Y2trpYDB5K_WmGXgv4alkNLyrLrdcBAibbaHC8wB6lg6ak4GVdBhOVAOkq0G6McsY1uCChc6Y0I_gY7eUDLGfvLcT5v0AK3p9UEoz8kw1V5oJKqQejUglK/s4032/20231128_145704202_iOS.heic" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhM-RPRthHy6y1BA5BYecZSk5mhpDULuvscpxt2iTGpV_lx2S9JFLXL98HJY1Gl_Rcez1Tdo7Y2trpYDB5K_WmGXgv4alkNLyrLrdcBAibbaHC8wB6lg6ak4GVdBhOVAOkq0G6McsY1uCChc6Y0I_gY7eUDLGfvLcT5v0AK3p9UEoz8kw1V5oJKqQejUglK/s320/20231128_145704202_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>The Korean War is over and it is all thanks to American patience and firmness, so everyone who thinks that the UN should trade Chinese recognition and membership in the UN for Korean unification should shut up because they are just mushy emotionalists and also want to give away the store before we even start to negotiate. And stop saying mean things about Secretary Dulles, who is doing the best he can! Then it goes on for awhile bout how the post-armistice conference should work. I hope it doesn't all end in deadlock, or <i>The Economist </i>will have wasted a whole page of text!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Canada's Time to Change?" <i>The Economist </i>sure hopes that Canada will finally elect a Conservative government, like a real country. However, because the Liberals are for financial repression and the Conservatives have promised national medical insurance if they are elected, it isn't really as right-versus-left as it is in America, sigh, and there's not actually much chance of it happening, sigh some more. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>From <i>The Economist </i>of 1853 </b>comes an extract worthy of being promoted to <b>Leader</b>: London should get rid of the new cab regulations with their set fares, because the free market is better and everyone should go on haggling over fares every time they flag down a cab. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Guardians of the Straits" The ongoing "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkish_straits_crisis">Straits Crisis</a>" is worsening. And by that <i>The Economist </i>means that the Russians are moderating their position on the straits and the Kars border, which is obviously just a sinister ploy to draw the Turks away from NATO. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTm_PT8oURekt8gyAd6FRYj5Lw4Rk0Yx4dhqDfQIYZMUWPmMopLFi0JpcUPbk9GRv19Xhsboa4rTBBcuRkTj6adf5CadbNNuJMwSIC7QRPY8ciXTOb9dKL9Ypk97pu8hYrl7VLJq3SAL7q4O6msiKIQOn6RGRn-tAQ7pSYFEVOv6coe_ZCbGq6AJjgzKUe/s250/Kars%20Claim%20from%20Wikipedia.png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="211" data-original-width="250" height="211" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTm_PT8oURekt8gyAd6FRYj5Lw4Rk0Yx4dhqDfQIYZMUWPmMopLFi0JpcUPbk9GRv19Xhsboa4rTBBcuRkTj6adf5CadbNNuJMwSIC7QRPY8ciXTOb9dKL9Ypk97pu8hYrl7VLJq3SAL7q4O6msiKIQOn6RGRn-tAQ7pSYFEVOv6coe_ZCbGq6AJjgzKUe/s1600/Kars%20Claim%20from%20Wikipedia.png" width="250" /></a></div>Hmm. Promoting the "100 years ago" feature to a <b>Leader, </b>talking about a Canadian election, getting excited about how the apparent end of the long-dragging Straits Crisis with the fall of Beria is somehow a new beginning --how do we get even more inconsequential ahead of <b>Notes? </b>I know, a page-and-a-half about guide books amounting to complaining that Britain doesn't have a Michelin Guide, probably because everyone would get upset if some village came in ahead of another village maybe. We don't know. But Spain has one now, so Britain is feeling left out.<br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Notes</b> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtWNl7JfsG1cGzqScTmj5Fl69DLLANDB7gSxAd0YUV0GZWk4QifDLYBmxqeiOZTGMCX8_KkYZWLZ4YU7xjmy0gjtiDT0WfSUL6vHh0kgKx-QGlMaCiscuwMOGFQ16g6vZfqzIWEEHN2wmJva3O1oUd6mP78CCYfkvpjT_nf0yBi343T81oL0WvUOP_6ZPu/s4032/August%201953%20Products%20and%20Processes%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtWNl7JfsG1cGzqScTmj5Fl69DLLANDB7gSxAd0YUV0GZWk4QifDLYBmxqeiOZTGMCX8_KkYZWLZ4YU7xjmy0gjtiDT0WfSUL6vHh0kgKx-QGlMaCiscuwMOGFQ16g6vZfqzIWEEHN2wmJva3O1oUd6mP78CCYfkvpjT_nf0yBi343T81oL0WvUOP_6ZPu/s320/August%201953%20Products%20and%20Processes%201.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>"Lord Salisbury's Refutation" Lord Salisbury's refutation is not high, and falls when you hear him speak, and . . . Oh, no, it says <i>refutation</i>. The Bermuda Conference is off because Lord Salisbury didn't impress Dulles and Eisenhower, but they did agree to some things, and in another world in which Winston was there, <i>The Economist </i>supposes that <i>he </i>would have trouble, too, so actually Salisbury did fine in Washington! The Bevanites might be whining, but they're as bad as the China Lobby! Also, everyone is talking about Germany under the new European Defence Community, which might actually be a United States of Europe because the French will not get as upset, and maybe we won't link the Saarland to the Oder-Neisse boundary because that would just lead to ill will, and those stupid Americans are still a stumbling block because they're worried that a unified Germany will disarm, and stop worrying about that, America! And oh Good Heavens even more on along that line.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Welsh Mountains out of Molehills" The Bevanites are <i>obviously </i>completely unreasonable in opposing the introduction of time limits on unemployment benefits but not so obviously that <i>The Economist </i>is having much luck explaining why it is obvious. But now they are taking up the case of Welsh miners with black lung who are already provided for by the industrial injuries scheme, so it is obviously obvious! And the government having overridden all objections, the Central African Federation is a reality, so that's all over and done with forever. Africans should shut up, and the European leaders i nthe two capitals of Salisbury and Lusaka should get on with "establishing the new federation in an atmosphere of mutual tolerance." Because that's the problem here; the lack of <i>mutual </i>tolerance.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0_C965F7Z0JijDNFkzTSEAbh4NWWuu8MLzfDEKJzq_mzq-Vc4DsVPSksf_fWW9xi3Ul-3Vjpw0KB0yoTsUx7KyJmCAHHe9BunpjQ-618VMnkVO60mNj1UgRprq2E255ureJ4PyxFo9Q90_VitNQMkH5bjlEaAuf66QSWAnd7VjqxC4Q4Q1SqydO_DsCcC/s478/de%20Gaulle%20vogues%20it.PNG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="478" data-original-width="239" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0_C965F7Z0JijDNFkzTSEAbh4NWWuu8MLzfDEKJzq_mzq-Vc4DsVPSksf_fWW9xi3Ul-3Vjpw0KB0yoTsUx7KyJmCAHHe9BunpjQ-618VMnkVO60mNj1UgRprq2E255ureJ4PyxFo9Q90_VitNQMkH5bjlEaAuf66QSWAnd7VjqxC4Q4Q1SqydO_DsCcC/s320/de%20Gaulle%20vogues%20it.PNG" width="160" /></a></div>"Traffic and Safety" The Commons debate on road policy has set <i>The Economist </i>to wondering about how all the work involved in solving London and Manchester's traffic congestion problems is going to get done. It'll be like railways in the last century. Now, of course, traffic <i>congestion</i> and traffic <i>safety </i>are different issues, and something should be done about safety too, but that's not nearly as interesting and anyway it's all the drivers' fault for being so unsafe, and the police, for there not being enough of them. Also, the French parliamentary reform bill is just a "weak compromise" driven by "mounting public criticism. Although it's good that it weakens the Communists by reducing the role of proportional representation. Because that's the problem with democracy. Too many Communists! <i>The Economist </i>is worried that the release of "Naumann and Bornemann" will strengthen German nationalism and lead the nationalist to try to use rearmament and American aid for "reviving Germany's might." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">That certainly does seem to me to be something that could happen. Also, in a politer world it would be "<a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naumann-Kreis">Dr. Werner Naumann and Dr. Friedrich Karl Bornemann</a>." <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Decision on Gatwick" The White Paper says that Gatwick is it. The next London airport, that is. £6 million will be spent in the first stage of development, offset in the Ministry of Civil Aviation budget by the sale of Croydon and £450,000 in savings on operations elsewhere. It is expensive, but necessary, and the taxpayer will see the money somehow, sometime, somewhere. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6a7y9dtGQYFeNFPHfHQ1DkFvccSuKMgq2dVh41AeItZr2moe0IehLDP9_3Xv1pRi05gSdt23iRt1Jk_sayTKmLS26U6C9Wyjqu6750m-NQpUIp-36jxEe-LsdIT8qRygUnrWcD35nnklOekOQ5EeMwTVUs8ZBu0-SIykJGvpiIX_Zk28b93naoIc6ffzF/s4032/August%201953%20Products%20and%20Processes%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6a7y9dtGQYFeNFPHfHQ1DkFvccSuKMgq2dVh41AeItZr2moe0IehLDP9_3Xv1pRi05gSdt23iRt1Jk_sayTKmLS26U6C9Wyjqu6750m-NQpUIp-36jxEe-LsdIT8qRygUnrWcD35nnklOekOQ5EeMwTVUs8ZBu0-SIykJGvpiIX_Zk28b93naoIc6ffzF/s320/August%201953%20Products%20and%20Processes%202.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Workers in 1952" The Ministry of Labour's annual report for 1952 shows that the British working age population fell by 22,000 to 23,292,000 over the year. An increase in the number of male workers was more than compensated by the loss of 27,000 women, mainly leaving the textiles industry during the recession. Apart from a 3.5% increase in the mining population, the work force continued to refuse to follow national priorities. Disinflation required a fall in the china and glass, paper and printing, and rubber industries, which all saw gains, and a fall in central government employment, which did not happen. Declines in agriculture, fishing, and transport and communication were not called for, and an increase in employment in the engineering industries was wanted, but was only achieved in defence and aircraft, although, again, not as much as was wanted. It also turns out that formal joint labour-management consultation is not a substitute for whatever that mysterious thing is that leads to "better human relations in industry and so higher productivity." <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-AFeYCQhXXEhPNiji3_jEgfO5m0u6XSCt9L3ax8cP9iajY6Yn3Vuvyv0LMoNZ17wrHDQsGlTApxIHRTv3kXyzqZRjoCstbWzhkTbVo0BGcMlJb-8rMGpmq55vkbd66DalvJNf8693oJNLR6hKB_twSftvQDDZhQrQN_hoZizoWqWhROO14lIBS9SOwu4T/s2328/Proposed%20Tank%20cleaning%20exclusion%20zone%201953.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1792" data-original-width="2328" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-AFeYCQhXXEhPNiji3_jEgfO5m0u6XSCt9L3ax8cP9iajY6Yn3Vuvyv0LMoNZ17wrHDQsGlTApxIHRTv3kXyzqZRjoCstbWzhkTbVo0BGcMlJb-8rMGpmq55vkbd66DalvJNf8693oJNLR6hKB_twSftvQDDZhQrQN_hoZizoWqWhROO14lIBS9SOwu4T/s320/Proposed%20Tank%20cleaning%20exclusion%20zone%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Nehru's visit to Karachi did not solve the Kashmir problem, there is going to be a bumper crop in Eastern Europe, where the Communists are trying to ease the burden of collectivisation; the zone in which Britain is going to enforce its restrictions on ships discharging oil tanks is going to extend twelve hundred miles out in the Atlantic along the whole coast of Britain, and more besides, and those who do not like it can complain to exactly nobody, even if it would be <a href="https://legal.un.org/diplomaticconferences/1958_los/#:~:text=At%20its%20first%20session%2C%20in,The%20Commission%20appointed%20Mr.">better if this were all international somehow. </a> Lord Denning is very upset at BOAC for trying to avoid liability for an airport injury, especially because the public corporations are doing it so as to escape any obligation by way of a statute of limitations. Until Parliament does something about it, the Law Lord thinks that the corporations have a responsibility to be adults. The crisis that the Benelux countries was going to have is now not going to happen, so we can all stop worrying about Benelux and worry about Jugoslavia's border with Albania, where Enver Hoxha and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mehmet_Shehu">Mehmet Shehu</a> appear to be on the way out, due to be replaced at Kremlin insistence by more collective leadership. The rest of Jugoslavia's borders are being worked out by border commissions, although that does mean sinister dealings with Communists. Except that Jugoslavia is Communist, too! Does that mean that East Bloc countries are having sinister relations with Communists? It's so confusing! <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Letters</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1978/02/04/frederick-kuh-war-diplomatic-correspondent/ef764511-c5a4-4f96-80cb-9e389aad7343/?noredirect=on">Frederick Kuh</a> points out from Washington that even though America is boycotting China and is upset that its allies aren't doing the same, it is also issuing exemptions to the boycott left, right, and centre, so they're a bunch of hypocrites. P. H. Frankel writes from London that the oil industry needs new pricing formulas or there will be chaos and anarchy on world oil markets. Hector Hughes thinks that the only way of sustaining Scottish outports and their fisheries is a more favourable "freight equalisation plan." Apparently if you read the <b>Note </b>for 25 July you would understand exactly what this means. (I did. I don't.)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Books</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvNmDpzRh7o09d7fAeuaS1PVMO0iQqy0PZRhxKC-4Rw03_-ExVr1fxr0Fxyt9TnXyOwUg0YRyE8iD0NBoRTM8B5tAhyNodqIzdawzjQnBZrHMtBX_xBJPAfYcS06HnyntNH303YnFnEpGINCZHx11fzi5ID4x87deMm5zmwKO-ck1Y_z5TRIvZ-SMKO0Xg/s672/Munthe,%20Axel.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="672" data-original-width="456" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvNmDpzRh7o09d7fAeuaS1PVMO0iQqy0PZRhxKC-4Rw03_-ExVr1fxr0Fxyt9TnXyOwUg0YRyE8iD0NBoRTM8B5tAhyNodqIzdawzjQnBZrHMtBX_xBJPAfYcS06HnyntNH303YnFnEpGINCZHx11fzi5ID4x87deMm5zmwKO-ck1Y_z5TRIvZ-SMKO0Xg/s320/Munthe,%20Axel.jpg" width="217" /></a></div>Have we heard about Kenneth Boulding's <i>The Organisational Revolution? </i>Probably not, probably another book with the same title by a completely different author who is the same man, writing about democracy and pluralism and capitalism and large corporations and ethics and politics. In America, we are done with individualism and believe in talking it out. Not that you'd know it from the press! (I think the difference here is between those who fought the war and those who covered it in Washington.) John Lough has very confusingly edited John LOCKE's letters from France and Cambridge has published them as <i>Locke's Travels in France, 1675--9</i>, in case you wanted to read all the letters no-one ever cared about before. Margaret Ashdown and S. Clement Brown's <i>Social Service and Mental Health: An Essay on Psychiatric Case Workers </i>is a fine treatment of an important new profession. Gustav Munthe and Gudrun Uexküll have collaborated on <i>The Story of Axel Munthe</i>. It occurs to <i>The Economist </i>that we might think, "Who?" and so it subtitles the review, "A Gifted European." Unfortunatelly, it isn't a very <i>good </i>book about this <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Munthe">Gifted European</a>, author of <i>The Story of San Michele </i>and founder of an international Munthe cult. That is, a cult of people who think that Axel Munthe is a very important person and a great . . . something or other. Besides a psychiatrist, I mean. I've never even HEARD of him!<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>American Survey</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Eisenhower's Armistice" Senator Douglas says that Truman would have been impeached if he'd come up with the armistice that Eisenhower is being celebrated for. Which would be an interesting point if Senator Douglas weren't such a complete idiot. Korea <i>isn't </i>unified, and we <i>have </i>told Syngman Rhee to go hang, which we would never do to Chiang. The Hearst and Scripps-Howard papers are upset, but no-one cares, because the boys can come home and taxes can go down, and Church ladies and the exiles in San Francisco can go hang with Rhee. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Summer School" About a third of students take extra courses in the summer, which is about as many professors who are young enough and underpaid enough to teach them. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI_qJAx_pfZRnbMIHs-H5n0AqLpiWcDAar6cULshfK_N9prNNKI-nLKPY-D8QI99SFyHveZhY6W2fiF99giHga2SXNxQcdZvo7PSul_sB8zKi6OxSwslgiPn4Gjbr9vIekDasyz2j9nXmQv51mRg46eanfSnJcFyTYz15XYHSGL3_0IxxPCPoITjATpZZe/s321/Blyth,%20Anne.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Ann Blyth" border="0" data-original-height="321" data-original-width="235" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjI_qJAx_pfZRnbMIHs-H5n0AqLpiWcDAar6cULshfK_N9prNNKI-nLKPY-D8QI99SFyHveZhY6W2fiF99giHga2SXNxQcdZvo7PSul_sB8zKi6OxSwslgiPn4Gjbr9vIekDasyz2j9nXmQv51mRg46eanfSnJcFyTYz15XYHSGL3_0IxxPCPoITjATpZZe/w234-h320/Blyth,%20Anne.jpg" width="234" /></a></div>"Summer Students" No-one wants to work in August, but some people are too keen to go to the beach, so they go to summer school too; and since nice colleges are nice, so did <i>The Economist. </i>"they are popularly supposed to be attended primarily by spinster teachers secretly hunting husbands. all that the observant doubter can say with certainty is that, if true, the spinster school teacher is better looking than she used to be." <i> </i>Hey! It beats the New York office! Also, some people take practical courses to improve their earnings. It's the American dream, says <i>The Economist. <br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>American Notes</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Congress in a Hurry" Congress needed to get out of town for the 1st, so the President's increase in postal rates has to wait until the next session, we've given in to McCarran on immigration and cut the total from 240,000 over two years to 209,000 over three. On the bright side, the Administration has ducked Bricker's constitutional amendment limiting the President's treaty making powers, and Simpson's tariff bill, although the trade bill it did get is disappointing. In other good news, the national debt might not ris<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7wljh9ZXIPP3Bzz5Poph4Kvdr6IfgUBNE0ca0mnfHUE7IrYXJgIy4t1ryVTeZUHpMZ5R7EF-PgVfKhvY33YkQU2ij9rDH7qesvg-fg0SOCQstFIKbBp0AVGni0M8mJ5xm2Bm8Wb0NOsYGsdvi-hJG90eGywXBnudMDkuGFrRrPss2xA-pDhyUS7jjZQyN/s2480/Tanker%20tonnage%20by%20country%201939%20to%201953.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2311" data-original-width="2480" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7wljh9ZXIPP3Bzz5Poph4Kvdr6IfgUBNE0ca0mnfHUE7IrYXJgIy4t1ryVTeZUHpMZ5R7EF-PgVfKhvY33YkQU2ij9rDH7qesvg-fg0SOCQstFIKbBp0AVGni0M8mJ5xm2Bm8Wb0NOsYGsdvi-hJG90eGywXBnudMDkuGFrRrPss2xA-pDhyUS7jjZQyN/s320/Tanker%20tonnage%20by%20country%201939%20to%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br />e through the current ceiling next session, forcing the President to ask Congress to raise it again. We are talking about universal service again as the number of men available for selective service continues to fall, the deadline for selling government rubber plants has been extended, the College Man has been recalled to study reforming government to save money <i>again, </i>and Hollywood lobbying has spared cinemas that 20% admissions tax, saving about an eighth of what the industry lost to the President's long and bitter struggle to keep the excess profits tax. </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The World Overseas</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Aa8f36ShjipxDh6dWGsVB5NjGHB8LMUdH9HEkMecsogFubT0uGPq3ZEIUuUm-ioX4uey1f-cBUJPgBDUWv260ptixuxeLTBUNnqP246VKUvYtA_EZN5z3VMbFuca6TTluQAkemPrbguHpqiDg7g5Y3o6_bV_JOlDMbUOdJFQZJKClq4OvdOBpWGyhxwV/s4032/August%201953%20Products%20and%20Processes%203.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1Aa8f36ShjipxDh6dWGsVB5NjGHB8LMUdH9HEkMecsogFubT0uGPq3ZEIUuUm-ioX4uey1f-cBUJPgBDUWv260ptixuxeLTBUNnqP246VKUvYtA_EZN5z3VMbFuca6TTluQAkemPrbguHpqiDg7g5Y3o6_bV_JOlDMbUOdJFQZJKClq4OvdOBpWGyhxwV/s320/August%201953%20Products%20and%20Processes%203.jpg" width="240" /></a></div>"A Year of Naguib" General Naguib has been in charge for a year. He has done well on the economy, but he keeps saying mean things about the British and implying that he wants them out of Suez, which is obviously not on, because then the Communists would strike. Kwame Nkrumah is into his third year as premier of the Gold Coast, where he has been much more moderate and sensitive to Northern concerns than expected. South Africa's Finance Minister is in a difficult situation because South Africa is having trouble attracting foreign investment due to everyone expecting a race war to break out there any minute. I may be cynical before my time, but I am very much afraid that it is a "Dutch versus English" war they're worried about, and if that can be settled, the Coloureds will have to fend for themselves. Germany has cut steel prices because the rest of Europe says it has to, we celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Bolshevik tendency, and we bring you one last bit of coverage from Panmunjom. Did you know that <i>Pravda </i>once sent a correspondent in his own car? It was the talk of the bullpen! A full page of coverage ends, fatally <i>(concluded.)</i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/OI3Bcgh4Jko" width="320" youtube-src-id="OI3Bcgh4Jko"></iframe></div><br /><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Business World</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLfX5e-8Dw63F6wuucX1IZ8I3Y-4siISRPyGCvNiTq2baVAtWsKA8w-FG0XPqH4YdQHV05lrpo7yfzr2bCd_qNVgkiL6U0IxFv_Zf0nZqdfN5kfu8coNtOZPsINNhbX5iY3_0wec92VtjTmfjk7Im8OZlCnmc5wI9kMxUSyDaQbqF-lLNTzbbrw69tPibp/s2480/Tanker%20tonnage%20by%20country%201939%20to%201953.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2311" data-original-width="2480" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLfX5e-8Dw63F6wuucX1IZ8I3Y-4siISRPyGCvNiTq2baVAtWsKA8w-FG0XPqH4YdQHV05lrpo7yfzr2bCd_qNVgkiL6U0IxFv_Zf0nZqdfN5kfu8coNtOZPsINNhbX5iY3_0wec92VtjTmfjk7Im8OZlCnmc5wI9kMxUSyDaQbqF-lLNTzbbrw69tPibp/s320/Tanker%20tonnage%20by%20country%201939%20to%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Three solid pages on the latest Quarterly Economic Report shows that last year's recession wasn't as hard on British business as it looked like it would be, because they got away with not issuing any dividends thanks to "disinflation." Or something like that. It's not as though <i>The Economist </i>writes financial news for <i>reading, </i>because if the layperson understood what was going on (for example, that this article is praising industry for not investing), they would probably get upset or something. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Oil by Sea --I: Tankers Galore" New tankers are being delivered at an unprecedented rate, 3.5 million tons deadweight per year even assuming significant building delays. And they're all coming along even though the world has surplus tanker tonnage right now. The world tanker fleet has just about doubled since 1939, much of it is held by private owners, and <i>The Economist </i>looks at the numbers and tries to understand why they are ordering so many without getting anywhere. My theory, which is mine, is that it is because there is more oil being shipped these days. Go ahead, tell me I'm a silly girl who deserves to be pawed at work by an incognito prince/drunken boor. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Business Notes</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSHSvrtUDd_eaRc9Tqwsq9nb5olgsGIqZ4cpdGvi1_cSCQ2nFjVAgqiAWhZvKc0XoP29FFqf_mpHsyLZ2vCvg8ensnYq4VMZ9McodcCf58LTWVoxHTVmcPPEv_TTf_9qUU6IE3ve-Jzme-m0xijmocq_0TFFEbA12lgSJNSSsTYmaVN7nZKAkONEJpDhFy/s2227/Iranian%20coup%201953.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1253" data-original-width="2227" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSHSvrtUDd_eaRc9Tqwsq9nb5olgsGIqZ4cpdGvi1_cSCQ2nFjVAgqiAWhZvKc0XoP29FFqf_mpHsyLZ2vCvg8ensnYq4VMZ9McodcCf58LTWVoxHTVmcPPEv_TTf_9qUU6IE3ve-Jzme-m0xijmocq_0TFFEbA12lgSJNSSsTYmaVN7nZKAkONEJpDhFy/s320/Iranian%20coup%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>So far the truce hasn't let to falling commodity prices, and is completely unrelated to Ayr County Council's bond issue not being taken up, and British production so far this year is up 74% on the first quarter of 1952, 7% on the second quarter, while employment has recovered. Bank deposits seem to be rising, South Africa is implementing new taxes to cover the budget, the United Kingdom is issuing Pakistan a £10 million credit to cover its "dire" lack of sterling, something is up in copper prices and investment trusts, no-one knows what to make of movements in Middle Eastern oil prices, which seem to anticipate the "differential between the rate equivalent to USMC minus 20% and the rate equivalent to USMC minus 50%" widening, which "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_Iranian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat">might happen in a number of different ways</a>." More sterling is being transferred to third party countries, which is good, the match trade with Russia is up to £500,000 this year, the Federation of British Industries and the British Employers' Confederation are not merging, sulphur seems to be scarce still, although who knows because the statistics aren't very good, the cocoa market is booming, and Alcoa is finally getting a listing on the London Stock Exchange so that it can raise money over there. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Flight, </i>7 August 1953</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Leaders</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Smoothness <i>all </i>the way" Flying is nice; it's the bit getting from being comfortable at home to being as comfortable as possible in your plane that's annoying, and Something Should Be Done. At least for those who want to pay a bit extra. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div>Nobody has died at the National Gliding Championships so far. </div><div><br /></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC9FdUgJbxa-M0LGusE6Hvdh4AcCDHbk_AjKSwLr5j9SsJiHC5TKENEnKW5_yy9PTTRPumAShB_TbDGoVtHnHW61mQOmJBP9L5AHJsH4_BGR99WVqDv0BmE6HXh71rQv0HOBR82q847L7-7D27KjKqPKsaYEKBNGOhxe0audGEuj_ZWNBmBdYWT-0kAOKs/s348/Horace.PNG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="301" data-original-width="348" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhC9FdUgJbxa-M0LGusE6Hvdh4AcCDHbk_AjKSwLr5j9SsJiHC5TKENEnKW5_yy9PTTRPumAShB_TbDGoVtHnHW61mQOmJBP9L5AHJsH4_BGR99WVqDv0BmE6HXh71rQv0HOBR82q847L7-7D27KjKqPKsaYEKBNGOhxe0audGEuj_ZWNBmBdYWT-0kAOKs/w400-h346/Horace.PNG" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">I only regret that Baron Shackleton's long career in public service <br />deprived us of more 'Horace the Tame Stressman' cartoons</span></td></tr></tbody></table><b>From All Quarters </b>reports that Sefton Branker's son, John, has joined the IATA. The Ministry of Supply has denied suggestions that it might order the Folland Gnat, which it could get at 900 for the cost of 215 Hunters or Swifts because that is not really true, as it ignores engines, and anyway the plane isn't wanted because it isn't very good. This did not impress Arthur Henderson or<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Shackleton,_Baron_Shackleton"> Ernie Shackleton.</a> Air France will be buying 3 Comet 2s, and is interested in the Comet 3. The first Avon-Sabre and Avon-Comet have flown. The radar research establishments at Malvern will be combined as the Radar Research Establishment under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Radar_Establishment">W. J. Richards</a>, for efficiency reasons. Exercise MOMENTUM will exercise the air defences of the country against high and low altitude attacks and convoy defence.</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Here and There </b>reports that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Profumo">J. D. Profumo</a>, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Civil Aviation, will be a member of the crew of the BEA Viscount in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_London_to_Christchurch_air_race">London-Christchurch race</a>. RAF Calshot is losing its Sunderland squadron and becoming a maintenance base., but the Saunders-Roe Princesses won't have to change their mooring. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_von_Mises">Richard von Mises</a>, the former Professor of Aeronautics at Harvard, has died. <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/F_aRwxQsEwM" width="320" youtube-src-id="F_aRwxQsEwM"></iframe></div>A story about a Vampire flying to South Africa for some very good reason follows, much less interesting than trials of of the Decca Storm-Warning Radar Type 40 at Entebbe in Uganda. The first production model will be delivered soon in Southeast Asia. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSQD9Q2l4UbNp4LJ0B7ccSAXvXpKGrCGHA6WBonman-_HXV34kCqxhmshlZ6DJwy_uLXpevov79ZS8tEh0BDeXZKzTsbW9BSBtyuEG3x32PxP2cPAqI6i0x_1DnMX8T7J-zPq8KUF3eM5hlYpqqNyBvqBWCDYCiUDdmJ2bIpEDO90UtHBLQdgUQzyfmwUV/s2639/Boeing%20wing%20skin%20gauges.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2278" data-original-width="2639" height="276" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSQD9Q2l4UbNp4LJ0B7ccSAXvXpKGrCGHA6WBonman-_HXV34kCqxhmshlZ6DJwy_uLXpevov79ZS8tEh0BDeXZKzTsbW9BSBtyuEG3x32PxP2cPAqI6i0x_1DnMX8T7J-zPq8KUF3eM5hlYpqqNyBvqBWCDYCiUDdmJ2bIpEDO90UtHBLQdgUQzyfmwUV/s320/Boeing%20wing%20skin%20gauges.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"Boeing's New Airliner" America's first attempt to catch up with the Comet (says <i>Flight</i>) is a very Boeing plane. It is the same low-drag section, 35 degree sweepback wing seen in the B-47, which means that it will continue the steady increase in skin gauge thickness that brought the B-47 to a 75S machined hard aluminum 3/8" gauge and will likely lead to a 20,000lb wing in the 707, posing major problems of manufacture. It will require very precise and difficult rivet work, and although it will give a mach 0.9 wing, but at the expense of handling and stowage. Still, the 707 will carry most of its fuel in the wing, but the undercarriage will apparently retract into the undercarriage rather than pods between the engines, as first reported, and their axles will be only 21ft apart, with stabilising outrigger wheels and 170lb pressure wheels. The fuselage will be massive, with true hull length of 122ft 2" and an 11ft diameter upper bubble with 89ft useable passenger length. Doors will be small, and inward opening. The tail is striking, control is through irreversible jacks, flaps resemble those of the B-52, power will be from Pratt and Whitney JT3Ls. An expected fuel load of 50t will support useful range. Accommodation, all on the upper deck, will be 100, in a 3 by 2 arrangement. First rollout will be next June or July, and the first production plane will come in 1956 with an expected price of £1,430,000, "very much more than will be asked for our second generation of jet transports."</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Aircraft Intelligence</b> reports that the two-seat Venom is coming along, that the Convair Sea Dart XF2Y-1 has been doing public trials in San Francisco, that the loss of the Convair XP5Y was due to the failure of its inflight trimming system, that Doman Helicopters will absolutely start building its H-31 soon.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Armstrong Siddeley Viper" Armstrong Siddeley's tiny little Viper turbojet is just the cutest little thing. More seriously, it is for throway pilotless drones, so it isn't some massively engineered monstrosity. The really interesting thing is the various economies and control simplifications, especially in the fuel system, where power can be controlled by a single electronic actuator in the pump system for remote control. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7TfnfOAU9hrnm3WGID66gKw-hPDWD0_mRjQrtEBkqRA6x7JFyPHC9fPEwLZmp-f9lVqpNT52L9C2B_jLK1B-eX1wY80IbiB4ZM5LBhdRrScysI-4Rwa1h3uImIyz9gCMZdFiZAgJwGEvgrveXedRmz9Ck6aM4lQCGSjdLRCDY0tIF8pM9TsMFqY2DwTFL/s4032/Armstrong%20Siddeley%20Viper.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2999" data-original-width="4032" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7TfnfOAU9hrnm3WGID66gKw-hPDWD0_mRjQrtEBkqRA6x7JFyPHC9fPEwLZmp-f9lVqpNT52L9C2B_jLK1B-eX1wY80IbiB4ZM5LBhdRrScysI-4Rwa1h3uImIyz9gCMZdFiZAgJwGEvgrveXedRmz9Ck6aM4lQCGSjdLRCDY0tIF8pM9TsMFqY2DwTFL/w640-h476/Armstrong%20Siddeley%20Viper.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Correspondence</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">G. A. Broomfield hopes that we will continue to remember those long ago days before the war with airport names and museum exhibits. George Cook and "Ex P.R. Mosquito Pilot" reminisce about those days. Patrick Johnson has an opinion about what to call a "heliport," the Chairman of Air-Britain is offended at the idea of foreign planes at Farnborough Walter Matthew elaborates on aerial top-dressing from New Zealand, while Pat Sloan of the British Soviet Friendship Society liked the recent article on aviation in Russia in the old days, before the wars. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEtd-o2SWEC3e_kA-ju4bTgRC1XymAW7AKhL75gHb_n9aVSzUI4YZDmWFiB6l8QnTCK2CKlwi2WB062rgBIwqS0IkNqviM3mZfCnnR7Y1fjjYvsxW8GKCh8Oi1VjYedxW51_sH386GEWFkksMDfux6OVAT53gsTb7ruvgUeY1jC3Ccs37WMkfopaM9yOA3/s4032/National%20Gears%20Moonbase%20Ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEtd-o2SWEC3e_kA-ju4bTgRC1XymAW7AKhL75gHb_n9aVSzUI4YZDmWFiB6l8QnTCK2CKlwi2WB062rgBIwqS0IkNqviM3mZfCnnR7Y1fjjYvsxW8GKCh8Oi1VjYedxW51_sH386GEWFkksMDfux6OVAT53gsTb7ruvgUeY1jC3Ccs37WMkfopaM9yOA3/s320/National%20Gears%20Moonbase%20Ad.jpg" width="240" /></a></div><b>The Aeronautical Bookshelf </b>has received a memoir about gliding from the still-living-somehow Philip Wills, a picture book from Edward L. Throm and James S. Crenshaw, <i>Album of Aviation, </i>and Arthur C. Clarke's <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prelude_to_Space">Prelude to Space</a>, </i>an unusually-grounded piece of science fiction featuring the first manned moonship, taking off from the Australian desert in 1975, and the thrilling story of RAAF 77 Squadron in Korea, <i>Across the Parallel, </i>by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Odgers">George Odgers</a>. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Sikorsky S-52 Series" The Sikorsky S-52 is a very successful helicopter, the one page version. (There's a similarly pointless article on the Provost trainer following.)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Civil Aviation </b>reports that Jan Smuts Airport has been opened in Johannesburg, that South Africa's charter airlines are fighting with the National Transport Commission, that BOAC bookings are up, that a BEA Viscount has set another record, that airport activity is up and the passenger tax is gone, that the Hurel-Dubois HD32 is quite a plane, and that El Al is improving the performance of its C-46s with auxiliary <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbomeca_Marbor%C3%A9">Turbomeca Marbores</a> under the fuselage. <br /><div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>The Economist, </i>8 August 1953</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Leaders</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Second Session" Will there be an autumn election? There doesn't need to be. The second session of parliament went well, and all these illness are no matter because what if Labour had had Bevin and Attlee out at the same time in 1947? That would have been worse! On the other hand, the Tories haven't been nearly free-market enough. If they start being "more forceful" they won't <i>need </i>to go to the country until 1954! This week in "conclusions we wanted to draw enough to steer an entire column there"! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The Voice of Molotov" The Soviet missive on the proposed conference on Germany shows that Molotov is still at the office over there, because it sounds just like him. The Russians are willing to talk about German unity on condition that the borders of Germany are settled, which means that they want the Oder-Neisse line. They say they are open to bases, but not that the removal of British and American bases adjacent to Russia will be exchanged for the closing of Russian bases on the Black Sea and Baltic. They want China at the "general" session, but can't be expected to see Dulles there, if so. They want a global discussion at that session, which the Western Allies won't do, because it would divide the alliance, which otherwise isn't a ploy much used in the missive. That probably shows that the Soviets are serious. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2rS8lPYyOktZ35_JqfHgsj_KuwSBvCqW_oNMOYIfPgD7ev_jUxWdhupqs1Ds6H67_6Rs95fJyXfNvd296pdyG-ryeenWX79hRx6WbPUK1mtes8HJZqeLk-tq5bb1wlvEsCrnu_q7myOZIfzQD9YAhAC_VrMVqzJ6tKj-NpVamiT1x32UqvUyMERI0faWL/s4032/20231128_213155267_iOS.heic" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg2rS8lPYyOktZ35_JqfHgsj_KuwSBvCqW_oNMOYIfPgD7ev_jUxWdhupqs1Ds6H67_6Rs95fJyXfNvd296pdyG-ryeenWX79hRx6WbPUK1mtes8HJZqeLk-tq5bb1wlvEsCrnu_q7myOZIfzQD9YAhAC_VrMVqzJ6tKj-NpVamiT1x32UqvUyMERI0faWL/s320/20231128_213155267_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"Diplomacy's Left Hand" The Berlin food parcel "play," in which West Berlin authorities issue food parcels to East German visitors, has led to $15 million in American food reaching East Germany. Is this a local initiative? A Western propaganda initiative? Why is the East Bloc so terrified by it? Is it because of all the initiatives directed at the Bloc, the balloons, the radio broadcasts, the fake newspapers and rewards to defecting pilots? <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_influence_on_public_opinion">Because this looks like <i>someone </i>doing something, ostensibly for the Western alliance, over which the governments of the West do not seem to have much of a say.</a> What's the plan? For Russia to withdraw from eastern Europe? Then we should stop destabilising their allies! To overthrow the Communist governments of eastern Europe? Then we shouldn't gape in stunned surprise when an uprising actually breaks out, as last month in East Berlin. The right hand must know what the left hand is doing. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>From <i>The Economist </i>of 1853, </b>"Peace or Appeasement?" The only way to stop a war with Russia is to be as aggressive towards Russia as possible. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN4UfOjqF544tohxkniSciABSzUj1_9sLd-qXowoDxdgYfbPbsZhcAWzdjdicviYuYrAyni8gGlRl8F-owTrvkH0GgNAjKn8aIWLwU8cXbEgFAZE32Bheszu8lnyFB4QlS2k3bvxxlmkflqJ_l49n8kBculPZYxzM7Uz1JdW2lW4aWWei4SaSEoOXwnPp_/s920/Edward%20Burra%20The%20Snack%20Bar.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="920" data-original-width="667" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgN4UfOjqF544tohxkniSciABSzUj1_9sLd-qXowoDxdgYfbPbsZhcAWzdjdicviYuYrAyni8gGlRl8F-owTrvkH0GgNAjKn8aIWLwU8cXbEgFAZE32Bheszu8lnyFB4QlS2k3bvxxlmkflqJ_l49n8kBculPZYxzM7Uz1JdW2lW4aWWei4SaSEoOXwnPp_/s320/Edward%20Burra%20The%20Snack%20Bar.jpg" width="232" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Edward Burra, <i>The Snack Bar </i>(1930)</span></td></tr></tbody></table>"Food at the Bar" Here's a slice of British life that completely passed me by, even though I've definitely eaten at snack bars in my visits. <i>The Economist </i>points out that snack-bars are one of the easiest businesses for a would-be businessman to start, and likely to be the most successful. They can feed up to ten times as many people as a restaurant in the same space, and the labour cost is lower. Rationing encourages people to eat out, and the postwar inflation made them more profitable, peaking in 1947. They seem to exist beside restaurants, catering to people who "have never developed a devotion to table service." "Devotion?" As a result, there are 15,000 snack-bars in the country. Some are nice, some are not. Okay, so much for that; but here is where it gets interesting. "Snack-bars can . . . employ women almost exclusively, and need only pay them 70% of a man's wage." The girl behind the counter at a London snack-bar gets only 74s 6d and a free lunch for her 47 hour week, or £5, tips included. This is a lot better than the prewar 35s for a 54 hour week, but still means a much lower snack-bar wage bill than for a restaurant. On the basis that some of the money should go to the customer so that they will keep buying, and some to the businessman so that he will grow rich, the target in the industry is to spend 40% on food and a profit of 7%. Getting into the business with a large (Italian) family means no worries about labour, especially after 7 and on the weekends, when competitors close to avoid paying time-and-a-quarter. There is some overlap with cafeterias and milk bars, especially the latter, which when they started appearing in 1935 had the advantage of support from the Milk Marketing Board for their milkshakes and milk-based soups. Now they don't, but with a milk surplus emerging, maybe that will change? As for snack-bars, the margin on tea and coffee will cover items where customers are more resistant to price, such as sandwiches, which rarely go for more than 4s, even though a salmon sandwich is better value than a lettuce or tomato sandwich. Fruit squash is also popular, especially the best-known brands, but the popularity of ice cream has fallen since the war as other sweets have become available. Ham sandwiches have become popular. There is concern about health risks, especially with potentially bacteria-contaminated sandwiches, milk, cooked meat, salads, synthetic cream, and ice-cream. "None of the recent outbreaks of food-poisoning has been attributed to a snack-bar," but rather schools and industrial canteens, but it is a risk, especially because the infections are harder to trace. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So that's the snack-bar story. Crikes! <br /><br /><b>Notes of the Week</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Conscription and Commitments" The 1948 National Service Act will expire in the next session, although it could be extended by an order in council. That means a debate, since Labour wants to talk about the two-year period. The Government proposes a five-year extension of the two-year service, and a new bill extending reserve liabilities, with ex-National Servicemen gradually replacing the WWII conscripts currently making up the reserves. Labour wants to know what we need all the manpower for given the current international situation, but <i>The Economist </i>points out that commitments haven't changed. We hope they will, with the Korean armistice and an agreement with Egypt, but until that happens, the argument for the 1950 (Labour) extension of 18 month to two-year service remain. The Army and Air Force are 42% National Service, and if the service period were cut, the turnover at overseas postings would compromise efficiency. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIPec2y8tUskjURp2p28DrVt49Z8WN7OywC96hDW1L3vFbdcjwY6DbpdxL7BP68KUhVbOZ7OIErCO6DKzXO6wV-xImLRV_S8dreuIuUV2ijbfOppMdOurfX7hXhXvQAp8p5nbaDsXaUXS14onScUsLAnK-n3qjVC-bjYyn7MgPvFHU96vHs1dfeNaPKJnA/s304/Montesi,%20Wilma.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Wilma Montesi" border="0" data-original-height="166" data-original-width="304" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIPec2y8tUskjURp2p28DrVt49Z8WN7OywC96hDW1L3vFbdcjwY6DbpdxL7BP68KUhVbOZ7OIErCO6DKzXO6wV-xImLRV_S8dreuIuUV2ijbfOppMdOurfX7hXhXvQAp8p5nbaDsXaUXS14onScUsLAnK-n3qjVC-bjYyn7MgPvFHU96vHs1dfeNaPKJnA/s16000/Montesi,%20Wilma.jpg" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">There is to be a review of the Civil Service. Mr. Attlee is against it, so <i>The Economist </i>is for it, even though there will be no "overhaul" of the Civil Service, which it might like. The Russians are being awful in Austria by offering the Austrians a peace treaty in an underhanded bid to divide the West. De Gaspieri has fallen because he could not get support from the Left; now <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/11/archives/attilio-piccioni-83-cofounder-of-christian-democrats-is-dead.html">Attilio Piccioni</a> will try to put together a Gasperi government without Gasperi by appealing to the Monarchists. I certainly hope there's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilma_Montesi">no raging scandal involving Piccioni of the lurid kind that <i>The Economist </i>wouldn't deign to cover, even though everyone else is!</a><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Nigerian politicians are meeting in conference with the Colonial Office to sort out north-versus-south conflicts, while in Kenya, <i>The Economist </i>shakes its head sadly at the settlers' failure to come to grips with the "new era." (That is, the "Mau Mau era.") Instead of being "constructive," the "energies" of settlers and government are "absorbed" by "bitterness and . . . a sense of grievance." Settlers are concerned with the lack of manpower after the Lancashire Fusiliers leave the colony, which underlines the fact that they depend on Britain to maintain Kenya's "frail settlement policies." Talk of the settlers taking "full power" has died down. Nothing will happen until "circumstances permit," "circumstances" involving "all races" in conference about "the political future." A future for which "no political framework" has emerged. Except some welfare policies of the kind that settlers used to reject. That's an awful lot of circumlocution for such a short <b>Note, </b>but it takes a good long walk to go all around the big, nasty block in the middle of the road that is labelled, "Maybe the Mau Maus have a point?" Also, Libya is going to be independent, and get a nice rent cheque for British air bases, but it is not likely to cover the national deficit, and the Libyans are upset about Egyptian intrigues in Benghazi. Malaya is also showing a budget deficit, but that's because of the Emergency. Turkish politics are getting lively again. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7i9xHoUyPynI1rhCKwd2Q9EzPqpReGqwasHHRqsYKc4sF13Fyh4O-inf3ztsJwVa2Kjigvg3Ld2WIEVE1a20jGBEAmeWv8Ub6gpOFx3nd_3E36a_9wtvmxp1T9EUd675lAHEbs3mlYg5TiDSj-Biv4wHI941Kl_t8RX5TCCickUdT08kd3gRzBuJSdIkv/s4032/20231129_130318627_iOS.heic" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7i9xHoUyPynI1rhCKwd2Q9EzPqpReGqwasHHRqsYKc4sF13Fyh4O-inf3ztsJwVa2Kjigvg3Ld2WIEVE1a20jGBEAmeWv8Ub6gpOFx3nd_3E36a_9wtvmxp1T9EUd675lAHEbs3mlYg5TiDSj-Biv4wHI941Kl_t8RX5TCCickUdT08kd3gRzBuJSdIkv/s320/20231129_130318627_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Morning Calm in Korea" The prisoners are coming home, the guns are silent, casualty lists are being closed, Syngman Rhee is hanging from the barbed wire, but that doesn't mean that there's no clouds in the distant sky, such as Communists and South Korean intransigents being difficult. Also, the Supreme Soviet is meeting to hear a budget that cuts the tax on farmers' private land to assuage peasant unrest. It also carries forward the cut in the turnover tax that reduced the cost of consumer goods, and cuts state borrowing. In spite of this, it budgets a higher expenditure and a large surplus, apparently in hope of efficiencies in state enterprises and higher profits. There is, however, going to be cut in defence spending from 23.9% of the budget in 1952 to just above 1950's 20.1%, itself a postwar high. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Subsistence Through Assistance" Too many people (1.7 million people are getting allowances, 1.1 million on top of assistance!) are getting assistance on top of their national insurance payments, and if this goes on and the rate is set to "subsistence plus rent," which is apparently the all-party consensus, there will have to be major increases in the national insurance contribution soon. Food rationing is ridiculous and made possible by ever increasing subsidies. <i>The Economist </i>disapproves. Mental health services are more important than ever, but there is a severe shortage of mental hospital nursing staff, which can only be made up with untrained nursing assistants, which is not very satisfactory, although I'm not sure what to say about a "solution" that involves training the assistants just a bit, and if we boost their pay to reflect their training, won't we have to boost nurse pay, too? The Medical Research Board has come out with its recommendations on how medical research should be conducted in Britain. They're still a bit vague, so I won't go into them with the kind of detail I save for important subjects like snack-bars. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Letters</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Peter Baker writes to explain that "Boothbyites" aren't nearly as bad as "Bevanites." <i>The Economist </i>disagrees. It's not <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Boothby,_Baron_Boothby">Sir Robert Boothby</a>'s economics it disagrees, and it agrees that Boothbyites and Bevanites certainly aren't a minority. That's the problem. Because what the magazine is worried about is their "soft" foreign policy. Cornelius O'Dwyer of the Mutual Security Agency defends his agency against accusations that it is maintaining an obsolete oil pricing system. S. J. Langley points out that reforming the transit fee structure for Middle Eastern oil could enrich some of the poorest regions of the world. Gordon Evans argues for extending the UN's Technical Assistance programme and increasing its budget. L. Russell Muirhead, an editor at Blue Guides, politely points out that <i>The Economist </i>has no idea what it is talking about with respect to travel guides. Andrew Rothstein argues that Communist intellectuals aren't a bunch of lying shills. Robert Moore has some fairly airy ideas about why Jerusalem should be a united, internationally-administered city. <i>The Economist </i>offers a pragmatic additional reason. If you have two Jerusalems competing for the tourist dollar, money gets left on the table.<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTWw3wS0gCdlgEhhcAw1gRdoWM-a6r1RcbL_Bf_Lio4W1GB54UTVYkzsARiI6Od8zF2jP3UbxfWTlUnMwaaMbsLzNo5ZDfajEKCrAEE2xoKFfVGnnOkDeAsErU5Io0kgF9RfqtwQNXTfo9QTOVj2WsTDj7ZR4um2rLl-wKZoANcHhbFGfswmpd9PAiwhV0/s640/Salmon%20with%20pickled%20strawberres.webp" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="427" data-original-width="640" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTWw3wS0gCdlgEhhcAw1gRdoWM-a6r1RcbL_Bf_Lio4W1GB54UTVYkzsARiI6Od8zF2jP3UbxfWTlUnMwaaMbsLzNo5ZDfajEKCrAEE2xoKFfVGnnOkDeAsErU5Io0kgF9RfqtwQNXTfo9QTOVj2WsTDj7ZR4um2rLl-wKZoANcHhbFGfswmpd9PAiwhV0/s320/Salmon%20with%20pickled%20strawberres.webp" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">I have been unable to find an image of Dorothy Salmon Pickles on the<br />Internet, but "salmon with pickled strawberries" sounds interesting!</span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Books</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Pickles">Dorothy Pickles</a> (which is a real name)<b> </b>and Brian Chapman both have books about French governance and politics. Pickles is good, but too nice to the Communists, it says here by greatly underestimating the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pursuit_of_Nazi_collaborators#France">20,000--90,000 executed during the <i>epuration </i>at a mere 3000.</a> Robert Hale's <i>Limits of Economic Liberty </i>explains that you need some government to have true economic freedom, but only advances to the limits of the "frontiers between economic and political theory," showing just how much work needs to be done. Arthur Campbell's <i>Jungle Green </i>is supposed to be an authentic picture of National Servicemen fighting in Malaya. <i>The Economist </i>thinks it is more polite to spend a few paragraphs implying that it is mostly made up, and not just come out and say so. Leon Edel's <i>Henry James: The Untried Years, </i>is the first of a proposed three volumes, is about the great author's childhood, and is, the magazine says, "Freudian." At the command, "EYES . . . ROLL!" I should have been a drill sergeant, but instead us ladies have to be wives, instead and <i>really </i>stick it to men. W. Grey Walter's <i>The Living Brain </i>is about the rarest of all things. It presents the latest evidence from cerebral electrophysiology and the author's own mechanical models of human behaviour, and seems very up-to-date, with lots of "homeostasis," "feedback," and "scanning." A. G. N. Flew has edited <i>Logic and Language</i> in a second edition for Blackwell, collecting nine works by current scholars on the relationship between philosophy and language. They're pretty good articles even if the reviewer has no time for all this "philosophy is a language game" stuff. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Bonnefous">Edouard Bonnefous</a> has <i>L'Europe en face de son Destine</i>, which is about what is keeping the United States of Europe, I bet before even reading the review. After reading it, I think you owe me five bucks. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>American Survey</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Congress Marks Time" This year between the fight over the debt limit and "deep shock and sorrow at the death of Senator Taft," the final days of a Congressional session seem even more frenzied in British eyes than usual. The 83rd Congress was supposed to be the one that brought a revolution in government, but the whole reducing the power of government agenda is now put off onto the new Hoover Commission or the next Congress, or, anyway, sometime in the distant future. As though cutting appropriations were somehow not enough! Conservative Republicans have their various concerns about State and foreign aid, but <i>The Economist </i>gives the game away when it mentions "taxes . . . not cut." Unfortunately, Eisenhower is a lot more popular than the Republican party. Perhaps that means that he will have more power over Congress in the next session leading up to the '54 midterms than Truman did in 1950, when he was poison to his own party, at least in the South. At the very least, even if the President can't get anything done (Hawaiian statehood, amending Taft-Hartley), at least he can fend off the friends of chaos in his own party. We hope!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY5PRRvvOdt7FXPfPPLi1jH9GJxFpZdnvIwPixJsyXFeeLYqoo3RSnm0W71DM-u1I7t4q_2TZx1xfnUVrDYJcfjEUeyJrmPado54xwRx-G4nh0xBrC5W5ppP9VIsLL1w-6-xqsguJQMfHjoCUUtyBrbJMJ-qjdJBCY8Joh9LdkRqypqWox_0Bhoc6iOn4S/s842/Senate,%2083rd.PNG" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="842" data-original-width="506" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY5PRRvvOdt7FXPfPPLi1jH9GJxFpZdnvIwPixJsyXFeeLYqoo3RSnm0W71DM-u1I7t4q_2TZx1xfnUVrDYJcfjEUeyJrmPado54xwRx-G4nh0xBrC5W5ppP9VIsLL1w-6-xqsguJQMfHjoCUUtyBrbJMJ-qjdJBCY8Joh9LdkRqypqWox_0Bhoc6iOn4S/s320/Senate,%2083rd.PNG" width="192" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>American Notes</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Republicans Without Taft" Senator Knowland is the new Senate Majority Leader because, incredibly, he is the candidate most likely to get Senate Republicans to support the President. In practice the President is probably going to have to rely on Democratic votes, especially since Taft's (interim) replacement will probably be a Democrat and Senator Wayne Morris will probably switch parties, giving the Democrats a majority. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Reprieve For Foreign Aid" The Senate has restored most of the House's cuts, although the big cut in military aid for France in Indo-China remains, and Dulles' plan to make South Korea a "showcase for democracy" was scuttled on fears that US troops would be used for "forced labour." Also, Democrats in the Senate were able to kill the President's request for an increase in the debt ceiling, which is a neat partisan blow to an Administration that promised to reduce the debt, and which will force either a debate over raising the ceiling ahead of the '54 midterms or a special session in the fall, since the Treasury has to fund the government with loans until tax receipts begin in the new year. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The World Overseas</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Turn of the Tide in Pakistan" That ten million pound credit will<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malik_Ghulam_Muhammad"> solve all Pakistan's problems</a> by satisfying demand for consumer goods and spurring private investment. Meanwhile, New Zealand is the only Commonwealth country to manage a surplus with the non-sterling area with high wool prices and currency rationing. So now New Zealanders are free to demand an easing on import controls and lower taxes. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Pozna%C5%84_protests">There hasn't been a revolt in Poland yet</a>, probably because the memory of the war weighs on people. Nehru's visit to Pakistan is unlikely to solve all the subcontinent's problems. The proposal for an <a href="https://www.asianstudies.org/publications/eaa/archives/an-unpromising-recovery-south-koreas-post-korean-war-economic-development-1953-1961/">American grant of $200 million to rebuild Korea</a> is welcome at the UN, which doesn't have the money to do it, itself. It is hoping that other governments will step in to give further support, which will also encourage more American aid. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih8BUw6PRQJuYdAr4YSWhYhL5kW_hAdWShQgzMxXVAQ_kRsznf7rEE6G06pyv4aBXbuVzuiGMdlfmwcsfP0FQubdhLINi4gwQYep97QfQTeeNSn-e6cAm_I234Mwtpk3bh8I9vx6Eq1cbEX3Y0FNei8Sj4GceG-ze6Bor0NZ91fCFZaoHxYi63pg9w0aqr/s4032/20231201_124746254_iOS.heic" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih8BUw6PRQJuYdAr4YSWhYhL5kW_hAdWShQgzMxXVAQ_kRsznf7rEE6G06pyv4aBXbuVzuiGMdlfmwcsfP0FQubdhLINi4gwQYep97QfQTeeNSn-e6cAm_I234Mwtpk3bh8I9vx6Eq1cbEX3Y0FNei8Sj4GceG-ze6Bor0NZ91fCFZaoHxYi63pg9w0aqr/s320/20231201_124746254_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Synagogue And State" The Israeli Knesset has ended the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exemption_from_military_service_in_Israel">female exemption from military service, which was granted on to religious Jews.</a> These have in any case been fighting a pitched battle against secularism since the founding of the state,, but since the Ben Gurion government <i>also </i>depends on their parties for his majority in the Knesset, it hasn't seemed like a good idea to draft the roughly 2000 extreme Orthodox girls in the annual class, and some people are still pushing for a compromise. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Business World </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The big story is the resumption of free trading of copper on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Metal_Exchange">London Metal Exchange</a>. <i>The Economist </i>scoffs at, and mocks all those who thought that free trade in metals would be bad for Britain based on the first day of copper trading. (Tin, lead and zinc were freed earlier.) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Oil by Sea, II: Too Many Tankers?" The conclusion from last week was, I thought, pretty definitive. There are too many tankers right now. But is that REALLY<i> </i>true? Maybe, maybe not, which is why the actual point of this <b>Leader </b>is to call f<a href="https://www.intertanko.com/history-1934-1970">or the return of the prewar international tanker pool to meet sudden increases in demand for oil.</a> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Business Notes</b><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The First Steel Sale" The private resale of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steel,_Peech_and_Tozer">Templeborough Rolling Mill</a> to its former owners is just the beginning, because it was a very profitable operation and it had very respectable owners. Most privatisation will be through the sale of United Steel shares. The dollar surplus continues to increase, amongst other financial news.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh63Tjf6MeRHxwn6JRWWRMGjnZc4wvfloaqoDki3blq5apqnrSTGtLSO6y7NI35TKlpuqh6DydeNGD-JiKwAo1WuE963DsoiI3S-2tek32Vf-qxYKyBoxIYKMja2Empp5IgZ9KkR0x3ocgurcu0Ep62fhyphenhyphenZoWXhhEoQ_aqiwMlACQ44A9trfMPvkozYc8Zw/s4032/Crown%20Zellerbach%20Ad2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2773" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh63Tjf6MeRHxwn6JRWWRMGjnZc4wvfloaqoDki3blq5apqnrSTGtLSO6y7NI35TKlpuqh6DydeNGD-JiKwAo1WuE963DsoiI3S-2tek32Vf-qxYKyBoxIYKMja2Empp5IgZ9KkR0x3ocgurcu0Ep62fhyphenhyphenZoWXhhEoQ_aqiwMlACQ44A9trfMPvkozYc8Zw/s320/Crown%20Zellerbach%20Ad2.jpg" width="220" /></a></div>"The Supersonic Gyron" The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Gyron">De Havilland Gyron</a> was noticed last month but gets a bit more attention here. It is believed to be the most powerful jet engine in the world, and is a bid to make up the ground the De Havilland Engine Company lost by continuing to put its faith on the centrifugal compressor in the face of the Avon, Sapphire, and now the Olympus and Conway. The Conway in particular is said to give more than 10,000lbs in sustained runs on the test bed, so the Gyron must give 15,000--20,000lbs. It is said to be simple and sturdy for a jet engine, and to be designed specifically for supersonic fighters. It is also remarkable in that De Havilland began development with its own money, at an estimated cost of £4 million for the preliminary work. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Atomic Trials at Woomera" The Ministry of Supply has announced that British atomic trials will be carried out at the Woomera rocket range in Australia, where various rockets and such have been tested recently. The Australians seem happy with the rockets, but aren't going to help pay for the atom bombs, much to <i>The Economist's </i>disappointment. (It's in the name!) On the other hand, while the experimental pile being worked on right now is to provide a prototype for future aircraft and ship engines and to provide plutonium for bombs, it is also a prototype for civilian power production, and plutonium for bombs can always be burned for power later. Air traffic is up, various stock purchases in the auto industry are interesting, the Commons is arguing the Labour position that "private" cotton spinners are really private when they buy through the Raw Cotton Commission, which should have the power to prevent private raw cotton purchases. The Tories would rather reopen the Liverpool Cotton Exchange, but have reluctantly accepted that this is impossible without convertibility. The Bureau of Standards has had to get involved in what was hoped to be a move to voluntary standards in the furniture and cotton industry. Germany is piling up a foreign exchange surplus and people are getting cross. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Jv0avTJdL3UP0jxpVvc82PFcZ3HR8wd4A4w9JqlQYu6qH5WsteMcv1qrGuaiC8YZEfSeWyXaTwxx11bwg_EkUHm97B_eE2U4nm18Ut-PKYgXRhuqsKX1G-MFBhpL_eJLTyd6IOL5dcDlFaoGH1Y3Akcx_U8t3ZequcqfClVuZIC4W78ceWWjUh09FM05/s4032/20231202_170643068_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh9Jv0avTJdL3UP0jxpVvc82PFcZ3HR8wd4A4w9JqlQYu6qH5WsteMcv1qrGuaiC8YZEfSeWyXaTwxx11bwg_EkUHm97B_eE2U4nm18Ut-PKYgXRhuqsKX1G-MFBhpL_eJLTyd6IOL5dcDlFaoGH1Y3Akcx_U8t3ZequcqfClVuZIC4W78ceWWjUh09FM05/w480-h640/20231202_170643068_iOS.heic" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Flight</i>, 14 August 1953</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Leaders</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Jets All Through?" The RAF might need a jet basic trainer and a new advanced jet trainer. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzVsGWVl01NLiLinkXXDPaYzqGBT2Ct2jGErTa2zYTMropZ9qGy3E90SmxJA2Mi-o1mT42gRdxHZk3dgX7K1verWVev1cMCQKNIvUCMbbcPoVBMMDc0J5R-migquxf3w7t3BkqmkPOkL1Juf0g7PVRSX16HZo5JW_uu4aJvmoQQZNOp7syDlBZkppDvNLF/s3789/Air%20Officers%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1223" data-original-width="3789" height="103" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzVsGWVl01NLiLinkXXDPaYzqGBT2Ct2jGErTa2zYTMropZ9qGy3E90SmxJA2Mi-o1mT42gRdxHZk3dgX7K1verWVev1cMCQKNIvUCMbbcPoVBMMDc0J5R-migquxf3w7t3BkqmkPOkL1Juf0g7PVRSX16HZo5JW_uu4aJvmoQQZNOp7syDlBZkppDvNLF/s320/Air%20Officers%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b>From All Quarters </b>reports that there are plans for an experimental helicopter service from London Airport to Waterloo station, following the Thames to avoid the danger of engine loss over occupied areas. A BBC television show about the noise from low flying aircraft featured interviews at Biggin Hill and the explanation that it is necessary for the defence of Britain that planes fly really low and make very loud noises a lot. The first Prestwick Pioneers to be delivered to the RAF have been sent off to Malaya. Britain has some new and improved air marshals. The RA14 is the latest fully type-tested and already flying Avon, giving 9500lbs without reheat. Glenn L. Martin has put a revolving bomb bay into its XB-51, which solves all problems with bomb bay doors opening at high speeds. Two-thirds of the planes at Farnborough this year will be turbine-powered. The BEA Viscount for the London-Christchurch flight will be crammed with even more famous crewmembers than the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Keeler">Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Civil Aviation</a>. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Here and There </b>reports that the RAAF is lending GCA and DME equipment to Christchurch Airport for the Race, that Curtiss-Wright is setting up a subsidiary in Europe to handle the J65s going into NATO F-84Fs, that Flight Refuelling has developed fuel packs that can go into a bomb bay, allowing an bomber to work as a tanker, that the crew of a downed C-119 in North Africa was recently rescued by helicopter, that two RAF Sunderlands will be resupplying the British North Greenland Expedition for the third year in a row, that the Iron Ore Company's desperate appeal for more air transport for its KNob Lake project is being met by three chartered RCAF North Stars, that Russian Air Force Day was afflicted by bad weather and rumours caused by the absence of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vasily_Stalin">Vasily Stalin</a>. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2004/oct/29/guardianobituaries.military">Terrence "Dumbo" Williams</a> distills his experience teaching parachuting for <i>Flight </i>in a three page article. It is an aviation sport, so they're supposed to cover it, and it actually means less work for me as I don't have to read it, so it's a good thing! The same can be said for the articles on the "World Model Championships" and the national gliding championships a bit later. I wonder if sport parachuting is as dangerous as gliding?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgtia-8qQ2U96YIsakDVymVbv1vWZnjbMB2KZztYji0dogNQUElLXJrzGYrNjyDFj3ojnUDqHW2baeyYa29UYwBSyhbeeRUmZryVVQ7tonPWXp1wXq77jxd0GXL7jFMht7T2fDmk8ZU7HCHC5CsZQKGagevXDKGKRyU4hH92UFFMeCh5EYTywOdy173PHc/s4032/20231202_173451783_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgtia-8qQ2U96YIsakDVymVbv1vWZnjbMB2KZztYji0dogNQUElLXJrzGYrNjyDFj3ojnUDqHW2baeyYa29UYwBSyhbeeRUmZryVVQ7tonPWXp1wXq77jxd0GXL7jFMht7T2fDmk8ZU7HCHC5CsZQKGagevXDKGKRyU4hH92UFFMeCh5EYTywOdy173PHc/s320/20231202_173451783_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"Non-Destructive Testing: Latest Developments in the Ultrasonic Method of Flaw Detection" This is an advertorial from Kelvin and Hughes, although per <i>Flight </i>practice it was edited by a staff writer and signed "A.G.T." Ultrasonic flaw detection was developed during the war years to find proof failures in armour plate, and was based on reports of Russian work. It celebrates the release of the Mk 5, which improves on earlier work with dual transverse wave probes by combining two into a single vertical probe. We're briefly treated to an account of how various sound reflections show flaws and laminations, then given a full commercial for the Mark 5, which, of course, is simple, light, and easy to use. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Aircraft Intelligence </b>reports that the RCAF and the USAF have both shown interest in the De Havilland Twin Otter, that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Convair_880">Convair jetliner</a> is the subject of discussions between Eddie Rickenbacker and Convair, and will have a swept wing rather than the delta of the B-58. The first Martin B-57s were air tested in June, flying with Wright-licensed J65s built by the Buick Division of GM. The Republic F-84G is the photo-reconnaissance variant of the MDAP straight-wing jet, and will be a photoreconnaissance variant. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Entomological War in Switzerland" Pest Control Limited is conducting an insect-spraying campaign in Switzerland again this year using a fleet of Hiller 360s and three <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auster_Autocar">Auster J.5G Cirrus Autocars</a> to spray 15,000 acres in Valais. The story requires two pages because there are mountains in Switzerland, which makes aerial spraying harder than it is in countries with no mountains. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Correspondence</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Last week raised a major matter of the old days before the wars, so <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Maxwell">Gerald C. Maxwell</a> writes further. (About SE5as, if you were wondering.) J. Nicholls notes another helicopter rescue in heavy winds in Scotland. Hugo Hooftman wonders about those mysterious supersonic bangs. Nat McKitterick, of, as we know, the London office of <i>Aviation Week, </i>wants us to know that he did not violate British security regulations by covering the Hawker Delta and "Short Bros. forthcoming long-range patrol aircraft." He cleared his story before despatch, and, as the only American air correspondent stationed permanently in Britain, always does so. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBnp1kRw9-_vKFJlUG3nxQ7cldrbUeHAMwiBzVqgVeEHvASPUha1D8dfGN-ha7sjsDpNBl64fLBf9RhrK8VmWFSKpCngCFDVLSMe1BEYuHXCdXj4U5H222xCmgTJOYa8_27x8kbwl4732KmJ58EUBzOlX02SVoaG8yCpPldmC1SxuwVsluKCTSZHcobw8H/s4032/20231202_182015365_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBnp1kRw9-_vKFJlUG3nxQ7cldrbUeHAMwiBzVqgVeEHvASPUha1D8dfGN-ha7sjsDpNBl64fLBf9RhrK8VmWFSKpCngCFDVLSMe1BEYuHXCdXj4U5H222xCmgTJOYa8_27x8kbwl4732KmJ58EUBzOlX02SVoaG8yCpPldmC1SxuwVsluKCTSZHcobw8H/s320/20231202_182015365_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><b>The Industry </b>reports that English Electronic and Cable and Wireless are buying Canadian Marconi. British Standards have a new set of specifications covering cable-end assemblies on pre-formed steel wire rope complying with BS W. 9 and W. 11. Goodyear Aviation is making dollars by selling tyres to US aircraft operating in Europe. English Electric's <i>Problems in Four Dimensions </i>is a historical brochure about its relationship with Marconi. GE's new two-cell focussing torch is equally suitable for office, home and factory. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Civil Aviation </b>reports that BOAC is getting ready to receive the first of 26 Britannias next year, and is testing the Avon on Comets. Aquila Airways has some new flying boats, which are all Sunderlands with some little fiddle making for a new name, and which will be flying holiday-makers ("tourists") to Madeira and the Canaries. BEA really likes its new Viscounts. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Proteus Development and The Treasury" The third annual report of the Committee on Public Accounts has a remarkable section on the development of the Proteus that explains how public money goes into these things. The story of the Proteus starts with a 1944 requirement from the Ministry of Supply for a gas turbine engine suitable for a long-range jet transport for service in 1952. By 31 March 1942, contracts for £13 million had been placed, and £10 million actually spent. The Ministry did not know how much it was going to cost to develop a jet engine at the time, although the fact that the Avon has so far cost twice as much suggests that it was in the right range of numbers. Complicating things was that the designers had to work to the Britannia requirement. <i>Flight </i>has concerns, but I have to say that I'm not clear what they are even after reading them. It probably has something to do with Bristol getting all that money while De Havilland had to develop the Gyron on its own. </div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTdjbco_3fKaUOyJOXuDCc2Z0Lz-3nGtq_3vN2exyT6nkSuJB4nXL1t_hom6pB0ic36AogtH8El7X_XWuotTYLCSje2gZi8WI9QNFt9wrvH4JzcoAp77Vk4Kq6XmzFitVkzxhVwVmlINfARch24yt0PxpfYiKrA3ArNJxZUeghEO53nUcmXJaWYjv5HOqN/s4032/20231202_184734857_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTdjbco_3fKaUOyJOXuDCc2Z0Lz-3nGtq_3vN2exyT6nkSuJB4nXL1t_hom6pB0ic36AogtH8El7X_XWuotTYLCSje2gZi8WI9QNFt9wrvH4JzcoAp77Vk4Kq6XmzFitVkzxhVwVmlINfARch24yt0PxpfYiKrA3ArNJxZUeghEO53nUcmXJaWYjv5HOqN/s16000/20231202_184734857_iOS.heic" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXoopP76JRn8sZIujlwgx2fHJTKF8PcDOTJu3DmKErhDPWRV36utwTc2j8XhPsjUhoVwHB3eoLnrvnQDCGay2EEe0y2abTsOiy5eD6fZ3gqQuW8TeOlVwf8rluBZcBkXL0HPAM7WtCWQy-2MGJ-sTw-h0HfQZ3N9TpfSEoPEZffPnK_6IxQXGiKq_KUBw2/s4032/20231202_185404581_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXoopP76JRn8sZIujlwgx2fHJTKF8PcDOTJu3DmKErhDPWRV36utwTc2j8XhPsjUhoVwHB3eoLnrvnQDCGay2EEe0y2abTsOiy5eD6fZ3gqQuW8TeOlVwf8rluBZcBkXL0HPAM7WtCWQy-2MGJ-sTw-h0HfQZ3N9TpfSEoPEZffPnK_6IxQXGiKq_KUBw2/s320/20231202_185404581_iOS.heic" width="320" /></a></div>It's August, and <i>Fortune </i>isn't wasting any time getting this one out the door. So it's page over from the cover and right into <b>Fortune's Wheel, </b>which explains the reason that there are articles about the d "Robert Taft's Congress" and in the form of a long explanation from some academic about how conservatism is the shiny new (old) political programme that Americans are just now thinking about trying out, and that the first <b>Leader </b>is devoted to "the first six months of Eisenhower." It's because this might be a business magazine, but politics is so important these days that we're just going to have to spend a lot of time --oh, who are we kidding, politics is easy to write and that Russell Kirk guy is cheap. Cheaper than something they could have run instead of "It's Robert Taft's Congress now, so straighten up, you sad-sack liberals?" </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Yes, there <i>is </i>some reporting in this issue, an article on "The Changing American Market," and a gallop through the latest in optics, but it's pretty thin. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9jve7ezvw5s1CeGe5WjQPowZYiC1k-TlYTIF6D639FTgUsdQe2AnmqLcPA1oCgrqLlZXijtHcAQqDj_2MBehTgklW6GEQHRkxz2VTnBBA8GBb8LOPCFDNXw1dMo552XNDIXAYmmFJPOzrNwUzTA3egEeRsftm6OsEA-qj8KBh9EkId2hsmudldptg4qMY/s2979/US%20Economy%20leading%20indicators%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2305" data-original-width="2979" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9jve7ezvw5s1CeGe5WjQPowZYiC1k-TlYTIF6D639FTgUsdQe2AnmqLcPA1oCgrqLlZXijtHcAQqDj_2MBehTgklW6GEQHRkxz2VTnBBA8GBb8LOPCFDNXw1dMo552XNDIXAYmmFJPOzrNwUzTA3egEeRsftm6OsEA-qj8KBh9EkId2hsmudldptg4qMY/s320/US%20Economy%20leading%20indicators%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Business Roundup </b>reports that yes, there is going to be a recession in the last half of the year, but look what's going on behind the Iron Curtain. It's much more important than the fact that the first Republican President in twenty years has led the country right into a downturn, just as predicted! The dollar gap is disappearing, American exports (particularly oil) are lagging, inventories are building up, and the only place where tight money isn't hurting is car loans, because everyone needs a car and America needs to keep building them or who knows what will happen. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Defence and Strategy </b>reports that the MSA is shifting focus to building up a domestic European defence industry, focussing on ammunition, and "closing the air gap" with 1200 British, Belgian-Netherlands and French planes, with $300 million US in seed money. An "Autopsy of Willow Run" promises to show how exactly the same thing happened there in 1950--3 as in 1942-44 (and that's leaving out WWI's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eagle-class_patrol_craft">Eagle Boats</a>, because who besides Uncle George remembers that far back?). The conclusion certainly isn't that everyone lined up to get a piece of the action, at Willow Run and at the tank factories, and in the heavy press programme. The Navy, we're told,comes out of this looking pretty good, because I guess this is not the day to talk about jet engines failing. And speaking of boats, the Russians showed up at Spithead with their new cruiser, the <i>Sverdlov, </i>and it was very fancy. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Leaders </b>San Francisco is boosting parking costs in prime business hours so that commuters will stop parking on the street and crowding out business. Someone is upset at the FHA for not approving loans to house designs with too much "apple-crapple." New Eisenhower appointees have saved the General Service Administration. The Administration has noticed that it has somehow caused a recession with its wholesome-as-apple-pie policies of high insurance rates and slashing government spending, and now proposes to roll out a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interstate_Highway_System">highway-building scheme</a> to stimulate the economy back to where it was before it started screwing things up. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsI_xpF51iieeMhNo-QPMZqFgwRS9F-VmkUSmrVo1eKk-b1H2v-Ku9a0mjihMkh5SKis1MF1GcVnZsYsUeEWJUHGRBK0hkbwDsTo5cGBhxL0YzuYe8SLFZJkUi3nokwnxYT97RqxbYihZiC5Ik0uj4jeP4mHKDfyDMRYEBivNb3vsqrhVzHEEKvAZY7ZmF/s4032/20231202_184920482_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhsI_xpF51iieeMhNo-QPMZqFgwRS9F-VmkUSmrVo1eKk-b1H2v-Ku9a0mjihMkh5SKis1MF1GcVnZsYsUeEWJUHGRBK0hkbwDsTo5cGBhxL0YzuYe8SLFZJkUi3nokwnxYT97RqxbYihZiC5Ik0uj4jeP4mHKDfyDMRYEBivNb3vsqrhVzHEEKvAZY7ZmF/s320/20231202_184920482_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>Charles V. Murphy, "The Atom and the Balance of Power" Since this is a business magazine about business for businessmen (and maybe sometimes there long-suffering secretaries), naturally our business stories are about business and not the airy-fairy stuff we used to publish back when we were interesting. And that's why it is time to give Charles V. Murphy a soapbox so that he can denounce Robert Oppenheimer for getting in the way of the H-bomb. Business!<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">And then it is off to talk about the "Changing American market," which means babies (Americans are having twice as many second babies as in 1940), marriages, a growing population, and more money for everyone. Also, everyone is moving to the suburbs. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPI0vAxqxykd8eDGoBTsWPI72hDahYxq8p23FJRst8_HaA-_F1ihp7QqGDH7GAciv_yA76-oKlUH0rWfdhRIsjWiLdrwiliDk01soa7aVX76jLDqEY3iypjXQxoD1B-ugSNsXG3xy3qk4QCr45Dh_V6CkzvRB6MioTYBFPrnRSn42yW-JSRxAu8f33yJEz/s4032/20231202_185447451_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPI0vAxqxykd8eDGoBTsWPI72hDahYxq8p23FJRst8_HaA-_F1ihp7QqGDH7GAciv_yA76-oKlUH0rWfdhRIsjWiLdrwiliDk01soa7aVX76jLDqEY3iypjXQxoD1B-ugSNsXG3xy3qk4QCr45Dh_V6CkzvRB6MioTYBFPrnRSn42yW-JSRxAu8f33yJEz/s320/20231202_185447451_iOS.heic" width="320" /></a></div>But let's stop and talk about babies a bit more. America's birthrate fell during the Great Depression, and this, combined with the end of mass immigration, seemed to suggest a stagnant, or even falling population. This was also true overseas, notably in France, but was foreseeable in the near future in Britain. I'm bringing in details that aren't in the article here, so I'll end with one more, which is that Nazi Germany started to see an increasing birth rate. To get back to <i>Fortune, </i>America saw the beginning of an uptick in 1937. There was a spurt once war began, and a further acceleration when the troops came back. All of this was reasonably predictable, and did not affect demographic projections. But then it didn't stop. By 1953, 67% of American women were married, compared with 60% in 1940. The 1.3 million first children of this year will be 47% over 1940, the 1.17 million second children will be a 91% increase, the 620,000 third children an 86% increase, the 310,000 fourth children a 61%. The total, about 4 million, will be the highest in history. New household formation has risen too, although it is off its 1948 peak, but is still 50% above prewar. There are more old people, fewer in the 10--30 group than in 1941, and an actual decline of 400,000 in the 10--19 group. That means a smaller market for young people for years to come. Demographers expect 165 million Americans in 1960, but some predict 180 million. The question is when, and if, these high birth rates level off, which is hard to predict given that the reason for them is completely mysterious and obviously has no relationship with the growing incomes reported elsewhere in this article. (Because that would imply that when you "disinflate," you depopulate, and thank you, we're not taking that lesson on board!)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhddyl-0wnJUhhdoQtu9CJ24CMVsUYfwA5M4fEip2IHzDbGrktO6vodZPCEL68F4mEpHwdNR-TmAdHqfXyE0GTZOFv7nZT9q0ddE8CT5tCXK4ln5U0SiVZcIpT_dL70LAdje1kDzTJByz8nydrK2yftbIyxXLR5MkZrlmcthgA1GIdq1aiw9LsBriWQi1JH/s4032/Suburbia%20in%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhddyl-0wnJUhhdoQtu9CJ24CMVsUYfwA5M4fEip2IHzDbGrktO6vodZPCEL68F4mEpHwdNR-TmAdHqfXyE0GTZOFv7nZT9q0ddE8CT5tCXK4ln5U0SiVZcIpT_dL70LAdje1kDzTJByz8nydrK2yftbIyxXLR5MkZrlmcthgA1GIdq1aiw9LsBriWQi1JH/s320/Suburbia%20in%201953.jpg" width="240" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Location wise, America is both equalising, with incomes rising in regions like the South and the West to match the Northeast, and concentrating in the metropolitan suburbs. We're going to hear more about suburbs in this issue, but here the magazine asks whether they might be a factor in the birth rate --or that they might be a result of it?<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">So, enough of that, time to talk about a<a href="http://www.cambriarick.com/miscellany/jamesdishwasher.html"> family business in Kansas that is building a better dishwasher</a>. From the article, much more important than the "Slinkie," the remarkable coil-steel toy (have you seen one? They're hilarious!) that gets a paragraph. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/N60m4KYPTeI" width="320" youtube-src-id="N60m4KYPTeI"></iframe></div>"Optics: Sharper Than Ever" New lenses and such from the war are very good, especially the Japanese ones, although German firms are roaring back. We cover efforts to make "a<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspheric_lens">spheric lenses</a>" to the same 1-in-500 accuracy which has been achieved with optical lenses, the development of diffraction grating engraving, a virtual American monopoly, infrared spectrometry, which is not, anti-reflective coating, which is big at Eastman-Kodak, and also its "glass without sand," which achieves new levels of accuracy, high refractive indexes and low colour dispersion. Similar glass is now available from Schott in Germany and Chance in Britain. Corning and Bausch and Lomb can now meet refractive index specifications to five significant figures of accuracy. That's hard! Also, photographic lenses are getting better and the widescreen projection system is making demands on optics designers. Periscopes and bombsights are another demanding field for optical designers. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYm5Nk70yKOuTm6pVSkjzZk5iuc4DJS0-YuGQae6eXTgs4Wy90rlMAIazbGt6_RlP5iOjJzUS5OhOpJH0qfKJyp3b3W-spLfNS93K5oigCNJWfsb10oiO1Lcp8lal3ZKzdPmb8XtAUoJ4ftmj5AXxC9NJoFO1__POPnzW6pM3UPZTr7v9TYlpHQrYGf2U7/s3024/Foreign%20Optics.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2697" data-original-width="3024" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjYm5Nk70yKOuTm6pVSkjzZk5iuc4DJS0-YuGQae6eXTgs4Wy90rlMAIazbGt6_RlP5iOjJzUS5OhOpJH0qfKJyp3b3W-spLfNS93K5oigCNJWfsb10oiO1Lcp8lal3ZKzdPmb8XtAUoJ4ftmj5AXxC9NJoFO1__POPnzW6pM3UPZTr7v9TYlpHQrYGf2U7/s320/Foreign%20Optics.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The fourth part of William Whyte's look at Forest Park is a detailed investigation of the way that friendships form between neighbours. It turns out that it is mostly between people whose children play together, and that tends to happen on the street out front of the house in spite of best-laid plans. No-one ever meets the person across the back fence. <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL-WcWybho_0ty6reR89JuAP0vt2HePiLwauuQfWGfSnogAh35-Izxx6HOs8W6D4UTxNF4TaMl1n5spzaPERzJuTqTLkxgSRXI3mEos3KMr-bVxswlX-fb9FnMvfqLp5dNFNkbVgzAlCUW0XabBdRHyeEDFyI6SPkHYcs-EjarBxHqpwFJ9COsqQsD_iYX/s3978/Aspheric%20Optics.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3978" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgL-WcWybho_0ty6reR89JuAP0vt2HePiLwauuQfWGfSnogAh35-Izxx6HOs8W6D4UTxNF4TaMl1n5spzaPERzJuTqTLkxgSRXI3mEos3KMr-bVxswlX-fb9FnMvfqLp5dNFNkbVgzAlCUW0XabBdRHyeEDFyI6SPkHYcs-EjarBxHqpwFJ9COsqQsD_iYX/w304-h400/Aspheric%20Optics.jpg" width="304" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><br /></div>Erik Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-14530038249608385252023-11-21T11:40:00.000-08:002023-11-21T11:40:23.924-08:00A Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, July 1953: The Columbia River Treaty<p> <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhtHjx2GL5x8pCC5aPbjjzhtsvXIdAggoRijXrZG3zSkg0z8qhvRh0ekIoCe_Yh2uqh_F6xAF-eC_sqYKcPPbkaLBJdTQ7XyfWTkCdER0FY2WWaCmmngkLpILxQPvYga97QlLrcjkZZ_aDMTTFy0QhuY3rYWQydSBEolYwQhT3c6PZ02VHx5gySLMgMviH/s780/Keenleyside%20Dam.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="479" data-original-width="780" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhtHjx2GL5x8pCC5aPbjjzhtsvXIdAggoRijXrZG3zSkg0z8qhvRh0ekIoCe_Yh2uqh_F6xAF-eC_sqYKcPPbkaLBJdTQ7XyfWTkCdER0FY2WWaCmmngkLpILxQPvYga97QlLrcjkZZ_aDMTTFy0QhuY3rYWQydSBEolYwQhT3c6PZ02VHx5gySLMgMviH/w640-h394/Keenleyside%20Dam.jpg" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hugh Keenleyside (High Arrow) Dam, Castlegar, British Columbia</td></tr></tbody></table><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Renata, British Columbia, is a lost town on the right bank of the Columbia River in the 232km stretch from Revelstoke to Castlegar, where it forms the Arrow Lake, or Lakes, in dry years. It might seem like cheating to call a river a lake, but the Okanagan River runs through Okanagan Lake, and Nakusp <i>is </i>the next Kelowna. (That's a joke for all you BCers out there.) Most of Renata (there's a bed and breakfast or two still operating in the upper reaches of the former townsite) was quickly flooded out by the rising waters of the Lake after the Keenleyside Dam was completed on 10/10/68. As an isolated farming community still mainly populated by the Mennonite farmers the railway originally suckered into settling there fifty years before, Renata wasn't much missed, any more than the other small communities similarly affected. Although when Nakusp real estate goes for as much as Kelowna's that lost waterfront property will be the subject of much speculation. (Doubling down on the joke.)</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Since we're currently visiting old Renata and witnessing the Eisenhower Administration's bumbling approach to hydroelectric and related hydraulic control issues, I thought this might be a good time to talk about the Columbia River Treaty, so the reader will know what the heck I am talking about. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Also, considering how insane the Eisenhower Administration has turned out to be so far, on this issue and so many others, I wanted to poke around the Internet and find out, "Why now?" Well, now I know, and the answer is pretty typical of the actual record of the Infrastructure President, in that he didn't actually do fuck all except get in the way. </p><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbfHJTPA0OZH738t4M_ckaAYM7yYcrmXZ4tz0myL1ICCaB7lYn69jZPgwh4OThvWxlgGbuAmuedwOLoTVdsqMx1V8ODCweYbRbZzbHzGRSPx7etDG7PPvfzAVJUPau2XB27Xw8530aS0wiNU9nd4xq0H2V2Cz5rD7zi1yJT-0_AEa6wHk_3q04V55m91LR/s220/Vanport%20Flood%201948.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="168" data-original-width="220" height="168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbfHJTPA0OZH738t4M_ckaAYM7yYcrmXZ4tz0myL1ICCaB7lYn69jZPgwh4OThvWxlgGbuAmuedwOLoTVdsqMx1V8ODCweYbRbZzbHzGRSPx7etDG7PPvfzAVJUPau2XB27Xw8530aS0wiNU9nd4xq0H2V2Cz5rD7zi1yJT-0_AEa6wHk_3q04V55m91LR/s1600/Vanport%20Flood%201948.jpg" width="220" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">The official narrative asserts that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columbia_River_Treaty">Columbia River Treaty</a> of 1961 was a response to the Vanport Flood of 1948. I talked about <a href="https://benchgrass.blogspot.com/2018/08/a-half-and-half-appendix-to.html">Vanport here five years ago in an Appendix post I deemed so thin that I dragged the Berlin Airlift and some servomechanism stuff at the same time. Busy month! </a> One thing that should be clear from that discussion is that Portland, and America's reaction to the flooding out of only the second predominantly Black community in the state of Oregon was . . . .nuanced. And 1961 was thirteen years <i>after </i>1948. And as Raymond Moley repeatedly and indignantly points out indignantly, it's a lot easier for the Bureau of Reclamations to build dams when they have (SOCIALIST) purposes beyond power generation. Although the Treaty was signed by Diefenbaker and Eisenhower and the driving impetus is attributed to long-term BC premier W. A. C. Bennett, and these are not usually seen as men of the left, leaving aside attempts to burnish Eisenhower's reputation. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaAy4uWZWkgzvxF6Y_JrcBzWEc4af5x0dpG9rghWT2-VyQRSIojvcPu5mAEgUBhL2kq3VOxLi54RTPw6XfJngQ2r3oFQ5xG4xPP2f_31WWjOACtODCZ5tCI-nt3aTjw5Dphc17PT7_1uKalfwcqOtnA-zdCUuGLIxsfqstXY5yiRl5F3XTd5IZCWKcfS5U/s218/Bennett,%20W.%20A.%20C..jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="158" data-original-width="218" height="158" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgaAy4uWZWkgzvxF6Y_JrcBzWEc4af5x0dpG9rghWT2-VyQRSIojvcPu5mAEgUBhL2kq3VOxLi54RTPw6XfJngQ2r3oFQ5xG4xPP2f_31WWjOACtODCZ5tCI-nt3aTjw5Dphc17PT7_1uKalfwcqOtnA-zdCUuGLIxsfqstXY5yiRl5F3XTd5IZCWKcfS5U/s1600/Bennett,%20W.%20A.%20C..jpg" width="218" /></a></div>Under the terms of the treaty, Canada provided 15.5 million acre-feet of reservoir storage to stabilise flows on the Columbia, and favourable terms for the export of excess hydroelectric power generated by the Mica Dam at Revelstoke; power generation at the two storage dams, Keenleyside and the Duncan dam, came later. The United States was permitted to build the Libby Dam on the Kootenai River, with a reservoir extending into Canada. The dams also make for a more consistent power output from the American dams on the Columbia system, convenient for avoiding wild swings in aluminum prices, if aluminum were still smelted in the Pacific Northwest, and presumably on the costs of data storage now that that giant servers take so much of it. Canada also makes a fair chunk of money for providing flood control and more and more consistent electricity to the United States, and this money funded "Wacky's" (which is what we call him; as see above the Right Honourable William Bennett shooting a flaming arrow into a barge loaded with paid-off BC bonds) presumably-not-socialist takeover of power generation in this province and some of his megaprojects, there being others. Wikipedia says that 3144 properties were bought and 1350 people evacuated in the Arrow Lakes, a testimony to the sparse population of the region then and now. The even larger reservoir in the Big Bend region above Revelstoke seems to have displaced just about nobody, there having been no tourist development along the Big Bend Highway, apparently. <br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5XxIK8JOFFc3U0ePwhnG5BgrSZYXLAMoeKt4TLvo4AyKa3gBpoC7ebc7QSw_zRGdrikP2_zDClrLJet_1I0w-EUypUVJm_EnXh1uOswdP4aXI_IoRC8jLbRZAFcn2JlCidnqP8wz2gHSFdR7jMVxggnfD74KPAlwn9ufaWrDB9MnBv1d-9Uj8lwgFTLXI/s846/Pacific%20Northwest%20Southwest%20Intertie.PNG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="846" data-original-width="777" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5XxIK8JOFFc3U0ePwhnG5BgrSZYXLAMoeKt4TLvo4AyKa3gBpoC7ebc7QSw_zRGdrikP2_zDClrLJet_1I0w-EUypUVJm_EnXh1uOswdP4aXI_IoRC8jLbRZAFcn2JlCidnqP8wz2gHSFdR7jMVxggnfD74KPAlwn9ufaWrDB9MnBv1d-9Uj8lwgFTLXI/s320/Pacific%20Northwest%20Southwest%20Intertie.PNG" width="294" /></a></div>In the United States, the Canadian Entitlement, which is to say, the share of the extra hydroelectric power generated in the United States by "Canadian" water, was sold on perhaps favourable terms to a consortium of American utilities, which sounds like something that would have engaged the interest of the typical Eisenhower Cabinet member, and also, it says in this official history, justified the construction of the "Pacific Northwest Southwest intertie," <a href="https://www.oregonencyclopedia.org/articles/intertie/#:~:text=The%20Intertie%20comprises%20three%20sets,the%20Sylmar%20Converter%20Station%20in">which is to say</a>, two 940 mile 500kV AC lines from the John Day Dam on the Columbia to the Lugo Substation near Los Angeles, a DC line from the Dalles to Los Angeles (3100 mW), and another 500kV AC line from Eugene to "Tesla Substation near San Francisco." (A total of 7900 mW delivered.) That's a lot of electrical mega-engineering, and, as the history notes, it was inspired by the 1948 drought, which affected <i>business, </i>and not some poor people being flooded out of their townhouses. And even more by the thought that Pacific Gas and Electric would be able to sell, first, inexpensive Pacific Northwest electrons, and then <i>really </i>inexpensive Canadian-sourced artisanal electrons. <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Wacky got his dam, and, if, as is often the case, the electricity was an excessive bargain, the province still has it, which is the great thing about long term hydroelectric, and other, infrastructure. That's a lot of carbon not burned over the years. Speaking of which, the Oregon Encyclopedia I was just quoting concludes by observing that, if drought continue in the Southwest, the intertie might be indispensable for delivering surplus Pacific Northwest power to the California market. Sure. Why not? It's raining <i>now. </i>And if you were wondering whether Eisenhower fucked it up, actually his Administration sat on the Intertie while negotiations for the Columbia Treaty went ahead. This <a href="https://www.usbr.gov/history/ProjectHistories/PACIFIC%20NORTHWEST-PACIFIC%20SOUTHWEST%20INTERTIE%20MASTER%20ZLA%20HC%20FC%20BC%20IC%20SC%207.2010.pdf">Bureau of Reclamation history</a>, has the scoop, and also the helpful map, above. It turns out that a major part of the proposed Intertie, using the innovative (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_DC_Intertie">for America, not Sweden</a>) high voltage DC technology, was not built, and the PNW and SW power grids are not as well integrated as they ought to be, and power goes to waste, resulting in more carbon being burned. But that happened under Nixon, so totally different from the Eisenhower Administration. <br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Look, a video!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1BLOqX0Itrk" width="320" youtube-src-id="1BLOqX0Itrk"></iframe></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">Not much going on in central Oregon, same as the Arrow Lakes, but drier. There's a nice instrumental piece at the close with aerial shots of central Oregon landscape. Talking stops at 25:00 like somebody has just learned that the Germans are counterattacking through the Ardennes and Monty's on the line. </p>Erik Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-86017959397927819532023-11-18T13:23:00.000-08:002023-11-18T13:23:04.166-08:00A Medico-Technical Appendix to Postblogging Technology, July 1953: Heart-Lung Machines and Autopilots<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/UxfYFUE7fNA" width="320" youtube-src-id="UxfYFUE7fNA"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I guess it won't surprise anyone that Port Alice didn't have a movie theatre, so I saw most of the movies that shaped us Gen Xers (more-or-less; technically I belong to the last gasp of the Baby Boom) on TV at a later date. <i>Star Wars </i>IV and 1982's <i>Young Doctors in Love </i>are exceptions, and, of the two, <i>A New Hope </i>was the better movie. Does <i>Young Doctors in Love </i>even have a life support/heart-lung machine scene? I guess it also won't surprise anyone that I am not going to rewatch it to find out! It's probably not nearly as hilarious as I remember, from the look of the Youtube extracts I watched looking for a heart-and-lunch machine scene. This one's got the surgical theatre-blinking-lights machines, so it will do, and I will preserve my nostalgia for a time just slightly past. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdF4A7GG2S9-mii-CbiWG0rc991qXrzthtze9hlRGnXwrKu6U7a5a8q4iMEBUU-qv2sURNc3R30uz1zWeQkjMPZrB5Ba_rVKtoyBl2nUBouz64TJ94-3bZ8wVNQzC_dbcsJ0Sd7eJqXLvwYOFqzlZwVmbHKLqPDagRNteDnZ1uGctnAZrDpbjHgmJz1GDd/s3876/Heart%20and%20Lung%20Machine2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1895" data-original-width="3876" height="312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdF4A7GG2S9-mii-CbiWG0rc991qXrzthtze9hlRGnXwrKu6U7a5a8q4iMEBUU-qv2sURNc3R30uz1zWeQkjMPZrB5Ba_rVKtoyBl2nUBouz64TJ94-3bZ8wVNQzC_dbcsJ0Sd7eJqXLvwYOFqzlZwVmbHKLqPDagRNteDnZ1uGctnAZrDpbjHgmJz1GDd/w640-h312/Heart%20and%20Lung%20Machine2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p style="text-align: justify;">Because times change! Way back on <a href="https://benchgrass.blogspot.com/2023/09/a-technological-but-also-inevitably.html">24 September</a> we covered the President's <i>actual </i>heart attack of 1954 in the context of a presumptively rumoured one of 1953 (that is, rumours of a previous heart attack came up during the post-hospitalisation press conference. I am assuming without proof that this is people taking a conspiratorial view of the President's 1953 flu hospitalisation, which seems to have dropped down the memory hole as far as the Internet is concerned, but, Goddamn it, it happened! </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG6e9vxRPg-Xi7jX9LzDdVke3Dvj6XNXEOiTrACbXssAbWVbxK6rHwNpocS9j-CQRzuqY66gZV1lx3UAA652QzA3PZGUnTNNMj_8LjnSRXhu0lT44Cc40PTwVRMJaDrv9Z4I16AZqLBJB4jjCU_2AlV_BNYk9t4wRtK9maOVO9AMNUuqt7VBU9zHLYHb6_/s256/magnetic%20amplifier.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="207" data-original-width="256" height="207" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhG6e9vxRPg-Xi7jX9LzDdVke3Dvj6XNXEOiTrACbXssAbWVbxK6rHwNpocS9j-CQRzuqY66gZV1lx3UAA652QzA3PZGUnTNNMj_8LjnSRXhu0lT44Cc40PTwVRMJaDrv9Z4I16AZqLBJB4jjCU_2AlV_BNYk9t4wRtK9maOVO9AMNUuqt7VBU9zHLYHb6_/s1600/magnetic%20amplifier.jpg" width="256" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Magamp module, collection of the<br />Avionics Museum, Rochester</td></tr></tbody></table><i>Anyway, </i>the point is that I wanted then to learn more about the President's guest-bedroom-ECG diagnosis, which seemed cool, and the home truth that <i>there was nothing medicine could do about a heart attack in 1953 </i>was brought home. This, you appreciate, is coming to me after a hard-driving departmental manager of my acquaintance had the inevitable-and-anticipated-for-many-years emergency admission quadruple bypass surgery, and the conversation within the company is how many months he would be off work. I advance this not-quite anecdote to illustrate how blase we've become about cardiac health, as even in 2023, considering the amount of work that T. use to do, the answer is "Forever months" although no doubt he'll be back in some capacity eventually. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_BBMYSYCED55dF7LjJ7nnIVXRPtd-32UZLAn-KX_L8eLN7qwCx166bNmHF-FS2EYqqaTpqtyM1UveEN4oAcRTBbPVUKlYEFRMJuM032xav5nSN-X-HbZTmM6zsBEb4w5Bj0SrF5LXKWu6e-N8c3frWEoh_Cs4-e00VwE9B38IELPDOcj7smJ1e_-EGU-P/s645/Cardiopulmonary%20bypass%20Brukhonenko%20B%20Movie%20version.gif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="645" data-original-width="600" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_BBMYSYCED55dF7LjJ7nnIVXRPtd-32UZLAn-KX_L8eLN7qwCx166bNmHF-FS2EYqqaTpqtyM1UveEN4oAcRTBbPVUKlYEFRMJuM032xav5nSN-X-HbZTmM6zsBEb4w5Bj0SrF5LXKWu6e-N8c3frWEoh_Cs4-e00VwE9B38IELPDOcj7smJ1e_-EGU-P/s320/Cardiopulmonary%20bypass%20Brukhonenko%20B%20Movie%20version.gif" width="298" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Brukhonenko's <i>Autojektor</i>"</td></tr></tbody></table>In contrast, in 1953, we have Eisenhower's heart attack and stroke on the horizon, Churchill's stroke, and Stalin's death to deal with, all in the summer of 1953. And we have the University of London's heart-and-lung machine, envisioned currently for use providing massive blood transfusions, and at some point in the future for "new surgical techniques, especially in heart and lung operations." The Wikipedia article on "Cardiopulmonary bypass machines" traces the history of the technology to the usual mad science origins, in this case the "Austrian-German physiologist Maximilian von Frey," who sounds straight out of central casting even before you realise that he was working in advance of the discovery of surgical blood thinners like heparin. Continuing down the B-movie path, "Soviet scientist Sergei Brukhonenko" built his own for "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=amxTKSK5jLs">canine experiment</a>s," and Clarence Dennis of the University of Minnesota conducted the first surgery on a human patient involving "open cardiotomy with temporary mechanical takeover of both heart and lung functions." The patient did not survive, and we skip right on to the first <i>successful </i>surgery on record, carried out at the Thomas Jefferson Memorial in Philadelphia on 6 May 1953. The device used in this surgery went on to be further developed by Dr. John Kirklin, then of the Mayo Clinic. I've not reproduced most of the Wikipedia links in this even briefer summary of a brief history, but I've made an exception for Dr. Kirklin, who is made to sound in his biography like the practical inventor of the cardiopulmonary bypass machine, which had only been used once successfully prior to Dr. Kirklin's eight experimental surgeries of 1955 with 50% survival rate, a sentence which actually asserts that <i>Gibbon's </i>machine had only been used once successfully prior to Kirklin's work. As we've seen, the <i>whole </i>point of this post is that a magnetic amplifier-using heart-lunch machine was exhibited in Manchester in the summer of 1953. The Wikipedia history mentions that "a team of scientists at the University of Birmingham (including Eric Charles, a chemical engineer) were among the pioneers of this technology," but cites an article by Clarence Dennis with only a cursory literature review. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Fortunately, the machine was later developed into a production series at Francis Kellerman's (he can't be obscure; there's a walk named after him in Colchester!) New Electronic Products, Ltd, and an example built in 1958 was donated to London's proprietary museum. An actual physical specimen is hard to memory hole, and the Science Museum online exhibit has some scanty details. Specifically, it was designed by D. G. (Dennis) Melrose, better known for discovering the role of potassium citrate in stopping the heart. This leads me to the full biography at the Royal College of Surgeons site, with an entry that must of been written by <a href="https://www.harpercollins.com/collections/books-by-christopher-tolkien">that one son who lives in his Dad's shadow forever</a>, because the entry says, unabashedly, that "Dennis Melrose played a crucial role in designing and developing the first heart-lung machine." It also gives me Francis Kellermans' name and Hungarian emigre origins, although not much else about <i>that </i>worthy. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFBQRDfzIwLZRtjoGeAvwhBPOwPi-Z_DBVjhNJyYkaTfRMPgq7ZISLguPtClv-amXZsHcouL54Vns2wRJ_dxt1XYXhIZf1rwk2sXHTMjwLcNMOVft_C8jN9Dti061tYefo3xMpu2OD9vTTcuuKFBJrT6dkj1ZYRZyVghOtxy3hr0zUUCyImdG6w-aDchBr/s280/Cardiopulmonary%20bypass%20machinery%20at%20work%20NIH.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="214" data-original-width="280" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgFBQRDfzIwLZRtjoGeAvwhBPOwPi-Z_DBVjhNJyYkaTfRMPgq7ZISLguPtClv-amXZsHcouL54Vns2wRJ_dxt1XYXhIZf1rwk2sXHTMjwLcNMOVft_C8jN9Dti061tYefo3xMpu2OD9vTTcuuKFBJrT6dkj1ZYRZyVghOtxy3hr0zUUCyImdG6w-aDchBr/s1600/Cardiopulmonary%20bypass%20machinery%20at%20work%20NIH.jpg" width="280" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>The Engineer </i>article describes the control apparatus of the heart-lung machine, which ideally would be automatic, but probably is nowhere near close to that in 1953, in some detail. The basic point being that we need the machine to back off what it is doing if the patient gets too hot, blood pressure rises too high, and so on. The mag-amp is favoured for giving speed control of the pump, and controlling the valve on a reservoir of blood in case pressure begins to fall. That makes it effectively the master unit for the pump. I'm not clear on whether the heater is similarly controlled, but you would think so. <br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPRXipFMxZnC5sANsMIZ5Wk9O0_o9_7pptG_JDvIO-KZB5_LkUSMj1n4dPCKXabhF21c-nbjJ_MdAZO-VSiiRBMzMXTiFZtlsQnmVC5iITM1_gm9BwoBdL5LLl3Jur4Ic2wI8urzlCZMf4qxsiZISokPVC-lU6HcmUctgTsiutvRxuKqB9FqsT6vikxXXS/s220/Alwac%20III%20computer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="159" data-original-width="220" height="159" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPRXipFMxZnC5sANsMIZ5Wk9O0_o9_7pptG_JDvIO-KZB5_LkUSMj1n4dPCKXabhF21c-nbjJ_MdAZO-VSiiRBMzMXTiFZtlsQnmVC5iITM1_gm9BwoBdL5LLl3Jur4Ic2wI8urzlCZMf4qxsiZISokPVC-lU6HcmUctgTsiutvRxuKqB9FqsT6vikxXXS/s1600/Alwac%20III%20computer.jpg" width="220" /></a></div>The "English Electric <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_amplifier">Magamp</a>" that, we've seen, is also going into the latest version of the Smith's Electric Pilot, is currently favoured because of its very high reliability compared with vacuum tubes. Transistors are as yet hardly in sight for such uses. A full explication of magnetic amplifier technology is found at Wikipedia at the previous link, which both mentions its use in "early Autoland applications," the very successful Elliot 803, which was an attempt to implement the potential of "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Wenner-Gren#Other_ventures">magnetic logic</a>," a hybrid of magnetic cores and semiconductors that produced one of the industry's early attempts to add a bit of secret sauce to the basics of digital logic. As you can see from the embedded photo, the one American attempt along this line, the Alwac III, was so early in computing history that the publicity photo shows a woman operating it like it was some kind of grotesquely complicated Burroughs accounting machine. (Which are for girls because it is for payroll and not aerodynamics.)<p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Anyway, it looks like the first successful cardiac operation in Britain was with the Melrose/Kellerman/NEP machine and not the prototype pictured in <i>The Engineer, </i>and it was in 1957, so several years after Kirklin's surgeries in the United States, so the inference is that the British team spent a few more years getting things right with their "heart and lung" machine before daring open-heart surgery with it. <a href="https://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736(13)60571-1.pdf">Hugh Henry Bentall</a>,along with Bill Cleland, is credited with the first (unsuccessful) open heart surgery in the UK "in 1953" and later joined the Melrose/Kellerman team, and an obituary based, it seems on a colleagues Arthur Hollman's recollections, notes that Melrose's machine "was not, of course, the first such piece of equipment." Ironically, the Melrose team's climactic moment was an open heart operation in Moscow for an almost unheard-of audience of Soviet surgeons who "[S]aw Melrose's machine at a trade fair somewhere" and invited him to Moscow to demonstrate it, the team flying home in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tupolev_Tu-104">Tu-104</a>, "the Russians' copy of the UK's Comet." Maybe the Russians were catching up on old numbers of <i>The Engineer</i>? </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCmssEorsYwgTPTfwLnH-kmyNXg85Whnfo_a-nEg-dOANYzy3Lswr3tMzL0syC6FmA97g9DYa_mw8uWNOlq7kfjtZf-VwmqOodxtds5fBnyGRnc6SR_yGR5i5_HHRzt77pSiMxorWv9itVnTwJRAD0y3lnmfnUxDNC_lmUHAfGzCokE1UrrneMgrf4WAC1/s1279/Tupolev%20Tu-104%20attr%20needed%20wiki.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="At least none of them broke up in mid-air" border="0" data-original-height="809" data-original-width="1279" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCmssEorsYwgTPTfwLnH-kmyNXg85Whnfo_a-nEg-dOANYzy3Lswr3tMzL0syC6FmA97g9DYa_mw8uWNOlq7kfjtZf-VwmqOodxtds5fBnyGRnc6SR_yGR5i5_HHRzt77pSiMxorWv9itVnTwJRAD0y3lnmfnUxDNC_lmUHAfGzCokE1UrrneMgrf4WAC1/w320-h202/Tupolev%20Tu-104%20attr%20needed%20wiki.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">By Lars Söderström - http://www.airliners.net/<br />photo/Aeroflot/Tupolev-TU-104B/0168123/L/, CC BY-SA 3.0, <br />https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=4460512</span></td></tr></tbody></table>So there you go. Someone had a University of London heart and lung machine in the summer of 1953. It was probably designed by Dennis Melrose and Francis Kellerman, but was not used (at least successfully) for heart surgeries until 1957, at which point it became a minor export success out in soft-money country, being beat out for precedence by an American machine first used in a reliably successful way in 1955. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">As for the English Electric Magamp connection, a search brings me to this potted history of the company's<a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/334655826_English_Electric_and_its_successors_at_Kidsgrove"> Kidsgrove works</a>, into which it moved in 1952 with various projects ongoing transferred in, including the "Luton Analogue Computing Engine," which sounds like someone was laying the foundations for a third Austen Powers movie; but the Magamp work there started with control units salvaged from V-2s. English Electric also borrowed its first transistor designs from RCA, so there is plenty here to give aid and comfort to the <i>Audit of War </i>crowd, just not the story of this forgotten bid for cardiopulmonary bypass primacy. It is, however likely that equivalent technologies to the Magamp existed in Britain already and the issue is more one of recognising that all these things are the same thing. Arthur Cable's online memoirs explore his work with "the<a href="https://ethw.org/First-Hand:The_Life_of_an_Engineer"> Illgner System</a>" at the Steel Company of Wales works starting in 1950, a technology which was not then seen as using a "Magamp" because the word did not exist for what was, after all, a "controller" and not an "amplifier." (The difference being a matter of the arrangement of the logic gates.) <br /> <br /> <br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/AffLPeTVIGQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="AffLPeTVIGQ"></iframe></div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">Not this guy. Another guy. </div></span><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">That being said, I've no reason to doubt that the Melrose/Kellerman design used English Electric Magamps explicitly modelled on the ones recovered from V-2s. So that's what I've got. No neat conclusion all wrapped up in bows, just a series of historical anecdotes framed around this episode in history of technology; another forgotten chapter, and, perhaps, grist for some kind of argument that British embarrassment and reticence about the jingoistic excesses of the "New Elizabethan Age" might be flipped on its head and turned into <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/business/2011/mar/06/tax-cutting-tories-in-thrall-to-banks-welcome-to-1952">evidence that the "New Elizabethan Age" was an abortion, and not a stillbirth. </a></p>Erik Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-22110281307670536762023-11-12T07:07:00.000-08:002023-11-12T07:07:00.838-08:00Postblogging Technology, July 1953, II: Purge<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NkGf1GHAxhE" width="320" youtube-src-id="NkGf1GHAxhE"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglne-PVlLErwId9ezJpSlQflOAjVHTrvSqSfoUZfF7CtK-jhQq_Tm9m04Fd9POGTy5T15O-8c_SsTzUrlaXsMlCwNMvvns1eQUwkEMO5ttIIAB6J2HA6KSGz6h5W3OtZPlZdJ8vs8Y5Y36P8Sna6ztCu6iK18NJxKdvsvUKAQdjFmbc_7Zx34InKbPf9lN/s480/Renata,%20BC.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="363" data-original-width="480" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglne-PVlLErwId9ezJpSlQflOAjVHTrvSqSfoUZfF7CtK-jhQq_Tm9m04Fd9POGTy5T15O-8c_SsTzUrlaXsMlCwNMvvns1eQUwkEMO5ttIIAB6J2HA6KSGz6h5W3OtZPlZdJ8vs8Y5Y36P8Sna6ztCu6iK18NJxKdvsvUKAQdjFmbc_7Zx34InKbPf9lN/w400-h303/Renata,%20BC.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p><br /></p><br /><br />R_.C_., <br />Oriental Club,<br />London,<br />England<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Dear Father:<div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">We're not completely out of the news around here. We have shortwave. What we've heard makes the Soviet purge sound pretty anticlimactic, and we're beginning to think that there won't be an atom war this summer, after all. So we took the cable ferry over to Renata to see the sights, which involved hiking up a substantial hill, which was certainly good for the appetite. Renata is a bit sad, a town of old people. A Mennonite colony of old times, most of the young folk have long since moved away. Just like we're going to do in not very long now, although bless those Soviet plotters for a wonderful summer getaway! </div><br /><br />Your Loving Daughter,<br /><br />Ronnie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/EDOIzK8NuoU" width="320" youtube-src-id="EDOIzK8NuoU"></iframe></div><br /><p><br /></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-KcY3S1D2-ZZErQdg4Ut3x6mxKXQTzDwAUd2q62Un1rZu3hZ8a3Hh70Zcns1LWloFPO3f-o0Ne-_P7ZMaUyYjaSIxraYrED1xtqi7PBZ3wGvXReQBUyQqV4Qsj6HyNXjO_Zi75xeQ6Di3_8G2_zcs8QUakxkDotAO5r9WzGWaw9Zh9mlWCs0Cpul9ffBl/s4032/20231101_111856160_iOS.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-KcY3S1D2-ZZErQdg4Ut3x6mxKXQTzDwAUd2q62Un1rZu3hZ8a3Hh70Zcns1LWloFPO3f-o0Ne-_P7ZMaUyYjaSIxraYrED1xtqi7PBZ3wGvXReQBUyQqV4Qsj6HyNXjO_Zi75xeQ6Di3_8G2_zcs8QUakxkDotAO5r9WzGWaw9Zh9mlWCs0Cpul9ffBl/s16000/20231101_111856160_iOS.heic" /></a></div><br /><p><b>Letters</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Palmer Van Gundy of La Canada is happy to hear about the UN's victory over yaws, and reminds everyone that the US hasn't renewed funding for UNICEF yet. Anna Rose, the Dean of Students at Mills College, takes issue with Lynn White being described as an "antifeminist." Charles C. Martin of Toronto points out that, wit all due respect, Eddie Rickenbacker doesn't even begin to compare with the various ace of aces of WWI, such as the late Rene Fonck and Canada's Billy Bishop. Surya Das liked the article about Nehru, while Andrew Brimmer reinforces the article's point that Nehru is India's last bastion against creeping communism. G. H. Herrold, a "City Planner" in St. Paul, Minnesota, meditates on the "robot cop," by which he means the timer-controlled traffic circle in White Plains, while Charles and Phyllis Bar of Jesup, Georgia, seem to be suspicious of the whole thing. Captain C. F. Stillman of the Navy is tired of the Government being blamed for its contractors. <b>For Your Information </b>reminds us that the reason its automobile racing coverage is so good is that it has editors who love car racing, and explains that a picture of a Joseph Stalin tank in Red Square symbolises the fall of Beria. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Periscope </b>reports that Malenkov is back in charge, but Khrushchev is "almost certainly one of the key men," and that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Kruglov_(politician)">Sergei Kruglov</a> is more worldly-minded than his predecessor and so less likely to blunder into war. <b>The Periscope </b>knows of a Western ambassador in Moscow who didn't expect the purge, and people in "Western intelligence" who thought it was years away. It also points to evidence that the purge is putting Stalin "back on his pedestal." Communists are also said to be cultivating Tenzing Norgay, while "the White House is completely downcast and badly jarred by Taft's illness," because Senator Knowland is such a clown. Styles Bridges is upset that the President made his Dartmouth address without clearing his presence in New England with him first, and that the President had Sherman Adams with him, because Adams might challenge Bridges for the Senate nomination next year. The NEA will push to reduce the voting age to 18 next year. Assistant Postmaster John C. Allen is behind that brilliant study of the cost of first class mail on trains, planes, and automobiles, say sources close to Assistant Postmaster John C. Allen. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Welker">Senator Herman Welker</a> of Idaho has apologised to the White House for criticising its "must pass" immigration bill after Styles Bridges tore him a new one, which just goes to show what a great guy Styles Bridges is, says a source with knowledge of the conversation. The reason no bills have reached the President's desk is that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Taber">John Taber</a> is conspiring against him.<br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Hickerson">John Hickerson is going to the National War College</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_W._Cannon">Cavendish Cannon</a> (which is a real name) is going to be the next ambassador to Greece, Otto Herres is going to be the next nominee for the Bureau of Mines, Lyndon Johnson is a photo hog, in London they're saying that the only difference between the French and the British is that when the French don't have a government, at least they admit it. Cuba is getting ever more communist and it is all the fault of Fulgencio Batista, who is some kind of secret Communist. The Navy is cancelling the A2J because of budget cuts and not because its engine doesn't work, and <a href="John Floberg">John Floberg</a> <i>actually </i>resigned because of Wilson's cancellation of the Navy's atomic carrier plans. The Army's first Nike installation will be in a secret location in New York, while its new uniform will be modelled on the current officer's uniform, with a dark-green jacket and pink pants. The Belgian "FN" rifle might be selected over the Army's T-44, because it's better. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6oAfniNk684fSud6HBCCRiNY-YGpOALJac4p3_1nu26U9HbcCxOmxzoeQOVl3cBjehheuW4-kug90tLWJjDhWE7E1Nyu-EzX3vOYUHuauZXziBGI8Xa5sqSkur4BPnR4K3Av2r_Q3JsTSWq6zdXnGJgR0QGB1plIvtNs87kGMZ26rBkDichyphenhyphen7AjmzGjNC/s1200/Pink%20and%20Greens%20US%20Army%20uniform.webp" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="765" data-original-width="1200" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6oAfniNk684fSud6HBCCRiNY-YGpOALJac4p3_1nu26U9HbcCxOmxzoeQOVl3cBjehheuW4-kug90tLWJjDhWE7E1Nyu-EzX3vOYUHuauZXziBGI8Xa5sqSkur4BPnR4K3Av2r_Q3JsTSWq6zdXnGJgR0QGB1plIvtNs87kGMZ26rBkDichyphenhyphen7AjmzGjNC/s320/Pink%20and%20Greens%20US%20Army%20uniform.webp" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Carole Channing will be in a Broadway remake of Shaw's <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Fair_Lady">Pygmalion</a></i>. There will also be a biographical play about Robbie Burns, a musical version of <i>Seventh Heaven </i>with Edith Piaf and her husband, Jacques Peale, a play for Olivia de Havilland by Anna Bonacci, a dramatic reading of <i>Sorry, Wrong Number, </i>by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agnes_Moorehead">Agnes Moorhead</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_People_(1954_film)">Gregory Peck and Gloria Grahame</a> in a "high voltage melodrama," <i>Night People, </i>from Fox, <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0048055/">Ruth Roman and James Stewart</a> in the Alaska-set adventure epic, <i>High Country, </i>Gene Kelly and Danny Kaye in an adaptation of <i>Huckleberry Finn, </i>and a Pontius Pilate biopic, <i>Holy Grail. </i>On TV, shows for Hedy Lamarr, Victor McLaglen (<i>Mickey Finn</i>), TV's first "minstrel show," featuring banjoist Eddie Peabody, Gregory Ratoff in a series to be titled <i>Mr. Big, </i>and Akim Tamiroff in <i>Secrets of the French Police</i>. And a monthly Metropolitan Opera broadcast, if there's a contract to be signed. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/tVrCinb4UE8" width="320" youtube-src-id="tVrCinb4UE8"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The Periscope is back on form with a 5/13, not counting the 1954 New Hampshire Senate elections and Fulgencio Batista(!!!!) going full Communist as predictions</span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Washington Trends </b>reports that the Russian purges are expected to go on for two years or so and be among the bloodiest in history, leading to a hundred thousand Russians being shot or sent to Siberia. Malenkov is making his bid to be an all-powerful dictator in Stalin's image by showing that he hates the secret police as much as everyone else does, but it will require a massive programme of liquidation to get rid of all of Beria's people. Malenkov's main problem is that the overly powerful army might liquidate him. Beria will go to a public show trial, Molotov is safe, the Kremlin will make more concessions to the Russian people and continue its peace offensive, while Eisenhower will not go through with a Big Four conference now, as Russian weakness means that it is time to wring concessions out of them. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>National Affairs</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh9qQ9p0LNFnAJwyVzS9LeNA-fCGyFHdAA07vwxp0Q_iJPVT17oeuBjhxAHOCjkuQKPXKltQu16P1QsOCJHs6p0Ioe2sGlDFR69jEdG17Lho9NecvTqtEPKn3ybaa-8Dncop7xR7eaDYcBS9sa6ihfjhfH7h5_Hj4UimXE11TPlLH_9FwLn4wE47T7dS40/s799/Crabb,%20Lionel.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="799" data-original-width="604" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhh9qQ9p0LNFnAJwyVzS9LeNA-fCGyFHdAA07vwxp0Q_iJPVT17oeuBjhxAHOCjkuQKPXKltQu16P1QsOCJHs6p0Ioe2sGlDFR69jEdG17Lho9NecvTqtEPKn3ybaa-8Dncop7xR7eaDYcBS9sa6ihfjhfH7h5_Hj4UimXE11TPlLH_9FwLn4wE47T7dS40/s320/Crabb,%20Lionel.jpg" width="242" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Events in Russia and Korea Give Ike a Week of Good News" A good week for Ike as Rhee has come on board for a Korean truce, Beria is gone, the Big Three/Big Four talks are probably off, the excess-profits tax got through the House, Protestant clergymen denounced McCarthy, and "those of his associates who had started to become impatient with his patience" were mollified. The foreign secretaries' meeting in Washington is off to a great start, with Georges Bidault teaching Dulles the pronunciation of Khrushchev and making solid progress with Salisbury, although the Marquis remains befuddled that all the unnecessary "hs" in "Khrushchev" haven't been dropped, leading to the conclusion that the man is not our sort of person, and that nothing good can come of Russia for the foreseeable future. </div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"The Johnson Affair" The head of the International Information Administration, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Livingston_Johnson">Dr. Robert L. Johnson</a>, has written up guidelines for American overseas libraries to ensure that they do not inadvertently acquisition "controversial" books, which were personally approved by John Foster Dulles and come with a condemnation of the "wicked symbolic act" of the librarians who burned those 11 books in Singapore. Senator McCarthy says the guidelines are ridiculous and that they should ban all Communist authors without regard for what they write, while Senator Mundt calls them "silly." Dr. Johnson has now quit the organisation and will be returning to Temple University, allowing the President to proceed with a "massive reshuffling" of the whole psychological warfare operation. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_Security_Act">Mutual Security Administration</a> is also in trouble, although Harold Stassen and John Foster Dulles are doing their best to sell it to Congress. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Double Deferment" The President has issued an executive order disallowing fatherhood as a deferment ground. Now men who are temporarily exempted from selective service as students, agricultural workers, or workers in critical occupations, will no longer get a "double" deferment by making a baby. (Tough work, but someone has to do it!) </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyf1ggy9zi7-JGyQ-IgyAXugE6zdKkqPyjcaSwZCFmIdG6kQho9UYNlruDdV0x-EAtmZqILGSpqHzYbMv9HX7lSCZbhHBR6ePP1-O8QVruFnz_shjN21e817OwpnoLww-IWJwxtTVxe3YZos1ct1Amm317IGHVnYs2pzL7lAE6xY70kaRpWoOckCZFPdpX/s3124/Matthews,%20Dr.%20D.%20L.%20.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3124" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjyf1ggy9zi7-JGyQ-IgyAXugE6zdKkqPyjcaSwZCFmIdG6kQho9UYNlruDdV0x-EAtmZqILGSpqHzYbMv9HX7lSCZbhHBR6ePP1-O8QVruFnz_shjN21e817OwpnoLww-IWJwxtTVxe3YZos1ct1Amm317IGHVnYs2pzL7lAE6xY70kaRpWoOckCZFPdpX/s320/Matthews,%20Dr.%20D.%20L.%20.jpg" width="310" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Joe Stubs Toe" Joe McCarthy's staff is a jolly bunch of drunken monkeys happily doing their best to stab each other in the back, so someone decided that bringing in<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._B._Matthews"> Dr. J. B. Matthews</a>, the professional anti-communist who just oozes respectability, would shape up the bullpen. Oops! It turns out that Matthews thinks that America's protestant pastors are a bunch of Communist dupes, and said so in print. Now, this line has got the McCarthy gang in trouble before because it brings out the Church Ladies (and Gentlemen), but this time it went straight to the Senate, and got the Senator Claghorn crowd riled up, which is very bad, because McCarthy's committee has the power to fire the members of McCarthy's staff, including Matthews. Then on top of that, Nixon had to stick his hand in the mangle, so the President came down and gave a statement on the importance of firing Matthews, so McCarthy did the right thing and --ramrodded the power to hire and fire his own staff at the sub-committee level through his committee. All the Democrats resigned in protest, and the upshot, we're told, is that McCarthy is <i>less </i>powerful because his committee is partisan now. So McCarthy is now attacking <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Bundy">William P. Bundy,</a> Dean Acheson's son-in-law, who is with the CIA, for contributing $400 to the Alger Hiss defence fund, Matthews has resigned, and the President made a fool of himself in the pages of <i>The New York Times</i>. Take that, Church Ladies/Gentlemen! And <i>Newsweek </i>has an interview with Admiral Standley, the disgraced former US Ambassador to the Soviet Union, who figures that the Red Army might be up to something.</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"GOP Poser: Glut in Drought" Farm prices are down, and now with the Southwest drought the party is finding that it's not as easy to get rid of price supports as it thought. In not-related-to-drought-relief news, if the House gets its way, the new Niagara power development will go to a private company, Mohawk Power, and not a Federal agency <i>or </i>the New York State Power Authority, as Governor Dewey wants. It is reported that Senator Taft is recovering steadily from his slight case of metastasized cancer at a secret hospital under the care of an unnamed doctor. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>International </b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsEahPVPfPrwfaAH365bIVRBpuOJ0f-03_E3ou0CT2VHWCOArbKEPMJFVjMSe56I_N7Oax_bq_82OQf9Y69fiDg6D0r28pQ3K9W2Q6y2zceKWgj7pye6h6Fc1TpeHQ1W1FqsxnAtwYoMW9CVc0pRNBe57MtHyHFNaZmAlAWULf0uvVLvwOzYvFETD6y3lZ/s2357/Malenkov,%20Georgi.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1785" data-original-width="2357" height="242" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsEahPVPfPrwfaAH365bIVRBpuOJ0f-03_E3ou0CT2VHWCOArbKEPMJFVjMSe56I_N7Oax_bq_82OQf9Y69fiDg6D0r28pQ3K9W2Q6y2zceKWgj7pye6h6Fc1TpeHQ1W1FqsxnAtwYoMW9CVc0pRNBe57MtHyHFNaZmAlAWULf0uvVLvwOzYvFETD6y3lZ/s320/Malenkov,%20Georgi.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Grudging Agreement with Rhee Sets Truce in Motion Again" President Rhee has agreed not to keep on fighting Red China single-handedly after the UN withdraws. (As they would, swear to God!)</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Kremlin Purge: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgy_Malenkov">Malenkov</a> Emerges Top Red: But Soviet Rule is Weakened" Events in the purge were pretty blatant and dramatic, with Red Army tanks and trucks clanking through the streets on their way to the Kremlin and other points, right through the streets in front of the American embassy. <i>Newsweek </i>outlines what we know and speculates about what might happen next. Leon Volkov chimes in with helpful speculation about Malenkov being "on top," and Beria being taken by surprise. You think? Sergei Kruglov, who is a horrible person, gets his own feature article because he is the head of the MVD now. It also has an interview with two unnamed East Berlin workers who took part in the June riots.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhASP8Wp_dZW2PWAhyOBoIh8ES-WdLBE5U-GCgFcXawhdZ_cbdWDn4ql3pJcaesyV02Gt6GbYULdIWU1BkUjF81BhTTAQKstgaZ-r0rko375r6uwh2uumadD7WFwlPjiKAbgyKgT1za5jbFvpS7ZZnba__hMHGp6cxSNSBde9GSI9FSejO-hO2BKnS50Hau/s4032/Frigidaire%20packaged%20cold%20ad.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhASP8Wp_dZW2PWAhyOBoIh8ES-WdLBE5U-GCgFcXawhdZ_cbdWDn4ql3pJcaesyV02Gt6GbYULdIWU1BkUjF81BhTTAQKstgaZ-r0rko375r6uwh2uumadD7WFwlPjiKAbgyKgT1za5jbFvpS7ZZnba__hMHGp6cxSNSBde9GSI9FSejO-hO2BKnS50Hau/s320/Frigidaire%20packaged%20cold%20ad.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The New Balkan Alliance: What Does It Mean to West" Yugoslavia, Greece, and Turkey have agreed to meet annually to talk about things like rail service, which <i>clearly </i>means that a Balkan entente which will launch armies of countless numbers of stout Balkan peasant soldiers at the Reds at the first opportunity. (Yugoslav Reds excepted, because they're different.) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Douglas-Scott-Montagu,_3rd_Baron_Montagu_of_Beaulieu">Lord Montagu</a> is over in America doing a great impression of an upper class twit, with specific reference to the large number of American servicemen who get married while they're in Britain, which he, a 28-year-old bachelor, finds amazing, as see assorted Bertie and Wooster books, movies, offhand references, and related products. (Or, you know, the British tabloid press.) Princess Margaret and Group Captain Townsend are dating, but Church and Cabinet have agreed that they can't get married, because Townsend isn't the right sort, oh, wait, we can't say that out loud. Because he got divorced once! I'm honestly so mad I could spit. Oh, and there's a "flare-up" in Suez after the Muslim Brotherhood allegedly kidnapped British serviceman <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1953/08/31/archives/r-a-f-has-britain-all-up-in-the-air-its-man-who-caused-crisis-in.html">A. V. Rigden</a>. </div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In this hemisphere, Peron is taking time off from being suspiciously Communist (like Batista!) to sign a treaty with Chile that doesn't add up to much, while in Mexico, tourist industry types are upset that Americans are going elsewhere. (Or maybe not taking as many vacations!) </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Business</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4_6k3pFtI4Fd8dNVfp74eBMgsvw6wprNEfPqn5cPTeK8ohQ2wlKjU5MS5TqeqLfIvXN-gHY87ZJqphSmt026sBpvZdAfIu2VkYIij_c7lu_MUIcNC76tp8ojf_6cPumtkTIjUer3dX-QQzg3_wwVSfVFDR1BPF4Sij5Gr4xeLmCqLvBDpoOZXGp5rwrxx/s4032/A%20O%20Smith%20Ad.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4_6k3pFtI4Fd8dNVfp74eBMgsvw6wprNEfPqn5cPTeK8ohQ2wlKjU5MS5TqeqLfIvXN-gHY87ZJqphSmt026sBpvZdAfIu2VkYIij_c7lu_MUIcNC76tp8ojf_6cPumtkTIjUer3dX-QQzg3_wwVSfVFDR1BPF4Sij5Gr4xeLmCqLvBDpoOZXGp5rwrxx/s320/A%20O%20Smith%20Ad.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="font-weight: bold;">The Periscope Business Trends </b>reports that there are encouraging (but also not encouraging) economic signs as we move into the third quarter. "Adding it all up, the picture is basically favourable. But mounting inventories in some industries is beginning to cause considerable concern to economists[.]" Also, there is tension within the CIO between Walter Reuther and David J. MacDonald, and the sugar industry is alarmed by the rise of sugar-free drinks, and plans an $800,000 fund to promote the "merits of sugar." </div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Americans Hit the Open Road: It's A Record Year for Travel" It is estimated that 75 million Americans will take an annual vacation this year, 66 million driving, 3 million more than last year's records. The remaining 9 million ticket buyers tgake the bus, train, plane and ships in that order. A half million Americans will fly to Europe this year, a bit less than the total number of ship passages booked to all foreign ports. This is also "the year of the packaged tour," with same up about 15%. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0s9lZHrtimB-Aaz80hmBYV6XbG-HuFAkmvrpYXklyrVIx6IyZt02xvmd8u9BpP_ggmA7XvD3Xq8nhw2dtQpvpwjedo19pIyJEucMIDi6Q4YFol4xpI0WcyxXS2GxwIFJ2oYhtYK23bBsBVWPf1VfhyphenhyphenrJlrVWquDiU-okfAhpRNNvvWFcGcO7GSxDXlFHv/s3483/US%20vacation%20travel%20plans%20by%20transportation%20type%201953.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3483" height="278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0s9lZHrtimB-Aaz80hmBYV6XbG-HuFAkmvrpYXklyrVIx6IyZt02xvmd8u9BpP_ggmA7XvD3Xq8nhw2dtQpvpwjedo19pIyJEucMIDi6Q4YFol4xpI0WcyxXS2GxwIFJ2oYhtYK23bBsBVWPf1VfhyphenhyphenrJlrVWquDiU-okfAhpRNNvvWFcGcO7GSxDXlFHv/s320/US%20vacation%20travel%20plans%20by%20transportation%20type%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"> Conrad Hilton is expanding, defence contracting in Detroit is shrinking, and not just being delayed, as previously announced. The UAW predicts serious unemployment problems by winter, but unemployment is low to start with and "producers see no cause for alarm." Du Pont's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordura">Super Cordura</a> is the latest miracle of modern living through chemistry. Former research chemist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monroe_Spaght">Monroe Spaght</a> is a new executive vice president at Shell, which just goes to show. </div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Notes: Week in Business </b>reports that net corporate profits are up 11% over last year, that it was a record year for construction, with spending hitting $16 billion in the first half of the year, and life insurance purchases are also at an all-time high. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Heller's Menswear wants us to know that the style for fall is casual lightweight knitwear, particularly jersey. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Products: What's New </b>French Industries of San Francisco has a saw consisting of jagged wire between two handles that weighs half-a-pound and can be coiled up to fit in a pocket. Fairchild of Burlington has a 3lb portable electric drill. Ralph C. Coxhead, Corporation has a portable stencil duplicating machine, and Equipment and Furnishing a sprayed cushion for upholstering metal webs</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE2gA7-Z6s1nYlXyUpQzNOiSDImmMjJyt1CluRtU4_lYXkGYLYCij4B4uy8h_0lqLhrz8cwgUF4IzrQFI-HwELeruUEdHNrbsqfxaYxPHw7P9ixJE4k1Z3NYICyzIQ0EE7mAqaIEsRGKMDt9E1pB4mStcEpQffpLQ89ocExD_KiABsDj1Ql4n29J6KnlnI/s3978/Halseth,%20Sigurd.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3978" data-original-width="2834" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiE2gA7-Z6s1nYlXyUpQzNOiSDImmMjJyt1CluRtU4_lYXkGYLYCij4B4uy8h_0lqLhrz8cwgUF4IzrQFI-HwELeruUEdHNrbsqfxaYxPHw7P9ixJE4k1Z3NYICyzIQ0EE7mAqaIEsRGKMDt9E1pB4mStcEpQffpLQ89ocExD_KiABsDj1Ql4n29J6KnlnI/s320/Halseth,%20Sigurd.jpg" width="228" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Henry Hazlitt's <b>Business Tides </b>is busy. It's summer. Places to go, things to do. But how to earn that precious cheque from <i>Newsweek? </i><b>Business Tides </b>knows! Congress is making its annual stink about the Marshall Plan/Mutual Security budget, so let's rerun that ever-green one about American money being sunk into the bottomless swamp of European socialism! Or, well, we can't, because the European economy has recovered, so now we have to explain that they can be socialist and still economically successful because of all our aid. We can use the money on our own deficit. (Which we have in spite of no socialism because of something or other.) Throw in the numbers in the appropriation request and the size of the projected Federal deficit so it'll look like you've done some research, and it's off to the shore! </div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Science, Medicine, Education</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"City Archaeologist" <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/30246286">Sigurd Halseth</a> is the official city archaeologist of Phoenix, Arizona, which has such a thing because the Mesa Grande site is right on the road to Tempe, and remains of its inhabitants are found all over the Gila and Salt valleys, and he can prove that these ancient "Hobokam," who played a ball game that sounds awfully like the ancient Mexican one, were not related to the modern Pueblans.<br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Science: Notes of the Week </b>has a man on the job reading <i>Discovery, </i>which has a man on the recent British Electric and Allied Industries electricity in farming exhibit, which has a man on the Shinfield farm, who picks up the interesting stuff in all the argle-bargle about drying hay and incubators: They're electrocuting weeds in the fields! Now THAT''s science! Also doing real science? The United States Public Health Service's Communicable Disease Centre in Savannah, Georgia, which has come up with a gadget for tagging flies. (Not with tiny tags, unfortunately, just some coloured thread.)</p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Polio: 1953" This year's polio outbreak is racing ahead of last year, with its final total of 58,000 cases. Through 4 July there were 4,680 cases, compared with 4,176 last year, and 627 cases last week, up 84 from the week before. Fortunately, and I think that the magazine is being a bit <i>blase, </i>we have the hope of gamma globulin therapy this year. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Deaths Under Anesthesia" I know what you're thinking, and this story is actually about exploding and anesthesia machines, which are apparently a common enough, and dangerous enough, problem that the Bureau of Mines has stepped in to issue some recommendations. <br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmHJqZ0qcdZu2D_KTC5Zla3ID8roIMh73QePJO42kPR3OLMgKHX7xxIO5AAVLsilqCyw3C9XtEgCU_JiumI6to82YD0vEzMcDRinnkaak1f3S0JU-1ym9DwEneDwV3VPl8ZocZae7QHn8C4KgyIRPWf2PEN1k8uOzjyvyKQ79NdJENFowcZRF793Cdn5cQ/s4032/20231104_144655067_iOS.heic" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmHJqZ0qcdZu2D_KTC5Zla3ID8roIMh73QePJO42kPR3OLMgKHX7xxIO5AAVLsilqCyw3C9XtEgCU_JiumI6to82YD0vEzMcDRinnkaak1f3S0JU-1ym9DwEneDwV3VPl8ZocZae7QHn8C4KgyIRPWf2PEN1k8uOzjyvyKQ79NdJENFowcZRF793Cdn5cQ/s320/20231104_144655067_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Newsweek </b>checks in with <a href="https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED425705.pdf">Dr. Don Williams</a>, who is a professor of education and director of audiovisual services for Syracuse University He has been loaned out to the State Department to do Point Four work, which means shooting films for Greek peasants about how democracy is good and stuff like that that they'd could never learn just by carrying on being Greek. Dr. Williams thinks that films are good for education and there should be more of them.<a href="https://dc.statelibrary.sc.gov/handle/10827/5400"> Wil Lou</a> and Howard L. Johnson both run free schools called "Opportunity Schools," but in different parts of the country and not connected except that Lou stole the idea from Johnson's predecessor, Emily Griffith. It's all very charitable and good for you and it is great that there is a nice news story about literally the only two free schools for adults in the entire world. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Press, Radio and Television, Newsmakers</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Ruark">Robert Ruark</a> is a swell guy who writes great books and great columns and shoots animals, which is great. And that Albert Kinsey! He's a story and he hasn't even released his report yet!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">When <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Down_You_Go">Down You Go</a> </i>started as a panel show on Chicago TV two years ago, some people thought it was too high brow and boring, "anesthesia." but <i>Newsweek </i>knows the entire panel and they're all great people, which explains why Du Mont syndicates it to 26 cities, there's a radio show,and they do versions of it in all the good countries. (Britain and Cuba.) But the <i>best </i>columnist, who is handsome and erudite and has a personal biography that is absolutely worth a half page. Yes, we 're talking about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergen_Evans">Dr. Bergen Evans</a>, who . . . I'm sorry, I fell asleep. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Ivory Coast Senator <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Biaka_Boda">Biaka Boda</a> is said to have been eaten by his constituents two years ago, because that is what they do in Africa. President Truman figures that the Democrats lost in '52 because the electorate thought that it was time for a change and fell victim to demagoguery, Ted Williams is back from Korea, Adlai Stevenson is in East Berlin, Mexico City health authorities think that shared 3D glasses are unsanitary, air conditioners might be noisy but aren't a nuisance, legally speaking, Mamie Eisenhower's mom has gone back to Denver because she can't stand the summer heat, Reinhold Pabel and Francis Jareki will get American citizenship by preferred routes for their own reasons, the college man is on the page for no reason, out and about in Oregon. <br /> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/-8FhFxpcAyA" width="320" youtube-src-id="-8FhFxpcAyA"></iframe></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">Jose Ferrer is engaged to Rosemary Clooney, Elpidio Quirino is ill, Titta Ruffo, Temple Bailey, William F. Russell, Frankie Bailey, Sidney Homer and Clarence P. Wagner are dead. <br /> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"> <b>New Films</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">MGM's <i>Dangerous When Wet </i>is the summer's Esther Williams movie, in which she has a romance, swims a lot, and has a dream sequence with Tom and Jerry. On the other hand, there's RKO and Irwin Allen's <i>The Sea Around Us, </i>which uses the title of Rachel Carson's book, and nothing else. Fox's <i>The White Witch Doctor </i>is another movie with some gorgeous Technnicolor nature footage with some Susan Hayward and Robert Mitchum thrown in. <i>Scared Stiff, </i>from Paramount, is the latest Dean Martin/Jerry Lewis movie, and is bad enough to be "toying with disaster." Also from RKO is <i>Sea Devils, </i>a Napoleonic-era adventure with Yvonne De Carlo and Rock Hudson being handsome enough to make up for the rest of the movie. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Agz2RduEL8M" width="320" youtube-src-id="Agz2RduEL8M"></iframe></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Books</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Ambler">Eric Ambler</a>'s <i>The Schirmer Inheritance </i>is an Eric Ambler novel, and somehow gets the lead review. Maybe so we can take it to the beach? I have the beach behind my house currently, but, it being in Nakusp, I am reading <i>much </i>older Ambler novels. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Jowitt,_1st_Earl_Jowitt">Earl Jowitt</a>'s <i>The Strange Case of Alger Hiss </i>was withdrawn from publication in the United States because Jowitt, a highly respected British jurist, had some highly critical things to say about the case, and about <i>Witness, </i>Whittaker Chamber's autobiographical work that centres on the Hiss case. And Chambers, for that matter! <i>Newsweek </i>proceeds to argue with Jowitt for several columns. Eugenie Clark's <i>Lady With a Spear </i>is a memoir of her life of ichthyologist.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">And Raymond Moley explains the "New Federal Power Policy" of being much more cautious about building big dams because of various environmental considerations in a pretty fair and reasonable way, especially for Moley. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEukXoC2tKHxGXqTUKdOUhuGOATlPF38jglGWX6rBeHJsw2ovlwuKs9JiYWuKFxkg9sz9RRsnIONVvRAXkR6sVFQvCYXwtAUwM-0-WyaCTbHHeOdaG47PoCgFwHM9s1ALE1-ZLT-81mCsnPwhVB6AueBwCoh0VUbk3aEqc4693TjWgsgKWbMiw6AJshrau/s4032/20231110_134027222_iOS.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEukXoC2tKHxGXqTUKdOUhuGOATlPF38jglGWX6rBeHJsw2ovlwuKs9JiYWuKFxkg9sz9RRsnIONVvRAXkR6sVFQvCYXwtAUwM-0-WyaCTbHHeOdaG47PoCgFwHM9s1ALE1-ZLT-81mCsnPwhVB6AueBwCoh0VUbk3aEqc4693TjWgsgKWbMiw6AJshrau/w480-h640/20231110_134027222_iOS.heic" width="480" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Aviation Week, </i>20 July 1953</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>News Digest </b>reports that the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transocean_Air_Lines_Flight_512">Transocean DC-6B lost near Wake on 11 July</a> was destroyed by an explosion. TWA's navigators are on strike. New York Airways is only carrying one or two passengers per flight, because mail loads are so heavy. The McDonnell FH-1 and North American FJ-1 have been retired. Harold Bowman, the secretary treasurer of Boeing, has died at 59 of a heart attack. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Industry Observer </b>reports that the USAF is testing the Boeing Model 500 turboprop on a Cessna, that the NATO Standing Group in Washington is discussing a standard lightweight fighter for NATO, with the Lockheed F-104 having the inside track, the British pushing the Folland Gnat, the French, a Dassault delta design.The recent Olympus-Canberra high altitude trials show that the Olympus is easy to relight in even extreme circumstances, indicating that the British may be able to extend aircraft range by turning off two engines and proceeding on the other two. (That is, with the V-bombers, but presumably also other four engine types, even airliners? Well, transports, anyway.) Speaking of extended range, Bristol is talking up an extended Britannia with a two-spool turboprop as a more fuel efficient, albeit slower, direct London-New York airliner. Vickers is not sending a Vickers 700 on a sales tour of America because it has none to send, because they've all sold, some to overseas affiliates of American airlines, which can get their sales experience that way. It is also working on an extended V<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vickers_Viscount">iscount, the 800, with 66 seats up from 48</a>. The RCAF's Comet publicity tour was slightly derailed this week by a tyre blowouot at Mitchell AFB. The first F-84F from the GM Buick-Oldsmobile Pontiac assembly line in Kansas City has made its inaugural flight. Design work on Avro's CF-104 has begun. Wright is now flight testing its J67. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Katherine Johnsen's <b>Washington Observer </b>is back, reporting that the new Joint Chiefs Committee has hit the ground running with important initiatives like getting rid of "wing" as a measure of Air Force strength. It finds various inconsistencies in Secretary Wilson's positions vis-a-vis cutting the Air Force's precious money over time. There's also a new outbreak of Air Force-Navy feuding going on, while the Army is upset at all the young Air Force officers, a consequence of the planned 143 wing expansion, and it is always good time to make fun of Margaret Truman. She's the daughter of a former President! </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiee9ZZOZgpAqzVjjT64YZlqeaeKiqJ3JZZoABxgEl1k_phlWihppORIyKl3WBiOzf1BWUKMMPc1WWc4RCmsTE6z86NlSODPc0u0dtRenGSSd_9_MdBKSTyoVwy2Ll_pb454C8UFnMaGS3MPv3K-L1FH7PSn4qc7sZi__4vCWL8Ahhi0v0dDoECxx591zsc/s2882/de%20havilland%20comet5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Nothing to see here." border="0" data-original-height="2882" data-original-width="2210" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiee9ZZOZgpAqzVjjT64YZlqeaeKiqJ3JZZoABxgEl1k_phlWihppORIyKl3WBiOzf1BWUKMMPc1WWc4RCmsTE6z86NlSODPc0u0dtRenGSSd_9_MdBKSTyoVwy2Ll_pb454C8UFnMaGS3MPv3K-L1FH7PSn4qc7sZi__4vCWL8Ahhi0v0dDoECxx591zsc/w245-h320/de%20havilland%20comet5.jpg" width="245" /></a></div>The lead story in <b>News </b>is Senator Welker's obliging attack on Air Force management. Meanwhile, the National Air Transport Coordinating Committee stands firm on its ban on Comets at New York airports, which recently forced the RCAF's demonstration Comet to bypass Idlewild and overreach to Mitchell AFB. NATCC says that the Comet is too loud for the public to accept, its hands are tied. C. R. Smith of American Airlines agrees! But in private letters to Ambassador Douglas Smith in Ottawa, and not in public in any unseemly or traceable way. The UAW's last ditch effort to prevent the cancellation of the Kaiser C-123 contract that was to follow on the C-119, has failed. Air Force Secretary Harold Talbott might have suspicious connections with the Wright Field mob and some WWI misadventures on his permanent record, but he's not wrong about this one! I think. Do people who do business with Uncle Henry ever actually <i>meet </i>him? I mean, he's a lovely guy, but STILL! Also, a little box story indicates that Congress has put $15 million up against the atomic aircraft engine. The Air Force budget cuts include $400 million for bases, and H. M. Horner of United Aircraft is touring Europe looking for German license partners to produce Pratt and Whitney engines. <br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"<a href="https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19530707-1">R7V-1 Crash" The 7 July crash of a Navy Lockheed R7V-1</a>, otherwise known as the service precursor to the Turbocompound Lockheed Super Constellation, which is a thing that Americans don't do and that's why there's no American Comet, so please take this paragraph as a contradiction-free zone, is obviously a concern. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The Douglas AD-4 atomic bomber is now in carrier service, says Ed Heinemann, who at the same event says that jet transports will be the rule by 1960, that supersonic transports will follow, and that atomic engines are for the next quarter century after that. The newest Swift gets a publicity shot on the page, and everyone is upset at Boeing for its ridiculous ditching procedure for the Stratocruiser which seems to require some passengers to sit on the floor because there are no crash seats for stewardesses. The Detroit Air Show was a crashing success, and an experimental bomb sight for single-seat fighter jets makes them more accurate bombers, who would have thought. Russian sources are complaining about Japan's resurgence in the air, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guy_Bordelon">Lt. Guy P. Bordelon</a> has four Yak 18 kills in a Navy Corsair and may be the first Navy ace of the Korean War if this keeps up. Convair's sale to General Dynamics is the biggest financial transaction in aviation yet, Vought wants us to know that it is working on an ejection seat, and we hear about that 99-hours-around the world guy again. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTO3JjkqHb0PO0rq00xX7jibSCToLn0KXcYiOV8IW0KtKg_SJP5W3PVUSG7S4YtyFBw32eAgm9VsHYoFbWaKyDC7_B1hLjAF1ByhfyoiyrWZNrHxp_URKdUJ4MXkdLp4_S2dIGAkkNKdUw4zMa4b4x2UMC1o3Bh4NxqxfFi0MmnHMTyTFgvWrYQDFzL900/s2563/Spurious%20radar%20UFO%20contacts%20of%201953%20explained.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2315" data-original-width="2563" height="289" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTO3JjkqHb0PO0rq00xX7jibSCToLn0KXcYiOV8IW0KtKg_SJP5W3PVUSG7S4YtyFBw32eAgm9VsHYoFbWaKyDC7_B1hLjAF1ByhfyoiyrWZNrHxp_URKdUJ4MXkdLp4_S2dIGAkkNKdUw4zMa4b4x2UMC1o3Bh4NxqxfFi0MmnHMTyTFgvWrYQDFzL900/s320/Spurious%20radar%20UFO%20contacts%20of%201953%20explained.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b>Avionics </b>has "That Was No Saucer, That Was An Echo," which is a no-authorial credit article about a CAA study finding that spurious "UFO" radar contacts are due to air refraction. The details of how a refracted radio signal can be turned into a radar target on a scope are gone into at some length, which doesn't help me with the thought that if the authorities were trying to cover up contact with extrate<br />rrestial intelligences, this is the kind of thing they would arrange to have printed. <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">American Gyro, Summers Gyroscope, and Saunders Associates wants us to know about ate gyros they have on the market. All three are lighter and more sub-miniature than each other, and each one is better than the others, mainly because of damping. The National Bureau of Standards has a device that can shake vacuum tubes until they break, which doesn't sound that hard, but it's for testing so they have to be shaken like they were in an airplane, so that's harder. Aremac offers the first telescopic boresight for radar antennas, which are for checking their alignment, if you were wondering. <b>Filter Centre </b>reports that the Marines are shutting off their GE G-3 autopilots, carried on the F3D, because they don't work, or the F3D doesn't work, or both. Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory is testing continuous wave collision avoidance radar. The SEP 2, recently demonstrated in a Trans-Canada Viscount, replaces all vacuum tubes with magnetic amplifiers in this new version of the Smith's Instrument autopilot. It weighes less than 100lbs and uses three rate gyros instead of the standard directional and vertical gyros. Northwest Airlines is commencing an exhaustive competitive evaluation of the Sperry Zero Reader and Collins Radio Radio Integrated Flight System. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAA1nPzoU2cfE9auFU6VYcKg-KHMIvzcpnmZWS91FeCdKJpq65EN12W8kul-gnVMjQc-51xz6fxIcpV2brgXSjwVMVrE7_Oe5iiv1L-Oyk5kLUfP2Iv9tMGplxmkh1O0k85buIc9Sb0-4rkSSU5jMRk0blB7bzKz9nG8VNX9RQmIeQNXZj2wj0nq9TMGpf/s3956/Mcgraw-Hill%20Ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2866" data-original-width="3956" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAA1nPzoU2cfE9auFU6VYcKg-KHMIvzcpnmZWS91FeCdKJpq65EN12W8kul-gnVMjQc-51xz6fxIcpV2brgXSjwVMVrE7_Oe5iiv1L-Oyk5kLUfP2Iv9tMGplxmkh1O0k85buIc9Sb0-4rkSSU5jMRk0blB7bzKz9nG8VNX9RQmIeQNXZj2wj0nq9TMGpf/s320/Mcgraw-Hill%20Ad.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The McGraw Hill linewide Editorial explains the National Layaway, I mean, "stand-by capacity" approach to defence production, which is the best thing the machine tool industry has heard all year. That's it, buy a bunch of machine tools and stick them somewhere for later! "The savings will multiply!" I feel like McGraw-Hill is standing at my front door with its foot in the sill and a demonstration model and it won't go away until it has vacuumed my living room for me. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing. Vacuuming the living room, I mean. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcIUQEI5Ahyphenhyphen-1kszXH8jV8yWSBum9s61gq7YMh2lGJmbi9NrqeF4Gd8uc5LL43YHmyBRkM71pREamR_cfGtUS0umcd4QVxrMUAnvglw78nIjS6APXkWz9ij8EJTYgQxebVXF-4wJ7XhGvoNB91wt0Qkew7wAUJLR_IpWOZEk_tLaVNJyUxe3zq5omllH0R/s4032/20231111_215443942_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcIUQEI5Ahyphenhyphen-1kszXH8jV8yWSBum9s61gq7YMh2lGJmbi9NrqeF4Gd8uc5LL43YHmyBRkM71pREamR_cfGtUS0umcd4QVxrMUAnvglw78nIjS6APXkWz9ij8EJTYgQxebVXF-4wJ7XhGvoNB91wt0Qkew7wAUJLR_IpWOZEk_tLaVNJyUxe3zq5omllH0R/s320/20231111_215443942_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><b>Aeronautical Engineering </b>has a lavish pictorial devoted to the long-since cancelled Fairchild Lark guided missile. It was ordered nine years ago! That's forever in guided missile time! Also, Mallory-Sharon Titanium, of Niles, Ohio, has opened up the first laboratory exclusively devoted to titanium, which doesn't surprise me as much as it seems to surprise <i>Aviation Week. </i><b>Production </b>is a bit busy to write an article, but fortunately Vultee wants to tell us about its new rubber pads and jack connectors for making testing easier. Boeing is making its technician trainees work with scrap, because it is a useful experience and not because it is cheaper, and Albin K. Peterson of Longren Aircraft has an aluminum stretch-form press that can't be beat, if <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenith_Albatross_Z-12">Albin K. Peterson</a> doesn't say so himself, which he does. <br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Letters</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">E. Guigonis, the sales manager of Fancaise Thomson-Houston, points out that his company is the only one outside the United States working on GCA. RLD agrees with DG that the main reason that there's an "engineer shortage" is that there's a shortage of engineers who will work cheap. John Frink of Mechaneers is so upset that his company wasn't mentioned in the recent article about something that he wants <i>Aviation Week </i>to print his entire letter about how Mechaneers does something, which goes on and on for columns and which I am going to make a stand for something and else and not read. So if you want to learn about something and Mechaneers, you go ahead on your own time! On the other hand, various companies that were mentioned are very happy with the quality of the articles that mentioned them.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>New Aviation Products </b>has Avien-Knickerbocker's electronic fuel gauge, which measures accurately and is simple and light and interchangeable and all that stuff. Sheffield Corporation's jet blade gage allows unskilled operators to check to see if they've ruined the piece yet. Leach Relay's AC/DC relay is the lightest, etc. Haydon Switch's hermetically sealed precision snap switch has a 10,000 operation expected lifetime. Marion Instrument's elapsed time device is a timer for instrument panels. I continue to be embarrassed for the companies that end up in the <b>Also on the Market </b>section. (Rubber sealant, hydraulic hoists, whatever. If you want to have a chance of being read, pony up.)</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrz_2IOkyYxCloVRfWoYMn5u7ygg9yvKlL6b9Mk2pVQ83b9a0BKZJITnY8KYIzukEeL5PUonb8VEPwBirDGeC8v-TBxn_s6dzozUXpcxFsJ2U3JGrdc4yBNK3eNdhroVjccA2BJ_fcD_fwADXg8bZvgDldIYLmVnjGqQUEqnjMCzop2zlvGs2y0XqjkulA/s4032/20231111_215412573_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrz_2IOkyYxCloVRfWoYMn5u7ygg9yvKlL6b9Mk2pVQ83b9a0BKZJITnY8KYIzukEeL5PUonb8VEPwBirDGeC8v-TBxn_s6dzozUXpcxFsJ2U3JGrdc4yBNK3eNdhroVjccA2BJ_fcD_fwADXg8bZvgDldIYLmVnjGqQUEqnjMCzop2zlvGs2y0XqjkulA/s320/20231111_215412573_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><b>What's New </b>has reviews of two books, <i>Fifty Years of Flight </i>by Welmont A. Shrader, which is a real name; and Dr. S. M. Kamminga's <i>The Aircraft Commander in Commercial Air Tansport</i>, which is not only a clumsily translated title, indicates a book with extensive passages left in the original languages. <i>Twenty-three </i>brochures, catalogs, and helpful booklets, including a guide to currency conversions, get in the feature, all with a line or two and there is no way under Heaven I am copying out all of that. Convair does a bit better and sends in some pictures of the R3Y Tradewind being erected, but they're boring and the R3Y is ridiculous, so that's enough of that. <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">George L. Christian reports for <b>Air Transport </b>that "Flying the Comet Demands a Light Touch," because this week he got to fly along with an RCAF Comet, which makes up for a lot of boring maintenance base visits. Don't overcontrol, because you can "feel" the surfaces with power control! The radar won't work, probably because its mounting is too light to dampen vibrations, and the brakes are a bit iffy on ice, but other than that, it's pretty swell. The American airlines have moved from fighting over Atlantic routes to squabbling over Pacific ones, Spain's CASA concern is planning a twin-engine 38 seater with Bristol Hercules, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CASA_C-207_Azor">CASA 207 Azor</a>, and US airlines remind us that they are super-duper safe. (One of the companies demanding to be given a Pacific air route is Transocean. Which as of this week has <i>three </i>crashes this year.) </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Captain R. C. Robson's <b>Cockpit Viewpoint </b>looks at how many crew you need in a cockpit. It has gone from one to two to three, and will it go to four? Planes are getting more complicated! And he points to the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Airlines_Flight_470"> Flight 470 crash</a> (way back in February, no reason not to have forgotten already), which seems to have been caused by turbulence taking a wing off, as all the evidence you need for airborne weather radar. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Robert H. Wood's <b>Editorial </b>is happy about the number of tourists flying these days (American Airlines has taken over from the Pennsylvania Central as America's biggest people mover since 1948!) and reminds us that the fact that there was no crash at the Detroit Air Show doesn't show that Air Shows are safe. <br /> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL06tHqjY4qyAn_r5lh492F3pdkTlMLdqN02euOFGOmKXLMfPUytJ7NADhQbSo9K8V-n8feWI1KDkDv1gsFWzkl8qZ_DBzGwrZaDu4bULAqX3yQ4aF-ujArLLTN6mhkpWxhcsLs38_Uu64ZiuYdwSYHGmtF92pKnCIuel1TB62ahZLHurhEvsC8MbkuBie/s4032/20231104_202619704_iOS.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL06tHqjY4qyAn_r5lh492F3pdkTlMLdqN02euOFGOmKXLMfPUytJ7NADhQbSo9K8V-n8feWI1KDkDv1gsFWzkl8qZ_DBzGwrZaDu4bULAqX3yQ4aF-ujArLLTN6mhkpWxhcsLs38_Uu64ZiuYdwSYHGmtF92pKnCIuel1TB62ahZLHurhEvsC8MbkuBie/s16000/20231104_202619704_iOS.heic" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Letters</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Several correspondents have had it up to here with <i>Newsweek's </i>criticism of <i>HMS Britannia, </i>and point out that it was designed to be converted into a hospital ship in wartime. George Kamm of Pan Books is upset that <i>Newsweek </i>gave the impression that either he, and Ralph Vernon-Hunt founded Pan Books, which was actually founded by Alan Botts. Ira Rowlson of Plattsburg thinks that <b>The Periscope </b>should make more careful attributions. <b>For Your Information </b>notes that the reason that Robert Haeger has so much insight into the convulsions in the Kremlin is that he has travelled to places that are very close to the Soviet Union, like Yugoslavia. The B-52 is "the first of a new class of intercontinental bombers" to take to the air. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Periscope </b>reports that the White House thinks that Hoover might be leaking to Senator McCarthy. The White House is doing its best to recruit able staff, it wants us to know. Those ever-reliable sources in Sweden have word that some Soviet diplomats tried to smuggle Beria out of the country before he was purged, and have now been purged themselves. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luo_Ruiqing">Lo Jui-Ching</a> is probably going to be purged, because he sat next to Beria at a party once. It's hard to get domestics at Western embassies in Moscow because the MVD can't train spies fast enough, and Vassily Stalin is out of the picture at the Kremlin. The French have been told to get out of Germany soonest, because either they approve the EDC, or the Americans and British will start arming the Germans themselves. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1956_Pozna%C5%84_protests">Poland is likely the next place for an all-out anti-communist revolt</a>. Selden Chapin is probably the next US ambassador to Panama, William J. Donovan is going to Thailand, Raymond Hare, currently ambassador to Saudi Arabia, is going to Lebanon. Remember Adlai Stevenson? Remember him! Some unnamed Treasury officials think that the personnel cuts were no big deal. West Texas ranchers want more drought relief, the first trial of national first-class mail by air will be in September, and the Navy is looking into the possibility that geese home in on radars as a new way of detecting radar. (With watch geese?)</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmrQiIkmvFt2ScnRTBUGvwzG_hkxXwTCgQN1GD1JbaU0qs2QhM0xOrqhZaXr5ObxEGBeR0-It-FYN0YDZHDGAugl8DD4vshYVOgXdQK3qtT4bbUWhrU1hcNxd67yyTnZ6UUmPdq1FP60s-nz1C-D3UbGa7eedlX0cgnY2gDGDbYdUd8_FBX6VH0IRCorhz/s4032/20231104_205622828_iOS.heic" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmrQiIkmvFt2ScnRTBUGvwzG_hkxXwTCgQN1GD1JbaU0qs2QhM0xOrqhZaXr5ObxEGBeR0-It-FYN0YDZHDGAugl8DD4vshYVOgXdQK3qtT4bbUWhrU1hcNxd67yyTnZ6UUmPdq1FP60s-nz1C-D3UbGa7eedlX0cgnY2gDGDbYdUd8_FBX6VH0IRCorhz/s320/20231104_205622828_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"It isn't generally realised, but the Navy has fallen two years behind on some of its jet fighters. Two engines it had counted on <a href="https://www.enginehistory.org/GasTurbines/EarlyGT/Westinghouse/WestinghouseAGT.pdf">haven't panned out.</a> Result: the Navy's present fighters are underpowered and can't hope to meet the Russians on equal terms." </div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">People are saying that Churchill will step down soon, leaving Eden as Prime Minister and Salisbury as Foreign Secretary. People who aren't R. A. B. Butler! The widows of Eduard Benes and Klement Gottswald are having their troubles, because Communism is terrible. Ana Pauker, on the other hand, has been rehabilitated and will soon be back in Rumania to wreak vengeance on her enemies, while Iran will make a big deal with Russia to export their oil through the Soviet Union soon. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-philadelphia-inquirer-jessie-royce-l/19055095/">Jessie Royce Landis</a>, Julie Wilson, Richard Conte and Patricia Neal will be on Broadway next year in <i>Celia, Saratoga Trunk, A Dash of Bitters, </i>and <i>New Year's Eve, </i>respectively. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fulton_Lewis_Jr.">Fulton Lewis will be on TV</a> next year while <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Kelly%27s_Blues_(film)">Jack Webb produces a show</a> based on the life of Pete Kelly. <i>On Stage with Monty Woolley </i>and <i>Design for Living </i>with Faye Emerson are going to be on TV next year. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/gWT5NWgkFjU" width="320" youtube-src-id="gWT5NWgkFjU"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">Clearly, in spite of one bomb after another, people were still picking up for Faye Emerson, because she got another talk show in '54, but not this one. On the other hand,she had a cameo in 1954's <i>Take Me to Broadway, </i>which also featured Bobby Van, but not this particular routine, which is from <i>Small Town Girl</i>. The point of all this is to say that the ambassadorial appointments are all right, with William Donovan making no secret that he wanted out of Washington because he had no time for John Foster Dulles. The rest of it seems to be would-be producers trying to generate interest by attaching star's names to their projects. Except for Jessie Royce Landis, who was stuck doing dinner theatre this year. You are only as good as your sources. </span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Washington Trends </b>reports ton who influences the President: Sherman Adams, Robert Taft, Richard Nixon, Robert Cutler, Treasury Secretary Humphries, Attorney General Brownell, and Gabriel Hauge. Surprisingly enough, he has no time for generals. Probably because he's met them! </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>National Affairs</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Washington Mixed Opinion Greets Korea Truce Report" Washington reminds the Reds that we need to get this whole truce thing going. Also, the White has gotten its act together to push the EPT and the McCarran Act amendment through, but has has to settle for a cut Voice of America budget.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">"The McCarthy Front" Lots of people don't like Senator McCarthy, who isn't going to be allowed to have William Bundy before the committee. On the other hand, he is back to attacking Western European trade with China, and seems to have Harold Stassen on his side. Aid for Southwest farmers and ranchers is through Congress. <a href="Maurice Joseph Tobin">Maurice Joseph Tobin</a> is a handsome, promising young Democratic politician. And did I say "is?" Because he died of a heart attack at 54 this week. Sweet Mother of Heaven, <i>Newsweek</i>! Employment is at an all-time high. Those scalliwags in the Democratic Party have a completely off-the-wall and irregular agenda. They're going to try to win the next election! (This story about the Democratic game plan for '54 takes up a page and a half!) Robert Taft's "condition was good, but not good enough to return to the Senate this summer." It says here in a report from New York Hospital, where it turns out he underwent exploratory surgery to find out the cause of his hip pains. He's going to be released within four days. It says here. And the Wabash County Selective Service Board has resigned over political pressure. For the <b>Crime </b>section, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1953/07/17/archives/veteran-kills-singer-and-commits-suicide.html">Canada gets its own murder!</a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdkqQ1FbAOD1TYU5jyjwIZ9Iebedw32d4g1CbdOPLYzHQXbuJ993mbdGEbn16-8xeCdOxeRt00xl-XHIivUKon2TTLpO2A4OSVYJLub5raBz9GeQFtoj4kaeyrNh9ad1CeyFzX-cra33utLK4N_xc_1efMRX9aGuuIHdp7o1csGlbfTlKMeq3Fk3my0SaF/s2919/Boeing%20B-52%20with%20B-17.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1962" data-original-width="2919" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdkqQ1FbAOD1TYU5jyjwIZ9Iebedw32d4g1CbdOPLYzHQXbuJ993mbdGEbn16-8xeCdOxeRt00xl-XHIivUKon2TTLpO2A4OSVYJLub5raBz9GeQFtoj4kaeyrNh9ad1CeyFzX-cra33utLK4N_xc_1efMRX9aGuuIHdp7o1csGlbfTlKMeq3Fk3my0SaF/s320/Boeing%20B-52%20with%20B-17.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Big Stick II" We get an account of the development of America's "newest, fastest, long-range bomber," the B-52, which went from a 1948 proposal to a 1952 prototype to squadron service in 1955, if all holds up. Once in service, the B-52 will require enormous ground complement, because it is enormous, as see picture, but also gigantic statistics. It's 153ft long, has a wingspan of 185ft (sweptback!) and is 48ft high at the tail. That's a <i>big </i>hangar. It has <i>8 </i>J-57 engines to push all that plane and 650mph "between 7500 and 8500 miles," or more if it is refuelled after takeoff. That's far enough to bomb the Soviet Union, but in case you're worried, we have bases around the world, and Winston Churchill says that the atom bomb brings peace, so especially those East Anglia airbases that can <i>take </i>a B-52 are in play. (Because the undercarriage tyre pressure must be <i>enormous, </i>not that the article discusses it.) </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Florida Crash" <a href="https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19530717-0">That would be the Fairchild Packet crash at Whitting Field last week</a>, with 4<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USMC_R4Q_NROTC_crash">3 fatalities of 46 aboard, final count. </a>The Navy is grounding the Packet pending the accident investigation.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Korean War</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTk8KFzmR5GtXqUEjdM1S5-Qije1oY-PhHlj50fPkGAfE55TB-Yg1_mJkju0ZZzCm-_lcxOVEqZwea0eFCLAT5wQIf8M5t312leLypUCFk39BfeRJPHwJpuxIGDLTfcT0YqwayqhJ35SRIV8o_NZXBN2nfU_E1jfYnzwBpmRXDAl3T2VgXjROZMvxdwirH/s3304/B-52%20Air%20Wing%20Composition.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3304" data-original-width="2773" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTk8KFzmR5GtXqUEjdM1S5-Qije1oY-PhHlj50fPkGAfE55TB-Yg1_mJkju0ZZzCm-_lcxOVEqZwea0eFCLAT5wQIf8M5t312leLypUCFk39BfeRJPHwJpuxIGDLTfcT0YqwayqhJ35SRIV8o_NZXBN2nfU_E1jfYnzwBpmRXDAl3T2VgXjROZMvxdwirH/s320/B-52%20Air%20Wing%20Composition.jpg" width="269" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Bloody Red Drive Southward Ends With Truce Hopes High" Fighting around the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kumsong">Kumsong bulge</a> is, according to Maxwell Taylor, "the first resumption of open field fighting in two years." A reported 8 Chinese divisions attacked on this ROK-held front. We're told that Sun Yup Paik toured his front line with a "big Smith and Wesson on his hip," relieved one divisional commander personally, and told his troops to stay and fight as four ROK divisions "largely collapsed," leading to a penetration of up to 7 miles, as battalion and even regimental command posts were overrun, forcing hurried reinforcement, largely from Eighth Army artillery and "tank-infantry teams." I guess the Reds are upset at Rhee! Back from Korea, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1970/01/20/archives/walter-s-robertson-sr-dead-former-us-aide-on-far-east-assistant.html">Walter S. Robertson</a> gives <i>Newsweek </i>an interview about his full and wide ranging talks with President Rhee and his communication of an American guarantee of South Korean independence.</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Berlin Food, Offer of Talks, Point Up East German Unrest" In Berlin, US food aid is being distributed to East Germans in West German markets at nominal prices; in the Soviet Union, the purge has expanded to a number of MVD officials and several union politicians (Ukraine, Azerbaijan) promoted under Beria. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"More Freedom Wanted" From Indo China, word that Vietnamese aren't that hostile to the Reds due to "mass delusion about life . . . under the Communists." The Vietnamese don't like the French, either, so the West's main hope right now is for a sudden resurgence of Vietnamese anti-communist nationalism, which might happen, because Paul Reynaud just became the Vice-Premier of France, and he understands Vietnamese nationalism because he once did a report on it. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"The Big Drop" <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Hirondelle">The French parachute assault on Langson was a glorious victory</a>, as French Union paratroopers dropped into action from C-47s and C-119s to surround the Viet Minh rear echelon centre to destroy supplies and blow up bridges before marching the 60 miles back to the Delta via Loc Binh, with only two paratroopers killed in the operation. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"A la Bastille" <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonstration_of_14_July_1953#:~:text=Seven%20people%20were%20killed%3A%20six,at%20least%2040%20by%20gunshots.">Massive riots by Paris resident North Africans</a> followed the traditional Bastille Day marches by 16,000 French "Reds." Seven dead and 130 injured vastly exceeded the celebrated riots that greeted General Ridgeway, and overshadowed the Bastille Day parade, leading "few" to worry about the "threat" of the estimated 250,000 North Africans who have migrated to the country and are now underemployed because they can't speak French and for no other reason, and are probably about to go Communist <i>en masse. </i>Jomo Kenyatta is out of jail, probably temporarily, after his lawyer was able to force a retrial. Follows a full page on "Margaret's Romance: The Facts." Yes, I'm still mad. Most people I talk to are still mad. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Jr9Ir2_U9F3vHVBLGrgtuLK8B7fEjbB4KyVzWk0pMe5Fgz6oHBvw5wOI2bS7nEKcciPhyphenhyphensCRmuSoRV_M2UqGJpfiDSwBG3DoOTzlg8eiFCnbEeaIyNwoglsu0u6VLWINVM2ubfuA2X_t2Aa0V7xowUjoL2xap5eFoAx5kq6x7CVqAcB2JcpCNPvqWW5s/s4032/Gay%20times%20in%20Hamburg%201953.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2475" data-original-width="4032" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Jr9Ir2_U9F3vHVBLGrgtuLK8B7fEjbB4KyVzWk0pMe5Fgz6oHBvw5wOI2bS7nEKcciPhyphenhyphensCRmuSoRV_M2UqGJpfiDSwBG3DoOTzlg8eiFCnbEeaIyNwoglsu0u6VLWINVM2ubfuA2X_t2Aa0V7xowUjoL2xap5eFoAx5kq6x7CVqAcB2JcpCNPvqWW5s/s320/Gay%20times%20in%20Hamburg%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"'Warm-Weather Waffle'" Jefferson Caffrey has presented President Naguib with an <i>aide-memoire </i>from President Eisenhower laying out the American position on Suez; the situation in the Canal Zone has calmed down after it turned out that teletypist LAC Anthony Rigden was some short of shifty griping left winger who had probably volunteered to be abducted by the Muslim Brotherhood, or something like that. Anyway, it is no big deal say the British now, who are, one might say, waffling. And it's hot, so there's your title! </div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimxIItPUbGgk6xHPpwmxvlZ0EJTJpO-EwJRtwLK-__JjoutpY1pYSFHPjW1YaKVVTf2jftO_fbCErmkqc8eEiAOpRbMbdrcVdeAQCoWmH9njVpcCxE1KfxcvfQWeemxEwZnn0LW-dgre32v_bLcDq5yjsZ7jqDs3eGyX8lYZRUIa_3YoB5eY5XwGDV-67i/s4032/Honeywell%20beat%20the%20heat%20ad.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimxIItPUbGgk6xHPpwmxvlZ0EJTJpO-EwJRtwLK-__JjoutpY1pYSFHPjW1YaKVVTf2jftO_fbCErmkqc8eEiAOpRbMbdrcVdeAQCoWmH9njVpcCxE1KfxcvfQWeemxEwZnn0LW-dgre32v_bLcDq5yjsZ7jqDs3eGyX8lYZRUIa_3YoB5eY5XwGDV-67i/s320/Honeywell%20beat%20the%20heat%20ad.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"Gay Night Life" Does <i>Newsweek </i>know what the hep cats mean when they say "gay"? Well, yes, probably. Are they saying anything to us? Well, the pictorial has lots of girls in it, and the article is mostly about (female) prostitutes, BUT . . . <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">In this hemisphere, Argentinians aren't as deliriously grateful for Milton Eisenhower's presence as you would expect, the very photogenic Diligenti quintuplets are 10, the Organisation of Central American States has abandoned its boring original agenda of promoting economic integration in favour of shunning Guatemala for being a bunch of pinkos, which is sure to be a "dam against Communism." </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Business</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Periscope Business Trends </b>"A few more soft spots are showing up in the economy. The big question is: do they foreshadow serious trouble ahead? Most economist readily explain them away and insist the boom is still on solid ground. But inevitably businessmen wonder --and worry a little bit." Inventory is up, backlogs down, auto repossessions up, farm equipment sales down. On the other hand, incomes are still high and so is employment, and economists are "staking their reputations" on the prediction that there won't be a downturn. Oh, and the President is going to get his way on a small business agency. Hurray!</p><p style="text-align: justify;">"A Look at the U. S. Builder: Another Economic Barometer" Home starts have fallen steadily all spring due to high mortgage rates, but nonresidential buildings are up. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiEoSlZldCbzPlAH_iTn10XNV_V1t7q4XUf7YVRqBlY753NlPncJ8kaY30w2pMuzdqxmCL0zenTZatjOXYJV5Byh3ieSEHw425jTCxmLDSA5RAblO10467oSjJLse8gVKYQx3PGeYUL-iZlODjLMNarMlxdA_DhpocFFeVBF13RiuNinHpQRhbwOgJ6d1S/s2942/Construction%20starts,%20U.S.%20spring%201953.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2500" data-original-width="2942" height="272" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiEoSlZldCbzPlAH_iTn10XNV_V1t7q4XUf7YVRqBlY753NlPncJ8kaY30w2pMuzdqxmCL0zenTZatjOXYJV5Byh3ieSEHw425jTCxmLDSA5RAblO10467oSjJLse8gVKYQx3PGeYUL-iZlODjLMNarMlxdA_DhpocFFeVBF13RiuNinHpQRhbwOgJ6d1S/s320/Construction%20starts,%20U.S.%20spring%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"Featherweight Trains" The New York Central and the Chesapeake and Ohio have combined to order "Train X" from Pullman. It's a 30ft car compared with the usual 70, only 18" off the rails, with just two wheels on a single axle at the front, as it interlocks with the car behind, which seems like the old "pulled himself up by his own bootstraps" trick, if you ask me. And 104 vibration-free miles per hour. Smallest, lightest, simplest, fastest, most reliable passenger train car ever, as they say over at <i>Aviation Week</i>!<br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Heat and Smoke" It's hot out, so Americans are throwing out their cigarettes faster, with 3/4" still smokable, which works out to Americans throwing out 1.2 <i>billion </i>dollars of cigarettes a year, says economist William J. Baxter, who seems to have some time on his hands. Because it's so hot out? I've got nothing! Except that that's a <i>lot </i>of cigarettes. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><i>Newsweek </i>checks out Vega Baja, outside of San Juan, to see how tax breaks are attracting new businesses to employ Puerto Ricans so they don't have to all move to New York. A major manganese ore body has been found in French Equatorial Africa, and two fifteen year-olds in Connecticut made a radio-controlled model Jeep and won a prize from Ford.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Notes: Week in Business </b>reports that GE sales are up, that the Federal Court of Appeals in Philadelphia has set aside the Federal Reserve antitrust ruling against Trans-American, that Alcoa is putting up the price of aluminum while Reynolds is building an aluminum mill in the Philippines.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUcxuWe9PvLbluHBuenp4Ddbdkh2PFMgRlJE5A5qU5HewDNT33lWroOIx60bYvgnqFEnFaiqi6sFsDGNjyZolY6TJFi4lDS3EWjSDByf7RahaO8NcgD5IaXjLPDVhfIZVg3b91nFtGovaOdtszxgBOXUk4UEsXx4aWO3xtTFI8kGEnmtk0F_KtPdArhBv0/s2875/Trumbull,%20Donald%20with%20award%20winning%20radio%20controlled%20Jeep.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2875" data-original-width="2758" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjUcxuWe9PvLbluHBuenp4Ddbdkh2PFMgRlJE5A5qU5HewDNT33lWroOIx60bYvgnqFEnFaiqi6sFsDGNjyZolY6TJFi4lDS3EWjSDByf7RahaO8NcgD5IaXjLPDVhfIZVg3b91nFtGovaOdtszxgBOXUk4UEsXx4aWO3xtTFI8kGEnmtk0F_KtPdArhBv0/s320/Trumbull,%20Donald%20with%20award%20winning%20radio%20controlled%20Jeep.jpg" width="307" /></a></div><b>Products: What's New </b>GE has a "flashlight bulb that works like an auto headlight," that is, it has two filaments that give either a flood or a spotlight. L. J. Houze Convex Glass has a glass(?) Christmas card. A. P. Angerio has a wall plug-in baby bottle warmer, which sounds like a very handy gimmick compared with, say, a warming pan on a wood stove. But first we have to get this place wired! Trane Company has a cold car with a built-in diesel refrigerator.<br /> <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Henry Hazlitt explains why the reason that foreign parts are prosperous and we are entering a Republican Recession is that we're secretly supporting the world with our secret subsidies that sure look like us paying other people to buy our stuff. For one thing, the French aren't taxing the rich enough! (Also, they're socialists! Both together at the same time!)</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Science, Medicine</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Aerial Flashlight" The USAF has been testing the biggest, brightest, fastest aerial photoflash ever Windsor Locks, Connecticut, a 300lb, 12ft magnesium "flashlight" that will burn for four minutes while the plane zooms over the AA batteries that won't react in time. Because it's so fast, you see. I <i>really </i>don't think this will work as well as Air Force Research and Development Command thinks it will. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Rabies in the Wild" Rabies kills 40 to 100 Americans a year, plus 5000 to 8000 dogs and 1000 cattle. 90% of Americans get rabies from their dogs, but in various foreign countries where they are serious about controlling it, this isn't a problem and instead people get rabies from wild animals. So the United States Public Health Service and Johns Hopkins are off to study "virus reservoirs" in the wild, which has turned into a study of the grey fox population. University of Saskatchewan entomologists studying wireworms with radioactive trace elements have found a problem; they eat each other until there is just one extremely radioactive wireworm. Hey, I have an idea for a movie script. Where's my ticket to Kauai? </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Food Factories" Science fiction fans are thinking about picnics in outer space,or food pills. Now scientists are worrying about same! Food factories, where tanks of plants might grow in artificial light, need just one thing, an appetising food plant, and they think they have one, Chlorella, a species of algae, a "universal, protein-rich food for humans and cattle," says Arthur D. Little for the Carnegie Institute, which is excited at a 17.5 ton yield per acre, allowing Rhode Island to feed the world half its daily protein ration. Meanwhile, George C. Williams, an ichthyologist at the University of California, has found that the slightly more delicious <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sculpin">spiny-headed sculpin</a> returns to the same tidal pool after every excursion into the wide world. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"The Researcher's Dream" That would be the United States Public Health Service's 5<a href="https://clinicalcenter.nih.gov/">00 bed hospital-laboratory at the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland,</a> which has opened its door to its first 24 patients, all chronic cases so that the researcher/doctors will have someone to treat for conditions ranging from juvenile arthritis to heart disease. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4EnrqMDWL2PxsGEjUSk1EtDQRPRb6VrZ8GchGcmciKdgBaC4e6sG1oMoFkI0EhzFQKE0bX8llZPzszn2z6h1VTk97BCRSc18RGLQySTNdlLv-Gt8HPpKOAR6DjJMTOOqWNCLYGZmO6JZwXOIMNfzWimz5nwNXQCFe53bP-zkKfvBy0aPjuc5zp6-Il7fC/s2978/Van%20Dilla,%20Martin%20(radiologist).jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2824" data-original-width="2978" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg4EnrqMDWL2PxsGEjUSk1EtDQRPRb6VrZ8GchGcmciKdgBaC4e6sG1oMoFkI0EhzFQKE0bX8llZPzszn2z6h1VTk97BCRSc18RGLQySTNdlLv-Gt8HPpKOAR6DjJMTOOqWNCLYGZmO6JZwXOIMNfzWimz5nwNXQCFe53bP-zkKfvBy0aPjuc5zp6-Il7fC/s320/Van%20Dilla,%20Martin%20(radiologist).jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"Radium Safety" The University of Utah is opening a centre, or installation, or project, to study just how much radium or other radioactive material a person can ingest without becoming a hideous mutate, longing for the touch of a Norm woman. Or, in this case, having a veterinarian named <a href="https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/cyto.a.24205">Marvin Van Dilla</a> give radium treats to cute beagles. I've got to stress that even though the article names the dean of medicine at the University of Utah, and someone who is in a sentence with him and so is probably the director, one Clarence N. Stover (only 30!), it can't be bothered to tell us what the thing is <i>called. <br /></i><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Foreign Students" Charles Malik, the Lebanese minster to America (ambassador!) thinks that foreign students should mix with Americans more when they're over here. Richard B. Fisher and Frank S. Morsman's Academic Reprints is a worthy new academic press running out of Palo Alto.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b>Press, Radio and Television, Newsmakers</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">We check in on the Seattle newspaper strike and the new trend for newspapers to give out prizes to readers that just started now and not in the last century. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">"Papers and Politics" Was Adlai Stevenson right during the campaign when he said that America had a one-party press? The American Newspaper Guild took this so seriously that it did an informal poll of its members! Arthur Schlesinger agreed, and two other guys didn't. So there were three respondents? That's a pretty informal poll, if you ask me! And as the next story points out, what about the Communists?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Also, there are now 207 television stations and some of them are making ends meet by repeating shows, sometimes with different titles, and showing movies with sponsors. Which they did before, but WOR is having separate sponsors for each hour of a two-hour film, and that's news! </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEvlSqpcBzxXseP5PST5qOc-a8Sa0_Aduh0ytgJHaL6eNEdoIrrdCTtnd25z_zzto_D1ayPSaRzerEkdjIuCOJex3w-cgFeAPAUJGIYMFXQ3Iq4OLqL7As5pv3c3nrmFMhDqSOcfLCte7pZRmElvT91uY1IkWumD-0pmze6EVf2zMussogOSbE3ouWdUVr/s4032/20231108_014448261_iOS.heic" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEvlSqpcBzxXseP5PST5qOc-a8Sa0_Aduh0ytgJHaL6eNEdoIrrdCTtnd25z_zzto_D1ayPSaRzerEkdjIuCOJex3w-cgFeAPAUJGIYMFXQ3Iq4OLqL7As5pv3c3nrmFMhDqSOcfLCte7pZRmElvT91uY1IkWumD-0pmze6EVf2zMussogOSbE3ouWdUVr/s320/20231108_014448261_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Aubrey Schenck and Howard Koch are the furthest flung Hollywood cowboy flick producers yet, filming on Kuai to reduce costs. Joan Garrison was smuggled aboard a Navy destroyer and spent eighteen hours at sea before being caught, which even for this column is one sad little story. Sam Houston IV has just joined the US Army as a second lieutenant and will probably have to wait at least twelve years before he can be a general. Some very prominent people from the Administration were at the dedication of a monument to George Washington Carver, who, I am told was a credit to his race. (Yes, that phrase is being used ironically in some circles these days.) Vivien Leigh, who is a credit to her sex, was seen in public for the first time since her breakdown four months ago. Katherine Hepburn got a traffic ticket in Old Sayburn, Mrs. Mattie Lou Miller says that Glenn Stewart doesn't look anything like her son, REMEMBER ADLAI STEVENSON, an F-86 exceeded the speed of sound in a dive the other day, just like every other plane, you can't commemorate the anniversary of Commodore Perry's death because no-one knows where he's buried, and William R. Jones gets a light sentence for murdering his wife because it was euthanasia. (Something to remember in ten years when someone says they never talked about that stuff ten years ago, see also the gay night life of Hamburg.)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/3UpjNgH6svY" width="320" youtube-src-id="3UpjNgH6svY"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(R<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_Women">eleased this </a>last year through United Artists, this seems to be a precursor to Schenck and Koch's mid-50s oeuvre: 45:00 and following for some serious subtext)</span></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Gertrude Moran and J. B. Priestley are engaged, not to each other, but a girl can hope. Marguerite Piazza and Frank Stranahan are married to the usual sort; and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Cripps">Peggy Cripps</a>, 32, daughter of the late Stafford Cripps, to Joseph Appiah, thirtyish, Negro law student from the Ivory Coast." Bela Lugosi is divorced. Hilaire Belloc has died, as has Maude Adams and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_Westminster">Duke of Westminster,</a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyWStOTUOzDEY7OMmEt6YJ-tQp7ay_aG04bAefiQNul_yimH043BR88ZIk8YL5ntsc0SzwGLp-ay2eQJJN0lgSWrVVViOPEMZAPiWf6wtIlZKJ3cNs2BX79m090bNV-AvJwydSx1sxyAbdKDff-sbJqMNbjv_z0m_T40vSnbP7kTlwo5W_fgyk1zrQpDCe/s3067/Paul,%20Les,%20and%20Mary%20Ford%20.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3067" data-original-width="2990" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyWStOTUOzDEY7OMmEt6YJ-tQp7ay_aG04bAefiQNul_yimH043BR88ZIk8YL5ntsc0SzwGLp-ay2eQJJN0lgSWrVVViOPEMZAPiWf6wtIlZKJ3cNs2BX79m090bNV-AvJwydSx1sxyAbdKDff-sbJqMNbjv_z0m_T40vSnbP7kTlwo5W_fgyk1zrQpDCe/s320/Paul,%20Les,%20and%20Mary%20Ford%20.jpg" width="312" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> I don't ordinarily cover <b>Music </b>and don't want to set a precedent, but this week's feature on Les Paul and Mary Polfus' new home-slash-recording studio in New Jersey is pretty interesting. It's amazing how much musicians have done with recording tape in just eight years!<br /> </div> <b style="text-align: justify;">New Films</b><p style="text-align: justify;">MGM's <i>Ride, Vaquero, </i>is kind of like <i>Shane </i>in that it has the same plot, but kind of unlike <i>Shane, </i>in that it is awful. And has Mexican villains. Also from MGM is <i>Dream Wife, </i>starring Cary Grant, so that's a good start, right there. Deborah Kerr is fated to be the dream wife, much against her (initial) will, and they both do a good job of being funny, which is great, because the writers forgot how. <i>Gentleman Prefer Blondes </i>has Marilyn Monroe in it, so time to ask whether the <i>Zeitgeist </i>is the Great (Wo)Man or just the <i>Weltgeist </i>on horseback, right? Right? I'm not the only person who happened to look up <i>Zeitgeist </i>in her pocket <i>Encyclopedia of Philosophy </i>this morning, am I? I am? It applies, darn it! </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rIE-qvColCI" width="320" youtube-src-id="rIE-qvColCI"></iframe></div><div><b>Books</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Lin Yutang's <i>The Vermilion Gate </i>is a novel, but it is set in China and it has a Chinese author, so there's that. Last week, a fish science girl, this week, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haroun_Tazieff">Haroun Tazieff</a>'s <i>Caves of Adventure </i>is about a bunch of speleologists who went down in a cave and one of them died, so you know that this is serious science. At any point in the future where I refer to this, I am going to say "cave science" because I only have so much time for dictionaries. Appearances notwithstanding. <b>Other Books </b>looks at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Gallico">Paul Gallico</a>'s <i>The Foolish Immortals, </i>which is a novel with, according to my glancing look at the review (if <i>Newsweek </i>won't take these books seriously, why should I?) and also the Holy Land. So, religion? <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Gigant%C3%A8s">Philip Deane's </a><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippe_Gigant%C3%A8s">I Was a Captive in Korea</a> </i>is by the <i>London Observer </i>correspondent who was captured in the retreat from Taejong and spent 33 months in captivity before British diplomacy got him out, just in time to scoop all the similar books coming our way. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Raymond Moley explains why all those "critics" bent on "socialising power" are wrong about the Eisenhower Administration's decision to let some rinky dink Idaho outfit build the Hell's Canyon dam on a much smaller scale than the Bureau of Reclamation's planned dam. It would have been too expensive, and some Idaho farmers were worried about their water rights. Plus, socialism! </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBWoppnQYYDC9bIusDsFGJdEiMNb4Pio5R7Gyh8BbmWoN62norBaatOarbnZJceWRxzjzdjTnJ9xYiacQXEdYR36-u0xDXim3mhwCCOdz41FJWpEtrB0DqAfli0UBdgR9lxEXcecQ07JGwzuw3qoTOozRMyGCFAm-aNwXs2Kc_FsWwrCVnyxx82-e13e0F/s4032/20231111_224011119_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBWoppnQYYDC9bIusDsFGJdEiMNb4Pio5R7Gyh8BbmWoN62norBaatOarbnZJceWRxzjzdjTnJ9xYiacQXEdYR36-u0xDXim3mhwCCOdz41FJWpEtrB0DqAfli0UBdgR9lxEXcecQ07JGwzuw3qoTOozRMyGCFAm-aNwXs2Kc_FsWwrCVnyxx82-e13e0F/w480-h640/20231111_224011119_iOS.heic" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Aviation Week,</i><b> </b>27 July 1953</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>News Digest </b>reports that Hiller is going to help build the Doman H-31. I have COMPLETE faith that is going to happen. Link is working on an electronic simulator for the F-102. TWA's navigators have called off their strike. Lt. Bordelon is now an ace. Eastern has ordered seven Curtiss-Wright Dehemel electronic fight duplicators.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Industry Observer </b>reports that the ARDC is building a missile test range at Patrick AFB in Florida, Convair's Sea Dart flying boat delta wing jet fighter has plastic bits. Chance Vought is building a lab in Boston, Aerojet is developing a reusablel Rato liquid-fuel bottle, Temco is working on a successor to the T-35, the RCAF Comet has taken fuselage damage from gravel thrown up from the wheels after a short landing. American will use part of its DC-7 fleet for nonstop coast-to-coast service, cost of the C-124 is falling, and the Air Force's inventory of stockpiled machine tools is now worth $319 million. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Aviation Week </b>reports that the Defence Department has started a new feud with the Air Force over a freeze in research and development spending, while the AF is trying to balance its cuts. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8GpsHZg7u6W9XmAeAkReg8LsE1n9BwFPl91yJcSzG3y-sC4ylOY34QYsT1m9k74HfosqwlxXZ5zwrUyTEpcVjZHIi8_-3d3_JLZvZ-pl82NFjazMUa9eCAqObFIQcyx4qWKMvFaYGo0Pq4T2Fd1yE0aK1nYYg4xpoFm_zg2arzhNNmvj05UX4R-SRBLLv/s2286/Official%20Air%20Force%20combat%20loss%20statistics%20Korea%20July%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1778" data-original-width="2286" height="249" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg8GpsHZg7u6W9XmAeAkReg8LsE1n9BwFPl91yJcSzG3y-sC4ylOY34QYsT1m9k74HfosqwlxXZ5zwrUyTEpcVjZHIi8_-3d3_JLZvZ-pl82NFjazMUa9eCAqObFIQcyx4qWKMvFaYGo0Pq4T2Fd1yE0aK1nYYg4xpoFm_zg2arzhNNmvj05UX4R-SRBLLv/s320/Official%20Air%20Force%20combat%20loss%20statistics%20Korea%20July%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"Comet Crashes" The Union Aeromarine Comet crash brings Comet total losses to four, <i>Aviation Week </i>gloats. It was probably a braking problem. <a href="https://www.pearlharboraviationmuseum.org/aircraft/north-american-aviation-f-86-sabre-interceptor/#:~:text=The%20F%2D86D%20set%20new,high%20altitude%20performance%20and%20maneuverability.">An F-86D has set a new speed record of 715.7mph subject to official confirmation.</a> The Convair XP5Y-1 crash on 15 July was due to a failure of the tail trim mechanism. The Navy is buying 96 Super DC-3s. William J. Coughlin reports that General LeMay has been "gagged" because he didn't talk about the Air Force budget in his talk to the International Aeronautical Society. The Navy is going to test steam catapults on <i>USS Forrestal, </i>the J65 license cost Wright a half million dollars, and the Navy has finally unveiled the Sea Dart, which is said to have a limited production contract. Air Defence Command is fling the F-89 again, with a new and improved wing. The head of the CAA is visiting the de Havilland plant to look at the Comet 3 under production and cast around for a good excuse for giving an airworthiness certification when Rickenbacker buys it. And the Air Force now claims a total of 800 MiG-15 kills. Lufthansa will procure Comet 3s, Sea Hawk pilots flying off the <i>USS Antietam </i>find them to be a huge improvement. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Aeronautical Engineering </b>has Joseph Hay Stevens on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNCASE_Baroudeur">Le Baroudeur attack fighter</a>, the one that saves on weight by skipping the undercarriage in favour of a trolley. Boeing is leasing Fairchild AFB to test the B-52, while Beckman and Whitley has misplaced its calendar and thinks it is 1939 from the looks of its "Guillotine" explosive cable cutter. On the other hand, it is supposed to be used on guided missiles instead of barrage balloons, so progress of a kind. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Production </b>has Gerhard Schroder reporting for McGraw-Hill World News that the "Germans Ready to Roll on X-Day," with a charming subtitle to the effect that the "Reich air industry" has the labour and the experts and is just waiting to get a payoff on all the "research doodles" it lent the Allies after the late unpleasantness. Or the ones they're doing? I honestly am not spending any more time on an article that even the author says is based on "wild guesses." Short and Harland has received a big American press, and "Republic Installs New Tools," again, some presses</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYXkkS8VEmdkYL9H3SGJ9GN1ir-9Ef8qabKNxZy04SD9YE-63nK3k2oS7YMde8-PSzAhhNq3brwAQrtVTgNiVj7esDKqRuTRc82gQaKS3ZPsthZynRp-DAaIEpT9U29B4JGQfiHhbR2EPFh1kA3zWqBahenrVb7R8Le7et8gHjF1WI4PFaZ3MzJmAdAtRx/s4032/20231111_232948685_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYXkkS8VEmdkYL9H3SGJ9GN1ir-9Ef8qabKNxZy04SD9YE-63nK3k2oS7YMde8-PSzAhhNq3brwAQrtVTgNiVj7esDKqRuTRc82gQaKS3ZPsthZynRp-DAaIEpT9U29B4JGQfiHhbR2EPFh1kA3zWqBahenrVb7R8Le7et8gHjF1WI4PFaZ3MzJmAdAtRx/s320/20231111_232948685_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><b>Equipment </b>has George L. Christian, who caught a ride to Canada with the RCAF last issue, doing a historic survey of "Canadian Airlines: 'Jalopies to Jets" Which is weird because while Canada did have jalopies, it doesn't have jets, but it <i>does </i>have Viscounts, but mention of them I see not. Instead, he hops over to Vancouver and looks into all the airlines that fly out of Sea Island. Hint: jalopies, although a a guy named <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Agar">Carl Agar flies Okanagan Helicopters</a> up in the Kemano. (Which, I know, is not the Okanagan.) KLM is not buying jet transports because they are too expensive, and wingtip slip tanks extend B-25 ranges, which why would anyone bother if not?</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>New Aviation Products </b>has an improved fuel shutoff valve from Manning, Maxwell and Moore, a cheaper method for producing avgas from the Houdry Process Corporation, involving an intermediary stage producing butylene from surplus butane. Patterson Products has a de-icing fluid jets, while Baldwin-Lima-Hamilton's Model P-101M extensometer measures the tensile strength of stainless steel samples. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Air Transport </b>has a short feature on Russian civil air transport, which "trails behind the West," cue that anecdote about chickens in the overhead luggage rack. "DC-3 Successor Prospects Dim" is a story about the absolutely unsurprising failure of the hair-brained scheme to develop a DC-3 replacement with Congressional encouragement and maybe money. El Al is putting rockets on some of its C-46s.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Letters </b>has Stephen Randolph of Bendix reminding us that GCA exists. George Tenney, the Vice-President of McGraw-Hill, writes to complain about his flights getting cancelled and standing in the terminal at O'Hare thinking that he should have taken the train. Pull up your socks, airlines! M. R. Sheldon of Chance Vought lets everyone know that they have a Reliability Department too, or first, I don't care. Richard K. Fox of Burton-Rogers reminds everyone that they tain helicopter crews. Paul Condon of Collins is upset that <i>Aviation Week </i>didn't mention that the DC-7's radar is from Collins. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">. . . And that's it! No back matter at all; no Robson, no <b>What's New, </b>no <b>Editorial. </b>Not going to complain, because I just got called to dinner. Roast pork with plum sauce! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">And now what everyone's been asking for, the back of the month in <i>The Engineer</i>. Three issues! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT4mB6t2V00tgkAJZSCDlEN1IUE-jgJP1f8XsDD7iQ0EwSgIYBWe3wgoIeftLDt4-99IFaMGkWYQVg_8IH9HN3CvMSeINtURErFvn9wKAVzChEsprhl7lPCgme2LIdwssNgsmY_qIAMvGU2FRgRbHPRxo_ADuGFHoYXNMlRR8RXSA2NjaZI9Iyg8i3CpUS/s2279/Locomotive,%20Another.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1970" data-original-width="2279" height="277" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjT4mB6t2V00tgkAJZSCDlEN1IUE-jgJP1f8XsDD7iQ0EwSgIYBWe3wgoIeftLDt4-99IFaMGkWYQVg_8IH9HN3CvMSeINtURErFvn9wKAVzChEsprhl7lPCgme2LIdwssNgsmY_qIAMvGU2FRgRbHPRxo_ADuGFHoYXNMlRR8RXSA2NjaZI9Iyg8i3CpUS/s320/Locomotive,%20Another.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b>Not-the-Seven-Day-Journal </b>for 17 July, 1953 checks in with the British Internal Combustion Engine Research Association's centenary lunch, an interesting brochure from the Institution of Chemical Engineers on "Careers in Chemical Engineering," a nice model showing at Dr. Lewis Mond's laboratory, and the annual reports of the Forest Products Research Laboratory and Road Research Board, which were handed in to Teacher on the way out the door for summer vacation. We finally have the story of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mond_process">discovery of nickel carbonyl</a> in miniature model form, learn that wood waste is being used more and more now, and that a tape-punching computing machine does a better job of studying pedestrian/auto interactions at foot crossings than empirical studies. Oh. And there should be more chemical engineers and internal combustion engines. <br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtSVYWosEGN89WyK9vleSOf64FoJTBuMJT1t5W8Etl2p8PxD_RFZpoeQRinKgoFszANL56Q2wVASxI8WZEido5KgEuzERG5w-OTU9WsOSAfVcx6pUa5cOgTTw4cmhuZoo98H-rh635dSrcs8mFyzu6woFQLtfHbXuVr6Js7sKUYqK-7whrol_GkFaQT2Jw/s4032/Thompson%20Nash%20Ventilation%20Network%20Calculator.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1815" data-original-width="4032" height="144" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhtSVYWosEGN89WyK9vleSOf64FoJTBuMJT1t5W8Etl2p8PxD_RFZpoeQRinKgoFszANL56Q2wVASxI8WZEido5KgEuzERG5w-OTU9WsOSAfVcx6pUa5cOgTTw4cmhuZoo98H-rh635dSrcs8mFyzu6woFQLtfHbXuVr6Js7sKUYqK-7whrol_GkFaQT2Jw/s320/Thompson%20Nash%20Ventilation%20Network%20Calculator.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>In the IXth part (Roman numerals yay!) of O. S. Knock's trip around Britain on every locomotive running FOR PROGRESS he looks at the new "Pacific" engines to see what effect their relatively narrow fireboxes might have. And then, because everyone's on vacation, <i>The Engineer </i>gives two-and-a-half pages to the sales guy at British Thomson Houston to describe their <a href="https://www.meccalte.com/downloads/Serie_ECO_C_EN.pdf">latest alternator.</a> (The public relations guy at Newberry and Co. is at least too embarrassed to sign his name to the later "article" on its new single-cylinder diesel engine. H. D. Blakelock of GEC is also proud to sign his name to the "article" about GEC's new high temperature vacuum furnace, while the one about a new diesel train car for the Leeds Corporation seems to have landed from outer space. ) After that, we're off to "The British Instruments Industries Exhibition," with tea and shandys after because it's summer. But first we have to pretend to be interested in the Nash and Thompson ventilation network calculator, designed by Nottingham University and commissioned by the National Coal Board. Wait! This actually <i>is </i>interesting! It's an analog computer for predicting the flow of air quantities through large collieries. I wonder how they did it before electric circuits? Did they even try? The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Department_of_Scientific_and_Industrial_Research_(United_Kingdom)">DSIR</a> stand (<b>not </b>going to spell it out) has a suite of instruments from the Electrical Research Association, including the gust anemometer mentioned by <i>Flight</i>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferranti_Pegasus">Ferranti has its electronic digital computer developed for the NRD</a>C, and there's an automatic vacuum and pressure controller, remote liquid level indicators, a light-up flow meter, a pneumatic transmitter, a profile projector, an ultrasonic flaw detector, the Minirack remote engine indicator, and the Igema distant boiler-water-level indicator. After lunch and our shandys we are too drunk to <i>really </i>appreciate the Royal (Agricultural Society) Show at Blackpool, but those are some VERY tractor-y tractors! Which, I will admit, is a very hep name! Oh, and a <a href="https://www.anderson-negele.com/us/bulk-tank-recorders/">direct milk churn recorder</a> won a Silver Medal, three big cheers and one hurrah! <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9mr0A6nCNddFqZAAUEiOyTZDK0ABzC551TNeqv745BYNOW0x5ChoSP_0oat5lZJrrb9Sik9KW-5RWGiwlupMcE4N6IEVAwspfLZmVVSSBBoSyrZh5Kt6dX9ZJfO0W28SPbUTNw9hfOEnw4OGu_rXaDm1ORgcbTcUYcv5yChPDUaGobJpi1ER1SLSboc0b/s3442/Leeds%20Train%20Car%20Details.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Who even built this?" border="0" data-original-height="1624" data-original-width="3442" height="151" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9mr0A6nCNddFqZAAUEiOyTZDK0ABzC551TNeqv745BYNOW0x5ChoSP_0oat5lZJrrb9Sik9KW-5RWGiwlupMcE4N6IEVAwspfLZmVVSSBBoSyrZh5Kt6dX9ZJfO0W28SPbUTNw9hfOEnw4OGu_rXaDm1ORgcbTcUYcv5yChPDUaGobJpi1ER1SLSboc0b/w320-h151/Leeds%20Train%20Car%20Details.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Next <i>The Engineer </i>commences an extended visit to the Staythorpe-West Melton Section of the 275kV Grid, which is where the electrical engineer meets the civil engineer in the service of building Colossal Things To Carry Colossal Voltages. But no-one asks an architect to design a transmission line pylon, so it's all ugly and there's a limit to how much I can be expected to care about how they make things rugged enough to carry the Supergrid. No shortage of facts, however, unlike the sixth annual report of the Advisory Council on Science Policy, covered in a single-page article on "Exploitation of Science by Industry," which excuses a year of per diems for scientific worthies like Sir Henry Tizard by finding that Britain doesn't have enough scientists and engineers compared to America, and should get more somewhere. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The <b>Leaders </b>for 17 July look at "The Universities," actually the report on the University Grants Committee, and "Anglo-American Service Co-operation." The former explains that university teacing and research are getting more expensive, but that's the price we pay, the latter is an extended whine about American atomic secrecy when we're sharing our steam catapults, anti submarine mortars and angled flight decks. <b>Letters </b>has an exchange on the extent of employment of engineers at the Ministry of 'Works between the editor and W. J. Webster (more, and less, respectively), while H.G. H. Tracy and David M. Pearson engage with Professor M'Ewen on the training of engineering designers. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Another article from outer space describes a five-story "statically indeterminate prestressed concrete building," which seems to mean that we don't know why it stands up so we threw in some more beams, here's where they are what we think they do. I'm glad they don't do "Aluminum Test Masts" this way! Then , oh my Heaven there's <i>another </i>advertorial about a "high frequency bar stock hardening machine" from GEC, which seems to be a way of surface hardening steel bars by zapping the ever living heck out of them, which is interesting because I had no idea the did that, and a visit to the Packard works in the United States where they are building some <a href="https://uscrashboats.org/cpage.php?pt=15">light weight V-12 diesels for the Navy</a>, and then some pages for G. P. Jones to talk about years ago, before the war, and "The Rise and Development of Sheffield Industry" that hits the Battle of Waterloo halfway through. The Boulton Paul P.III.A exists, <b>Industrial and Labour Notes </b>notes steel production and coal consumption are still rising, exports are at a new high but need to go higher, unemployment is about level, Britain is still importing more than it exports, and the Monopolies and Restrictive Practices Act has had its second reading. Four <b>Launches and Trial Trips, </b>three diesel, one (triple expansion) steamship, one cargo liner, one cargo ship, one trawler, one dredge. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Not-the-Seven Day Journal </b>for 24 July 1953 visits the Institution of Mining Engineers, reads the Lloyd's Shipbuilding Returns, laments the scrapping of the Brabazon and oil pollution at sea, and reads a report on vehicle braking at the Road Research Laboratory. <i>Someone </i>couldn't leave the office for vacation until they handed in! The IME ruined toasted sandwiches and shandys for everyone by hearing actual papers on winding engines, the Brabazon was a giant waste of money. ships are going to be prohibited from flushing out their tanks too much in British waters, shipbuilding is up 58,000t this quarter at 2.123 million tons, mostly oil tankers, while abroad excepting China, Poland and Russia, there was 3.8 million tons underway. People need to test their brakes more. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinhP1SCDaODojmI9uW4Y85tuIk68C1_CbKVpImFpqvRLEvsnzMFtF0CI8gHlzONa67T7xlRtwn4sJ1nzoL8dRS4fYlAmUgXerojZvSKl-cTkG5HIL0CnHmSU_OIsXh5hOvqe-9VrvqkPl6k7VOgJsNfGjjgSTyxoxONn3AxX8yXb237SossFRXbXebKimg/s440/Locomotive,%20New%20South%20Wales%2041%20from%20BTH.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Romance of the rails!" border="0" data-original-height="312" data-original-width="440" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinhP1SCDaODojmI9uW4Y85tuIk68C1_CbKVpImFpqvRLEvsnzMFtF0CI8gHlzONa67T7xlRtwn4sJ1nzoL8dRS4fYlAmUgXerojZvSKl-cTkG5HIL0CnHmSU_OIsXh5hOvqe-9VrvqkPl6k7VOgJsNfGjjgSTyxoxONn3AxX8yXb237SossFRXbXebKimg/w400-h284/Locomotive,%20New%20South%20Wales%2041%20from%20BTH.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>F. A. Blakely has "Some Problems in Flexural Testing," and B. Downs has "The 'Intrinsic Efficiency' of a Flow-Type Air Compressor," both worthy empirical investigations. O. S. Knock isn't just riding around in trains, he also has done some technical journalism, with a look at the performance and efficiency tests done on the "Britannia" Pacific locomotives, which is only going to be of interest to other locomotive engineers since we know perfectly well how it is done. For some reason neither the sales guy nor anyone else bothers to sign another despatch from the BTH works, this one about the machining plant where they make turbine casings, which is a machine shop on a colossal scale with special purpose tools from W. H. Asquith, but otherwise not very novel. "Twin Screw-Ship <i>Valiant</i> is a triple expansion fire boat for the Mersey Authority. Guy Motors is expanding, and it is time to hear about the diesel-electric locomotives that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_South_Wales_41_class_locomotive">BTH (bringing you this whole issue, apparently) is building for Australia. <br /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_South_Wales_41_class_locomotive"><br /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXArxuNq5bPo9bPX9EZihSFb3OTnNyR7wFwaoPqB4iy_mOFK7a6zFqkP4Pzu4pKHJVqdWVhZqSUkFN2TwBw3i4ab0FPd_yeWZyaSET2Dbs7mEbdP4ULmKHpemrCE3nYtAUxxeYI0VoMsHJV-YB95K-0t_tPvtrI5t7HGYi5Yqv3KlZ6uIBookDQ1RLqvXj/s1024/Blackburn%20Buccaneer.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="First you order the plane, then you go for the ship!" border="0" data-original-height="771" data-original-width="1024" height="241" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXArxuNq5bPo9bPX9EZihSFb3OTnNyR7wFwaoPqB4iy_mOFK7a6zFqkP4Pzu4pKHJVqdWVhZqSUkFN2TwBw3i4ab0FPd_yeWZyaSET2Dbs7mEbdP4ULmKHpemrCE3nYtAUxxeYI0VoMsHJV-YB95K-0t_tPvtrI5t7HGYi5Yqv3KlZ6uIBookDQ1RLqvXj/w320-h241/Blackburn%20Buccaneer.jpeg" width="320" /></a></div>We hear about the annual report of the Radio Research Board, which goes to far off places to look at radio reception and solar eclipses, which sounds exciting, about underground coal gasification, this time in Belgium, which is <i>also </i>exciting, since it is underground coal fires on purpose, and then <i>The Engineer </i>says "the hell with it" and does a full page of short advertorials. <b>Leaders </b>for 24 July 1953 look at "Atomic Energy and Possible Developments" and "The Function of the Large Carrier." The hydrogen bomb is frightening, especially when possibly jacketed with metals that produce long-lived radioactive isotopes under neutron bombardment; atomic artillery is exciting but will use up all the uranium, the British admire the administrative efficiency of the AEC and are thinking about letting private industry have a bigger share of peaceful atomic power. On the subject of large carriers, we can agree that they are quite expensive, and that if you are not persuaded by the logic of carrier borne atom bombers, you probably shouldn't go in for them. William Onyon has died. He was 91, so he had a good run, but I'm sorry if by some mischance you hear it first here. <b>Letters </b>has T. M. Charlton showing an error in a recent article on "Plane Frames Not Obeying Hooke's Law" in its handling of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlo_Alberto_Castigliano">Castigliano Theore</a>m, and F. H. Willgoss arguing for a column about the definition of "education" to show that teaching really is important, as might have been doubted. <b>Literature </b>has <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Francis_Leopold_Brech">books on the principles of management</a> and a <i>Symposium on Prestressed Concrete Statically Indeterminate Structures, </i>which is evidently a big subject due to the tendency of prestressed beams to get more stressed. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZzAp2sSA_ADaJRHraCZQ04xvHT6B8xShRu-JuvLv3OgqPthjO_ihgIE5zX5TtWLWi2eci3jUqbVz8Lz0DoiiY5s_tU2038cTW8hlV-A_P0E__MxKMnUV6vGLiFLqTYvUtzwg5LInYyLnWuHQ66TxblHIuAK154ZVuRljnYSk-FgdEuP4uok9VJsaSLO7t/s2677/Locomotive%20Erector.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2271" data-original-width="2677" height="271" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZzAp2sSA_ADaJRHraCZQ04xvHT6B8xShRu-JuvLv3OgqPthjO_ihgIE5zX5TtWLWi2eci3jUqbVz8Lz0DoiiY5s_tU2038cTW8hlV-A_P0E__MxKMnUV6vGLiFLqTYvUtzwg5LInYyLnWuHQ66TxblHIuAK154ZVuRljnYSk-FgdEuP4uok9VJsaSLO7t/s320/Locomotive%20Erector.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"Railway Re-Railing Equipment" is about a train wrecker that British Railways picked up in Germany at a good price and is now trying out. Those clever Germans! We visit the Hydraulic Research Laboratory at the back end of the issue, let GEC have some space to talk about their "Radio-Frequency Edge Gluing Machine," which glues strips of wood to the edge of laminated board by shocking the ever living out of it, and, lacking a full-length article, do <b>American Engineering News </b>with visits to United Steel in Gary to see them use liquid glass as a lubricant in extrusions, and the General American Transportation Corporations "Kanigen" process for chemically nickel plating. <b>African Engineering Notes </b>is about train works, a new power station, and some mines in South Africa, because where else in Africa would you even do engineering? <b>Industrial and Labour Notes </b>covers the parliamentary debate on science and productivity that determines that it is all the TUC's fault, shows that inflation wasn't high this year, that the iron and steel situation is improving, that exports are up 4% this year so far after declining 10% at the back end of last year, and that imports aren't climbing as quickly mainly because prices of raw materials are falling. 9 <b>Launches and Trial Trips, </b>7 motor ships, two steamships, one Scotch boiler. Three oil tankers, two coasters, one ore carrier, three cargo liners.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Not the Seven-Day Journal </b>for 31 July 1953 visits the Royal Aeronautical Society (Sidney Camm is this year's President!) and the Chemical Research Laboratory of the DSIR, investigates the very historical turbines of the <i>King Edward </i>as they arrive at the museum, tells us about the Commonwealth Bursaries Scheme, and reads the annual report on "Airline Traffic Statistics." They're up! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDNVnXceLrPO-4iTvsPhj0NcRrWAxOGXGBkxV7sdCj7wSqklbE9sXeQlaQwrHcyscI00o2lQChIWQmdsqPhOrfxAyblmI6R-19Z_0_bue-GMRiwCA4Muwtn_ZS7y2uDqYYMg3lKQ2oiw9YjKEV5_Ln8MQ7m4GnjxgHTPW9d1qXgdL01AO9wkD40-cPFUe-/s2539/Martin%20Matador%20in%20Bell%20ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt=""We've lost an H-bomb!"" border="0" data-original-height="2539" data-original-width="2090" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDNVnXceLrPO-4iTvsPhj0NcRrWAxOGXGBkxV7sdCj7wSqklbE9sXeQlaQwrHcyscI00o2lQChIWQmdsqPhOrfxAyblmI6R-19Z_0_bue-GMRiwCA4Muwtn_ZS7y2uDqYYMg3lKQ2oiw9YjKEV5_Ln8MQ7m4GnjxgHTPW9d1qXgdL01AO9wkD40-cPFUe-/w263-h320/Martin%20Matador%20in%20Bell%20ad.jpg" width="263" /></a></div>R. Quarendon compares and contrasts various "Paint Coating Thickness Meters" on the market in the first part of a continuing series. They're mostly by electrical resistance, so far. C. G. Watson has an empirical/theoretical investigation of "Forms of Sections for Struts, O. S.. Knock continues to look at testing results for the "Britannia" locomotives, and British Oxygen Company tells us about a welded light alloy yacht produced by the American Aircomatic system licensed by yours truly in this country. You, too, can have a yacht as spiffing as this! De Havilland announces the gigantic Gyron jet engine, you heard it here first. The Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation has released its plans for the expansion of Gatwick Airport. One and a half pages of advertorials are followed by the ever-riveting <b>Metallurgical Topics </b>which has failure as a theme, with precis of work on the deformation of sheet steel, the effect of pressure on tensile properties, and a creep-resistant magnesium alloy, which rather hair-raisingly, finds that the radioactive element thorium is an excellent alloying material in magnesium alloys for high-temperature aviation applications. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The <b>Leaders </b>for 31 July can't get enough of "Science and Productivity" before talking about "New Weapons." All the summaries in the world can't change the fact that the debate was an exchange of velleities, and the new weapon is the US Army's 280mm atomic cannon, and also atom-carrying atomic missiles, <a href="https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/cold-war-british-prototypes/fv215-heavy-gun-tank/">which are the coming thing</a>. The <b>Journal </b>not having got to all the parties, we mention the Cornish Engines Preservation Society and Naval Architects' gala luncheons and an electronics exhibition in Manchester. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Then it is off to the "Airframe Test House and Wind Tunnel" at Handley Page Radlett! Everyone has these, but Handley Page's high speed wind tunnel is particularly neat-o keen. The Mobile Crane Works at Sunderland is next to my Butlin's, and that's reason enough to pop in and take some pictures of giant cranes being assembled. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NIVWcHrD30Y" width="320" youtube-src-id="NIVWcHrD30Y"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">"Skegness." I'm dying here!</span></div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeyWFvxXUTxwlEYiSRy0dBpKwNy3Ng78ocx3CIm5Pxqu4SelfZZiSrKXVQDza9cVYrCLD7fRk9MfiOfyt2ucXcieSof-FZzyvJbDRQWjp1AeEKcdBlmu1n6thc6vj4iXtcGOgogpO-fyr7YuAfZrzDwNSKLOz1Tj5PpvX8QA5IZHzNgISEfjyab0qrtplD/s2006/Heart%20and%20Lung%20Machine.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1912" data-original-width="2006" height="305" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjeyWFvxXUTxwlEYiSRy0dBpKwNy3Ng78ocx3CIm5Pxqu4SelfZZiSrKXVQDza9cVYrCLD7fRk9MfiOfyt2ucXcieSof-FZzyvJbDRQWjp1AeEKcdBlmu1n6thc6vj4iXtcGOgogpO-fyr7YuAfZrzDwNSKLOz1Tj5PpvX8QA5IZHzNgISEfjyab0qrtplD/s320/Heart%20and%20Lung%20Machine.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>While at Manchester and before tea and shandys, "A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiopulmonary_bypass">Heart and Lung Machine</a>" That's actually serious! The Postgraduate Medical School of the University of London has built "what can best be described as an extra-corporeal heart and lungs." It's not small, but the concept is straightforward, if literally breath-taking. Vein in, artery out, and the machine oxygenates the returned blood and pumps it onward into the body so that surgeons can <i>stop your heart </i>and give it a good once-over. An "essential requirement is close control." You think! It uses English Electric Magamp power supply units for reliability, controlled by an elaborate electrical circuit for accuracy.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Twelve European governments have come together to form a European Council for Nuclear Research (CERN), under the auspices of UNESCO. Then, to fill out the issue, two advertorials, the first quite a hobbing machine from David Brown, so I guess it's big enough at 110 inches to be newsworthy, although surely not the forklift from Lansing Bagnall that follows. John Cockcroft takes a break from bringing us the British H-bomb, I guess, to tell us about "The Industrial Applications of Radioactive Materials," about which we've all already heard, so back to setting off a star on Earth, Director Cockcroft. There's not a moment to lose. And Simon Engineering wants us all to know about its portable "Grain Handling Equipment," which failed to draw the excited capacity crows at the late Royal Show. Don't people understand how <i>important </i>it is to be able to handle grain for export at unimproved ports? And then, why not, even MORE advertorials. He has a grinder! The other guy has a portable X-ray! And we're all in the paper! <b>Industrial and Labour Notes </b>has more parliamentary to-dos to cover, this time the report on government expenditure and industry, and the one on the Ministry of Labour and National Service Annual Report. The Government says that Britain has to export <i>even more </i>if it is going to cover wage increases, iron and steel prices are decontrolled, the Chief Alkali Inspector is worried about cement dust emissions. Three <b>Launches and Trial Trips, </b>one steam ship, two motor, all three oil tankers, <i>Baron Kilmarnock, Merchant Baron, </i>and <i>British Flag. </i>I'm surprised that name's not taken. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/5vTLaVQfmZs" width="320" youtube-src-id="5vTLaVQfmZs"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><p></p></div></div>Erik Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-38132893552856014042023-11-05T08:44:00.001-08:002023-11-05T08:44:30.665-08:00The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXIX: Lazy Sunday Outline with Premonitions of Mortality<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/1Ia-aWlAeaE" width="320" youtube-src-id="1Ia-aWlAeaE"></iframe></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> Two things, first, a very late change of schedule; second, a scary moment at the Silver Kettle Lodge as my 92-year-old father seemed to be failing after his vaccination. These mean that I do not have Sunday to work on my postblogging, although I am covering a mid-shift on time change day, and <i>do </i>have some extra writing time. And I am reminded that we do not live forever and I should get my intellectual life in order. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUMFWnPN7BwTQePMJ75hjxMMtnO0GwlXJTb8c0Ljkn-eqTRd4jETud98krELoJioe-eEwFznLm8rxmS0fF1NBxkH_UfQ52KIzblWdeWusiWyV96URaj4wNoKTgKM2fjZGWFKpUoTSO1uJqfbF_bEv5Bn_-kwCAbSH0P4lYoZlS4Yek-ECC5Jr9Wn1n5cA5/s900/Etruscan%20Fresco.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="900" height="177" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUMFWnPN7BwTQePMJ75hjxMMtnO0GwlXJTb8c0Ljkn-eqTRd4jETud98krELoJioe-eEwFznLm8rxmS0fF1NBxkH_UfQ52KIzblWdeWusiWyV96URaj4wNoKTgKM2fjZGWFKpUoTSO1uJqfbF_bEv5Bn_-kwCAbSH0P4lYoZlS4Yek-ECC5Jr9Wn1n5cA5/s320/Etruscan%20Fresco.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>So here's a summary of work to date on <i>Sacred Spring: The Early Iron Age Revival of the State </i> and a brief outline.<br /></p><p><br /></p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p style="text-align: justify;">Several series on this blog bear on the mysterious process whereby the Late Bronze Age gave way to Classical Antiquity via the "Late Bronze Age Collapse" and the subsequent "Iron Age."</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Way back in the early days of the blog, responding to something on Brad Delong's old site, I began a four part series, helpfully labelled as being about the "Hittites" (<a href="https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/6568915967186844196/3648362078493480092?hl=en-GB">Part 1</a>; for navigation see below) which put forward an unashamedly late Anatolian revisionist take on the spread of the Indo-European languages. That is, the spread of Indo-European came very late, and was a result of the glamour of the revival of the state in the Middle Eastern Afro-Asiatic milieu being refracted through a Hittite lens and disseminated through already-extant trade networks. I won't rehearse the argument, which depends heavily on "I don't know historical linguistics, but I know what I like" crankishness, but I still think that there is something there. Even if western Europeans were already speaking Indo-European, I would still want to argue that their speeches were heavily influenced by the Middle East in the Early Iron Age, with the adoption of gendered cases the most important innovation, and some sense that it is the ideas embedded in this change that are important. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">On 2 June of 2011, I began writing about the Late Bronze Age Collapse, contesting the idea that it was due to an exogenous intrusion by "Sea Peoples" who were at one time imagined as prehistoric Vikings, and who arguably <i>are </i>still imagined as such at some mental level where romance and fetish escape analysis. I also tried to link to a post rather than the edit window, as above, which I suspect will be a broken link in the finished post. As of this writing, with a deadline looming in 30 minutes, I don't see a reliable way of navigating to and from these pages without losing my place in Blogger's extremely janky "Posts" Display/ I'm not spending the rest of the morning slowly scrolling, so what I will do instead is give post dates. From those to the post themselves will be an adventure for all of us at some future date. </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijlnSzDVGXQqonN1ibdEAldzqLYmt9MQfIHVmxJiNwnK6gIeDXaOS3QIiWmRuZafdq6ag9KoayGTp0j3KPart0PTG0GE8Ds5oC8yX8mgVS9JkhTF7wYv_Gv51_23soCMbY_vRLwcr_zIba3cu_c2ZoQicHQexOHoVBMguaGTLoQAr1aBNfUK20ayD75dbJ/s300/Crotone,%20Italy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="200" data-original-width="300" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijlnSzDVGXQqonN1ibdEAldzqLYmt9MQfIHVmxJiNwnK6gIeDXaOS3QIiWmRuZafdq6ag9KoayGTp0j3KPart0PTG0GE8Ds5oC8yX8mgVS9JkhTF7wYv_Gv51_23soCMbY_vRLwcr_zIba3cu_c2ZoQicHQexOHoVBMguaGTLoQAr1aBNfUK20ayD75dbJ/s1600/Crotone,%20Italy.jpg" width="300" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Part II discussed Norman Yoffee's <i>Myths of the Archaic State, </i>which sought to demystify ancient state collapse, a discussion now overtaken, especially in Egyptological circles, by the itself-debatable concept of "resilience," or <i>not </i>falling. Both strands of thinking seem to have their merits. (4 July 2011). Next week, in fact only three days later (7 July 2011), probably a measure of how much work I put into it, I discussed whether we can think of the collapse as "supply-driven." That is, iron was invented, turned into useful tools (wool shears) or weapons, and overthrew the Late Bronze Age order either with violence or too much wool, an interesting point given various discussions trying to quantify the number of sheep being run on Crete in the Late Bronze Age, which would appear to have been its <i>modern </i>sheep carrying capacity, which is crazy, if we trust Saro Wallace, as I am inclined to do. (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/Saro-Wallace/author/B0036A4GQ0?ref=ap_rdr&store_ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true">Here's a link to her Amazon site</a>, which seems like the best way of getting to know more about her.) On 18 August, 2012, I tried to make an argument that the well-known Late Bronze Age site of Pylos, associated with wily Odysseus and the largest known cache of Linear B documents, might have something to do with the ancient lagoon below it, suitable for retting flax and landing Mediterranean-style galley-type boats. As I recall I was trying to minimise claims for the geographic extent of the old Messenian state of which Pylos was proposed to be the capital, and gunning for the idea of a Mycenaean "empire," and even the idea that Greek necessarily originated on the Greek peninsula and "colonised" the Aegean coast of Turkey. On 22 May 2013 I returned to this series with a look at Eric Cline's <i>1177BC: The Year That Civilisation Died</i>, which uses this book to springboard a look at Crete as the place between Egypt and Greece via the Egyptian Delta, which is probably not the first framing around here of the Delta as the place where the Egyptian state goes to die, but is an attempt to "extend" the Delta across to the biotically similar Kommos plain, a neglected area in much Cretan history. There's some more language stuff on 17 December 2014, a look at Kerkenes Dag, which might be another lost Herodotean city. But if it is, it is a Median city on the Halys with a strongly Phrygian look, raising various questions about the "Medean Empire" and the early history of Indo-European. Also, Lameen burst one of my bubbles by letting me know that one of the presumed isolate Gulf coast First Nations languages that make Lyle Campbell question the universality of language families, is actually a member of one such family.<br /> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJtEL3Skpr8cOga-2HVxp4X34kt_ldxP4ICWghlNWx7iVgWhrVivc2hiG255GbLkksUKkbbJZO6mV338OYbYFLe32hNNN-Uiv_oDHIY8ZaD_u8MJa1FDPojfvnfC8d4E535Huz90u8-az-eTAnf0bBXOJRHPOEZNxI2-urLTRZLGeB0164x5t4250CHbVE/s882/Dur%20Sharrukin%20Gate%20BC%20from%20southeast%20Oriental%20Institute.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="882" height="229" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJtEL3Skpr8cOga-2HVxp4X34kt_ldxP4ICWghlNWx7iVgWhrVivc2hiG255GbLkksUKkbbJZO6mV338OYbYFLe32hNNN-Uiv_oDHIY8ZaD_u8MJa1FDPojfvnfC8d4E535Huz90u8-az-eTAnf0bBXOJRHPOEZNxI2-urLTRZLGeB0164x5t4250CHbVE/s320/Dur%20Sharrukin%20Gate%20BC%20from%20southeast%20Oriental%20Institute.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Beginning on 22 March 2012 and continuing on 4 April 2012, 18 April 2012, 26 April 2012, 27 April 2012, 4 May 2012, and ending on 2 June 2012, I engaged with "The Art of Not Being Governed," James C. Scott's <i><a href="https://reviews.history.ac.uk/review/903">Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia</a>. </i>It was a book that everyone wanted to like at the time, with vast insights into language change, myths of migration, the role of state surveillance in the establishment of state religions, literacy, de-literacising (there's got to be a better word) and the cyclic rise and fall of the "paddy state" of Southeast Asia. It seems convincing and provocative, but also endlessly repetitive, and it is fascinating to look back through the lens of postblogging the Indo China war. The application of all of this to the "fall" of the Late Bronze Age and the subsequent rise of a new Iron Age state is laid out in these posts in more detail. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEV1zF2kWzkLE1qEuC9WPeNzAKm6dSO9oVLkz9zbpKQQSl6jqRDNic43p4ORJkwDaxQLAxnxQI-VcstWW2umXz5vGvQaic-XWg0skJeFceGGUExDgEA3f-5-SR10R56L43tjd4qV-Ppb3eOSHP2GQifnkAkHYUKNKaftBIMkEHZ9ACGK-53ve9sfSscmhz/s1280/Assyrian%20cavalry%20attribution%20needed%20wiki.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="1280" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhEV1zF2kWzkLE1qEuC9WPeNzAKm6dSO9oVLkz9zbpKQQSl6jqRDNic43p4ORJkwDaxQLAxnxQI-VcstWW2umXz5vGvQaic-XWg0skJeFceGGUExDgEA3f-5-SR10R56L43tjd4qV-Ppb3eOSHP2GQifnkAkHYUKNKaftBIMkEHZ9ACGK-53ve9sfSscmhz/s320/Assyrian%20cavalry%20attribution%20needed%20wiki.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>On 7 August 2012, I began "Old Europe" with a look at an odd <i>Technology and Culture </i>article about the double-bitted axe, which really does seem like the best, although also most dangerous, forester's axe, and which only appeared in the Eighteenth Century due to advances in ironmaking, but which has interesting Late Bronze Age and Neolithic precursors. As the "labrys," it plays a significant role in German dentist and all around crank, Hans George Wunderlich's attempt to prove that the Minoan Crete was heavily influenced by Second Kingdom Egypt, with some interesting implications for what "labyrinths" actually were, and for the origins of the purportedly pre-Indo European "Minoan" language. I don't know how much of his general crankiness holds up today, but I found Wunderlich refreshing when I first read him, and still do. A big takeaway from a woodsman's axe! On 14 November 2012 I talked about Roman Bologna, conquered originally by Marius, and on the one hand late Republican Roman politics and perhaps the invention of the Cimbri and Teutones, and on the other the importance of a specific kind of geology --springline hillside sites-- in the spread of the Roman Empire. The idea here is that instead of being uniformly spread over an undifferentiated landscape, we should look at Roman real estate interests as being focussed on highly localised and particularly exploitable development plays, which is why the name "Bonona" and its variants, probably derived from (Cow)boy, reappears across the Empire. Also, I wanted to talk about long distance commercial cattle drives. Pretty ambitious for one post, or, here, half a paragraph! I'm honestly not sure what I'm on about on 3 March 2013 except that I'd like some comics blogger to talk about the Golden Gladiator and the Silent Knight, two early Kanigher backups in <i>Brave and the Bold</i>, and ain't that a nonsequitur. The 18 April 2013 number is about Watling Street and what the Romans got out of Britain, the 19 June 2012 about the neglected importance of buckwheat (and the importance of cover/subsistence) crops in a full history of agriculture, 31 July 21013 about grain farming. On 30 September 2013 I extended my thinking about "Cowboys" to the "Young Ones," or Jugunthi, who rampaged through northern Italy in the middle of the Third Century crisis. Were they, in fact, German cowboys, unemployed by the end of cattle drives across the Alps to feed the Roman games/sacrifices?<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMATgbge3ZOt9Sx25hPtM1yDjRY-MWoP6SLEu_AfCbrhiG-NsnJGwlMX0DyblBwU7KIyegTWsMbnhV9LfceWCRn3Pwayzq15H_M8l_6KqC1kfjAukqaEdXQ4-KqzL-Qk8pDc5hgPpI5y7KBl25eL13ROHm8paI10UzUW6YPLm1yv4Os5BF76z5Ap_nX9r5/s600/gold%20of%20pleasure.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="397" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMATgbge3ZOt9Sx25hPtM1yDjRY-MWoP6SLEu_AfCbrhiG-NsnJGwlMX0DyblBwU7KIyegTWsMbnhV9LfceWCRn3Pwayzq15H_M8l_6KqC1kfjAukqaEdXQ4-KqzL-Qk8pDc5hgPpI5y7KBl25eL13ROHm8paI10UzUW6YPLm1yv4Os5BF76z5Ap_nX9r5/s320/gold%20of%20pleasure.jpg" width="212" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I'll leave my "Thalassocracy" series out of this discussion. It's more criticism of the Minoan Empire concept, and also engagement with Graydon Saunders. In a tangential note, I finally caught up with the last two Commonweal novels over the summer, thoroughly enjoyed them, and like the comparison of his "Sea Peoples" with the Numenoreans. Now that's literary engagement! (And TV.)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zhsGVs6auq0" width="320" youtube-src-id="zhsGVs6auq0"></iframe></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">On 16 February 2015, with "Grexiting the Late Bronze Age," I tried to hop on the fiscal crisis in the European Union (remember that?) by talking about upland agriculture. As often, I wanted to talk about the relationship between swidden farmers, iron axes, and the various charcoal-using industries, but also the way that the centre of Greek agriculture, so once economic, life has shifted up and down hill depending on whether it was more interested in commercial exchange at sea level or mixed farming at the centre of the Greek landscape, which is, due to its mountainous nature, about 800m up. This was good for three parts and a freestanding 11 March 2016 post, which, after a very weird intro mainly intended to trash Eastwood's <i>Flags of our Fathers, </i>is about iron and salt in the English Weald, instead of the Peloponnese. 3 June 2016 visits Umbria between Rome and Ravenna for another look at the "uphill retreat" in Mediterranean history.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> I do that a lot, because I like mountains. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Also deltas, to which I returned, specifically the Egyptian one, on 6 une 2017 to yoke the Late Bronze Age Collapse to the Second Century Crisis. When people stop <i>paying </i>for grain and cattle, delta people start producing "subsistence" crops like fish and lotus root, instead. They can't be taxed outside of a monetised economy, and they fill the belly, so if you want to tax a delta's productivity it is on the state to maintain monetisation! </p><p style="text-align: justify;">My developing sense of the importance of the salt/charcoal/soap nexus led to the launching of the Early Iron Age Revival of the State series on 16 November 2017, although I'm pretty sure that I had already explained the "Sacred Spring" idea. (In a particularly fruitful year, an early Iron Age state, for this is a myth out of the early Roman Republic, would declare a "Sacred Spring" dedicate all the animals and children born in a certain year to the gods, and "sacrifice" them by driving them out to found a new city/settlement/colony. "Sacred Springs" become my shorthand way of alluding to the rapid spread of urban civilisation through the western Mediterranean in the Early Iron Age.)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg35i68sB87jBTcSaHsj7I0sTg22X80mleEkEZDP3P97PKRTZH2emB4YhSKE-dEHrnRDev1ySvtWmb3c0LWqznJl0yNcAOkY9zH_p3A9Nl1clkSfiBaxOlT5u01H6uYRzkDVLtlTcf5vWPua7s1Y879LptEjXNgDLIxUZTgiRC64VHokuxAMPiuaYoktY6N/s275/Greek%20meal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="183" data-original-width="275" height="183" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg35i68sB87jBTcSaHsj7I0sTg22X80mleEkEZDP3P97PKRTZH2emB4YhSKE-dEHrnRDev1ySvtWmb3c0LWqznJl0yNcAOkY9zH_p3A9Nl1clkSfiBaxOlT5u01H6uYRzkDVLtlTcf5vWPua7s1Y879LptEjXNgDLIxUZTgiRC64VHokuxAMPiuaYoktY6N/s1600/Greek%20meal.jpg" width="275" /></a></div><br /> <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Collapse, and rise again, and the powerful imagery of Michael Morris' choreographed version of Purcell's <i>Dido and Aeneas, </i>make an appearance a week later, on 16 November 2017. On 2 December 2017 I survey some of the archeological sites that give depth to a phenomena that could easily be reduced to waving at Carthage and Rome. There were a <i>lot </i>of Sacred Springs, many of which leave no historic record, and the most interesting of which occurred in southern Germany. On 23 December 2017, I introduce lye-cured olives, yet another charcoal industry, and talk about the rise of equestrianship in the Roman Iron Age, and its peculiar religious practice that so forcefully reminds me of Byer's Cahokian "spiritual mall," that is, a site with a heterarchic distribution of competitive/complementary religious sites and practices, rather than a unified concept of city, state, and cult. On 19 January 2018, I talked about the "sin of Sargon." Why was the defeat and death of Sargon in 705BC so monumental, according to his descendants? Was it that founding a new city was blasphemous? Is this a literary construction? Or a world historical moment in which the steppe rider cultural and technological horizon is invented out of military necessity at a specific moment of crisis, on the borderlands between Assyria and Urartu? Next week, more of the same, with some astrological/extipicy related material. Assyrian cosmology might be weird to us, but it was probably the most comprehensive and useful cosmology yet invented --"Good to think with." More on this in the 28 April 2018 post, to get out of order, where I look at Sybilline books and Iguvine Tablets and such. On 28 May, I look at modern efforts to do ancient Babylonian/Assyrian intellectual history with these resources. Fascinating, at least in theory. And it obviously has nothing to do with Sargon <i>I, </i>the Middle Bronze Age founder of Akkad. <i> </i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi76NFm7atOfMTPNMPtPtCPlJVpg0PwxoZYk_1DRRKzsDxcpYG2mbzGk25PpOLjdnnWtDPNEC2pFbAfjrsDaZMQcAp5iHVWFxMAGHiGFE8GTqkh8nqIPTPaZv4KdC8HBWkyigtxsThoJApukk-dw8-T9Z6k3uD9c0FqTEKxOTuNSamrwkK2knMMRINHdDkC/s250/Sargon.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="250" data-original-width="187" height="250" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi76NFm7atOfMTPNMPtPtCPlJVpg0PwxoZYk_1DRRKzsDxcpYG2mbzGk25PpOLjdnnWtDPNEC2pFbAfjrsDaZMQcAp5iHVWFxMAGHiGFE8GTqkh8nqIPTPaZv4KdC8HBWkyigtxsThoJApukk-dw8-T9Z6k3uD9c0FqTEKxOTuNSamrwkK2knMMRINHdDkC/s1600/Sargon.jpg" width="187" /></a></i></div><i><br /></i><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">More salt and charcoal on 24 February, 2018, which looks at briquetage, the crude pottery used to move salt produced at brine springs and seashore salteries. On 24 March 2018, I look at Bronze Age jewelry, hoarding, status competition, and more difficult-to-grasp concepts about jewelry and the body to look at what the end of bronze jewelry might mean to the Bronze Age/Iron Age transition. Was it an ideological revolution as well as an economic crisis? Did people start a new death cult? They certainly started using cavalry (6 April 2018), although possibly only thousands of years after steppe peoples <i>started </i>riding horses. (I'm skeptical.) The 26 May 2018 entry, confusing entitled "Queen of May" because I wanted to poste some Jane Russell promotional material, is about the time series of lead contamination of Greenland glacial ice samples showing a rapid ramp up of atmospheric lead, hence the refining of copper-lead-silver ores for silver in particular, beginning in the early Iron Age and peaking in the late Republic before falling off in the Second Century Crisis. This, then, is a historical episode --roughly 800BC to 250AD. On 1 July 2018, I introduce an argument about changing international textiles industries and trade in antiquity in a very scattered way. This would all have been greatly helped if I'd been introduced to the idea of a "vernacular industry," so that could have talked about an "Industrial revolution"! The idea is powerful. In fact, I will go with two wool revolutions, the first being that "Yamnaya intrusion" that the modern Nazi-curious so like, the second in the early Iron Age, which re-occurs in my 15 July 2018 entry. Coined money and "urban sanctuaries" enter the discussion on 1 September 2018, probably following up on earlier discussion of Hans Van Wees' <i>Ships and Silver, Taxes and Tribute: A Fiscal History of Early Athens.</i></p><p style="text-align: justify;">A free-standing discussion inspired by an "Academia.edu" bombing episode, with Ad Thijs' dating papers, appears on 1 Sept 2019, and discusses the mid-800s (dating controversial!) episode of the Egyptian "Renaissance," or, leaving out diacriticals and funny letters, "Wehem Messet." There's <i>something </i>going on in Thebes as the Iron AGe is born elsewhere, and it involves massive tomb robbing. Does it also involve massive outflows of precious metals, remonetising the Mediterranean basin? Maybe! On 27 September 2019, inspired by more discussion of <i>Nineteenth Century </i>textile industry practice, a look at the enigmatic "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burnt_mound"></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK0ZvS1-ZfAa0mgpYrdeLZWX6au_QlPs6g95VtOR1DpdG9TXAihPdtE5who_n-hj2jhSkNQ_BlDQphT6XkJNd3NSFXSnRzlVMuptpB9sgYwMwM6ihjPU3cWsFk4zO29Xy0q02_QFF4GmDKpPIJ2NZon0cYXhCWlZJBlGfPSPj_Lu6VQe2SgdcJtzbSDDp5/s783/burnt%20mound%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="566" data-original-width="783" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhK0ZvS1-ZfAa0mgpYrdeLZWX6au_QlPs6g95VtOR1DpdG9TXAihPdtE5who_n-hj2jhSkNQ_BlDQphT6XkJNd3NSFXSnRzlVMuptpB9sgYwMwM6ihjPU3cWsFk4zO29Xy0q02_QFF4GmDKpPIJ2NZon0cYXhCWlZJBlGfPSPj_Lu6VQe2SgdcJtzbSDDp5/s320/burnt%20mound%202.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;">burnt mounds" that might have been the sites where Bronze Age and Iron Age wool was cleaned, close to the shearing sites, and on 4 October 2019 a more extensive discussion of Prienne/Oppidum Heuneberg in Bavaria. Is money suddenly so easy in 850BC that people are willing to give this whole "city" thing a fling even in as unpromising a location as the upper Danube valley? Irrational exuberance! On 8 November 2019 I take on the doyen of Roman demographic history, Walter Sheidel, whom I think to inclined to allow massive demographic swings instead of population relocation in his <i>Great Leveller, </i>a book that I am stuck a bit of the way into four years later. On 22 November 2019, a more grounded look at Cyrene, the novel Early Iron Age city state that is still a bit of an enigma compared with Rome and Carthage, but not as much as Bad Heuneberg. On 29 November 2019, more on coins, silver (hence cupellation) and the state. On 5 February 2021, engagement with "the Axial Age," yet another proposed world transformation of the Iron Age, when all the good religions (your Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Confucianism or maybe Taoism, Pythagoreanism) suddenly came along together, as the story goes. I also thought I'd come along far enough for a recap on 13 February 2021.</div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6BmKwiKLUf0ETGAums5BIpt85MuYckeUZoopm9SOzGfa4s662bKm4d6VJsHvq7PQtH1Y1olswrO86eyVgb79dkUtms80cY5fWvz6oeDwUQix8VXG7HZgZjFL8Kn9DIS06RHIdZK7eyvnt38Qb-mtMQ8hkg_AZHT3Pe2rDKlh6yP0lM7cBH0GSfVkjgS-f/s259/Margotia%20gummifera%20(Silphium).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6BmKwiKLUf0ETGAums5BIpt85MuYckeUZoopm9SOzGfa4s662bKm4d6VJsHvq7PQtH1Y1olswrO86eyVgb79dkUtms80cY5fWvz6oeDwUQix8VXG7HZgZjFL8Kn9DIS06RHIdZK7eyvnt38Qb-mtMQ8hkg_AZHT3Pe2rDKlh6yP0lM7cBH0GSfVkjgS-f/s1600/Margotia%20gummifera%20(Silphium).jpg" width="259" /></a></div><br />On 2 April 2021, it was back to Cyrene, and the mystery of "silphium," and some scholarship that tries to de-exoticise the ancient condiment/contraceptive and turn it into an indication of a new mode of long distance trade supplanting the Late Bronze Age state-centred one. Along the way, we have a skeptical deconstruction of the silphium myth, always catnip for your humble blogger. On 27 March 2022, the first of several posts engaging with Finkelstein's history of early Israel, perhaps the most dramatically upland of upland states, and this goes double if Finkelstein's reconceptualisation of the succession of of Israel to Judah is correct. On 25 September 2022 I take aim at apocalyptic stories again, with a focus on, of all things, the now-discredited "Dunkirk Transgressions," which used to be used to set the Cimbri and Teutones, and then the Anglo-Saxons in motion. (You have to go invade foreign parts if your farms suddenly start sinking between the waves!) The idea of a widespread sealevel rise/erosional-depositional/deforestation crisis has taken a back seat to a new push for the bubonic plague ("Justinian's Plague") as a civilisation ender, and I would argue that the process shows that it is more intellectual fashion than fact --apocalypse is another thing that is "good to think with." On 8 January of this year we visited Carthage and some other archaeological sites along the Tunisian shore. How Phoenician, and how "Semitic" was the founding of the Carthaginian state? This raises the weird question of the absent North African Bronze Age, 26 January. I can't believe in such a thing, since all it takes to declare a Bronze Age is some bronze items in a period site, and how can there not be some bronze items recovered from Maghrebi sites across a two-thousand year span? So what are we even saying when we say that North Africa had no Bronze Age? <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">On 14 February we returned to Bad Heueneberg for some jewelry and a discussion of what jewelry means. On 6 October, I posted a lazy post that might be more important than it looks. A great deal of the conversation about the Late Bronze Age, its collapse, and the transition to the Iron Age, is based on the idea that the tin in Bronze Age bronze came from a long distance away via whatever mechanism of long distance exchange we are personally inclined to allow. (Exchange or trade is a pretty big argument in anthropology, alongside the question of long distance mobility of traders.) But the Tin Council spent most of the Twentieth Century exaggerating the rarity of tin; there are viable, or almost viable, tin mining regions in Italy and Serbia, so we need to think a lot more about the economics of mining and less about the richness of ore bodies. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Okay, then: <b>Outline</b></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This is my dedicated intellectual biographer/ghost writer to turn into a book when I drop dead later today. No pressure, K.!</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx8Dt37wXjLgv_Ogke9cZG8OLpqVMDGYbHnO22Bu3aAVHG8RQ3wftu9zNr22A9HJdz2fU2aIGbGGkwtY_naXpANWJMWldFxN11kVNVESJE4IiuIs9wN_-ORxNpAxYeNtskC6oP0-R-LoQvT0aPRqoAW6qy-Yfm0LvXDy0Di6b4f4lWp3ClGxhQWrKoeZWZ/s800/gamma%20world.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="614" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx8Dt37wXjLgv_Ogke9cZG8OLpqVMDGYbHnO22Bu3aAVHG8RQ3wftu9zNr22A9HJdz2fU2aIGbGGkwtY_naXpANWJMWldFxN11kVNVESJE4IiuIs9wN_-ORxNpAxYeNtskC6oP0-R-LoQvT0aPRqoAW6qy-Yfm0LvXDy0Di6b4f4lWp3ClGxhQWrKoeZWZ/s320/gamma%20world.jpg" width="246" /></a></div>I) Arguing: We engage cod economic history as an epiphenomenon of neo-Liberalism (to include Malthusianism, Finley, Brenner), look at the idea that ancient states were fragile, and the rival idea of "resilience." We take a stand against apocalypse, talk about historical linguistics, and the applicability of the entire Stone/Bronze/Iron Age paradigm. What's left? Technology: <i>real </i>technology. It's time to talk about the actual history of agriculture, rather than the cod history of the economic historian would look like. Fibre crops, animal pasturage (and the importance of salt), ion balances, crop rotation, grain and non-grain food crops, fibre crops, dyestuffs, infield/outfield agriculture. We look at claims for Neolithic equestrianship. <br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">II) A brief review of history from the beginning to the Late Bronze Age: Probably short and anodyne after the above, although I probably have to get at the ancient Iraqi cosmology or worldview. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">III) The Late Bronze Age Collapse <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_Considered_as_a_Helix_of_Semi-Precious_Stones#:~:text=%22Time%20Considered%20as%20a%20Helix,for%20Best%20Novelette%20in%201969.">Imagined As a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones</a> Or as a monetary thing. What collapsed? How far? When? A look at <i>other </i>Bronze Age collapses; a de-emphasis on the <i>technological </i>causes of the change, along with other exogenous drivers (invasion, catastrophe). A discussion of the move uphill, and what it means in Mediterranean history, with apologies to James C. Scott, who came up with it as a solution to the problem of the migration myth in Southeast Asian history. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">IV) The Rise of Assyria: Cavalry, iron, war, omens. The appearance of the urban sanctuary with the shift from private ritual to public cult. The emergence of state finance as a product of public sacrifice. An introduction to what the Axial Age <i>actually </i>was about: Literacy and pedagogy. Perhaps some discussion of what literature could then do, and not do, and its relationship with language change?</p><p style="text-align: justify;">V) From Iron and Wool to Glass: The technological nexus of the forest industries, in which glass, iron, soap, wool, pasture, and dyes are all interrelated. The spread of purple factories along the Mediterranean littoral. (Their probable connection to sealing, textiles, and leather.) </p><p style="text-align: justify;">VI) The Egyptian Renaissance and the remonetisation of the Mediterranean economy: The lead spike, silver mining, cupellation. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">VII) The Sacred Spring proper, from Cyrene around the Basin to Bad Heuneberg</p><p style="text-align: justify;">VIII) The bust on the peripheries, the rise of the great Western Mediterranean states.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">IX) Israel, Judah, monolatry, and the Temple of Jerusalem. Silver and the fiscal state. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">X) The Rise of Rome and the international livestock trade.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">XI) Marius? (The late Republic political crisis, anyway) and the Aristotelian treatises, the Torah: The Iron Age at its zenith, precocious signs of collapse. By this time it should be obvious how Jesus clearing the Temple is the moment when this fragile edifice collapses on itself, so I think 70BC is as good a time as any to end the book. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p>Erik Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-21694456330846413812023-10-29T07:38:00.001-07:002023-10-29T07:38:25.383-07:00Postblogging Technology, July 1953, I: Calm Morning<div><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/qITSBcLZvrs" width="320" youtube-src-id="qITSBcLZvrs"></iframe></div><div><br /></div>R_.C_.,<br />Oriental Club,<br />London,<br />England<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Dear Father:<div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;">I feel like one of those insufferable country correspondents prattling on about the seasonal delights of some place with an insufferably English name, except that "Nakusp" is insufferably Canadian, instead. Oh, right! My point! Stuffed fresh rainbow trout. With green beans. And a sour cherry confit. I'm in Heaven. And "eating for two." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Is it just me, or has <i>Fortune </i>finally discovered the "Baby Boom?" At some point in the near future, if we're not to have an atom war after all, and perhaps no war at all, perhaps we could have some advertisements directed at the people doing the booming? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Uncle George now tells Reggie that there is no chance of the Korean War dragging on. The famine in China is real, and Party and collectivisation aside, it's the war, he says, or my husband says he says. The idea of Chinese troops intervening in Indo China right now is out, says Uncle George, but so is the idea of Ho settling for anything short of complete independence. I know you've already heard this from the same sources, and if you could supply me some assurance that my husband won't be fighting a war in Indo China next, that would be great. Thanks! </div><br /><br />Your Loving Daughter,<br /><br />Ronnie<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd1JYyf72hAqVEK59lPQcyf5V8y7kS6tas0ufj3QZj428RkCczo_ky8jUVwF2y3VCWPXIuqdht57MMDl_7TuL7DbkMmWPepPWNN2emDS3l_CME8Hmo8pZzWOSXQv50U4xc0psw5s-ZWxAo4M2MC4L3lFXVSRLD2w_J32wRv2gqhE8ouzw5b7_kx3g4CHRZ/s3142/Oak%20Park,%20Illinois,%20Courts.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2140" data-original-width="3142" height="436" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhd1JYyf72hAqVEK59lPQcyf5V8y7kS6tas0ufj3QZj428RkCczo_ky8jUVwF2y3VCWPXIuqdht57MMDl_7TuL7DbkMmWPepPWNN2emDS3l_CME8Hmo8pZzWOSXQv50U4xc0psw5s-ZWxAo4M2MC4L3lFXVSRLD2w_J32wRv2gqhE8ouzw5b7_kx3g4CHRZ/w640-h436/Oak%20Park,%20Illinois,%20Courts.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div><br /> <div><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div><i>The Economist, </i>4 July 1953</div><div><br /></div><div><b>Leaders</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnnYiriDby41DKQgObz4jtbujMq6y4odRLzEQZNEr1pSsmQ9U2dVmLLUJJ3B1rwF06GIW3ImpG2F9WYPtrdxiag5rtVttSUglg0mFT7vzo05mQR_Sw6tTtIbMFk4mP2l8mlvTUKjqffCNumEJdM-S3exioFvEpsCaP-yzFEx-5JR4MPDdt2346_pd1jgRz/s4032/20231022_195039382_iOS.heic" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnnYiriDby41DKQgObz4jtbujMq6y4odRLzEQZNEr1pSsmQ9U2dVmLLUJJ3B1rwF06GIW3ImpG2F9WYPtrdxiag5rtVttSUglg0mFT7vzo05mQR_Sw6tTtIbMFk4mP2l8mlvTUKjqffCNumEJdM-S3exioFvEpsCaP-yzFEx-5JR4MPDdt2346_pd1jgRz/s320/20231022_195039382_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"Distributing the Load" Sir Winston Churchill's <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6378477/">medically enforced rest</a> means no more Big Three summit, is the thought to occur to me, but <i>The Economist </i>is much more worried about the vacuum at the top in London, especially with Eden also out for health reasons. How quickly can we expect a 78-year-old to return to work,and how long before this happens the next time? <i>The Economist </i>suggests that Churchill appoint a Foreign Secretary, perhaps the current acting Secretary. Then we won't need the dotard at all! By the way, it turns out that the <i>current </i>acting Foreign Secretary is Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, the Fifth Marquess of Salisbury, not to be confused with his grandfather, who was the prime minister in the 1880s, or various other figures out of ancient history. Milord Gascoyne-Cecil doesn't just rest on inherited glory. <i>Who's Who </i>says that he is a former Director of the Commission on Historical Documents. It really is a cabinet of the talents! <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Lessons from Mr. Rhee" If Syngman Rhee ruined the Korean peace, it's all his fault. I knew that, but I didn't waste a page-and-a-half saying it! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Italy and Its Allies" As of this writing, Italy's only ally with a government is the United States, and we're stuck with Eisenhower and Dulles. Which makes it all the more worrying that de Gasperi barely missed being defeated in the recent election. Then everyone would have had to DO SOMETHING, and there's no-one about to do anything! Italian voters really should be more responsible and not vote for Fascists and Communists as much. But also Churchill and Claire Booth Luce need to learn to keep their traps shut. Probably a United States of Europe wold fix all this.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaQxw5xd47nyFraXDt3vaSLPMMZFFQfL3QfthPbVw0sk6w7ufLAJG_GDzKHFwNhU8WuP7GDPuhi20Q1ekRl_QV8fHe3gB0_9RC9X0jf2sp9483aFkuYREVDqcI2vGK8YzsUQk3j5yU_DLjbQ_Ogbx3JP9q5cH6Se2TuNN0KCC4xuh7OBICc8bTsDAI9rF7/s4032/20231022_195108017_iOS.heic" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhaQxw5xd47nyFraXDt3vaSLPMMZFFQfL3QfthPbVw0sk6w7ufLAJG_GDzKHFwNhU8WuP7GDPuhi20Q1ekRl_QV8fHe3gB0_9RC9X0jf2sp9483aFkuYREVDqcI2vGK8YzsUQk3j5yU_DLjbQ_Ogbx3JP9q5cH6Se2TuNN0KCC4xuh7OBICc8bTsDAI9rF7/s320/20231022_195108017_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>The final <b>Leader </b>is a meditation on how the <a href="https://logicmgmt.com/1876/season/court.htm#:~:text=Nothing%20is%20more%20important%20to,place%20upon%20her%20reaching%2018.">London Coming Out</a> season isn't what it used to be, mainly because the upper class hasn't the money these days. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Notes of the Week</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Washington and Bermuda" Now that the Bermuda summit has been postponed, let's rearrange the chairs, starting with the upcoming preparatory Washington meeting between Bidault, Dulles and Lord Salisbury. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"M. Laniel the Concierge" France has a right of centre government at a left-of-centre moment. Laniel will seek peace in Indo China "within the framework of the Korean talks," and has put a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Faure">Radical in at Finance</a>, and he has brought three ex-Gaullists into his ministry. Taken together, it looks like a caretaker government that will get nothing done. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Moscow is denying that there will be a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetary_reform_in_the_Soviet_Union,_1961">devaluation of the ruble</a>, the Government did well in the Abingdon by-election, Parliament has completed the government's program and can recess, there is probably going to be a new round of wage increase demands in the fall, the East German leadership is touring factories apologising, China is in the grip of a famine, Hong Kong is happy about the idea of a Korean truce but increasingly worried about American scrutiny of its China trade, the Commons is having a debate over whether the Government has rushed school building enough to keep up with the building of new estates, butchers are upset that the Ministry of Food expects them to sell surplus mutton and fat pork to clear out the supply in excess of the meat ration, which goes to show the drawbacks of planning, there are to be reorganisations at finance as some senior officials resign, while the Ministries of Pensions and National Insurance will merge, and there has been "political progress" in Turkey. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Getting the KMT Out of Burma" The Americans have been meeting with Nationalist China, Burma and Siam in Bangkok to discuss the withdrawal of KMT troops from Burma, either by air or road to Siam and then on to Formosa. The negotiations are running into snags, but at least there are negotiations, so that's progress! <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Money for the Colonies" The Cabinet has scrounged up £140 million for next year, which should be <i>plenty </i>for the Empire on which the sun never sets. Also, we're evidently worrying that the New Towns aren't coming along fast enough, and the Christie murder trial isn't just as sensational as all get out, it might be turning up a miscarriage of justice. It looks like Christie committed the murders that Timothy Evans hanged for in 1950, which goes to show that when you hang someone, you can't come back and say, "Oops, sorry, it turns out that our star witness was actually a pervert killer, and it was he who <i>actually </i>killed your family. Can we offer you something to make up for the inconvenience. Half off on your next murder? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg6Ii-DLQn1YrvW7ONj5ynMxRAE7U_LbgjDzmpaHZW9aExpKGoKRohJeCbPbZb6OnA8DsdTaWdPDjopse8rWHHml1ftdvwqpBDXL6Rgs4gTTO27KpaIhCLItEDbowDQywsoHt4v8-M93P46GgQ_7_NyWIq8jyj5XkqWFDvNS2CW-R_z7AQbM8LKFp0wssf/s368/Younger,%20Kenneth%20attr%20needed%20wiki.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="Let us all praise famous hair" border="0" data-original-height="368" data-original-width="271" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg6Ii-DLQn1YrvW7ONj5ynMxRAE7U_LbgjDzmpaHZW9aExpKGoKRohJeCbPbZb6OnA8DsdTaWdPDjopse8rWHHml1ftdvwqpBDXL6Rgs4gTTO27KpaIhCLItEDbowDQywsoHt4v8-M93P46GgQ_7_NyWIq8jyj5XkqWFDvNS2CW-R_z7AQbM8LKFp0wssf/w236-h320/Younger,%20Kenneth%20attr%20needed%20wiki.jpg" width="236" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">By Walter Stoneman - Original publication: UnknownImmediate source: <br />https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw110623/<br />Sir-Kenneth-Gilmour-Younger?LinkID=mp71558&amp;search=sas&amp;s<br />Text=Kenneth+Younger&amp;role=sit&amp;rNo=0, <br />Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=65632657</span></td></tr></tbody></table><b><i>The Economist</i> of 1853 </b>has tart comment on the Report of the Superintendent of the Census on houses in America, which takes its inspiration from some recent British publications by the Registrar-General. American houses are more equal than British, and pretty nice except for the squalid ones occupied by immigrants. The magazine goes on to point out that British houses aren't that unequal, because they couldn't be more unequal unless the poor were poorer and the rich richer, which at this point is just about impossible. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Letters</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Kenneth Younger accuses <i>The Economist </i>of being in favour of Germany's western alliance mainly to avoid a leftwing government in Germany. Edwin de Gray Seaman points out that the issue with marketing fat stock has mainly to do with adequately grading imports so that butchers know what they're getting. <a href="https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/delawareonline/name/john-jenney-obituary?id=48452592">John Jenney</a> of Washington points out that <i>The Economist </i>is being mean to Eisenhower, which makes it just another pinko rag, and England better shape up and get a bit more fascist itself, if it knows what's good for it. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Books</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">D. E. Butler's <i>The Electoral System in Britain, 1918--1951 </i>explains why the British electoral system has been so uncontroversial for the last thirty years. It is because everyone is so happy with it! Except Liberals and everyone who was so rightly offended when Labour got rid of the university seats in 1948. Also, he points out that electoral reform is <i>usually </i>done on a partisan basis, so that's interesting, that is. Sir John Craig has <i>The Mint: A History of the London Mint from AD 287 to 1948, </i>while A. D. Mackenzie has <i>The Bank of England Note: A History of Its Printing. </i>I didn't even know there was a London mint in 287. (Good old Funk and Wagnells tells me that there was an usurper separatist emperor in charge; I suppose he needed some walking around money.) I also learned that when mechanisation was first introduced in 1665, the mint had a press that turned out 20 coins a minute, but nowadays in modern times we have one that does 100. And they say we should go back to the gold standard! Printing an "inimitable note" <i>seems </i>like it would be an even more involved technical subject, but there is no attempt in the review to get i nto it o r make it interesting. Speaking of, we have Michael Robbin's <i>Middlesex, </i>which is subtitled "London's Doorstep," and not anything else. Because what else could a respectable young lady even <i>say</i>? It is a very well illustrated and pleasing book, but it is not the book the reviewer would have written, so it is terrible. Frances Armytage explains <i>The Free Port System in the British West Indies</i>, which is the system where the British basically made smuggling to South America from West Indies ports legal from 1766 to 1821 and pretty much ruined everything. M. L. Pearl has a "bibliographical account" of William Cobbett that is hard to make much sense of. William Rappard's <i>Varia Politica </i>is a collection of his writings on the occasion of his 70th birthday and makes a fine tribute to that great and distinguished scholar. Who? Why, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Rappard">the author of <i>Switzerland in the Organisation of Europe, </i>of course!</a> <a href="https://oa.anu.edu.au/obituary/tennant-kathleen-kylie-15669">Kylie Tennant'</a>s <i>Australia: Her Story</i>, explains how there could be a country the size of an entire continent that produces ladies named "Kylie." </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/POWsFzSFLCE" width="320" youtube-src-id="POWsFzSFLCE"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>American Survey</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFknuFH3A2nzDPPgBtPjBBLyci2yADgEkRvOdXGE_y_iydzri0tZ2uVWbYNz24uCOm9m0ycnkzvAwkcqnhLihwHfouDJQs-F4MZFdL3G6_9vaQmtJad-aD5rdPMd5nPWCP2knDnfTf8jXiWfAgxOFSNosxpLyZF7eoi1pTTe9-vxlkccP0bofJLyGmedhI/s4032/20231023_120540559_iOS.heic" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFknuFH3A2nzDPPgBtPjBBLyci2yADgEkRvOdXGE_y_iydzri0tZ2uVWbYNz24uCOm9m0ycnkzvAwkcqnhLihwHfouDJQs-F4MZFdL3G6_9vaQmtJad-aD5rdPMd5nPWCP2knDnfTf8jXiWfAgxOFSNosxpLyZF7eoi1pTTe9-vxlkccP0bofJLyGmedhI/s320/20231023_120540559_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"Breaking<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_A._Reed_(politician)"> Mr. Reed</a>" A great deal of legislation is going to expire when Congress rises, as usual. Because it is usual, we can't entirely blame the President for not somehow using his enormous popularity with the voters to persuade Congress to pass this and that, but one thing that is going to pass is the six month extension of the Excess Profits Tax, so necessary to hold the deficit under $5.6 billion. It nearly didn't, because the Chair of the House Ways and Means Committee, Daniel Reed of New York, did his best to obstruct it, showing just how much power that particular committee chair has, and how much power Congressional committees have, and how unfair it is that one member from upstate New York can nearly derail a popular President's budget plans. Maybe something will be done!<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Frozen Asset" A Special Correspondent has read a five-year-old <i>Fortune </i>article about the rise of frozen food and home freezers, and wonders if <i>The Economist </i>would like to rerun it during the dog days of summer. And it would! We learn about Clarence Birdseye and locker clubs and deep freezers, but along the way we can't <i>completely </i>escape new information, such as the package engineers still struggling with a way of showing that a product has thawed and refrozen, and the fact that Americans can now buy fried eggplant, whipped and puffed potatoes, pizzas, blintzes, and eggs "Fu Yong" in the frozen section beside frozen fried potatoes (which Our Special Correspondent absolutely loves to pieces) and frozen chicken pies, which is what he's going to be living on for a few weeks if he so much as implies that quick frozen fries are better than his wife's. Even if they are. Stupid deep fry kettle. <i>Supposedly </i>the local potatoes are much better than store bought. <i>However . . . </i>[Ronnie looks innocently across the lake, whistles a distracted tune.]</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>American Notes</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"More Room For Credit" So <i>now </i>the federal deficit is $9.4 billion, "the most it has ever been in peacetime, and more than had been forecast even recently." On the bright side, the inflationary impact of all this money is expected to be countered by all that deflation we can now admit is happening, which is why the Federal Reserve has stopped squeezing consumer and business credit. Also the President's move to increase the authority of the Secretary of Defence is raising some concerns along partisan lines but is seen as a reaction to General Vandenberg's retirement speeches against the air force cuts. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-oeHY5SUJ-9pHiEFaywDsyn5wowPAoPgIoLlp5halvAF0B3_HhBV6zl9Ga9M-sIhYEpzHyoRD1D2gerqlViavuNLPIk7dhlxVtgbca4oHhyphenhyphenOGMkLA_2KsUPybQx1-HmfckLSUbqWOIWNljmyOy-vCspUqQfB20dR2FVQ7ohajvt7aRG8wUfgv0m_iQ0A3/s4032/20231024_195811651_iOS.heic" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-oeHY5SUJ-9pHiEFaywDsyn5wowPAoPgIoLlp5halvAF0B3_HhBV6zl9Ga9M-sIhYEpzHyoRD1D2gerqlViavuNLPIk7dhlxVtgbca4oHhyphenhyphenOGMkLA_2KsUPybQx1-HmfckLSUbqWOIWNljmyOy-vCspUqQfB20dR2FVQ7ohajvt7aRG8wUfgv0m_iQ0A3/s320/20231024_195811651_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"New Men for Old Jobs" <a href="https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,822814,00.html">Tom Lyon</a> was so disappointed that John L. Lewis didn't bother explaining why he was an unacceptable choice to<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Forbes"> direct the Bureau of Mines</a> that he stood in for the lion of the CIO at his own confirmation hearings, explaining that he had no intention of giving up his enormous Anaconda Copper pension that the company can revoke at any time, that he thought that mining safety law was a bunch of baloney. And now "shocked friends" are telling him to withdraw his candidacy. Seriously, <i>The Economist </i>asks, how did this candidacy get advanced in the first place? Is there anyone awake at the White House? (Trick question: The answer is "no.") Meanwhile, Lewis Strauss has been advanced mainly because he has promised not to share our atomic secrets with our allies, and<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Nitze"> Paul Nitze</a> has not even been nominated for his agonisingly mid-level but confirmation-requiring assistant Secretaryship at Defence because Joe McCarthy has promised to treat him like Bohlen. On the bright side, the President's hiring policies seem to have opened up several thousand positions for good Republicans, so there is that. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The Postman Knocks Again" The new Postmaster General wants to eliminate the Post Office's deficit, and can't, because Congress won't raise the rate on second and third-class mail and parcels, although at least it is shifting the airmail subsidy to CAB. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The World Overseas</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Canada's upcoming federal election gets a good page-and-a-half mainly due to the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Pickersgill">Pickersgill s</a>ituation, although the magazine also wants to wave one very small flag in honour of George Drew. Also, the UN investigating committee on slave labour in the modern world has absolved Britain on charges from the Soviets under the Control of Engagement Act of 1947, from the Poles over Gambia, and from Byelorussia over the Groundnuts Scheme, but has found that apartheid constitutes forced labour, that Spain and Portugal are pretty bad, and there are questions about the situations in Malaya, Kenya, the Belgian Congo and Nairu, as well as vagrancy laws in the United States. The East Bloc is simply terrible.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEian9HzpO6TO7kiBqmzYHGlahvOPUncNwlNLJ1Ufm-ZhPiHWhC2sOPbh9iU4lQntAHM6o5x5_FgYjd_r-V_o7YHiuHWADCqnyo7oRah2qP1E4uMlUIve2y52ETnL_iBYpcFpAKtv-IE63hNxU2K_cKdSIaroYhVxMCvTF7YI8ScQZp4UsTe7GkDvAh0n343/s4032/20231024_195340588_iOS.heic" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEian9HzpO6TO7kiBqmzYHGlahvOPUncNwlNLJ1Ufm-ZhPiHWhC2sOPbh9iU4lQntAHM6o5x5_FgYjd_r-V_o7YHiuHWADCqnyo7oRah2qP1E4uMlUIve2y52ETnL_iBYpcFpAKtv-IE63hNxU2K_cKdSIaroYhVxMCvTF7YI8ScQZp4UsTe7GkDvAh0n343/s320/20231024_195340588_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Retrospect on Ho Chi Minh" Talk that the the political conference to follow the Korean armistice will be extended to include Indo-China lead <i>The Economist </i>to ask once again about the possiblity of talks between "France and Ho Chi Minh." (Not "France" and "Viet Nam," or "Laniel and Ho.") <i>The Economist </i>suggests that, based on his history, Ho will compromise and accept Viet Namese membership in the French Union if Peking withdraws its support. The section also reports on political developments in Nigeria, proposed land reform in Jugoslavia dissolving the collectives, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1954_Finnish_parliamentary_election">a cabinet crisis in Finland over the country's high costs, which might lead to devaluation.</a> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Business World</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">After a long article on "Factors in Gilt Edge" for which I cannot imagine a useful comment, we move on to "Shape of Screens to Come," which is the second part of the "What Future for Films" series. Television means that films are doomed, and 3D isn't going to save them, because 3D is just a distraction from what we <i>really </i>want to talk about, which is the entertainment levy. Cinemas need either 3D or wider screens to compete. <i>The Economist </i>actuallly does a pretty good job of describing the new projection systems that make the wide screens necessary, and gets into some interesting details about the optical arrangements "anamorphic lenses," before pointing out that stereophonic sound is likely to make more of an impression, and be more expensive, than wider (and aluminised) screens. The new sound equipment will cost £1500 of an estimated £3850 for a 1250 seat cinema with an 18 by 24ft screen. In comparison, a typical 3D "package" like the one offered by Twentieth Century Fox would cost up to £5000 for the largest cinemas. Stereoscopic films will require twice as much film stock, a continuing expense to be compared with the initial costs of setting up for 3D filming. However, these costs are not likely to be as significant as the shift to all-colour production. <i>The Economist </i>can't bear to bring itself to a classic "everyone is doomed" ending, so after this the article peters out with "On the one hand, but on the other hand" speculation. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Business Notes</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg09zMFcCP1t-WSFytDXJXxR4_MECHvZZGSzSLqj56535i_8vPEOZtrBQM7-QexdiOknIjMEiOlMo0ZvTo9K_NgmvTbbyw2qncSS740ijSPQ7AYvhB2JBNbIc8p5rpGb725fgfVstxBG1bL0nlyHPkcXDEznSvVuHAJJj6osS6M1KPvK-sSZxWD_T6r67Bq/s1878/US%20Research%20and%20Development%201941%20to%201952.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1063" data-original-width="1878" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg09zMFcCP1t-WSFytDXJXxR4_MECHvZZGSzSLqj56535i_8vPEOZtrBQM7-QexdiOknIjMEiOlMo0ZvTo9K_NgmvTbbyw2qncSS740ijSPQ7AYvhB2JBNbIc8p5rpGb725fgfVstxBG1bL0nlyHPkcXDEznSvVuHAJJj6osS6M1KPvK-sSZxWD_T6r67Bq/s320/US%20Research%20and%20Development%201941%20to%201952.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Britain's gold reserve is increasing, the deficit is no larger than estimated at the end of the first quarter, the coal situation is worse than 1952, better than 1951, looking towards the winter, but those were mild winters. The Commission of Inquiry into the loss of the <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Princess_Victoria_(1946)">Princess Victoria</a> </i>blames inadequate drainage and finds the owners and managers negligent in part. Aluminum is down, in contrast to the United States, where the price remains firm. This is a good sign ahead of the upcoming decontrolling of aluminum. Britain is doing another barter deal with Russia, herring for canned salmon and crab, essentially to assist the two domestic fisheries. Britain took 55,000t of canned salmon, primarily from Canada and the United States, but also Japan and Russia, before the war, but with balance of payment difficulties, imports are down to 8000t per year, which sells readily at the controlled prices of argle-bargle English money ("5s 6d" for good salmon, 3s 6d for poor, 3s 9d for canned crab.) Yes, yes, I know I am going to have to learn how to parse English money in the fall. The price of rayon is down, industrial production is back up to 1951 levels, recovering from the lows of 1952. Sabena is the latest airline to experiment with helicopters. A tin agreement is in sight, while world edible fat supply has recovered to prewar levels. The world wool clip is high, freight markets are quiet, and the annual report on American research produced by the Commonwealth embassies in Washington has been published this year and shows how much research is being done in America. It's a lot! <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuf3HnWyES0u_PaK7y6IIcQMx6ispJvsNpJrZQoqnYHH8EleUqQRS4jLSSUQZ_3J1v-qR9Uoyu_mMVf3r4WCh911iAZjpnjRVqSlWWorjh-kU7Y7GhBCkls8uh5mCPiU7TvMh49z5mEF5wHDDYtm-nhiDs3Fvp_iJ7ycwIV3iRonFy5w36BFfeAjgaq2_6/s4032/20231026_120746930_iOS.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuf3HnWyES0u_PaK7y6IIcQMx6ispJvsNpJrZQoqnYHH8EleUqQRS4jLSSUQZ_3J1v-qR9Uoyu_mMVf3r4WCh911iAZjpnjRVqSlWWorjh-kU7Y7GhBCkls8uh5mCPiU7TvMh49z5mEF5wHDDYtm-nhiDs3Fvp_iJ7ycwIV3iRonFy5w36BFfeAjgaq2_6/w480-h640/20231026_120746930_iOS.heic" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Leaders</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right; margin-left: 1em; text-align: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGFF8j4Yv_Pfn3rS4go9E1GiwZty-V5roniaVAj7ySuaDmStnrJSNbeRRFnw6MvTiV308ecCl1QBOl5dvk0XInQmxvC6GHEgaL2R4I2gsrjUckBXihnPOPayryuVgsi_zILobbWWOYAdx8m10fDV0QqaQSKcGlhfFtXEK5lebiuTFB5XK5ukrdhjfQC73V/s1024/Potez%2075%20attr%20needed%20wiki.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgGFF8j4Yv_Pfn3rS4go9E1GiwZty-V5roniaVAj7ySuaDmStnrJSNbeRRFnw6MvTiV308ecCl1QBOl5dvk0XInQmxvC6GHEgaL2R4I2gsrjUckBXihnPOPayryuVgsi_zILobbWWOYAdx8m10fDV0QqaQSKcGlhfFtXEK5lebiuTFB5XK5ukrdhjfQC73V/s320/Potez%2075%20attr%20needed%20wiki.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details<br />/r/65fc20ee-aff7-428b-bde0-57f955f81aab</span></td></tr></tbody></table>"Impressions from Paris" The French always do their best at the Paris Air Show, so it is worth sending over some correspondents with generous expense accounts even when potential British exhibitors don't come out due to costs. But now that the French have something to show, the editor can't complain about that one cafe bill! Because what about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNCASE_Baroudeur">those</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potez_75">prototypes</a> and light trainers and the Deux Ponts? That's got to be worth dropping a hundred pounds on lunch? No? The Americans brought a T34 turboprop over to show that Allison hasn't just been spending its jigging money on beer! No reason for that example. No reason. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"RAAF in Britain" The Australians have sent over a detachment of RAAF 78 Fighter Wing of two Vampire squadrons, plus maintenance and base squadrons. They're doing some training, and it's a story that ought to be newsworthy. So even though it has no news in it, we're going to spend a page on it. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH5LuaxF9dJyYtfi2U-cHCzUeskzQDs-bqb0TY6PT5KkXI26GGCAo1ZC9gJTgLPJ_aEP2J3mLl_dX2FJQMNKs_xBBqAkMRQtAM4yzzswnbuJLc9avMhYRlIHrdyPw3D3Gcqk2CsScItFiYWO9JubBnkwCsUmWnyIQP1wknHknwDu42TfXDmDatyTvScAr3/s2670/CGS%20D'Iberville.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1997" data-original-width="2670" height="239" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH5LuaxF9dJyYtfi2U-cHCzUeskzQDs-bqb0TY6PT5KkXI26GGCAo1ZC9gJTgLPJ_aEP2J3mLl_dX2FJQMNKs_xBBqAkMRQtAM4yzzswnbuJLc9avMhYRlIHrdyPw3D3Gcqk2CsScItFiYWO9JubBnkwCsUmWnyIQP1wknHknwDu42TfXDmDatyTvScAr3/s320/CGS%20D'Iberville.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"Seaborne Helicopters" The Canadians are putting two Bell 47Ds on their new icebreaker, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCGS_D%27Iberville">C.G.S. </a><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CCGS_D%27Iberville">d'Iberville</a>,</i> as standard equipment. This isn't actually news, since they've already got a helicopter aboard C. G. S. <i>C. D. Howe</i>, but <i>d'Iberville </i>is bigger and has a heated hangar and machine shop. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"S.B.A.C. Show: The 1953 Programme" To show that it cares about civil aviation, the SBAC is dedicating one day to civil aviation. Other than that, today's press release is ticket prices.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>From All Quarters</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">They're fighting in the Commons over whether the sale of Rolls-Royce engines to Russia in 1946 is going to lead to world Communist takeover or not. R. A. Low, the Parliamentary Under-secretary of the Minister of Supply says that Britain had about a five year lead in jet engines in 1945, but the Russians fielded a Nene-powered MiG-15 in 1948, so the sale cut Britain's lead to three years. The <i>Evening Standard </i>is buying a helicopter. Canadair is laying off 1500 employees who were going to build 227 Beech T-36s before the USAF cuts. <a href="https://onthewight.com/dorothy-spicer-memorial-award/">The tenth annual meeting of the Society of Licensed Aircraft Engineers was quite a party.</a> The Ministry of Supply is working with two companies to produce <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_Type_173">two-rotor passenger helicopters</a> depending on demand. Ramsgate Airport is being reopened after being bombed during the war. Jolly good show, everyone! Last Friday's edition of <i>Press Conference </i>had Mr. Desoutter, Miss Goldring, and Maurice Smith of <i>Flight </i>on to talk about civil aviation. It was fascinating television, if Maurice Smith doesn't say so himself! There won't be more air cargo until air cargo is cheaper; it takes too long to get from the city to the airport, and someone should do something about it.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggOq5fSdQhjViqMZX0fyl8JpmycSLwjWYEtDKfpTuyn7zZgrITGLtc0dYlHHWYsI4xksTs_OrY45sVNx5-TNUX_IeGIlThFbTeJ6QzEmB3i4jjLwAKGu8MDn6KdTdTOA7U_ph9J2KZ8nPCgJ9FfIP5zQ116vLkaJIZy6HEWBA-3T4mMAWX4icu6zp-HcTt/s2241/Aquila%20Airways%20.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1385" data-original-width="2241" height="248" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggOq5fSdQhjViqMZX0fyl8JpmycSLwjWYEtDKfpTuyn7zZgrITGLtc0dYlHHWYsI4xksTs_OrY45sVNx5-TNUX_IeGIlThFbTeJ6QzEmB3i4jjLwAKGu8MDn6KdTdTOA7U_ph9J2KZ8nPCgJ9FfIP5zQ116vLkaJIZy6HEWBA-3T4mMAWX4icu6zp-HcTt/w400-h248/Aquila%20Airways%20.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <b>Here and There </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Mike" Lithgow (his given name is "McGeorge") is going to try to fly from London to Paris even faster than the late Trevor Wade, because he will have a Swift with reheat instead of a Hawker P. 1052. Also in London-Paris speed news, an Air France Comet made it in 45 minutes, because Comets are fast, which is why "Mr. Horace Boren, of Texas," was recently able to set a new round-the-world record of 99hrs on Comets and Stratoliners. The Fleet Air Arm has just received its first "off-shore" Sea Hawk. That is, it was paid for by US Mutual Aid. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSACJ6-0Cqy1tNb1-04hnYuT0sBEunw0XI0_bbDcv26i3qGJi2dljHAfAdOluvMWS8iL6kPYjkP6fPDhf85Yl1eU_nOipquFufNC26fnO0uddEo48SiN1Bd9Wg52Mcq6ctcD4XH0nTC5nNbFzZdVNX4M5-pg7CYF36JiK6j4ph2dXgTYz0y0pJZxJQiVxZ/s4032/20231027_141521810_iOS.heic" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjSACJ6-0Cqy1tNb1-04hnYuT0sBEunw0XI0_bbDcv26i3qGJi2dljHAfAdOluvMWS8iL6kPYjkP6fPDhf85Yl1eU_nOipquFufNC26fnO0uddEo48SiN1Bd9Wg52Mcq6ctcD4XH0nTC5nNbFzZdVNX4M5-pg7CYF36JiK6j4ph2dXgTYz0y0pJZxJQiVxZ/w300-h400/20231027_141521810_iOS.heic" width="300" /></a></div>"Ramjet Possibilities: Recent Developments and Future Promise Reviewed and Assessed" We have been talking about ramjets since 1913. Well, actually, we stopped in 1946 because it is secret in Britain, but there was a model picture released in 1946 as part of an argument between "two well-known British aeronautical scientists" over whether or not they were practical on planes. Now, Malcolm Harned of Marquardt has given a talk to the ASME, and we can talk about that over here. Marquardt has tried out ramjets under the wings of various fighters and on the rotors of the Hiller Hornet and McDonnell XH-20, so he has some empirical results to report. The maximum speed of a ramjet is likely limited by the maximum temperature of the engine parts, which hit 1400 degrees at 1700mph. Ramjets are likely to be competitive on price, highly reliable, and more useful at high altitudes, but they have to get up to supersonic speeds before they can be used, and this limits their general usefulness to supersonic bombers and missiles, so far. Filling out the page, the Swedes are buying the Saab-32 Lansen for "most of its attack units," Labour's aircraft industry policy doesn't threaten nationalisation, except of companies that "don't toe the party line." GB-Kale is showing off its teleprojector, which gives a "large screen TV" with a 4ft by 3ft viewing screen. It can be viewed by up to 350 people in spaces like hotel lobbies and canteens, and can be controlled by a remote control unit. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">BEA and BOAC have opened up some aircraft apprenticeships, Sweden is going to celebrate its 700th anniversary with the largest postwar air show in Europe.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birger_Jarl"> How is Sweden 700 years old?</a> a proposal to operate amphibious helicopters between London Airport and the Thames between Vauxhall and London Bridge has been examined by BOAC and BEA, which has concluded that everyone involved was drunk and needed a nap. Only they can't say that because the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Lipton">usual lot of loudmouths</a> won't stop talking about it, and you should just quietly get up and leave the bar to them and the poor staff.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Aircraft </b> <b>Intelligence</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Latest views of the Lansen show a leading edge wing installed, while <i>Flight's </i>artist gives an impression of the two-J57 F-100. Peter Masefield is very impressed with the VC7 so far, and there is talk that it will replace all BOAC large aircraft when it becomes available. Hunting has ordered 3 Viscounts, and an unconfirmed rumour has it that KLM will "eventually" order the Comet. Further details of the F-103 and F-105 are available. Canada is studying a 35t delta-wing, twin-jet fighter , to be designated the CF-104. Filippo Zappata is working on a twin-engine transport design to be powered by either Bristol Proteus 705s or Wright Turbo-Cyclones. The Proteus version would be 59,400lb all up and have a maximum speed of 404mph. The Fairey Firefly is up to the AS7 model. <br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPjn8i7wL1RaWCIF359-oJK6t7k0c0yXehVVqXkJjUmI5I73cOONcf6B-n3CTW5jBi_7p7haJvyOphWK9xG5t8BPOnDFcaiuAO_la0aS4t-_WSPVkNZIhAaXtgC6p1IS927DRyWGg3yoiaw1TKy8MW0wyqAlDhBSOVg8vtVcGf3Z7ntNLrbhGdZLCVXKZe/s3060/North%20American%20F-100%20and%20Saab-32%20Lansen.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3060" data-original-width="2772" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPjn8i7wL1RaWCIF359-oJK6t7k0c0yXehVVqXkJjUmI5I73cOONcf6B-n3CTW5jBi_7p7haJvyOphWK9xG5t8BPOnDFcaiuAO_la0aS4t-_WSPVkNZIhAaXtgC6p1IS927DRyWGg3yoiaw1TKy8MW0wyqAlDhBSOVg8vtVcGf3Z7ntNLrbhGdZLCVXKZe/s320/North%20American%20F-100%20and%20Saab-32%20Lansen.jpg" width="290" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The Twentieth Salon" That's the Twentieth Paris Air Salon, for you American hicks who like to say American things like "Air Show." It was quite a show, but we've seen all the planes before, as the <b>Leader </b>said. On the engine side, the Pratt and Whitney T34 turboprop has been mentioned. Armstrong Siddeley had the Sapphire, Snarler, Double Mamba, and a demonstration Viper. Curtiss Wright also had a Sapphire, the J65, and their turbocompound. De Havilland showed a big propeller for turboprops of up to 1800hp, and a sectioned Ghost. Rolls Royce showed a sectioned Dart, an Avon, and an Avon with an afterburner for the first time. (<i>Flight </i>either forgetting or getting tired of being British and saying "reheat." "Aeroplane!" It's "Aeroplane!") The Avon on show is the RA. 7 with full thermal de-icing. SNECMA showed its latest Atar, the 101F, the latest development of the original BMW 003, with almost 9000lb thrust, and a pulse jet. STAL, of Sweden, showed its abandoned Dovern II, with some worthy and original features. Turbomeca's range of small turbojets was very interesting. Hispano Suiza builds the Tay, and has exhibits linked to its plans to start building Avons. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Other displays of interest include Hobson's latest fuel meter for turbojets and Standard Telephone's latest VOR receiver with its neat pilot presentation indicator. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUFmRDRiN96294DKyeLiipkUXH1w4FCBxQsKXSDtXJgDFZmbSyTSbExRLV_cWtxSdT8ycFZYRgPUqao3529b4aTqTg_lkfSGkCOu7XAIqmcnK8u7JOwxFaFX_TN1y74c5OkSleO_QBoE205MHuQhXZXEQln5KfbNIJlCE-J7S2-SP7wIpn4EWrFGiY7klP/s2987/Korea%20from%20the%20air,%20Armistice%201953.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2285" data-original-width="2987" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUFmRDRiN96294DKyeLiipkUXH1w4FCBxQsKXSDtXJgDFZmbSyTSbExRLV_cWtxSdT8ycFZYRgPUqao3529b4aTqTg_lkfSGkCOu7XAIqmcnK8u7JOwxFaFX_TN1y74c5OkSleO_QBoE205MHuQhXZXEQln5KfbNIJlCE-J7S2-SP7wIpn4EWrFGiY7klP/w640-h490/Korea%20from%20the%20air,%20Armistice%201953.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>"The AFITA Conference" While we were all in Paris, why not go to a technical conference? Some British names did, including B. A. Hunn of Hawker, who talked about high speed design, Petter and Hollyhock of Hawker, who talked about production, and Black of Vickers and Pollard of Bristol, who talked about materials. But the real story was Petter's "production" talk, which was actually about light fighters. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The Sharp End: Britain and Australia in the Korean War, Part 3" If you've been wondering where B. F. King has gotten himself to, the answer is "Korea," but now the war is pretty much over and he's found his way back, so here's some copy he wrote. This installment is mainly about flying with Auster AOP squadrons. Exciting! (Sort of.) <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Correspondence</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnbsBiVYkp1UUYngYwSSqrNpiZoSEHMXfNUySm7oh8r2ap2LQaoWYVAZd3u0uaz2TUMiExpAs3xQauS1mosTpeRin-5xddfCqRD5jK5hrBtbexa5EwI5CEOlvbQddSJQOom-mSBAaxigU9IyTp3fp3iPFsQZ17d5rO4hk1AQj59Vpz2P9gGQqGnRNahc84/s1024/30mm%20Aden%20cannon%20attr%20needed%20wiki.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="374" data-original-width="1024" height="117" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnbsBiVYkp1UUYngYwSSqrNpiZoSEHMXfNUySm7oh8r2ap2LQaoWYVAZd3u0uaz2TUMiExpAs3xQauS1mosTpeRin-5xddfCqRD5jK5hrBtbexa5EwI5CEOlvbQddSJQOom-mSBAaxigU9IyTp3fp3iPFsQZ17d5rO4hk1AQj59Vpz2P9gGQqGnRNahc84/s320/30mm%20Aden%20cannon%20attr%20needed%20wiki.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">That's some Corelli Barnett-level work right there, <br />Mr. Weyl. By Rama - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0 fr, <br />https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.<br />php?curid=106039639</span></td></tr></tbody></table>M. C. Hall is upset at the word "heliport." A. R. Weyl, AFRAeS finds <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Clostermann">Pierre Clostermann</a>'s <i>Flame in the Sky </i>to be full of errors but they give him a chance to denounce the Ministry of Supply for not buying and developing the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauser_MG_213">MG 213 30mm cannon</a> or hiring on Mauser and Rheinmetal to produce it, or the electronic fire control and gun-sight that came with it, resulting in the RAF having nothing but Hispanos while the Swiss are going to start producing the 213 any day now. "Pedantica" explains all about measuring units with the intention of showing that using "knots" in the popular press is just going to confuse people.<br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Civil Aviation </b>reports that the Queen and Princess Margaret will be flying by Comet with the Queen Mother to Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, to open the Cecil Rhodes Centennary Exhibition. Trans-Australian is getting ready to train its Viscount pilots. Silver City Airways is hiring some Breguet Deux Ponts to test them as cross-Channel vehicle ferries. Jans Smut Airport is opening in Johannesburg. The DC-6C has very flexible internal layout, BCPA is reorganising, a Comet has been damaged in a landing accident, Hunting is opening a fortnightly Rhodesia service. India's two new nationalised airlines begin operating as such this week. Sir Edgar Ludlow-Hewitt spoke at Cranfield's Presentation Day, to quell rumours that he died, years ago, before the war. (Actually, he did; but survives undead as a vampire, supping on the tuition of the living, which explains why Cranfield is so expensive on a per-student basis, as the press has recently been saying.)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Actual news, the commissioning of the Royal Navy's first air-direction frigate, <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisbury-class_frigate">HMS Salisbury</a>, </i>somehow makes it into <b>Service Aviation. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMk9ACfcnPcrkuCwFSjTmFE8f8_tX8oixZJ_qIm9gkqdxMSDp8pfPJsv6ft4x2EcWCW4dw01qe0tV18V4mwF-18LnuGgIFgHHZvd0IDDGPxVnNHYT0QCKZJqDhX2uTKvSIeLAAYX2Pl4Z1eIQ6sg-KR3EXrJlYqG5m65wNyNZenk2uq2JQHdzgUmBGn62r/s1024/HMS%20Lincoln%20(Salisbury%20Class).jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="518" data-original-width="1024" height="324" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiMk9ACfcnPcrkuCwFSjTmFE8f8_tX8oixZJ_qIm9gkqdxMSDp8pfPJsv6ft4x2EcWCW4dw01qe0tV18V4mwF-18LnuGgIFgHHZvd0IDDGPxVnNHYT0QCKZJqDhX2uTKvSIeLAAYX2Pl4Z1eIQ6sg-KR3EXrJlYqG5m65wNyNZenk2uq2JQHdzgUmBGn62r/w640-h324/HMS%20Lincoln%20(Salisbury%20Class).jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>The Economist, </i>11 July 1953</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Leaders</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The Riddles of Prosperity" The Bill to allow the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom_competition_law">Monopolies Commission</a> to do more investigations isn't enough. Monopolies and "restrictionism" are everywhere in Britain and must be fought. At least there's one place where <i>The Economist </i>disagrees with <i>Fortune. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn7jGQStzKyknKfficdgpOiQy-5ACFgiHjw17ppgVcfmNBx_hg7NngxPPX8MuaBmVZf615FMAh0gTpjwqOy5eQrtP8dJ0mHlsFDaazscgkaS7aAWwCfLYCdGuVM8FzDPMQOEh7tKnvbAerRCYMuYrcHLIh35oxJ-KDlFYCwXTsov_ibhX5rLVZHqBgK0Ob/s4032/Blackwood%20Hodge%20and%20Mannesmann-Export%20ads.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgn7jGQStzKyknKfficdgpOiQy-5ACFgiHjw17ppgVcfmNBx_hg7NngxPPX8MuaBmVZf615FMAh0gTpjwqOy5eQrtP8dJ0mHlsFDaazscgkaS7aAWwCfLYCdGuVM8FzDPMQOEh7tKnvbAerRCYMuYrcHLIh35oxJ-KDlFYCwXTsov_ibhX5rLVZHqBgK0Ob/s320/Blackwood%20Hodge%20and%20Mannesmann-Export%20ads.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Behind the Curtain" It seems like unrest is spreading throughout eastern Europe but who can be sure of anything, really? Meanwhile in Hungary, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imre_Nagy">Imre Nagy</a>'s rise to the premiership means more loyalty to Moscow but also radical economic reforms. And, yes, if you noticed, I am being a hypocrite in not reversing Christian and family names for a Hungarian as I do for Japanese. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The Pains of Irish Protectionism" . . And that's the sound of me not reading what <i>The Economist </i>thinks of Irish trade policy. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Notes of the Week</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The Labour Leadership" Herbert Morrison will succeed Clement Attlee because no-one else can stop Bevan. Also, the Government is putting off any decision about private, commercially sponsored television until the fall.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Flames Flicker in Soviet Germany" The Red Army has more-or-less quelled the unrest in East Berlin with a combination of crowd control and the use of barricades to prevent movement within the city. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Towards a French Commonwealth?" France may not have got Mendes-France as premier, but people sure liked his approach to Indo China, so the Laniel government is going ahead full bore with a "complete independence within a strong and centrally administered French Union" approach even <i>the Economist </i>is skeptical about, pointing out that this isn't how the Commonwealth works at all. Also, members of parliament from around Europe are comparing pay packets and finding that they all deserve more money. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Featherbed or Safety Net?" British farm production continues to increase and is now 60% above the prewar level. <i>The Economist </i>finds it all very worrisome. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXmUmksFkuLsYpkT1FTxfW5GsGRC0iqIKdklqLan5UUm-_XpneNy6d5egqgMGgYwBAdLD34fc6tQHFg447AvEUEdOFZ-KZqaf3vieNT9QW4DvWv0mCOW9-Sm-0qVHhL1hUPAYfDSxraj_U-w1qip-UikFRZqFEJiGwYBD77c0gQJ5duAeCWs5rKzbIVTsn/s2733/Unemployment%20in%20Britain%201951--3.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2733" data-original-width="2237" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXmUmksFkuLsYpkT1FTxfW5GsGRC0iqIKdklqLan5UUm-_XpneNy6d5egqgMGgYwBAdLD34fc6tQHFg447AvEUEdOFZ-KZqaf3vieNT9QW4DvWv0mCOW9-Sm-0qVHhL1hUPAYfDSxraj_U-w1qip-UikFRZqFEJiGwYBD77c0gQJ5duAeCWs5rKzbIVTsn/s320/Unemployment%20in%20Britain%201951--3.jpg" width="262" /></a></div>"The Long-Term Unemployed" Labour put in a limit to the length of time people could claim unemployment benefits in the 1946 act (with six-month appeals) because it feared that a return to mass unemployment would exhaust the national insurance fund, as during the great depression. The appeals process was to keep large numbers of unemployed out of the hands of the Assistance Board, which would provide means-tested relief. Intended to address the postwar situation, the appeals process was made temporary, and now the question is whether it should be made permanent. The Conservatives think it shouldn't because it's much too nice for those nasty poor people. I'm sorry, that should read, "Because we are so prosperous with full employment that we don't <i>need </i>to make any provisions for the long-term unemployed." There are new arrangements, mainly for those of the 48,000 long term unemployed who are in that situation because they can't hold down jobs, but enough about the sons of backbench Tory MPs, what about a future depression? Perhaps we should write something into the legislation now so that we don't have to do it then?<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Trojan Horse in Italy" Parliamentary government in Italy is starting to look like France, with unstable coalitions and lots of names floating around as Gasperi tries to put a government together. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trofim_Lysenko">Lysenko</a> Dethroned" The controversial scientist who has dominated the Soviet life sciences is being denounced throughout the Soviet press, both scientific and political, for running a "scientific monopoly." Lysenko has always been wrong (about traits being acquired as well as inherited), but he long had Stalin and the Party's backing. We don't know if he is going to be purged, tried, sent to Siberia and shot, but <i>Komunist </i>and <i>Botanichesky Zhurnal </i>sure don't like him.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Slow Train to Peking" There has been talk for a while about a direct Moscow-Peking train that would make excellent economic sense, as it would run through southern Siberia and help China open up Sinkiang, although it would have to cross the Taklamakan Desert, but it seems like recent talk is actually about a train that would complete the route by connecting Peking with Moscow via the already existing Trans-Siberian branch serving Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia, <a href="https://www.seat61.com/trans-siberian-moscow-to-beijing.htm">which is no big deal</a>. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0wx-_8er3ABDOEJJgGVhqnBESne3T2la8V4QjAlX9gIs6gpS7ymNgDZOPSKtFiBm5OXFOY6zMhSF-YZfoMUU7j9Q9aO0hLIR4Lb6Z_M8E7mXk8hYoJyljnt4CJzo_oMruoaso_Dwbs7fY7H3BSgFl2a8e7n_0NDbHaP7DayqX_hzmEZaU-GnUTLvvqOmT/s3734/Schweppeshire%20Modern%20Art%20Ad.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3734" data-original-width="2622" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh0wx-_8er3ABDOEJJgGVhqnBESne3T2la8V4QjAlX9gIs6gpS7ymNgDZOPSKtFiBm5OXFOY6zMhSF-YZfoMUU7j9Q9aO0hLIR4Lb6Z_M8E7mXk8hYoJyljnt4CJzo_oMruoaso_Dwbs7fY7H3BSgFl2a8e7n_0NDbHaP7DayqX_hzmEZaU-GnUTLvvqOmT/w281-h400/Schweppeshire%20Modern%20Art%20Ad.jpg" width="281" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Mr. Nehru on Africa" Nehru showed up at the Coronation to demonstrate how much India still values the Commonwealth, but also to warn that "racial domination," especially in Africa, is the main threat to the institution. It is true, <i>The Economist </i>admits, but it doesn't do to <i>say </i>it, because various people will be upset and you can't have that! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Scientists Nipped in the Bud" One person in 31 goes to university these days, but far too many of them are not going into the technologies, although there is fierce competition for places in the pure sciences. Peron's trade deal with Russia is very alarming because what if Peron turns into a Communist? What if the Eastern Bloc goes Peronist? What if Russia offers Argentina a better price for flax, wool, and mutton than Britain? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><i>The Economist </i>of 1853 </b>has "Then and Now," comparing the state of affairs in the golden age of 1853 with the terrible days of 1841 and 1842, when Sir Robert Peel came into office and fixed everything with Free Trade. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Letters</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRk7cVrtwv_u6YoJLzycNd-RHeoGcXx1Szzf8VXDDbh6AFUdhT9NLDrBWaGUU9nmelIBSS91uc4i5rXDHsNOAxxbm0hdj8m6ZMT6ZQ7EYA0Tr9RFzmzra4MYbH8tcCdWKuSHDuLU6BXlNexqDIjhPXrgLnGVxL1aQF_lf1WDQi57Nn6O6ozFVUhtp9NYmD/s825/Bundy,%20McGeorge.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="It actually is a real name" border="0" data-original-height="825" data-original-width="695" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRk7cVrtwv_u6YoJLzycNd-RHeoGcXx1Szzf8VXDDbh6AFUdhT9NLDrBWaGUU9nmelIBSS91uc4i5rXDHsNOAxxbm0hdj8m6ZMT6ZQ7EYA0Tr9RFzmzra4MYbH8tcCdWKuSHDuLU6BXlNexqDIjhPXrgLnGVxL1aQF_lf1WDQi57Nn6O6ozFVUhtp9NYmD/w270-h320/Bundy,%20McGeorge.jpg" width="270" /></a></div>Hans Morgenthau writes to suggest that perhaps the reason that Churchill wants a Big Three (Big Four) conference is that he genuinely believes what he is saying, that it is the only way to avoid World War III. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McGeorge_Bundy">McGeorge Bundy</a> (which is a real name) writes to point out that the reason that Harvard is so anti-Communist is that Communism is terrible, so <i>The Economist </i>can take its dainty English nose right out of Harvard's affairs. George Floris points out that the troubles in eastern Europe are going to be crushed by the Soviets, because that is what they do, so the West should redouble its efforts to get ready for WWIII. A. J. Kidwai writes from India House that Nehru's proclamation of an end to famine in India <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_India#:~:text=The%20last%20major%20famine%20to,there%20were%20relatively%20fewer%20deaths%22.">isn't just moonshine,</a> but sound extrapolation of current trends of increasing Indian agricultural production, especially of rice.<br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Books</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ragnar_Nurkse%27s_balanced_growth_theory">Ragnar Nurske</a>'s<b> </b><i>Problems of Capital Formation in Underdeveloped Countries </i>explains that poor countries are poor because they are poor. Malnutrition, poor education, underemployment and poor health keeps productivity down and yields no capital for investment. The only escape is compelled public saving in the form of taxation, and democracy will just have to go by the board. Basil Davidson's <i>Daybreak in China </i>describes the new Communist utopia. James W. R. Adam's <i>Modern Town and Country Planning </i>is a very worthy book, I'm sure. O. W. Richard's' <i>Social Insects </i>sounds like that book about how ants and bees are just like us, written again to include some new science. <a href="https://discoverarchives.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/ralph-flenley-sous-fonds">Ralph Flenley</a>'s <i>Modern German History </i>is an attempt to tell the total story of the history of ideas, economics, and society, and manages to make modern German history dull, which is quite a feat considering the restless and dynamic quality of recent German history.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>American Survey</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKDA4RTxBRVTe_1q5kgZwku_2dT3_RYGEXbgGiUNW9t_RLTtfY-dd20SbaxBjoTD3AeBV8GNQY2swze2Fwnt9Cm1939mPnGsjfhgz74gXsOT2lAe6WSlXOL6on7PcKGAxsvbrFuIS9tX_r9ieNgLsrYtpg2iJ_MO3HxSo0zFfio7-zv77tjezxjddgLHlB/s4032/20231024_215718888_iOS.heic" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhKDA4RTxBRVTe_1q5kgZwku_2dT3_RYGEXbgGiUNW9t_RLTtfY-dd20SbaxBjoTD3AeBV8GNQY2swze2Fwnt9Cm1939mPnGsjfhgz74gXsOT2lAe6WSlXOL6on7PcKGAxsvbrFuIS9tX_r9ieNgLsrYtpg2iJ_MO3HxSo0zFfio7-zv77tjezxjddgLHlB/s320/20231024_215718888_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Going Slow on Taft-Hartley" It's mainly labour that wants to reform Taft-Hartley, and it is increasingly clear that if the bill is opened up for amendments, opponents of the labour movement might put something crazy in it, so it is just as well that the Secretaries of Labour and Commerce are fighting each other over it, so that nothing is coming out of the Administration. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>American Notes</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Knowland Reverts to Type" Pretty much what it says. Knowland was being faintly reasonable in June, but now he's back to defending Rhee's decision to let the POWs go and now his ultimatum that the war must resume in 90 days if there is no progress in the talks. Knowland is blaming the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations for it, and promising a united Korea in the armistice negotiations, thanks to the unrest in eastern Europe turning into a worldwide anti-communist revolution in the near future. So in the mean time, we don't even need to talk about peace at all! As <i>The Economist </i>points out, America is <i>not </i>going back to war, although what exactly will happen if the ROK tries to go back to war is not clear. Also,Congress still can't decide on the foreign aid bill Europe <i>or </i>the Reciprocal Trade Agreement. No trade <i>or </i>aid. We are also still having trouble with the wheat and cotton surplus, with the growing national debt, which will need to be reauthorised before Congress adjourns at the end of the month. <i>The Economist </i>is pleased with the reforms that the Dewey administration has imposed on New York City. As mentioned above, <i>The Economist </i>loves anti-trust in Britain and hates it in America, where the Eisenhower Administration is pulling it back at the direction of Brownell at Justice, and now <a href="https://www.ftc.gov/about-ftc/commissioners-staff/edward-howrey">Edward Howrey at the FTC.</a> (I think the difference might be that it isn't actually doing anything in Britain yet.) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioh-uGkv9J4HsEnLa67iV77LCysfrTqa2KaZHTsvPt-3BpyBM6ZpUNbYai9BzpdcExjiBMnITc6FD5Wqt9wZ7PxLfWjjGX13ytl3OFkjVGn0NJnYAM36rcdIczoOfGhTKnXhqKqRPrN08627wYCk4ulJ4HJjAalAEp3JZHLisYxBnxS546tXMeab90zhXK/s4032/Continental%20Can%20atomic%20ad.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioh-uGkv9J4HsEnLa67iV77LCysfrTqa2KaZHTsvPt-3BpyBM6ZpUNbYai9BzpdcExjiBMnITc6FD5Wqt9wZ7PxLfWjjGX13ytl3OFkjVGn0NJnYAM36rcdIczoOfGhTKnXhqKqRPrN08627wYCk4ulJ4HJjAalAEp3JZHLisYxBnxS546tXMeab90zhXK/s320/Continental%20Can%20atomic%20ad.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"Willow Doesn't Run" Willow Run might have been doomed by the Air Force budget cuts not because there was no money for it, but because it couldn't be seen to be wasting it on Uncle Henry, who is charging five times as much for a C-119 as Fairchild. To be fair, the contract was to expand sources of supply, and Fairchild could only supply 33 aircraft a month, while Uncle Henry promised 135, and it was understood that there would be heavy first costs, but that was accounted for in a projected cost of $460,000 compared with $260,000 from Fairchild, but in fact Uncle Henry has so far delivered only 55 aircraft at $1.2 million each. Considering that Uncle Henry has lost "four times as much money making cars as [he] has earned" making planes, the future of Willow Run and its 12,000 workers seems pretty bleak. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Defence Production Agency has been extended for two years without the provision for an agency to help small business, steel prices are up, and I can't believe that this summer's hottest trend, the canned soft drink, is going to help. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The World Overseas</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The East German Revolt" Strike leaders who escaped to the west report that the revolts started as strikes provoked by the steady rise in prices, and on top of that a sudden ten percent increase in production norms and prevalent secret police spying. <i>The Economist </i>denies that westerners encouraged the striking, but admits that Western radio played a role, and that the strikers were hoping for a Western intervention. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"France and Its Empire" "France's offer of greater independence for Indo-China, and the gradual awakening of French consciences about conditions in North Africa" have put the empire at the forefront of the Laniel government's priorities. The French Union is clearly not enough to address anti-colonialism. Socialists and Communists see the Empire as an open wound and the source of France's current weakness; Nationalists cling to it so fiercely that the left cannot even express itself too openly. When Mendes-France "hinted definitely" at negotiations with Ho, he got 300 votes in the Assembly, but "[f]ew Frenchmen are willing, as yet, to renounce Indo-China entirely." Instead they want more development, education, and raised "material and spiritual standards" while maintaining a "strong political, military and economic control." French Catholics, led by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fran%C3%A7ois_Mauriac">Francois Mauriac</a>, think that the recent brutality in Casablanca says more about French weakness than strength, and the representatives of the overseas territories in the Assembly have their own influence on coalition politics.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Burma's Rice Surplus" Rice production fell heavily during the war and this helped lead to the Bengal famine after the Japanese conquest, although <i>The Economist </i>doesn' t mention this. NOw Burma is back with a substantial surplus of rice production that it cannot sell because the other part of the problem is that rice consumers can't afford to buy it. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYPQk5ervtEn-PzbCKNZPSKua-jWz1TwS_lYyLvy3GDDJfOWt8cukTQebSPmGoaoM96crkKmPPwXo-AkR5-QQpSqsunweJiJ7rDYhSt2Hlrt97smUfDakSLHY887fYyWWujozAyAycKEh-gfF_KSuuksf_5ksZuRZxh5xA0PlVbU1p2Er_DTSIssDKM_bg/s4032/20231024_195811651_iOS.heic" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Timmy got his first iPhone as a retirement present" border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYPQk5ervtEn-PzbCKNZPSKua-jWz1TwS_lYyLvy3GDDJfOWt8cukTQebSPmGoaoM96crkKmPPwXo-AkR5-QQpSqsunweJiJ7rDYhSt2Hlrt97smUfDakSLHY887fYyWWujozAyAycKEh-gfF_KSuuksf_5ksZuRZxh5xA0PlVbU1p2Er_DTSIssDKM_bg/w240-h320/20231024_195811651_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"'Solutions' in South Africa" After losing the election to the National Party, South Africa's United Party has rapidly become disunited in the same way that the Nationalists used to be in opposition. <a href="https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaar_Coetzee">Blaar Coetzee</a> thinks that the United Party should join the National Party to push through its colour policy of removing Cape Coloureds from the electoral rolls, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobus_Gideon_Nel_Strauss">while the leadership</a> refuses to take a position and the "conservative young men" of the movement have to be compelled to say that they won't negotiate with the National Party on their own to give them the two-thirds majority they need. It seems suicidal to vote to remove your own voters from the rolls, but coloured parties like the African and Indian Congresses are gaining ground a the expense of the United, anyway. And the National Party's policy of <i>apartheid, </i>exemplified by the recent actions to clear <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trevor_Huddleston">a political rally in the Sophiatown coloured suburb of Johannesburg</a> with "intimidation, terrorisation and the ruthless crushing of even verbal protest" show that it is willing to do something about "the problem." I guess the question is, exactly how long will intimidation and terror keep <i>on</i> working? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The Danish Bases" The Danes have decided not to welcome American air bases in Denmark, while British-style soccer ("football") has become very popular in eastern Europe and people are afraid that it will lead to bourgeois counter-revolution there. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Business World</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Commodities Since Korea" World commodity prices spiked after the outbreak of the Korean War, but then they went down again as the rate of increase in world industrial production fell in 1952, and even outright declined in some places. This makes it very hard to run a poor country or colony or maintain Britain's balance of exchange with the hard currency countries, so something should be done about it, and that is fine with wheat and tin, and might be fine with rubber, but is definitely <i>not </i>fine with copper, among other commodities. And it is all complicated by fears of an American slowdown.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEofa-Yyv_b0i8dWorFN83d1mmRdXIAqzJ-mXyetps5B1NuzR9uFbxlO7GP1Dw1D3OP77k5DICrwaPzN67jp6uuutMp0JmfvHf5Y294bqavrPnHYVSNOO4KEMPzDRRIintkchHEuhqxjoeEbjct-VS4YjI2r7Xe4nW23wk4iPZ6hUXEjX0LtRx0hkMv4jH/s1024/Dassault%20Mystere%20IV.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="653" data-original-width="1024" height="204" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEofa-Yyv_b0i8dWorFN83d1mmRdXIAqzJ-mXyetps5B1NuzR9uFbxlO7GP1Dw1D3OP77k5DICrwaPzN67jp6uuutMp0JmfvHf5Y294bqavrPnHYVSNOO4KEMPzDRRIintkchHEuhqxjoeEbjct-VS4YjI2r7Xe4nW23wk4iPZ6hUXEjX0LtRx0hkMv4jH/s320/Dassault%20Mystere%20IV.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">By Cobatfor - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, <br />https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3723160</span></td></tr></tbody></table></div>"France Finds Wings" The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault_Myst%C3%A8re_IV">Mystere IV</a> shows that the French air industry is back, and <i>The Economist </i>gives us a four page article, complete with pencil sketches of the Ouragon, Vautour, HD31 and afore-mentioned Mystere IV, the production of which has been ensured by American mutual defence aid in the face of recent Air Force cuts that threaten the rest of the industry, which is only recently recovered from its WWII-induced swoon. (And the incredibly controversial prewar reorganisation that is showing some signs of being pragmatically revised, especially with the revival of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dassault_Aviation">Bloch/Dassaul</a>t, the firm behind the Mystere.)<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Towards Safer Railways" The inquiry into the Harrow and Wealdstone train disaster has found that it was caused by the driver of the Perth to Euston express failing to acknowledge three warning signals. The second-most serious accident in British rail history was therefore caused by the lack of automatic control, or more accurately, automatic warning control. Some 66 of 640 accidents since 1912, causing a total of 1112 deaths, might have been avoided by automatic warning control. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_Warning_System">Warning control equipmen</a>t is already present on the main lines, having first been installed by the Great Western in 1915, and doesn't entirely prevent accidents, since it can be overridden. It will, however, despite its drawbacks, be adopted universally on British Railways in the next year at a cost of £2 1/4 million, offering more, but not complete, safety. (When Reggie looked up the latest LMS magnetic system that they are testing now, he said he was surprised that it worked at all.)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXrbrLXCqXhPps4v10pP2ckMx0QxiwuVWTJG_3rmkuvE96qVqZLyQaDEj8ua5sHMxCn6BXi8qP8vmeN3xZYMIetvelaECFQ72RDlcGPeN-GSEaKy5JhwJQyg8cr_WRqjw16YtkMOjOqChmTJH4R2ss7cYB6UgQf0qYmicyAmkIUNOuC9Pp-WOg_xwXOWZQ/s2332/Harrow%20Train%20Disaster%201952.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1656" data-original-width="2332" height="227" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXrbrLXCqXhPps4v10pP2ckMx0QxiwuVWTJG_3rmkuvE96qVqZLyQaDEj8ua5sHMxCn6BXi8qP8vmeN3xZYMIetvelaECFQ72RDlcGPeN-GSEaKy5JhwJQyg8cr_WRqjw16YtkMOjOqChmTJH4R2ss7cYB6UgQf0qYmicyAmkIUNOuC9Pp-WOg_xwXOWZQ/s320/Harrow%20Train%20Disaster%201952.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Business Notes</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> In the tradition of <i>The Economist, </i>an analysis of recent Treasury moves on the bond market that suggests that it is not eager to spend money to push down interest rates is dressed up in an extended metaphor and conveyed with so much jargon that it's hard to understand what's even being said, and so satisfying is the effort that it is extended into a second <b>Note. </b>A third one notes that the National Bank has pushed its dividend up. Will it be a trend? Will more money go from undeserving working people to the long-deprived people who clip coupons (like me, I should have the grace to admit)? Wait and find out!<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">German debt settlement talks drag on, <a href="https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/65fc20ee-aff7-428b-bde0-57f955f81aab">Charles Close's takeover of J. Sears (True-Form) Boot Company</a> has launched a frenzy of takeover offers for "multiple tailoring" firms. Theatre audiences are down, which is why Associated British did poorly this year, and it is all due to television. English Electric joins de Havilland in raising more capital than expected from its latest share offer. Courtauld's warns that its profits will be affected by flat rayon exports, thanks to Japanese international competition which has forced it to trim three pence off its staple price. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Taking Stock of Television" Will there be sponsored television soon, or won't there be? Or another BBC station? It will depend on clearing some room on the frequency band, first, and might depend on first pushing much of British radio up to the ultra high frequency band, as is being done in America. There is, however, unquestionably room for a second British television network just with the frequency band available, so it really ought to be either BBC Two or a sponsored network within the next eighteen months. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Australia has eased import controls due to improvements in his balance of payments. British investment in Canada is increasing as exchange restrictions ease and the billion-dollar Canadian interest-free war loan is paid off. Anthracite coal in big, juicy chunks,the kind that households would <i>like </i>to use for heating, continue to be too expensive for them, raising the question of how much the Coal Board is paying to whom to actually sell it, while the Board has moved to make the duff that households <i>can </i>buy, and are forced to buy, at least cheaper. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHRMbJukyr-YGqHT3uczw43g-KHRzdXeeTpbTwUzK8Zf-_HgTScFtN0kCk136KF4zisgITxwBVFCxsqfKuwXoajdcAPRwxQ_g6j5rXHNFKBRQLVJHxolx1Qw3iPvuto_fW1aTfv46JuOCsBvSL8cZC2fmx8MN26_6VQ1FqeAA6BECOtXXYQm-qCCWCMgGC/s2944/Productivity%20improvements%20possible%20in%20pig%20iron%20production%20by%20costs.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1674" data-original-width="2944" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHRMbJukyr-YGqHT3uczw43g-KHRzdXeeTpbTwUzK8Zf-_HgTScFtN0kCk136KF4zisgITxwBVFCxsqfKuwXoajdcAPRwxQ_g6j5rXHNFKBRQLVJHxolx1Qw3iPvuto_fW1aTfv46JuOCsBvSL8cZC2fmx8MN26_6VQ1FqeAA6BECOtXXYQm-qCCWCMgGC/s320/Productivity%20improvements%20possible%20in%20pig%20iron%20production%20by%20costs.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"What Productivity Costs" We talk a lot about productivity around here, but Sir<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_F._Goodeve"> Charles Goodeve</a> has some thoughts, abstracted from a talk given to the Institute of Production Engineers, in which he shows the costs of producing a ton of pig iron, and the areas in which savings, which will flow into improved productivity, can be made. Labour is the biggest cost, but since wages are three times as high in America, a 10% savings in labour goes much further there than it does here, and even improvements in plant don't reward as much when they only cost two-thirds as much as in Britain. Better plant would help, but it looks from the numbers, although Goodeven doesn't point that out (at least in the abstract), the best place to invest in Britain is in fuel costs, and in general a relative improvement in productivity is going to be much harder in Britain than America. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>The Economist </i>hopes for a world sugar cartel that would even the difference between the preferred markets (America with Cuba and the Philippines; Britain with the Commonwealth) and the "free" ones. An agreement like the 1937 one would stabilise prices, prevent the buildup of vast surpluses, and give "free" sugar producers a larger share of any increases in world consumption, and that would be nice.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Flight, </i>10 July 1953</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Leaders </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Flight </i>takes back all the bad things it said about the Paris Aerial Salon after the "consecrated" air showing on Sunday in glorious sunshine, a non-stop four hour air festival, in which British planes and pilots were the best. (38 minutes London to Paris in a Comet, if you were wondering, 19 minutes in a Swift.) The Royal Review at Odiham was also something. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The Week at the Salon" You can't spend your entire week in the cafes (WHY NOT???), so <i>Flight's </i>man (or woman) took a wander around the Salon hall most days to see if anything much changed. It didn't, although the Avro 707 was a late arrival, but at least he was there, so stop complaining about his (or her) expense account! There is some new news. For example, the Swift is up to <i>four </i>wing fences! That's one way to fix a plane. Below the fold, <i>Flight </i>visits the SNECMA exhibit and is impressed by the latest iteration of the Atar, definitely a "utility engine," SNECMA's Sapphire-like Vulcaine, its 14 cylinder, 900hp helicopter engine, thrust deviator (which acts like a reversible propeller on conventional planes), and "baffling" Ecriviss, a follow-on to last year's Escopette pulse jet. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>From All Quarters</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd7JRxBDAewG_IUrCf_UOOQi_46OojXKo1QvodCJzng89TRsWAgbR-fx9RABxVlgJFIi5FQdAtBrUJpJgWwEL6hyIqgCvUE4PFo6tBcZf73at_FdawoFZbwYExXNWmkI_sI0hxVTtlKt2gmqGikVjNhFUZcSOLoK2qdRTshX_u5US-vpKRftDws6jg62u-/s2172/Boulton%20Paul%20P111A.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1852" data-original-width="2172" height="273" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjd7JRxBDAewG_IUrCf_UOOQi_46OojXKo1QvodCJzng89TRsWAgbR-fx9RABxVlgJFIi5FQdAtBrUJpJgWwEL6hyIqgCvUE4PFo6tBcZf73at_FdawoFZbwYExXNWmkI_sI0hxVTtlKt2gmqGikVjNhFUZcSOLoK2qdRTshX_u5US-vpKRftDws6jg62u-/s320/Boulton%20Paul%20P111A.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Sir Basil Embry is the new Commander, Allied Air Forces in Central Europe, and Marshal Juin is the land commander. Embry succeeds Lauris Norstad, who will become Air Deputy to the Supreme Commander, succeeding Air Chief Marshal Saunders, just announced as the new commandant of the Imperial Defence College. Group <a href="ttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Townsend_(RAF_officer)">Captain Townsend</a> is to be Extra Equerry to the Queen, someone has finally answered the phone at BCPA head office, so we know that it isn't closing, an inquiry into the loss of the Skyways York last February has opened, and Boulton Paul has an improved P111, the "A," to replace the P. 120 delta wing experimental plane, which crashed. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Here and There</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The USAF's 50th Fighter Wing, with 75 F-86s,will soon deploy to Europe. The outgoing Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Air, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Floberg#:~:text=John%20Forrest%20Floberg%20(October%2028,USN%3B%20Lieutenant%20Commander%20John%20A.">John Floberg</a>, says that the US Navy's current plan is to build a <i>Forrestal </i>each year until the Navy has 10 of them. <i>Flight </i>isn't sure yet that Denmark won't have two USAF bases. The Four Powers talks on air corridors to berlin continue. Tokyo is getting a new high speed wind tunnel to replace the one destroyed during the war, the NYPD is about to begin helicopter patrols, Admiral Cunningham said in an after-dinner speech that air transport will eventually replace sea transport, General Vandenberg points out that the USAF is supposed to increase its strength by 10 wings next year while cutting its manpower by 10,000, which is impossible.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWG3zyBcc09xrAd8a1i-yVNlYtr-qXWC5T25cfD2amwjsceMS335Mo5Oxx494pnEBp0QAxm0913lZKDUkQxK6V90eD5wF9Vt_Wq7T_IUXkxeOqOBo3Z1Tp1RS8GU9PRJB_h5GKaR1ddcy9mTPLIbzpGSHyJUMK2zF4YVdJBBqrhK7UVjwGPqeOoUZK3xWI/s4032/Queen's%20RAF%20review%201953.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1508" data-original-width="4032" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhWG3zyBcc09xrAd8a1i-yVNlYtr-qXWC5T25cfD2amwjsceMS335Mo5Oxx494pnEBp0QAxm0913lZKDUkQxK6V90eD5wF9Vt_Wq7T_IUXkxeOqOBo3Z1Tp1RS8GU9PRJB_h5GKaR1ddcy9mTPLIbzpGSHyJUMK2zF4YVdJBBqrhK7UVjwGPqeOoUZK3xWI/s320/Queen's%20RAF%20review%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"The Queen's Review of the RAF" Somehow all the WWII veterans have turned into WWI veterans in the fusty, dusty portraits that go with the fusty, dusty event. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Introducing the Angled Deck" Reggie says that this is a disaster because now navies will be able to fly fixed-wing aircraft off ship's decks for at least another generation, which will be followed by at least another generation building ships that will take the aircraft that come after that ("60,000 tons is nothing!") whereas if we'd stuck to straight decks we would probably have this out of our system before the Gannet retires. So that's my beloved husband. As for me, I'm just glad that I don't have to worry about him being asked to fly a Neptune of a <i>Midway </i>with an atom bomb on board! <i>Flight </i>explains that, in discussions of the impossibility of actually operating jets from carriers in August of 1951, Captain D. R. F. Campbell and "Mr. L. Boddington" of RAE, this simple but brilliant solution of building a deck extension sticking ot the side was worked out. Why does "Mr. L." seem like less of a full name than "Captain D. R. F." It's <a href="https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=AONE&u=googlescholar&id=GALE|A255037246&v=2.1&it=r&sid=googleScholar&asid=a0c8fd8c">Lewis Boddington and Dennis Campbell,</a> according to <i>Who's Who. </i> The British experimented with lines down the deck of <i>Triumph </i>and <i>Illustrious </i>and were happy enough with it that <i>Hermes </i>was modified under construction with an angled deck. We similarly experimented with <i>Midway </i>and then incorporated an angled deck in the reconstruction of <i>Antietam, </i>which is over in Britain conducting trials. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm_wp-8CNakX0pNsmSqpRBUJfbix6_MFhjdzdIwFIxnqmD-aLoabkbdt5EhpMBkEiFvKw_6CdJ7ZZh751KltZOmXKZqQZlbpzhEuYMo2zC4_1OsJW6Mso8swzE-Wx3-xcc_J6KzNuhyphenhyphenxeDtK846KTnc56hin8hwkxRL_r9OI1kt2oLdMATxMTdBjlwp7rj/s4032/USS%20Antietam.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1516" data-original-width="4032" height="120" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgm_wp-8CNakX0pNsmSqpRBUJfbix6_MFhjdzdIwFIxnqmD-aLoabkbdt5EhpMBkEiFvKw_6CdJ7ZZh751KltZOmXKZqQZlbpzhEuYMo2zC4_1OsJW6Mso8swzE-Wx3-xcc_J6KzNuhyphenhyphenxeDtK846KTnc56hin8hwkxRL_r9OI1kt2oLdMATxMTdBjlwp7rj/s320/USS%20Antietam.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> <i>Flight </i>has been to the second British Instruments Industries Exhibition, where it saw some nice instruments including a gust amemometer and airborne surveying equipment for detecting underground uranium deposits at the Government exhibits. It is disappointed that Lufthansa has ordered Convair 340s and Lockheed Super-Constellations, but timely deliveries were guaranteed. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Le Bourget 1953" More details on the air display last Sunday at Paris. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The Wheels Under the Wings" <i>Flight </i>was so bored hanging around Odiham watching the RAF get ready for a white glove inspection of its Ansons and Chipmunks and credenzas and hats that it started counting trucks and talking to the drivers scurrying about in cars, trucks, lorries, bicycles, motorcycles and motorised prams. The RAF sure has a lot of vroom-vrooms! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Our American Correspondent </b>reports that the RCAF had a sure-fire plan for the weekend, which was to fly its Comet into Idlewild and just walk around all quiet-like. "Oh, it's no big thing. Just a plane we picked up when we were in Blighty. Oh, yes, it <i>is </i>fast, I suppose. I've never had the throttle all the way open. No need. Say, want to come up for a flight with me so we can both find out what it can really do?" But then Idlewild said no because of noise, and it's probably some vast American anti-Comet conspiracy. The Rolls Royce-Westinghouse agreement "hasn't had much publicity here, despite the fact that there had been rumours of trouble at Westinghouse for some time." Now let's talk about Allison and Wright! <b>Our American Correspondent </b>goes on to point out how some of the local colonial press made it out to be Westinghouse helping Rolls Royce! Just obviously that's not the case, and now watch all these natives stop talking about how American turbines are ahead of British! Everyone enjoyed the Coronation, notwithstanding the fuss over the air race to get the film footage over. The current issue of <i>Time </i>has an embarrassingly ingratiating profile of Dutch Kindelberger of North American, if <b>Our American Correspondent </b>doesn't say so himself. It even repeats the claim of 719 MiGs for 56 Sabres, "--a claim that one hopes (but doubts) is more accurate than our original Battle of Britain figures," and quotes Kindelberger depreciating last year's Farnborough show as a comment that "probably comes under the heading of remarks that were never made." Dutch is a pretty smart guy who is probably worried about the Air Force cuts, since North American doesn't have much of a civil aviation side. Twisting the knife, the Navion is mentioned. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Correspondence</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Supersonic Bang" isn't tired of letters about the cause of supersonic bangs yet, so he writes one. Professor A. M. Low writes a letter with an extract from some comments of one Carlos B. Mirrick enclosed, to the effect that, years ago, before the war, the British were ahead of the Americans in making autopilot planes with bombs. A. Hodgson is pleased that a photo of his model helicopter appeared recently, but has concerns. R. Vaughan Fowler talks about the "BAT FK 28," the plane that seems to have existed and which might have been photographed, years ago, before the war. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Industry </b>reports that Rotax has a new, lightweight turbojet starter, Dunlop has a new, lightweight <i>and </i>simple fuel tank pressurisation system, and Bristol has a new apprentice school. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Civil Aviation</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Royal flight to Salisbury went well. In the first thousand hours of operation, Viscounts have operated over average route distances of 625 miles, achieving block-to-block speeds of 221mph, flying 221,000 revenue miles, carrying 7700 passengers and 77 tons of mail, earning £240,000 in revenue with a reliability of 99.3% and 1530 hours of usability so far, building up. Break even load is estimated at 62% and achieved load is 70% so far. The Dart has been very reliable. The Elizabethan is doing fine, too. Trans-Oceanic Airways has been liquidated, with Ansett taking over its assets. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzlF5IKFIkEULr_x2BfXOQZFR2wtOiCHgsNkcQt8qWzk0R6CnMtcIBg_X3viF5CInGGpBMZVI4UguEW9CvdUEVe9Yum0hnMPeNBWa75f9xtMvtxDk8uESis2XRMes8kQurhrWDVnBlB_55SlrW_6d01-wE21fK9DZNR7c2U35FZnQk7uro-EBrjiGzabZH/s1024/Around%20the%20corner%20gun.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="They're still doing it!" border="0" data-original-height="669" data-original-width="1024" height="209" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhzlF5IKFIkEULr_x2BfXOQZFR2wtOiCHgsNkcQt8qWzk0R6CnMtcIBg_X3viF5CInGGpBMZVI4UguEW9CvdUEVe9Yum0hnMPeNBWa75f9xtMvtxDk8uESis2XRMes8kQurhrWDVnBlB_55SlrW_6d01-wE21fK9DZNR7c2U35FZnQk7uro-EBrjiGzabZH/w320-h209/Around%20the%20corner%20gun.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><i>Flight </i>read and did not much like Dan Brennan's <i>Time Enough to Live </i>and Captain Liddell Hart's edition of <i>The Rommel Papers, </i>which makes too much of the man. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._B._Colby">Major C. B. Colby</a>'s series of picture books about planes and air forces for Coward-McCann in New York are nice, although there is special praise for <i>Weapons of the World, </i>with its pictures of things like the gun that shoots around corners. It will show the boys of today that in any future war they will be much safer in the air!<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0y0frYPbAIEuJ4WNmXl9WE4hMT-Ad-VL6S0eZdLe0UTW8j7IbOkenEDuxFpXL_mBkHMGXLTuE9dli5r3AQJPx820w7TQTCF4Axt_1i80XRz2fvs0jkrlISlLR1jbswiIQODfn-5QmREHRodLCnvtkJchYJRt5sAGCrj1t2GrN1Hl2qU_AaG30O7EiucTp/s4032/20231024_194508751_iOS.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi0y0frYPbAIEuJ4WNmXl9WE4hMT-Ad-VL6S0eZdLe0UTW8j7IbOkenEDuxFpXL_mBkHMGXLTuE9dli5r3AQJPx820w7TQTCF4Axt_1i80XRz2fvs0jkrlISlLR1jbswiIQODfn-5QmREHRodLCnvtkJchYJRt5sAGCrj1t2GrN1Hl2qU_AaG30O7EiucTp/s16000/20231024_194508751_iOS.heic" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrEc25pa_azH2jYYx5Sa0OX9zOC9HX8_diHUSjMqV9lE0KwRd4ADNq0m6crsNK2fzLJrRhhBiGiMrYv1Z7LyW6NuSNKy66s6zepe-64Z55-44UizaTFidRu7ox7MlsGF08y_Fti0FnlOtC4PTicB1BDFhRGLxcYjBPxhdr3sZtlSCJmHzBLce-H9tIZGZa/s4032/20231024_194623448_iOS.heic" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrEc25pa_azH2jYYx5Sa0OX9zOC9HX8_diHUSjMqV9lE0KwRd4ADNq0m6crsNK2fzLJrRhhBiGiMrYv1Z7LyW6NuSNKy66s6zepe-64Z55-44UizaTFidRu7ox7MlsGF08y_Fti0FnlOtC4PTicB1BDFhRGLxcYjBPxhdr3sZtlSCJmHzBLce-H9tIZGZa/s320/20231024_194623448_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><b>Fortune's Wheel </b>introduces an upcoming series on the changing American market, which is going to investigate how the American market is changing so that you can sell things to the American market. This meanders on for two and a quarter columns before coming to a point: The birth rate is quite high, and even though people know this, they don't seem to "know" know it. They aren't thinking about how it will lead to car sales changing, for one example that isn't mentioned in the paragraph, which instead points out that the American population will hit 175 million in 1960, and that a few years later the babies of the Forties will start marrying and having children, and it will be an even bigger baby boom. Beyond that, maybe vacations and services will be big? A final thought is that even though the country can turn out 700,000 refrigerators a year, only 400,000 are selling, and so on for kitchen ranges, washers, and other domestic appliances. So clearly your salesmen aren't selling hard enough. Go hit them with a rolled up <i>Fortune</i>! <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Business Roundup </b>reports that capital outlays are still rising after twelve months of a pleasingly but predictably strong economy. But now there is a turndown in production due to the Administration's anti-inflation squeeze on interest rates, taxes, and credits. Sales are softening, and the predicted mild down-turn is on its way. So if you want to see how you can spend two pages talking about a recession without ever saying the word, here you are. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_rOO0DcZOFUGgltHbMNHLrmIan-VtSz5tuq9yaMppSHCqr01wKYoxntUJtNT9fZMZo7c7abaSlMI6J5_yxM4bBxJ7XH_Ac1h6q5d4CED-XLzr-2KKrCdzfy5eLCwnnTOX7-C6aQDlijpaNzK_r2YBvS4ecaTS1IJ8YPgm2Bzn_DRZCcGgq4rY6RcErooS/s4032/20231024_195626394_iOS.heic" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_rOO0DcZOFUGgltHbMNHLrmIan-VtSz5tuq9yaMppSHCqr01wKYoxntUJtNT9fZMZo7c7abaSlMI6J5_yxM4bBxJ7XH_Ac1h6q5d4CED-XLzr-2KKrCdzfy5eLCwnnTOX7-C6aQDlijpaNzK_r2YBvS4ecaTS1IJ8YPgm2Bzn_DRZCcGgq4rY6RcErooS/s320/20231024_195626394_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><b>Defence and Strategy </b>reports that the aircraft industry is likely to be disappointed by the way that the Defence Department is "building up" the Air Force by cutting it back. Yes, it is going up "30%" and Wilson says that it is becoming more efficient, but that just goes to show Wilson's "lack of candor and tact." The Truman era plan called for the delivery of 21,000 aircraft at a cost of $30 billion to reach an inventory of 31,000 aircraft supporting a 141 wing air force. The new budget procures only 17,000 aircraft to reach a strength of 120 wings by July of 1956 and a total inventory of 26.000 aircraft. Wilson argued that this doesn't reflect a reduction in planned increases in combat strength since the blow was felt in the area of troop-carrying and assault transport and "helicopters tied to ground forces." Eight assault transport wings have been cut from the 141 wing target. The strategic air force loses 6 wings of B-47s, 3 of them training wings. There will be 17 instead of 28 fighter bomber wings, and one tactical reconnaissance wing is cut. This <i>is </i>a substantial cut in combat strength focussed mainly on tactical support for the armies in Europe, leaving those force commitments only 60--70% filled. Taken together with manpower cuts, the Air Force ends up 3000 aircraft in surplus to its needs. "The only inference to be drawn . . . is that the President and his advisers have concluded that the Soviet Union lacks both the capability and, barring some incalculable act of desperation, the intention to large-scale military action for some years to come, if ever." Some additional support is provided, including quotes, and the H-bomb is cited as another reason there won't be another war soon. Churchill and the British Chiefs of Staff have already come to this conclusion.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">This directs our attention at the CIA, which is responsible for informing these discussions. So it is time to talk about Allen Dulles' shop at least, almost a year after Westbrook Pegler and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_J._Kilpatrick">James Kilpatrick</a> of the <i>Richmond News Leader </i>start taking after his refusal to divulge the CIA budget, which seems to them undemocratic in the extreme. The Kremlin has also taken aim at him, and if it is to be believed, eastern Europe is crawling with CIA agents working to undermine Communism. People trying to find their way through the thicket of talk about the Air Force cuts would settle for just having a better idea of what the CIA knows, and how it knows it. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg1cjTMs4Ymk_epG-HbhFkaZYIVgdWUz6SvzVDTd5bj4igMJuiBVaPVZ2GjsgqC0DSJz56NobPvJ5ic8Qp6EUvaEkRZHUuYiuF4fdTXd7mu-HS2rWzXoueYkod50reJNA_xyfjp3-5B4x7D-qc3kR486zKRfiBRZ3dHU_cqVc9T8QgVF_z83eJk-WsqYNt/s4032/20231024_194730973_iOS.heic" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhg1cjTMs4Ymk_epG-HbhFkaZYIVgdWUz6SvzVDTd5bj4igMJuiBVaPVZ2GjsgqC0DSJz56NobPvJ5ic8Qp6EUvaEkRZHUuYiuF4fdTXd7mu-HS2rWzXoueYkod50reJNA_xyfjp3-5B4x7D-qc3kR486zKRfiBRZ3dHU_cqVc9T8QgVF_z83eJk-WsqYNt/s320/20231024_194730973_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>Speaking of air defence, how about the "Summer Study Group" and its look at continental air defence? Robert Oppenheimer and Lloyd Berkner, the lead men of the Group, want a $20 billion early warning line through the Arctic, with fleets of transports in perpetual orbit, carrying interceptors to be launched on indication of attack. Now, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mervin_Kelly">Dr. Mervin Kelly of Bell Telephone Labs</a> has firmly rejected this reorientation of atomic strategy to defence, and its grandiose vision of a six hour early earning. The Kelly strategy wants to push early warning even further north and out to sea to give more time, which he estimates at two hours, enough to mobilise the next generation of air defence, since research and development, and not immediate deployment of existing systems, is the best defence.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Leaders</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Westinghouse on the Wrong Track" And here is why everyone is talking about Westinghouse this week. It is making itself the story, with an 8000 employee, company-sponsored demonstration against a government contract for a power station going to a low-cost foreign competitor. Westinghouse wants Congress to act, which is embarrassing when the House is fighting the Administration foreign aid budget with a "Trade not Aid" push back. <i>Fortune </i>isn't convinced that American business wants a liberalised foreign trade policy, and it is especially embarrassing when both Westinghouse and Allis Chalmers are booked solid. They still want <i>more </i>business, in this case a $7 million contract that went to a German company, but enough is enough! <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0fF_JLUt7-B7Ilr1QoY2kBf216_RQvfkCsuy61j_UxlZuVI-tlOR2mRb9tuPIayeufJW9xEqBP-V-l5Echjw3UmNuIrx9qAeHUDh14afRT0RjoKEK_qwocboZFZMH0IIx9hQUAI_mCOthNgSdGkyNMtYz9-stcibfFbcL9poFD2CzosrKpav8IpcO4yUo/s4032/20231024_195633433_iOS.heic" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0fF_JLUt7-B7Ilr1QoY2kBf216_RQvfkCsuy61j_UxlZuVI-tlOR2mRb9tuPIayeufJW9xEqBP-V-l5Echjw3UmNuIrx9qAeHUDh14afRT0RjoKEK_qwocboZFZMH0IIx9hQUAI_mCOthNgSdGkyNMtYz9-stcibfFbcL9poFD2CzosrKpav8IpcO4yUo/s320/20231024_195633433_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>There's also a fight about power development at Niagara. Private utilities used to not want any part of it, and the Roosevelt Administration put together a federal plan that was very union friendly. Now private utilities want in, and Senator Capehart is pushing a bill to let them in, under less labour-friendly state regulation. <i>Fortune </i>is all for it, since the hydraulic works don't include any messy irrigation, navigation, or flood control provisions. <i>Fortune </i>is also upset at the Ambassador Hotel for floating the idea of "honeymoon suites" with kitchens for the new couple to learn to cook, which <i>Fortune </i>doesn't think should be part of a honeymoon. (Hear, hear!) It is also upset that executives die <i>six years </i>earlier than everyone else, but considering that Bill Brown's Executive Health Centre at Garrison-on-the-Hudson has liquor on the premises, not that upset. They bring it on themselves! Or maybe it was just time for Bill Brown to get a plug. Corporations are allowed to make tax deductible gifts to colleges and universities and stockholders can't say boo, says some judge in New Jersey, so you know it is on the up and up. Bethlehem Steel is paying the tuition of managers and engineers who take a four-month graining programme at a college or university paid for by Bethlehem Steel. That "buttinsky" professor at Nevada is definitely fired and let that be a lesson on butting in. Washington is <i>still </i>waiting for that real estate boom, the Russians are very embarrassed by their new managerial class, Americans have their own problems with class, as seen at Park Forest's "one-class" or "classless" community, which apparently is short of property tax revenue for schools because of all the young executives in expensive homes and the lack of industry which is not following the non-existence working class. Dr. Charles Kerr is in the news for saying that Americans just aren't independent enough because they all work for corporations.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Is Baseball A Dying Business?" Baseball is in trouble because the minor leagues are disintegrating, TV and radio rights and "black out" rules are under threat, and the trust busters are sniffing around it again because of the minimum radius rules for radio broadcasts of minor league games, which aren't necessarily fifty miles apart. Another <b>Leader </b>catches us up with the countdown to the Government's imminent exit from the synthetic rubber game, which I would cover in more detail except that it is just another step on a long journey. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiAYRPowKm7kbTxHYN0wS671a5dXIptGn8RC3NZB6zktdfBKRAZZK6tSsKSX0aOdJh67Y2NZ-3eadRiIEro9Jf5YwjZXh-D0Xt2eZEYxH1FeMK7xvjImePFlLQNIUsO1OZXHjVkY8ER0D7eThR520QLixePjv-LZNio_C7nEYz3qU76cKmLfK9t_-2XYda/s4032/20231024_195659515_iOS.heic" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiiAYRPowKm7kbTxHYN0wS671a5dXIptGn8RC3NZB6zktdfBKRAZZK6tSsKSX0aOdJh67Y2NZ-3eadRiIEro9Jf5YwjZXh-D0Xt2eZEYxH1FeMK7xvjImePFlLQNIUsO1OZXHjVkY8ER0D7eThR520QLixePjv-LZNio_C7nEYz3qU76cKmLfK9t_-2XYda/s320/20231024_195659515_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"Guatemala's Warning to US Business" Last February the Guatemalan government expropriated 234.000 acres of land from United Fruit Company raising the question of whether it should continue doing business in the country where it has invested $50 million over 47 years, or, really, anywhere in tropical America, where it has invested $400 million. Why shouldn't it take its ball and its bat and go home? They can grow bananas in Minnesota, can't they? And if they can't,, why be in business at all, really? And look at all the American money invested down there. It might be $1.5 billion, or $5 billion, depending on what's counted and where. And it could all go Communist! <i>Fortune </i>explains how United Fruit is more sinned against than sinning before allowing that it should probably unbend and cooperate with the government to promote economic and agricultural development in Guatemala, which would be good for everyone, even United Fruit. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A signed article from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_J._V._Murphy">Charles J. V. Murphy</a> on "Eisenhower's White House" follows, because these days <i>Fortune </i>is a business magazine and doesn't cover stuff like culture or politics. It turns out that it is a great cabinet serving a great president! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg884yjIT_5nIUN8Ogr31sXEBVnOabplRtZfzuHGHirZXOx2xzOWWCFsE3XHEgcMzDj6qVBb8Gy6J6FZCK3ytecygzSDdvnN-22DqjZDN4H4kfzNJnLe_SfC7ZP_JBMLn6OuQ33-Zie2BQ1I3YY-z72PY6bPs5E1Zhd-dQmKD2nRJP3a20kqDoMP238ob3P/s3445/Eisenhower's%20kitchen%20cabinet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1295" data-original-width="3445" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg884yjIT_5nIUN8Ogr31sXEBVnOabplRtZfzuHGHirZXOx2xzOWWCFsE3XHEgcMzDj6qVBb8Gy6J6FZCK3ytecygzSDdvnN-22DqjZDN4H4kfzNJnLe_SfC7ZP_JBMLn6OuQ33-Zie2BQ1I3YY-z72PY6bPs5E1Zhd-dQmKD2nRJP3a20kqDoMP238ob3P/w640-h240/Eisenhower's%20kitchen%20cabinet.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /> "C.B.S. Steals the Show" CBS might <i>look </i>like it is on a losing streak, with the end of its colour tv experiment, its losses on radio, and the fact that it is still struggling to fill out its inventory of television stations, but the "junior" rival has not been "put away" by RCA and its subsidiary, NBC. It is, in fact, the number 1 network by sales right now. And while RCA is a giant of the electronics world, while CBS was recently a broadcasting upstart, under William Paley, CBS has been branching out into radio and television set manufacturing, and recording. The CBS colour system was a challenge to RCA, which had made television the centre of its strategy from the mid-Thirties, and while it didn't work, getting Jack Benny and dominating broadcasting, did. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidJob1emKBRhGGzpddLQTRYJtMwq0V7rRb6FqFBvs9hAQevUGiOxu878MdhB9M3prPE3z-i7przo1fHeqSh_eiv4xNp8me47DmKKwW5_sGXCRY1ng-PgfyZrVXUcGBYho5MrCHDMqmLqRsUJhnEMH6q9sUdz-EFKRkoBwnnxvJ0gFtGwqAVnrSyiX3foMN/s3904/Office%20Decor%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2821" data-original-width="3904" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidJob1emKBRhGGzpddLQTRYJtMwq0V7rRb6FqFBvs9hAQevUGiOxu878MdhB9M3prPE3z-i7przo1fHeqSh_eiv4xNp8me47DmKKwW5_sGXCRY1ng-PgfyZrVXUcGBYho5MrCHDMqmLqRsUJhnEMH6q9sUdz-EFKRkoBwnnxvJ0gFtGwqAVnrSyiX3foMN/s320/Office%20Decor%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>For the next article, William Whyte goes back to Park Forest to worry some more about the one-class society and the end of American independence. And outgoing! It's all these "courts." Oh for the good old days when everyone was shut up in their cabin in the snows! These people are just so middlebrow! I'm tempted to say the same about the next article but one, about office furniture and decor. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Dero Saunders brings us "What's Ahead for Machine Tools" Specifically, it's the industry is worried about the downturn, not that it is excited about, say, micro-honing. Another flood of government-owned tools would be a disaster, so any future rearmament programme should focus on building up production capacity rather than on a flood of instantly obsolescent weapons. It's selfish, but logical, and maybe some kind of national strategy will ward off German competiton. Also, automation could be good. You've heard about this "automation" thing, right? Because I can explain! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Perrin Stryker, "Can Management Be Managed?" That's the question that the latest thing, Organization Planning, wants you to know that the answer to which is "Yes," so please send your money to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Charles_Lounsbury_Fish">Lounsbury Fish</a> (which is a real name), Ernest Dale, and Lieutenant Colonel <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lyndall_Urwick">Lyndall Urwick</a>. (Creator of the idea that if the boss doesn't do any work, he has more "span of control.") </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Harry Vickers of Sperry gets a long profile this issue with the interesting title,"Planning for Famine," which is about the downturn, not famine. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1u5JKdPvU1s9n6yPOgTvhXPRe0Lw_uy3mflSXHwOTg0duZPD8PZEKiq5727AYNc3SjL9yl0_KLQeJsgRECP43sT2shSyhJ1evoTVCFwMw5x9RG9T7PgFnljqeEGkPwIBKLbFCQrmjQoq7wInnkOjtaLjhk-GJcboa_PpyFS8YxQzjdR9zX8iYoU2dBZiR/s3781/Electricity%20supply%20around%20the%20world%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3781" data-original-width="2567" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1u5JKdPvU1s9n6yPOgTvhXPRe0Lw_uy3mflSXHwOTg0duZPD8PZEKiq5727AYNc3SjL9yl0_KLQeJsgRECP43sT2shSyhJ1evoTVCFwMw5x9RG9T7PgFnljqeEGkPwIBKLbFCQrmjQoq7wInnkOjtaLjhk-GJcboa_PpyFS8YxQzjdR9zX8iYoU2dBZiR/s320/Electricity%20supply%20around%20the%20world%201953.jpg" width="217" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Eric Hodgins, "The Atom: The Way of the Reactor" Some day soon the first operating atomic reactor will come into service, and it will probablly be in Britain, or possibly France, because Congress just cut a huge chunk of the AEC's budget, boo! Industry is interested, but when you talk about things like zirconium,<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafnium#:~:text=Hafnium%20is%20a%20chemical%20element,found%20in%20many%20zirconium%20minerals."> hafnium</a>, heavy water, helium, boron, and "liquid metal eutetics," they clutch their wallets in pain and realise the virtues of socialism (or socialist research and development, anyway) all at once. After all, the bigger the reactor, the better, and that's a lot of design! But the market is big; the world is low-voltage, and while America is better off than most, the world, except for Canada and the Scandinavian peninsula, is short the electricity it needs. Britain and France will join together in an integrated grid with the completion of a 100 mW trans-Channel cable that ill balance off their peak loads, which differ by half-an-hour. England lacks hydroelectric (which is strictly true, but wrong) and has a "slatternly" coal mining industry, so it is in nuclear power to stay, and can afford to sell atomic power at 15 mills, compared with America's five. In much of the rest of the world, fuel is so expensive that atomic power is very attractive. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1bsXCSwkIFGTMfeigDImqpLCxM0tskPuAQJbp0hihbgrA5hyGgquIkHbQGbcP8H81fn11QMuX_3nm0XLWlClowAoDx_aVxAF8BsG8jMpy-CzCWZY_RBdRVh9iWz5RQ_ZX6EeJLr2KSGqbetodDtogr5RfHDKIwN-dvZfsJ70xnvuHTuYsoNCF6OIleRgN/s3785/Breeder%20Reactor%20cycle.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1070" data-original-width="3785" height="181" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1bsXCSwkIFGTMfeigDImqpLCxM0tskPuAQJbp0hihbgrA5hyGgquIkHbQGbcP8H81fn11QMuX_3nm0XLWlClowAoDx_aVxAF8BsG8jMpy-CzCWZY_RBdRVh9iWz5RQ_ZX6EeJLr2KSGqbetodDtogr5RfHDKIwN-dvZfsJ70xnvuHTuYsoNCF6OIleRgN/w640-h181/Breeder%20Reactor%20cycle.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The threatened Charles Kerr article follows, and then one about a New Jersey truck farmer making good on asparagus, tomatoes, peppers and sweet potatoes. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6UBigmRTCxVRh0ifPOFamIq0tZ1QVvHqZmKIN2cZ50V0uXc-eplUaI1rDNgu7h8AwF_4uowBMlcPa6yz_0RDo3UR776K4lNz_Ew_3kshcr_2NFv9ileZj_J1DD-TXNOaXsTWQcX8n-5zbLRzDJowpnwkN5SfcaxYBZNkLlIyHxKNAM-huiuUhVGGBtfHf/s3033/Proposed%20private%20atomic%20reactor%20schemes%20U.S.%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2138" data-original-width="3033" height="452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6UBigmRTCxVRh0ifPOFamIq0tZ1QVvHqZmKIN2cZ50V0uXc-eplUaI1rDNgu7h8AwF_4uowBMlcPa6yz_0RDo3UR776K4lNz_Ew_3kshcr_2NFv9ileZj_J1DD-TXNOaXsTWQcX8n-5zbLRzDJowpnwkN5SfcaxYBZNkLlIyHxKNAM-huiuUhVGGBtfHf/w640-h452/Proposed%20private%20atomic%20reactor%20schemes%20U.S.%201953.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br />Erik Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-83646104860262575042023-10-19T13:45:00.001-07:002023-10-19T13:45:29.392-07:00A Technological and Political Appendix to Postblogging Technology, June 1953 With No Public Engagement Whatsoever: Willow Run and Dien Bien Phu<p></p><div style="text-align: justify;"> Well, I might well be on strike next week, and I <i>certainly </i>have split single days off this week. And that can only mean one thing. A Technological Appendix with absolutely no reference to modern day events. Instead, I'll talk about a long deadlock in the French National Assembly requiring multiple votes for multiple candidates to select a new premier, and a devastating military setback for colonialism. People, it's the Fifties! It was a different time. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2tR-oCmfiYvSRvBsmEsrLsIF6GNW0gxt4yokyXYquLJbs0ctsqybiKs_u5ut3XMmMJb58AJGF5v3N6S1untEw4LwgiIqc9sr7CYwqfsYLVxbX8-TqQieMgrSqxFZiS8xEVcqkhhPMnBan8R2n0N_XT6xLRXsAoN2vFUa_RB20Z0bYQgBryrrLYozNneno/s650/Mendes-France,%20Pierre.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="477" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi2tR-oCmfiYvSRvBsmEsrLsIF6GNW0gxt4yokyXYquLJbs0ctsqybiKs_u5ut3XMmMJb58AJGF5v3N6S1untEw4LwgiIqc9sr7CYwqfsYLVxbX8-TqQieMgrSqxFZiS8xEVcqkhhPMnBan8R2n0N_XT6xLRXsAoN2vFUa_RB20Z0bYQgBryrrLYozNneno/s320/Mendes-France,%20Pierre.jpg" width="235" /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">GM's lease at Willow Run, signed in August of 1953, and the fall of the French fortress of Dien Bien Phu in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sip_Song_Chau_Tai">Sip Song Chau Tai</a>, on 7 May 1954 stand as two signal failures of high modernism. </div><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">They are also drawn together as threads in the June 1953 news, while I am writing less than a month ahead of the 70th anniversary of the creation of the fort at Dien Bien Phu, threaded through by a technological story, if not a very exciting one, that of the Fairchild C-119, and the month-long series of votes in the French National Assembly that was required to finally find a premier who could command the confidence of the house. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The first candidate for the premiership was, pictured, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Mend%C3%A8s_France">Pierre Mendes-France</a>, who gave <i>The Economist</i><i> </i>the vapours, as reported in the issue for 6 June, with his neutralism (he was cool to the European Army), his socialism, and his openness to an outcome in Southeast Asia that didn't involve the final crushing of Communism. The final, and successful one, was Joseph Laniel. I've joked several times in alt text that the Assembly was choosing the man to throw under the bus of Dien Bien Phu, a hair-brained strategic scheme that is already cooking, inspired by dubious success of a small airlift of troops into Vientiane, in which C-119s played a non-trivial role. Mendes-France will negotiate France's disengagement from Indo China in the course of 1954, when the Assembly grudgingly accepted that he had been right all along, and liberated Tunisia in the bargain before the diehards expelled him in order to make the Algerian situation as difficult as possible. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">There's not necessarily anything funny-ha-ha about this. The Fourth Republic <i>did </i>fall, and not long after the deadlock of 1953. It's the only modern democratic state to do so in the post-WWII international order, and evidence that it <i>can </i>happen. On the <i>other </i>hand, in retrospect it seems like it mostly came about because of obdurate resistance to social democracy, and, anyway, the Fifth Republic might not be perfect, but it is better than the Fourth, and one has to wonder if some of the other modern democratic states of the post-WWII international order could do with a one-and-done revolution and a new constitution. Maybe if they're having difficulty selecting a head of government, that's a sign? Of course, it's hard to think of a perfect modern parallel, given that we're well past the days of colonialism. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Dien Bien Phu also has a more unusual hook on my imagination, because I cannot escape memories of <i>Tactics of Mistake, </i>an entry in Gordon Dickson's <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Childe_Cycle">Childe cycle</a>. <i>Tactics </i>is a late novel, but strikes me as marinated in the contemporary reaction to Dien Bien Phu, which might be because it is a fix-up, like <i>Soldier, Ask Not, </i>but of unpublished stories from Dickson's first decade as a professional science fiction writer<i>. </i> Or he just read Bernard Falls. If the first theory is true, though, we can thank Nguyen Van Giap for the boomlet in military/mercenary/war-world science fiction that continues to this day.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/sEymyO5Abp4" width="320" youtube-src-id="sEymyO5Abp4"></iframe></div><br /><span><a name='more'></a></span><p style="text-align: justify;">So, first things, first. Let us rally the nation and form our battalions to overthrow the foreign hirelings and mercenaries invading us to impose a King we don't want!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7MQ-SC9bmp4" width="320" youtube-src-id="7MQ-SC9bmp4"></iframe></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">Second things, second. Let's look at how modernity overcomes the advantages of primitive, numberless Asiatic hordes. Specifically, air mobile networks of fortresses that impose order and technology on a landscape of rice paddies and jungled mountains. This is <i>so </i>getting a "Magic Aeroplanes" tag. </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJlj_kC2CXLri7yGvMBF2lccO89bQUIqVxtoAzESqEDmdR3KCSH4ZNQbe_hjRN6f-m6DN8ztkuhgj_RWGzpCkPPCIDSqG8G8mAEElnLiuWu9N7TgLPelUMetra3QnzCeyxA6uol-Qw9wKrt9aNUetaSWA7Ay6si2TENulYOpnUQQrw9WhI4Wyrb_v-aaJ2/s1024/Fairchild%20Packet.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="582" data-original-width="1024" height="182" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJlj_kC2CXLri7yGvMBF2lccO89bQUIqVxtoAzESqEDmdR3KCSH4ZNQbe_hjRN6f-m6DN8ztkuhgj_RWGzpCkPPCIDSqG8G8mAEElnLiuWu9N7TgLPelUMetra3QnzCeyxA6uol-Qw9wKrt9aNUetaSWA7Ay6si2TENulYOpnUQQrw9WhI4Wyrb_v-aaJ2/s320/Fairchild%20Packet.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fairchild_C-119_Flying_Boxcar">Fairchild C-119</a> flows from the discovery that air transport was a <i>really </i>useful tool of modern war, but that getting barrels of avgas through the side door of a C-47 and up the floor to the front of the plane was a serious pain in the ass.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> The Pentagon therefore dug up in 1942 an American aircraft manufacturer which had somehow missed any significant contracts up to this point and gave them an order for a twin-boom rear-loading, tricycle design with integral boom, hitting all of the standing preferences except the swinging nose door. The result was the C-82, which was a bit of a disaster, and led through to the perfectly cromulent C-119, rolled out in 1949. (Oh, and it was another of those "don't use any strategic materials, use plywood and steel instead, oh, wait, we're out of plywood!" planes.)</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGmILflmosfkONOe1_94a2DT9evF3vlIvCZNQ9tW53SIUrhkPXL-uWqJwJcBWBd9BHI86trMK-jNv-9QX4uiAZO2S-ruuvs6rLktu7zQ91Dc_QjPlqXgnK07Hzllt9TTyvykaZl84aplBrefsOR6quHxlBBAYiWV9EMBZ9YN1xTcucy1kmzvZtouyDSvqj/s1045/Navarre,%20Henri.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1045" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGmILflmosfkONOe1_94a2DT9evF3vlIvCZNQ9tW53SIUrhkPXL-uWqJwJcBWBd9BHI86trMK-jNv-9QX4uiAZO2S-ruuvs6rLktu7zQ91Dc_QjPlqXgnK07Hzllt9TTyvykaZl84aplBrefsOR6quHxlBBAYiWV9EMBZ9YN1xTcucy1kmzvZtouyDSvqj/s320/Navarre,%20Henri.png" width="245" /></a></div>At this point, the Fairchild plane got caught up in politics. Multiple-source contracting is probably a good idea, considering that most everybody did it, but it seems beyond bizarre that it was assigned to Willow Run, considering the fiasco of B-24 production there during the war, leading to the cautious conclusion that there were politics involved. Henry Kaiser? Politics? Next you'll be saying that there's something fishy about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oregon_land_fraud_scandal">Gilded Age lumber and roads in the Pacific Northwest,</a> and that's unpossible. (The weird thing about Kaiser being that he had <i>Democratic </i>connections.)<p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">As we've heard in <i>great </i>detail, the C-119 contract matured exactly like the B-24 --late and far too expensive, because the Kaiser organisation wasn't even remotely capable of running an airplane (or car) factory, and had no intention of learning from its mistakes, because that was boring. Next you'll be asking for an atom bomber with ailerons that work! Kaiser gave up on Willow Run, Fairchild ended up building almost all the C-119s that were built, marking another of the rare examples in which replacing a Pratt and Whitney engine with a Wright <i>improved </i>things, and the plane went on to be a transport plane that did transporting things. This included running logistics into Dien Bien Phu, but this is even more boring than cost accounting, so most discussions of the plane focus on its use as a gunship and for catching parachute-dropped photo capsules from the first generation of spy satellites, which does fall under the heading of things that it is hard to believe happened.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"> On 20 November 1953, six battalions of French parachute infantry began an insertion into the disused Japanese airstrip at the town of Dien Bien Phu, in the Muong Thanh Valley of the Nam Ron River, a northwestward-flowing tributary of the Mekong across the water parting from the Red River valley. Supposedly the site of the old kingdom of Muang Then (please forgive me omitting written Vietnamese's many diacriticals, 'cuz I'm not typing all that!), it was by 1953 part of an autonomous Tai region, inevitably divided between the pro-French White Tai and the pro-Viet Minh Black Tai, among other colours of Tai, or maybe it's the other way round. History!</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAR3IgkDjQUMp5TnmFj4KGdGOoMYPDNgajWtoyoM21-weOXWYXni9VAsvWZ_b04jPZEY6ZQbV5JDJuO4stpeT1AY-t5d-nmxeer9-z5bayFwf9yj6bL0J1rqqiXM914GPj-kNWAsXNT8FfqN5JKIyddxEF75VeoYVJaqll5cTd3caBJMXcRvzV1pgSG9pL/s273/Vauban%20Fortification.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="184" data-original-width="273" height="184" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAR3IgkDjQUMp5TnmFj4KGdGOoMYPDNgajWtoyoM21-weOXWYXni9VAsvWZ_b04jPZEY6ZQbV5JDJuO4stpeT1AY-t5d-nmxeer9-z5bayFwf9yj6bL0J1rqqiXM914GPj-kNWAsXNT8FfqN5JKIyddxEF75VeoYVJaqll5cTd3caBJMXcRvzV1pgSG9pL/s1600/Vauban%20Fortification.jpg" width="273" /></a></div>Speaking of deep history giving an event more resonance, the preliminary discussion of the Battle of Dien Bien Phu characterises the strategic plan of constraining the Viet Minh with strong points as something that General Henri Navarre came up with on the fly, when in fact it is deeply embedded in the French military mind, a way of, as my teacher, the late Janis Langins, put it, "conserving France."<p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Dien Bien Phu was supposed to be a new kind of fortress,one that was impossible to besiege because it was open to the sky, what with the superiority of air power and all of that. It hadn't worked very well at Stalingrad, but on the other hand there's the Berlin Blockade. We're well past parachute battalions being "modern," but in 1953 it all sounded more than <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpriWNBHCVk">kinetic enough</a> to overwhelm those poor, sad, Third World savages who hadn't even progressed to the point of realising that they had no business governing themselves. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Which brings up the second way in which deep history can help, since I read the Wikipedia article about how the French were just preparing the way for a diplomatic solution in Viet Nam and reflect on what was written at the time and think to myself, "That's some serious revisionism, right there." There's no doubt that Mendes-France and the Radicals wanted out of Indo China, but the rest of the French political establishment was deeply committed to a French Indo-China, and the Americans were willing to pay for it. American policy here is a bit febrile and I am going to avoid leaning on it until we get closer to the date and it is easier to assess stories that the Dulles brothers were contemplating the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Vulture"> use of atomic weapons</a> to break the siege of Dien Bien Phu. Seriously? I see in the Wiki that Radford was involved, so yeah, maybe. (Talk about a sanitised biography. This was the guy we caught trying to start a marine war with <i>Britain </i>in the South China sea.)</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrcU4sljIj2tkU8JG60nHyrAgbaKPmuBsTLs1Rg4XH4IrveyqrHUI5bNKFKbXgBW1V3cguqs6XXyzgeLGEY_-Q83n7OwAKmUYlk2RohRncr1O7y65bCcPn4eZmXg3-Thx8etMZI-4JjMk5Y9gq26x0pi_Jpk-w7fVlkVdDzNWV97IvYV4NUmAUHm97L5Qr/s1024/M101%20105mm%20Light%20Field%20Howitzer.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="819" data-original-width="1024" height="256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrcU4sljIj2tkU8JG60nHyrAgbaKPmuBsTLs1Rg4XH4IrveyqrHUI5bNKFKbXgBW1V3cguqs6XXyzgeLGEY_-Q83n7OwAKmUYlk2RohRncr1O7y65bCcPn4eZmXg3-Thx8etMZI-4JjMk5Y9gq26x0pi_Jpk-w7fVlkVdDzNWV97IvYV4NUmAUHm97L5Qr/s320/M101%20105mm%20Light%20Field%20Howitzer.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>I am getting the sense that as we get closer to the crisis, the American reaction will make more sense as a frenzied refusal to accept the reality that the Viet Namese did not want to be a colony, and were perfectly capable of organising an army that was remarkably large for their population and remarkably small considering rhetoric about Asiatic hordes, and perfectly capable of winning a battle with some extremely modest support. In light of which I point the reader in the direction of one of the leading Google search returns for Dien Bien Phu (well ahead of the Wikipedia article for the city itself --I had to go three layers deep to find the name of its river), the Hoover Institute's "<a href="https://www.hoover.org/research/lessons-dien-bien-phu">The Lessons of Dien Bien Phu</a>." <p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I hear you asking, "Can you summarise so I don't have to click on a stupid link in the first place and give the fucking Hoover Institute some traffic on top of it," and I answer: The lesson is that we underestimated the massive support that international communism was willing to give the Vietnamese, with that overwhelming artillery force and everything.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">I dunno? Maybe Mireille Matthieu <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOeFhSzoTuc">can sing even louder? </a></p><p style="text-align: justify;">One of the things that Wikipedia is doing pretty well these days is providing <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dien_Bien_Phu_order_of_battle">full orders of battle for major military operation</a>s, from which you can learn that the "vast amounts of heavy artillery" used by the Viet Minh's Artillery-Engineer Division 351 at Dien Bien Phu consisted of 24 US-built M101 105mm gun-howitzers, 20 ex-Japanese 75mm mountain guns, 16 ex-Red Army M1938 120mm mortars, and 54 M1937 82mm mortars, 12 ex-Chinese H6 six-barrel 75mm rocket launchers, a battalion of 75mm recoilless rifles, and 24 ex Red-Army M1939 37mm antiaircraft guns. That, plus 33 infantry battalions, was Giap's besieging force. The <i>French </i>had more guns. And they had air power, including Chennault's CAT flying C-119s modified to tip barrels of napalm out the cargo door as a counter battery measure. (More C-119s.) What they evidently <i>didn't </i>have was the institutional memory of Vauban the <i>besieger, </i>who could have told them that "a fortress besieged is a fortress taken." Which is why you build <i>networks </i>of forts. But, of course, that would have been expensive, as opposed to throwing a few paratroopers here and there and building a new one as needed. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentomic">I guess if people are going to drop atom bombs on you, it pays to be mobile . . . </a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAmYzEnZWTmQADwQZ_TnEEWr5NeBwDjde9Pk4MhTuIyTVlaNKyGF-8odjhs9w9gecTBNaI4brROyVRwUADng2VEIWF06b-O2BZbC_-QuMIjB4JeNmi015DD9Xd_JaeNNGtyyUne4ed0Kc2Q5oMyslJ6HuhCM3TLBLmWB3_3bQAkmFoZdd01vfW0xZYX5ay/s1024/Pentomic%20Division%20TOE.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="1024" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAmYzEnZWTmQADwQZ_TnEEWr5NeBwDjde9Pk4MhTuIyTVlaNKyGF-8odjhs9w9gecTBNaI4brROyVRwUADng2VEIWF06b-O2BZbC_-QuMIjB4JeNmi015DD9Xd_JaeNNGtyyUne4ed0Kc2Q5oMyslJ6HuhCM3TLBLmWB3_3bQAkmFoZdd01vfW0xZYX5ay/s320/Pentomic%20Division%20TOE.png" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">All of this reads a lot like the Groundnuts Scheme. It turns out that massive consequences flowed from an attempt to do things the easy way. The key failure point of western imperialism, much like the Kaiser Organisation, turns out to be less its lack of moral vision or Third World buy in and more the fact that it was cheap and lazy. <br /><br /> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYRGGwZrY0_InC4IA_Eii2slbcLCqYyivRtWwg5DJecN-bzAFRqW4JAJGFpioMlGHKmZSRdk7sc4yrCXnPcxzAIAvQIq5i1VmyZp2GVK_wmJM7_80R0i6qrKlwtcoeHskMa6AAc18E2zp3GuGrHb2qin4j6a-JxOqeq0shLjCciJ2N28gtYPJbGfjutpFm/s770/Merkava%20tank%20Gaza%202023.webp" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="770" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYRGGwZrY0_InC4IA_Eii2slbcLCqYyivRtWwg5DJecN-bzAFRqW4JAJGFpioMlGHKmZSRdk7sc4yrCXnPcxzAIAvQIq5i1VmyZp2GVK_wmJM7_80R0i6qrKlwtcoeHskMa6AAc18E2zp3GuGrHb2qin4j6a-JxOqeq0shLjCciJ2N28gtYPJbGfjutpFm/s320/Merkava%20tank%20Gaza%202023.webp" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Erik Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-38564465410950443942023-10-10T13:10:00.002-07:002023-10-10T13:10:29.969-07:00A Technological Appendix to Postblogging Technology, June 1953: A New Era of Strategic Bombing?<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/H3OhtUtqY7Q" width="320" youtube-src-id="H3OhtUtqY7Q"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: xx-small;">My first niece-in-law chose this for her wedding processional. For relevance see note!</span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">The reader will probably be tired of my half-assed explanations of the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backward-wave_oscillator"> carcinotron</a>, but there have been a series of heavily publicised bombing exercises so far in the spring of 1953, and we are closing in on the decision, trivial at the time but gradually snowballing, to cancel the Valiant B2 (while in the United States the B-47 programme was sharply curtailed), the so-called "pathfinder" variant, leading to the cancellation of the "V1000" military transport variant, the VC7 derived from it, and in general the failure to field a British turbofan airliner prior to the VC10, which is more-or-less the "blowing the lead" that everyone was warning everyone else might happen in 1953. <table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisROCXm8yIIRo-HljBf1RAIxjiIYkfL9iprOWFCKkcBzmwV9pxaUFjkLT-QGRfSFxTwD8sWLF-MVpwgddj-ztyc-zlIUkUfZzLtBVgesvzevSREnPALK4llvjOqv_cRc7gO24TmWp17bPTl2gLdxAunuE-emQ9sIc-2iXsI1fFnbs4AkdmR1IrKkR_ZaY2/s1024/De%20Havilland%20Sea%20Vixen%20attr%20needed%20wiki.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisROCXm8yIIRo-HljBf1RAIxjiIYkfL9iprOWFCKkcBzmwV9pxaUFjkLT-QGRfSFxTwD8sWLF-MVpwgddj-ztyc-zlIUkUfZzLtBVgesvzevSREnPALK4llvjOqv_cRc7gO24TmWp17bPTl2gLdxAunuE-emQ9sIc-2iXsI1fFnbs4AkdmR1IrKkR_ZaY2/w400-h300/De%20Havilland%20Sea%20Vixen%20attr%20needed%20wiki.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">By wallycacsabre - sv3, CC BY 2.0, https://commons.<br />wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=59596203</td></tr></tbody></table></p><p style="text-align: justify;">So what happened? In the spring of 1953, bombing raids were still being led by "Pathfinders," and 199 Squadron, at least, was flying Canberras modified for ECM operations with the other "pathfinder" Canberras. At <i>some </i>point in the mi-1950s, offensive carcinotrons went into the electronic warfare suite of the V-bombers. It seems like reasonable speculation that bomber penetration tactics were significantly modified by the introduction of the carcinotron*, that this happened in about 1953 (the first manufactured carcinotron tubes show up as antiquities on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/CalRadioHistory/photos/a.319929448045714/3616897478348878/?type=3">Internet sites devoted to such things with a 1952 date)</a> , and that the carcinotron was defeated by monopulse radar, which might have first flown on the English Electric Lightning in the form of the AI23 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AIRPASS">(AIRPASS</a>) in prototype form in 1958. The picture I am getting here is a window in the mid -Fifties from roughly 1953 to 1958 or so when strategic bombers gained a substantial advantage over radar defences. Given all the fuss made about decision processes amongst the historians of nculear deterrence, and their often formidable technical expertise, you might <i>wish </i>that someone would take this in hand and confirm or discount such speculation.</p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8J9Cu8kW8KamT_GFhmZaFvSodATLVIrquL3NsqU6xY3o96mzfGu7fMs2Lzk4F5C4SeKDoHkYkMmkK-00xi4m9qhEjCd48rF8d1lv6vjspT_hebTedkAPRDXJaqscNYsIQieKlXY-xN-ACIC4ArH0YKotdq-i9uj8Q7Dtp4qWyshy8xPu-fmz2GGD0N27L/s220/Supermarine%20Scimitar.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="The last Supermarine. Sigh" border="0" data-original-height="175" data-original-width="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8J9Cu8kW8KamT_GFhmZaFvSodATLVIrquL3NsqU6xY3o96mzfGu7fMs2Lzk4F5C4SeKDoHkYkMmkK-00xi4m9qhEjCd48rF8d1lv6vjspT_hebTedkAPRDXJaqscNYsIQieKlXY-xN-ACIC4ArH0YKotdq-i9uj8Q7Dtp4qWyshy8xPu-fmz2GGD0N27L/s16000/Supermarine%20Scimitar.jpeg" /></a></div>Oh, well, you're not here to have me repeat myself and I'm not going to do it, because, bereft of other obvious routes into the kind of general aviation history that might bear some rough fruit, I finally read the Wikipedia article on the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Havilland_Sea_Vixen"> De Havilland Sea Vixen</a>, an aircraft that I'd been ignoring out of a general sense of disappointment that attaches to the Fleet Air Arm aircraft of the Fifties. <br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">And it turns out to be a bit gonzo! </p><span><a name='more'></a></span><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL7UaI36E1TLZ9HsU4ktddQWfvpMSIadNuHBDhxzJbz8N5SNdPUfKRpXL8UfwcLr30iHzYkrqX0VCWDQrQm-QUleFOVEfbkynnVT9Ex4ab4omgnb9pzUdYQz8jEuiLz844D0SBV7KA_KNXVjr9HshQhtJQ9sCneCm1ZzfEEasOjNTxBWQPRvKQxaDM7bVY/s1024/Chemically%20milled%20aluminum%20bar%20attr%20needed%20wiki.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL7UaI36E1TLZ9HsU4ktddQWfvpMSIadNuHBDhxzJbz8N5SNdPUfKRpXL8UfwcLr30iHzYkrqX0VCWDQrQm-QUleFOVEfbkynnVT9Ex4ab4omgnb9pzUdYQz8jEuiLz844D0SBV7KA_KNXVjr9HshQhtJQ9sCneCm1ZzfEEasOjNTxBWQPRvKQxaDM7bVY/s320/Chemically%20milled%20aluminum%20bar%20attr%20needed%20wiki.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>It's not so much the plane. I mean, on the basis of my new wikipertise, I will defend a great deal of the design. It's not just a retread of the Venom, and you probably can't hang a "typical de Havilland crap"sign on it just because a prototype crashed in a very public way. It's no Comet or Drover. It's got the same just-a-bit-too-weird-to-be-modern vibe as the Javelin and Scimitar thanks to the tail, but it is all-metal and has Avon engines rather than some goofy Halford centrifugal. It's two things: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_air_navigation_system">TACAN</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_milling">"chemical milling." <br /></a><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">So I'm going all in on Wiikedia surfing here. I had honestly never heard of "chemical milling," as in the etched aluminum bars above, before encountering a reference to it as a method for producing the very thin skinning of parts of the Sea Vixen fuselage. It is engraving on steroids, the ancestor to modern photochemical machining (of microchips). The loving and attentive author of the Wikipedia article starts with Fourteenth Century plate armour, where it made really, really pretty armours possible while using full-hardness steel (you didn't need a cutting tool, which has to be harder than the armour) and not raising burrs. The author describes etched gradations on measuring instruments and the "trajectory information plates" for artillery, so I assume that this is being written out of an arsenal somewhere. The use of "photochemical milling" in photography and "making impressions on metal plates" is briefly noted, but not the connection with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lithography">lithography</a>, which, what with commercial printing and all, seems like a less edge case of the use of the technology in the Nineteenth Century before we get this classic: </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit;">"<span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;">Later, around the 1940s, it became widely used to machine thin samples of very hard metal; photo-etching from both sides was used to cut sheet metal, foil, and shim stock to create shims, recording heat frets, and other components.</span></span></blockquote><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"></span><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">I'd <i>like </i>to say that "around the 1940s" is a tell for a technology application that started out on the Secret List and never quite managed to climb all the way off, something like carbonitriding and RDX doping of propellants. But I can't, because of evidence and stuff. We sure know that it was being used on the Sea Vixen at the De Havilland plant in 1950, because they come right out and tell us so. A footnote in the article on Chemical Milling refers us to a 1960 article in <i>The New Scientist, </i>by the extremely energetic <a href="https://www.bath.ac.uk/corporate-information/david-fishlock-collection/">David Fishlock</a>, who was a science reporter, and not a pioneering worker, so God knows when chemical milling was <i>actually </i>"a new method of working metal." </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyN8GylPPq9_9izpuzRReafsXFHY0RVCqRp-NphONtTjhemd4mT2BSeTxh9FaUtq3h3hLF2sFP0EpXosbcKtsAR_ZvIBsaahFrrer6pb6876sr4RQyTHLXTO6H8Ru0TNIfDEb3jWGIA936l_zktPMVmYq-WcWSkTt2Q5GbzOvXLGI7d_GG1-4aXjGH4h04/s1199/Lima%2085.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1199" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhyN8GylPPq9_9izpuzRReafsXFHY0RVCqRp-NphONtTjhemd4mT2BSeTxh9FaUtq3h3hLF2sFP0EpXosbcKtsAR_ZvIBsaahFrrer6pb6876sr4RQyTHLXTO6H8Ru0TNIfDEb3jWGIA936l_zktPMVmYq-WcWSkTt2Q5GbzOvXLGI7d_GG1-4aXjGH4h04/s320/Lima%2085.jpg" width="214" /></a></div>That leaves us with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_air_navigation_system">TACAN, or "tactical air navigation,"</a> which turns out to be a descendant of OBOE. <b>(</b>Plane automatically asks a ground transponder where it is every few seconds, ground transponder tells it, circuit on the plane mixes outgoing and ingoing signals to turn it into a navigational plot instead of a signal bump.) As a bonus, the Wikipedia article directs us to a much more comprehensible account of VOR/DME than anyone bothers to give over at <i>Aviation Week</i>. Tactical Air Navigation was a VHF (hence the "V" in VOR) wavelength beacon allowing the Sea Vixen to find its carrier again, which did eventually became an issue, since it required the carrier to emit a constant single, and was perhaps an arrow in the British quiver as it tried to establish a British standard for international air navigation, and failed with the whole DECCA/DME thing, VOR being adopted by ICAN and only superseded by GPS. But the Americans did adopt TACAN in the late Fifties, so there's an example of British electronics technology being transferred across the Atlantic to America for you. It was also integrated into a surface search radar and a mapping radar display, as part of the whole "weapon systems" thing that everyone is going gaga over in 1953, even if some of its proponents aren't completely sure what it is. Given that as of the summer of 1953 they've suddenly decided to go gaga over "cybernetics," albeit without using the word, at Hughes, I guess I can't be too critical if someone is being more restrained and just throwing around "system" without being sure whether it is when gun sights talk to autopilots, or when Convair gets to tell GE how to make engine installations. <br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">As another bonus, we get directed to the only history TACAN apparently has, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lima_Site_85">Battle of Lima 85 Site</a>, in which it turns out that even the "primitive" North Vietnamese can detect and track down your bomber-guiding radar beacon, and that putting it on top of a picturesque mountain in the middle of Laos is not going to stop the sappers of the NPVA when it comes time to storm the palisade. (<b>Not </b>going to put a "Public Engagement" label on this. Gaza is too spicy for me today.)</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/b3ozR0SezEc" width="320" youtube-src-id="b3ozR0SezEc"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(The channel is weird, but this is some top-notch rhyming.)</span></div><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Maybe the irony here is that cybernetics is the thought, based on the latest generation of AA director, that there should be a science of systems that would range from sociology to electronics, and this inspired a bunch of would-be social engineers to build the next generation of AA directors as "systems," and invent information technology, without getting even remotely close to psychohistory along the way. <a href="https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02476385">Not that we haven't heard about <i>that </i>this month, too.</a> <a href="https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-processual-archaeology-172242#:~:text=Processual%20archaeology%20was%20an%20intellectual,been%20applied%20to%20archaeology%20before.">Is this the origin of processual archaeology?</a> </p><p style="text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: justify;">(Weirdly enough, and I think he'd appreciate having the whole discussion placed in a parenthesis in an afterthought, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stafford_Beer">Stafford Beer,</a> the late-generation cyberneticist, just had a moment over at<a href="https://crookedtimber.org/2023/09/26/the-tragedy-of-stafford-beer/"> Crooked Timber</a>.)</p><p style="text-align: justify;">___</p><p style="text-align: justify;">*<span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-align: left;">From: “The 11 Greatest Vacuum Tubes You’ve Never Heard Of” “These vacuum devices stood guard during the Cold War, advanced particle physics, treated cancer patients, and made the Beatles sound good.” By Carter M. Armstrong, 29 Oct 2020.</span></p>Erik Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-78328497568874447432023-10-06T15:43:00.001-07:002023-10-06T15:43:25.091-07:00The Early Iron Age Revival of the State, XXVIII, With Lazy Public Engagement And Some Reference to the Fifties: Tin and the Resource Curse<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUtUFb-8yZ7tHuWMRX3gzDcHJF5A8jqtaLcfQeJ6hTtAslOPVSDm__go3mASWrSLa3o_pSc9qmzH8cBcRQNBYOYKM6yShEKyv76w0g8mSqODrHhW0ciobgo_bhC7aIjHVzyRyffJZBvDWKFcLdRbvC29OclGRgXq1CZPWAJBmcVmr5-v2gctQfgjybX9Vz/s640/Greenwood.%20BC(1).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="404" data-original-width="640" height="202" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUtUFb-8yZ7tHuWMRX3gzDcHJF5A8jqtaLcfQeJ6hTtAslOPVSDm__go3mASWrSLa3o_pSc9qmzH8cBcRQNBYOYKM6yShEKyv76w0g8mSqODrHhW0ciobgo_bhC7aIjHVzyRyffJZBvDWKFcLdRbvC29OclGRgXq1CZPWAJBmcVmr5-v2gctQfgjybX9Vz/s320/Greenwood.%20BC(1).jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p style="text-align: justify;">This was the view east down Copper Street from the slight height of land that marks central downtown Greenwood, BC in 1906. The mountain slopes up to the right, but Copper Street takes a hard left turn just behind the photographer and descends to the terrace above the creek on which the road down to the Kettle River at Midway follows. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">Cross the street and move forward 117 years, and the view changes in two ways:</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhehdseMc7RTQy16PZXTr3JHbFNug20ZIuEAY0vmF-7OqzjLo55jnpBuSmSL2yZYbeRexnMZ9cPHvIhNw78BKITDHBpHQU4lTz_5c1oZ6QO5-sXeIrOayxNJpHEFsf4ROFo3Q0JgG2UVw2sqtDewGcnZbDVrnElGE_wGyNf4OkDDFMIyWvjqpRGKc65XzQl/s259/Greenwood.%20BC(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="194" data-original-width="259" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhehdseMc7RTQy16PZXTr3JHbFNug20ZIuEAY0vmF-7OqzjLo55jnpBuSmSL2yZYbeRexnMZ9cPHvIhNw78BKITDHBpHQU4lTz_5c1oZ6QO5-sXeIrOayxNJpHEFsf4ROFo3Q0JgG2UVw2sqtDewGcnZbDVrnElGE_wGyNf4OkDDFMIyWvjqpRGKc65XzQl/s1600/Greenwood.%20BC(2).jpg" width="259" /></a></div><br /><p style="text-align: justify;">First, some of the older buildings are gone. Second, Copper Street has turned into Highway 3, because a major interprovincial highway has been run right through the downtown. You would probably see a crosswalk here somewhere if it weren't so easy to jaywalk across the highway. When I made the first of my annual bike trips through Greenwood to Gand Forks in 2017, I watched a family of deer do the same, but the city has picked up a bit in the interim. Oh, yeah, right, "city," because Greenwood's "biggest hockey stick in the world" claim to fame is that it is Canada's smallest city. </p><p style="text-align: justify;">The reason for that is that, unlike most of the instant towns of the first copper boom, before WWI, it had a revival. In 1941, a calculating and humane mayor grabbed the one opportunity that the war had so far presented and offered the town as a resettlement location for the Japanese Canadians then being ethnically cleansed from the Coast, and in 1956 the combination of a local workforce and the postwar revival of the international commodities market proved just barely enough to justify reopening the smelter on nearby Phoenix mountain. The ore at Phoenix is, Wikipedia says, "self-fluxing," meaning that whatever fluxing agent is added to the ore at the Trail Smelter, isn't necessary at Phoenix. (The veins have numerous intrusions of "calc-silicate alteration of limestone;" Maybe that's it?) This tidbit led me to Google around for <a href="https://cmscontent.nrs.gov.bc.ca/geoscience/publicationcatalogue/GeoFile/BCGS_GF1997-01.pdf">something a bit more serious</a> about the nature of the ores in "the Greenwood camp," which is apparently the technical term for the 400 square kilometer zone of 25 mines centred about half the way up Highway 3 to Eholt summit. Apparently, way back when the entire region was under volcanic hot springs which have produced an estimated 32 million tons of ore including 38 tonnes of gold, 183 tonnes of (native) silver, 270,000 tonnes of copper, 966 tonnes of lead, and 329 tonnes of zinc. The ores are "copper-gold porphyry," which is great, because it's an excuse to say "porphyry." </p><p style="text-align: justify;">I regret to report no evidence of more exotic metals, your germanium, your tantalum, or, of course, tin. All I <i>can </i>report is that the smelter closed in 1976, just four years after its last upgrade, relatively painlessly inasmuch as it seems as though most of the workforce took early retirement, being children of the era of the <i>last </i>metal boom, which may or may not be a coincidence, and Greenwood gradually dropped back into its Depression-era sleep. The post-WWII commodities boom was not quite yet obviously dead, and the mills and mines would keep on closing for years yet until British Columbia's former high pressure labour market was decisively over, and my employer could ram through a two-tier contract that basically condemned the next generation to work at near minimum wage for, as it turns out, their entire career. (Unless they took advantage of an escape clause dangled before us in the years around the Olympics. Yay!) </p><p style="text-align: justify;">So. Was the Late Bronze Age Collapse a working out of the resource curse? By the way, can we have a round for <a href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/r/resource-curse.asp#:~:text=The%20term%20resource%20curse%20refers,a%20few%20resource%2Ddependent%20industries.">Investopedia's formulation</a>? </p><p style="text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPkxcKg9w0D4eZqjNHGv_DoEjfQuswNIOM_c_kOPD3vxAx6So9EC3tYXz4ZIuiWRp3gL5BOA_0skQetRCq5V24sJb3G1PzNGlNqSiDmS6qaled7zwHYNBAAxzUc7uY-tfx77iMl-zG_bRJ0F72IV2LNJUIR8kLZqYhnj6DjKgJGO14QNrCKNpusNU4kz2H/s735/Mass%20grave%20Guatemala.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="489" data-original-width="735" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPkxcKg9w0D4eZqjNHGv_DoEjfQuswNIOM_c_kOPD3vxAx6So9EC3tYXz4ZIuiWRp3gL5BOA_0skQetRCq5V24sJb3G1PzNGlNqSiDmS6qaled7zwHYNBAAxzUc7uY-tfx77iMl-zG_bRJ0F72IV2LNJUIR8kLZqYhnj6DjKgJGO14QNrCKNpusNU4kz2H/s320/Mass%20grave%20Guatemala.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; letter-spacing: 0.05px; text-align: start;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"></span></span><blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; letter-spacing: 0.05px; text-align: start;">The term resource curse refers to a paradoxical situation in which a country underperforms economically, despite being home to valuable </span><a data-component="link" data-ordinal="1" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" href="https://www.investopedia.com/articles/markets-economy/090516/10-countries-most-natural-resources.asp" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c40d0; letter-spacing: 0.05px; text-align: start;">natural resources</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; letter-spacing: 0.05px; text-align: start;">. A resource curse is generally caused by too much of the country’s </span><a data-component="link" data-ordinal="2" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" href="https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/capital.asp" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c40d0; letter-spacing: 0.05px; text-align: start;">capital</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; letter-spacing: 0.05px; text-align: start;"> and labor force concentrated in just a few resource-dependent industries. By failing to make adequate investments in other sectors, countries can become vulnerable to declines in </span><a data-component="link" data-ordinal="3" data-source="inlineLink" data-type="internalLink" href="https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/06/commodityprices.asp" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #2c40d0; letter-spacing: 0.05px; text-align: start;">commodity prices</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; letter-spacing: 0.05px; text-align: start;">, leading to long-run economic underperformance.</span></span></blockquote><p>Oh, those feckless resource-rich countries, with their <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guatemalan_Civil_War">"failure" to "make adequate investments in other sectors."</a> The picture, by the way, is from a press release about an event at the Aspers' prize Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg. <a href="https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/one-nation-under-izzy/article718060/">I can't even.</a> </p><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Jx-aI5tdjN31aDDVEu1v6pYsgqpaEIvxeG6YQ4Iamio8X3wNEtBZKyOa76_dDQjz6mOOVbhKsrDZK0anOMpnelufLcXF6VGtuvfcCdnAxSo_xWO15KzjjNeYSPnYim1je2YUbm05lSzyeXey1P-ZV5Dag_RpqV7D85i-oKqSwXykkS_PBq0w0lGu7GcH/s1110/Cassiterite(2).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="621" data-original-width="1110" height="358" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4Jx-aI5tdjN31aDDVEu1v6pYsgqpaEIvxeG6YQ4Iamio8X3wNEtBZKyOa76_dDQjz6mOOVbhKsrDZK0anOMpnelufLcXF6VGtuvfcCdnAxSo_xWO15KzjjNeYSPnYim1je2YUbm05lSzyeXey1P-ZV5Dag_RpqV7D85i-oKqSwXykkS_PBq0w0lGu7GcH/w640-h358/Cassiterite(2).jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p>The argument goes like this: Late Bronze Age society used lots of bronze, which is an alloy of copper and up to 12% tin. Tin is quite rare, and must be traded across long distances, and may or may not be the main factor in the "financialisation" of bronze, in which it becomes a store of value. A collapse in the value of bronze then leads to the fall of the Late Bronze Age and as a direct consequence [proof is left as an exercise for the reader] to iron, horse-riding, glass, the increased fashionableness of wool, purple dye, and the Early Iron Age Revival of the State. </p><p>Okay so far: What about the places the tin came from? I ask this because there is yet another fuss about the origins of the Uluburun cargo, the one concrete example we have of Late Bronze Age metal trading. Found in shallow water off a prominence in Rough Cilicia, the associated shipwreck is most recently dated to 1327, and not before the eminence of Nefertiti, since a scarab with her name on it was found in the wreck. Wikipedia leads me to the abstract of a January, 1988 <i>American Journal of Archaeology [</i>92, 1] article by Cemal Puluk.</p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; text-align: start;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"><span style="background-color: white; text-align: start;">Excavation of a Late Bronze Age shipwreck, tentatively dated to the 14th century B. C., was continued by the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Ulu Burun near Kaş, Turkey, in 1985. New finds included more copper, tin, and glass ingots; Mycenaean, Cypriot, and Near Eastern pottery; bronze tools, including axes, adzes, chisels, drill bits, and tongs; bronze weapons, including swords, a dirk, a dagger, and arrowheads; balance-pan weights in a variety of materials and shapes; gold and silver jewelry, some as scrap; a scarab, a stone plaque, and a fragmentary gold ring inscribed with Egyptian hieroglyphs; beads of stone, faience, amber, and bone; fragments of faience rhyta; shell rings; and a globed pin of the type usually dated to the end of the Mycenaean period and later. The east-west route of the ship postulated on the basis of 1984 finds seems certain, but the nationality of the ship remains elusive.</span> </span> </blockquote><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6wMtr6BsIDBodj-FvoddafsBYsdjbNv6shZXBN8n4lWGeZ_fcHHedLE0ifv2J9Xr7UMeoULsFglz3oJfyQ8h57kjq1ToHu4y-RZPB_IELmlcH0jG6nREd_oH1pjfwrUaybMSt_Bwap4h1ZLgD6hskE9YChRkR8mIca8q-5-wqQvwBV4ptvJhQT-ZqXlxh/s1162/Bronze%20Age%20collapse%20map%20attribution%20needed%20wiki.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="888" data-original-width="1162" height="245" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6wMtr6BsIDBodj-FvoddafsBYsdjbNv6shZXBN8n4lWGeZ_fcHHedLE0ifv2J9Xr7UMeoULsFglz3oJfyQ8h57kjq1ToHu4y-RZPB_IELmlcH0jG6nREd_oH1pjfwrUaybMSt_Bwap4h1ZLgD6hskE9YChRkR8mIca8q-5-wqQvwBV4ptvJhQT-ZqXlxh/s320/Bronze%20Age%20collapse%20map%20attribution%20needed%20wiki.png" width="320" /></a></div> I find the certainty about the east-west route of the ship interesting in that it is heavily based on the claim that eastern Mediterranean maritime trade proceeded counterclockwise because it included a leg connecting Crete directly with Egypt, and there is no way that people were then sailing from Egypt and Crete. This has always seemed to me to be a way of quarantining the imaginary Aegean world of the "Myceneans" from an "Asiatic" or Egyptian influence that might metastatise into a "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Athena">Black Athen</a>a." So I'd like to see more proof, less assertion here! (Recycled infographic because for some reason I can't embed the "Where's the white women at?" video today --probably not any video, actually.)<p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwYFd9w0m5fAaiAxwVVOlL3WuwmTktAzmtd5u93uJ7Lcd64MJkJRoxPMr7r1aDmoXdVZqWk2wzIreZuh9qmbpEnyWQnsdKgOV5BGN2a2q6LOrVZUP7cxkjwWZMMrK4INASKaFf70N4I8TMl1fyOZqdC-iPcSoeGnAS6Ny39M92l2jAdhpEihyV-zas5k7F/s1072/LBA%20trade%20networks%20possibly%20mobilising%20tin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="737" data-original-width="1072" height="220" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwYFd9w0m5fAaiAxwVVOlL3WuwmTktAzmtd5u93uJ7Lcd64MJkJRoxPMr7r1aDmoXdVZqWk2wzIreZuh9qmbpEnyWQnsdKgOV5BGN2a2q6LOrVZUP7cxkjwWZMMrK4INASKaFf70N4I8TMl1fyOZqdC-iPcSoeGnAS6Ny39M92l2jAdhpEihyV-zas5k7F/s320/LBA%20trade%20networks%20possibly%20mobilising%20tin.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>The up-to-date aspect of this story is an isotope analysis of the tin in the shipwreck that claims to solve the "'<a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feart.2023.1211478/full">tin mystery as it has been discussed for more than 150 years'.</a>" Isotope analysis has not given the results once hoped for, because deposits are not sufficiently distinct. by combining tin isotope balances with that of alloying lead and comparing them to cassiterite crystals from Anatolia and the Pamirs, it is now claimed that up to a third of the Uluburun tin can be sourced to Central Asia, and the residue to Anatolia, presumably to placer-mined alluvial deposits of cassiterite or the ores that are no longer commercially viable; or the (possible) exhausted <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kestel_(archaeological_site)">Early Bronze Age cassiterite mine at Kestel</a> in the Taurus mountains of southern Turkey. Alternatively, it might have come from a suspected tin province in Sardinia with the right geology that would have been depleted in antiquity. Berger, et al, point out that smelted ores from the Mushiston mine in Uzbekistan contain significantly more iron, copper, and arsenic than the experimentally smelted Uluburun samples, and that leads of similar radiogenic composition are found in Cornwall and Iberia. They also observe similarities to tin ingots found off Israel, and to a variant sample from the Salcombe (Salcombe II) deposit in Cornwall.<p></p><p>So we are back to furthest east versus furthest west with a brief stop in Sardinia, and a world system extending to at least the Tien Shan <i>or </i>southwestern England, <i>or </i>to both. And yet the odd thing here remains that, as rare as tin is, cassiterite deposits are much more widely distributed than this discussion allows. Before lighting out for the territories, it is common to acknowledge antique tin mining provinces in Serbia (at Mount Cer) and Tuscany, the <a href="https://rruff.info/rdsmi/V37/RDSMI37_525.pdf">Monte Valerio deposit last worked during WWII, and certainly exploited in Antiquity.</a> Cassiterite is found widely in Italy, and when I started down this rabbit hole I was pursuing the faience, or tinglazing industry associated above all with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faenza">Faenza, Italy</a>. It turns out that Bronze Age faience is a glasslike product and not tin glazing at all. There is definitely more tin ore in Italy than is sometimes assumed, but no-one seems to greatly care where the tin ore used in Early Modern Italian faience came from. </p><p>Given the tin mystery of 150 years standing, one might <i>hope </i>for a bit more curiosity about tin deposits known to have been mined at the time at much greater proximity to Uluburun, but, and here we have an interesting loop back to the modern world, we also have the dominant narrative that stresses the rarity of tin. The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Tin_Council">International Tin in Council </a>was founded in 1931 specifically to control the international tin trade and, among other things:</p><p></p><blockquote> <span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">"<span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; text-align: left;">Prevent or alleviate widespread unemployment or under-employment and other serious difficulties which are likely to result from maladjustments between the supply of and the demand for tin."</span></span></blockquote><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; text-align: left;"></span><p></p><p>It did this by buying tin when it fell below the benchmark price and selling it when it rose above the price until its 1985 collapse. By guaranteeing the availability of tin at "reasonable prices" and "providing a framework" to "protect . . . tin deposits from unnecessary waste or premature abandonment," the Council effectively froze the producer constellation of 1931 in place. The Monte Valerio deposit might not have been economical compared with African, Bolivian, and Malayan ores, and was close to exhaustion anyway, but no-one has looked for tin in Italy since at least 1931, and we should bear in mind that placer deposits of cassiterite might have disappeared without a trace in Antiquity. In short, we have a narrative, put in place to protect the industry, in which tin is so scarce that there is no point in looking for it in places other than where it is convenient to find it. Whatever the consequences of that for industry, it is certainly helping to prolong our 150 year mystery! </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6aoDf4HkFTpUuCrhe6jGSCBjDdVXZqHAmPV7w4-O_xTAwkZt8XGLSshEPwadnc-lyWvNx2Zn2yO-DO_JijKarJHhOadiunWUzojQQ9A3U1kw9w4E_t3QoL3SacMTN0657ELpF5ZHQ_GdUKUjYdX6stDJgtd7aKT7b_NAEbvw5WZKpAhaZo5hs65YHx_Wd/s1024/Nuraghe%20Saint%20Anthony,%20attr%20needed%20wiki.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1024" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6aoDf4HkFTpUuCrhe6jGSCBjDdVXZqHAmPV7w4-O_xTAwkZt8XGLSshEPwadnc-lyWvNx2Zn2yO-DO_JijKarJHhOadiunWUzojQQ9A3U1kw9w4E_t3QoL3SacMTN0657ELpF5ZHQ_GdUKUjYdX6stDJgtd7aKT7b_NAEbvw5WZKpAhaZo5hs65YHx_Wd/s320/Nuraghe%20Saint%20Anthony,%20attr%20needed%20wiki.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>There was, of course, no "International Silver Council" to sustain the price of silver, the bullion metal that replaced bronze as Bronze Age turned to Iron, if bronze was financialised in the first place, but that is because silver is mined in the Mountain West, and the leadership of the Republican Party had no intention of abandoning the gold standard, a compromise ensured that the US government would keep on buying silver for coinage and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherman_Silver_Purchase_Act">propping up the price of silver, and thus copper from copper-silver deposits like the Anaconda and the Phoenix</a> until the Coinage Act of 1965 abolished the requirement for silver in the coinage. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coinage_Act_of_1965">At the time this was an economy measure. The price of silver was higher than the Mint could pay due to industrial and consumer demand.</a> And when what was formerly up, the mines closed. Gold and silver no longer subsidised the production of copper, and the Phoenix Smelter closed. <p></p><p>I've never been a big fan of the idea of Sardinian raiders precipitating the Late Bronze Age collapse, but something seems to have happened with "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuragic_civilization">Nuragic civilisatio</a>n" (and also the series of <i>Fortune </i>pictures of Nuragic antiquities that I am sure I posted around here at some point), and there are <i>consequences </i>when you recklessly allow an industry to collapse. Or, you know, <i>all </i>industries, because you've decided that the resource curse is something for other people to deal with, if necessary through "excessive unemployment and social disruption</p><p>Or Goddamn well <i>should</i> be consequences. <br /> </p><br /><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><span style="background-color: white; color: #111111; font-family: SourceSansPro, "Source Sans Pro-fallback", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: 0.05px; text-align: start;"></span><p></p>Erik Lundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05728486209757153685noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6568915967186844196.post-89768543206348554722023-09-30T12:45:00.003-07:002023-09-30T12:45:27.391-07:00Postblogging Technology, Jun 1953, II: The Rosenbergs, Everest, the 707, and Transistors. Wow.R_.C_,<br />The Oriental Club,<div>London,<br />England<br /><br />Dear Father:</div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglV3NE116oexgpmmwMEHTpR9OmWvOmQR_OVsOY3iia1_bkmHvbbFgOIHbjjuE0Ky-YoW-bWRrCjNu0SLdGY1TGHlw8tBsPs7uWMfyBVEvSJ66wTrTxvyakwK3SwVVqutP5tbeOrsBKdltrSX_Y4sCGUv76ODxAeo2MKOd-zsrJSXkB-i7N85yj_sTOfxSy/s3072/Hilary,%20Sir%20Edmund%20and%20Tenzing%20Norgay.webp" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2302" data-original-width="3072" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglV3NE116oexgpmmwMEHTpR9OmWvOmQR_OVsOY3iia1_bkmHvbbFgOIHbjjuE0Ky-YoW-bWRrCjNu0SLdGY1TGHlw8tBsPs7uWMfyBVEvSJ66wTrTxvyakwK3SwVVqutP5tbeOrsBKdltrSX_Y4sCGUv76ODxAeo2MKOd-zsrJSXkB-i7N85yj_sTOfxSy/s320/Hilary,%20Sir%20Edmund%20and%20Tenzing%20Norgay.webp" width="320" /></a></div>At your very strong suggestion, we have decided to go away from the major port city for the summer and the duration of all the emergencies,but we haven't ended up in Campbell River, as for various reasons the house in Nakusp was in need of a tenant. So here we are, gorging on cherries and trout, waiting on corn and enjoying the difference between fresh turnips and onions and the ones from the grocery. The house has not had a tenant in two years, and one gets the sense that Nils is too old to do proper caretaking, so we have a contractor up from Nelson to put a new roof on and central heating and air conditioning while he is on it. Which makes for a much-interrupted summer idyll far from the madding crowds and atom bombs, but what do I know, I have two babies in tow! <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Your Loving Daughter,</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ronnie</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/Ptvwzd-q7c0" width="320" youtube-src-id="Ptvwzd-q7c0"></iframe></div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">So you see, Ethel Rosenberg had to die to protect VENONA and not because she was Jewish and public opinion was screaming for blood</div></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><span><a name='more'></a></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBXT-QxqELp1guFjGpnkIWQRQIVyjX7Y6RtcLqBw2qgXijLFBlDkT2Cq16p99r2VPoWxe0SfVlOsirCG6F7QffeEfF_Xxk4d3QVqyzHvEf9f3jhOYRfsOMus4_SUsMkiCJr_TkjTCRCUL31C10nvjD88zImpSQy3ibyNXWgehvKgFjEodfNw6ImAVIsIB5/s4032/20230920_165814601_iOS.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBXT-QxqELp1guFjGpnkIWQRQIVyjX7Y6RtcLqBw2qgXijLFBlDkT2Cq16p99r2VPoWxe0SfVlOsirCG6F7QffeEfF_Xxk4d3QVqyzHvEf9f3jhOYRfsOMus4_SUsMkiCJr_TkjTCRCUL31C10nvjD88zImpSQy3ibyNXWgehvKgFjEodfNw6ImAVIsIB5/s16000/20230920_165814601_iOS.heic" /></a></div><br /><div><b>Letters</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">R. L. Lockwood of Miami has a foolproof hiccup cure. Erle Pettus of Birmingham, Alabama, thinks that we should reuse "Medicine Hat" jokes about Frenchman's Flat because atom bombs are probably causing the strange weather he thinks. Willie Parent, of out California way, thinks that we should preserve the California condor. <a href="https://www.afpaaa.org/hof-inductees/hof-inductee-oldfield.html">Colonel Barney Oldfield</a> wants us to know that he's kissed the Blarney Stone. Sherman Fairchild liked that article about Sherman Fairchild. Stefan Valavania of Ann Arbor, has some fun coining Greek neologisms. John Fitzgerald of Lake Forest wants a "rigid programme" of loyalty tests to check the spread of Communism. <b>For Your Information </b>tells us all about the new Newsweek West Coat print run, which will be done at Pacific Press of Los Angeles once a million dollars of new equipment are installed. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgfLUaQw8Zx8SGfqC3DhEW69hwb3dlhoB6UU-4R4nmQ-yWqsyN0LtWGDtrzZxWEsaIjOIttB3dcX6DhjCsohyhqcrOB1nMHR_Rt2GCE9jMQ2sDA2JfwATGdp5BpJtebjXpO31WMupePI2-gjztsNRg2oxJa-ScNQt9ATZGbEPRkiTZ0f9gO13ImJ3h2KnW/s4032/20230920_170346282_iOS.heic" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhgfLUaQw8Zx8SGfqC3DhEW69hwb3dlhoB6UU-4R4nmQ-yWqsyN0LtWGDtrzZxWEsaIjOIttB3dcX6DhjCsohyhqcrOB1nMHR_Rt2GCE9jMQ2sDA2JfwATGdp5BpJtebjXpO31WMupePI2-gjztsNRg2oxJa-ScNQt9ATZGbEPRkiTZ0f9gO13ImJ3h2KnW/s320/20230920_170346282_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><b>The Periscope </b>reports that "the real reason for Senator McCarthy's mysterious visit to Texas and Mexico was to" meet with <a href="https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/h-l-hunts-long-goodbye/">H. L. Hunt</a> to talk about a national radio-television show. <b>The Periscope </b>jokes about the recent job applicant to the State Department who told his Congressmen that he submitted his application to Senators McCarthy and Jenner and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_H._Velde">Representative Harold Velde</a> before submitting it to State. Ike is upset at the reviews of his televised press conference. His next one will be a "slice of life" shoot. British left wing magazines apparently liked Taft's Cincinnati speech, but Taft's illness is much more serious than people are saying. The Air Force hears that missing British scientist,, Bruno Pontecorvo, is at a Soviet atomic test site in the Arctic. Diplomats in London are upset that Winston Churchill has taken over as Foreign Secretary in Anthony Eden's absence because he is a dotard, also see his abortive discussions with Ambassador Malik. Defence Secretary Wilson is upset that the Russian air force has twice as many planes as the American but half as many men. Wilson is also upset at the Senate for being unreasonable and the press for being unfair. Democrats in Congress want to stay in session all summer because they think they have Ike on the ropes. Lieutenant General Maxwell Taylor is next on the list for promotion to four stars. When the Korean War ends, half the Pacific Fleet will be shifted to the Atlantic and Mediterranean. The B-52 is dazzling the Air Force with its speeds, being faster than even an F-86. Some Russian equipment is pretty good, some isn't, but it is all pretty up-to-date. Communism is terrible (arresting friends of defecting pilots, promoting the World Youth Games, trying to undermine the Schuman Plan with Ruhr industrialists).<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gudrun_Burwitz"> Gudrun Himmler</a>, Madame Benes, and Alois Hitler are all still around and are trying to keep a low profile. There they are! Look at them! They're related to infamous people! <i>Newsweek </i>is <i>on </i>it!<br /><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtmwRIBH6XgAGDtM3tcZqXi5fgxDkU_l51QHIU5nFoB-x2icsCcTZ8H58dVe3SPmFLOfju5qVPmy1h3LbJtPG7vsMWbwKbKMMnTbFNlEoHAZWPMwYYveIYQ4bceGgWZUlMV6JY-JdGsC4fDx0cUOC6cXAfQ0sPtH01jqzk0iPCtkWJwQCzY7nlNmcErTez/s4032/20230920_180346778_iOS.heic" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtmwRIBH6XgAGDtM3tcZqXi5fgxDkU_l51QHIU5nFoB-x2icsCcTZ8H58dVe3SPmFLOfju5qVPmy1h3LbJtPG7vsMWbwKbKMMnTbFNlEoHAZWPMwYYveIYQ4bceGgWZUlMV6JY-JdGsC4fDx0cUOC6cXAfQ0sPtH01jqzk0iPCtkWJwQCzY7nlNmcErTez/s320/20230920_180346778_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Judy Holiday, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephine_Hull">Josephine Hall</a>, Jessica Tandy, Hume Cronyn and Alan Mowbray will be on Broadway next season in "My Aunt Daisy," "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Solid_Gold_Cadillac">The Solid Gold Cadillac</a>," "The Flying Yorkshireman," and "Flame Out," respectively. Barry Fitzgerald, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Lind_Hayes">Peter Lind Hayes</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Healy_(entertainer)">Mary Healy</a>, Sol Hurok, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fay_Wray">Fay Wray</a> and Paul Hartman will have tv or radio shows next season, with the Hayes/Hund vehicle having the working title <i>It Seems Like Yesterday </i>and that for Wray and Hartman will be <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pride_of_the_Family">Life of the Family</a>. </i>Walt Disney is filming a movie about John Wesley Powell on location in the Grand Canyon, Olivier and Danny Kaye will do a version of <i>Don Quixote </i>in Spain next year, while<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnificent_Obsession_(1954_film)#:~:text=Magnificent%20Obsession%20is%20a%201954,Douglas."> Rock Hudson and Jane Wyman will play the leads in a version of Lloyd C. Douglas' </a><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnificent_Obsession_(1954_film)#:~:text=Magnificent%20Obsession%20is%20a%201954,Douglas.">Magnificent Obsession.</a> </i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/147hC3SAfsI" width="320" youtube-src-id="147hC3SAfsI"></iframe></div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><div style="text-align: center;">Depending on how you count <i>Ten Who Dared </i>(1960), I'm getting 7/17. On the other hand, dead on about Taft. </div></span><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Periscope Washington Trends </b>reports that an armistice in Korea will bring an unsettled peace in Korea and a gradual demobilisation that will not be popular at home, but it will definitely boost the President's prestige as he fights economisers at home and peace offensives abroad. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>National Affairs</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Korean War Dribbles to End: Not Peace, But Armed Truce" 24,163 Americans died in Korea, 98,322 were wounded, 11,336 captured or missing. Now it is over, and, win or lose, we stood up to Communism, says <i>Newsweek. </i>And the President's televised press conference did not go well, as Senator Humphrey's reply stole the show. Oveta Hobby is the only member of the Cabinet who is getting anything done. The President has had to tell Congress to stop trying to run foreign policy again, this time over a resolution coming through the Senate Appropriations Committee requiring the government to cut all funding to the UN if it seats Red China, hauling in the entire Republican caucus to read them the riot act. Or the Constitution. Whichever. Meanwhile Representative Dan Reed of New York was trying to end the world in a completely different way, and was also outmanoeuvred. The grand Eisenhower reorganisation of the federal government is in, and I'm not impressed, but I would say that, wouldn't ? Also not very impressed is General Vandenberg, who gave a blistering retirement speech attacking the budget cuts. Also in trouble, the "B-girls" of Los Angeles and possibly<a href="https://www.newspapers.com/article/1088078/the-brooklyn-daily-eagle/"> not some very strange criminals in Texas</a>, and some Molotov Cocktail-throwing juvenile delinquents in South Brooklyn. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga1Yir9FICWk7Bu_2OpER_kI131hhZ7RN2Ds5IRxoYiF-W83xr8tBu2EODcHQ5UQbwqR0l278ywzAZ6S0nPwxf251-dYBfSgMli3TyyeJrN6P1BZ3OeIRudUnuPDo8_8P6yha9dIRELh5APPkhyAMi0p6gcQRtUVh0aA22h36lMLwsyoWpGPVlylzk1xQi/s3495/20230920_214740094_iOS%20(2).jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2213" data-original-width="3495" height="203" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEga1Yir9FICWk7Bu_2OpER_kI131hhZ7RN2Ds5IRxoYiF-W83xr8tBu2EODcHQ5UQbwqR0l278ywzAZ6S0nPwxf251-dYBfSgMli3TyyeJrN6P1BZ3OeIRudUnuPDo8_8P6yha9dIRELh5APPkhyAMi0p6gcQRtUVh0aA22h36lMLwsyoWpGPVlylzk1xQi/s320/20230920_214740094_iOS%20(2).jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Missiles of the Future" I don't know if you've heard, but the guided missile is the weapon of the future. About $4 billion has been appropriated for guided missiles since 1945, although not all of it has been spent. We've got turbo-jet missiles, rocket missiles, winged missiles, finned missiles. We've got liquid-fueled missiles, solid-fuelled missiles, air-launched missiles, ground-launched missiles, subsonic, supersonic, even faster missiles. About 70% of the average missile by value and weight is electronics (Yay!), and they are a royal pain to test because there are no test pilots and telemetering devices aren't perfect substitutes. "Guided" missiles need brains; that's a problem. Pre-set missiles don't. Guidance can be terrestrial, celestial, radio or inertial. As far as surface-to-surface missiles go, the Navy has the Regulus, the Air Force the Matador. In the surface-to-air department there is the Army's Nike and the Navy's Terrier. There's a bunch of air-to-surface, guided bombs really, and the Air Force has an air-to-air missile underway at Hughes, the Falcon. The services have been having some trouble deciding who gets to have which missiles, but at least we're in general agreement that the Air Force can't have all of them, even though they all fly, as that wouldn't be fair. I think <i>Newsweek </i>ran this article because the Regulus was test-fired this week and they had to print <i>something. </i><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRWzUam-kNy9YFrnwGWgCJwO3xUjZxRmDpRKeoLLb9v6FhQ_ekSeRd5O9y3axqV2ibfUQJwJJ9deDTU1VNmhcrIAVQHUwtWrC7t82_UtyBrNZIBkrxPnY1Y-FavMre15P17XjdAzcctYwOHKKMx_J_K4o5Q-j1RGYi_cPvYB_4IRm4VrZwkpHDqV6xKNNG/s4032/20230920_220733376_iOS.heic" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRWzUam-kNy9YFrnwGWgCJwO3xUjZxRmDpRKeoLLb9v6FhQ_ekSeRd5O9y3axqV2ibfUQJwJJ9deDTU1VNmhcrIAVQHUwtWrC7t82_UtyBrNZIBkrxPnY1Y-FavMre15P17XjdAzcctYwOHKKMx_J_K4o5Q-j1RGYi_cPvYB_4IRm4VrZwkpHDqV6xKNNG/s320/20230920_220733376_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>A former tax-case prosecutor for the Justice Department is in trouble after some documents he tried to throw in the Patuxet River were washed up, instead, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Coe_(government_official)">Frank Coe</a>, the "lost" former secretary of the International Monetary Fund has flown in from Mexico to appear before a Senate Investigations subcommittee, denying that he was a Communist or was working in the Communist interest in the 1949 Austrian currency negotiations. Senator McCarthy wants his passport revoked. Bob Taft had a press conference where he clarified his position that America should only be allies with countries it could boss around, and then booked it for the hospital. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Korean War</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Panmunjom Talks Bear Fruit After Years of Slaughter" It is amazing the way that this story just trickles out so that the official announcement of the truce is buried in the middle of the magazine. Which is fair, because we know it is coming, and it is not a peace, because we can't bear to have a peace. Will the truce last? It better, because we can't bear to have a war, either. Except Syngman Rhee. As far as he's concerned, the UN and South Korean conscripts can go on fighting for him forever. It <i>ought </i>to end with Red China taking the Chinese seat in the UN, but everyone agrees that this is "politically impossible" in the U.S. "for now."It's the "Waiting for the toddler to get tired of the tantrum" strategy! <i>Newsweek </i>finds that a bit anticlimactic so attaches a history of the Korean War. "One year of fighting, two of talk." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMQYcpNOy-3SR8DN8bBw_VEbaTItu9985m-ovoheG9zKigvtU9JGhDUvpZYykpA5MiG1CfFanwTZaKb4MYWu0qQOjdkKN_1lAZJEIMma5WXvIoeAvZ_L8q2dZfeEXU1RRoiTMSmv1lPumlgX_lgs9z0BP9nZdMFtPLHJ-Gw_92K68zjKXzyekvHHEDtf4e/s4032/Nixon,%20Pat.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2725" data-original-width="4032" height="216" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMQYcpNOy-3SR8DN8bBw_VEbaTItu9985m-ovoheG9zKigvtU9JGhDUvpZYykpA5MiG1CfFanwTZaKb4MYWu0qQOjdkKN_1lAZJEIMma5WXvIoeAvZ_L8q2dZfeEXU1RRoiTMSmv1lPumlgX_lgs9z0BP9nZdMFtPLHJ-Gw_92K68zjKXzyekvHHEDtf4e/s320/Nixon,%20Pat.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"Huge Turnout at Italian Polls Chooses a Chamber, Senate" <i>Newsweek </i>goes to press before the returns come in tand reveal the extent of Italy's turn away from De Gaspieri, the Church, and Christian Democracy, but in some ways that makes the coverage in this story better. We get a brief explanation of De Gaspieri's "winner take all rule" that would have turned a simple majority in the popular vote into a two-thirds majority in the Chamber, a discussion of his gamble in dissolving the Senate so that there would be simultaneous elections in both houses, a mention of the Chamberlain Report to the effect that the entire $3.5 billion in US aid to Italy has been frittered away, and some heartwarming attention on Claire Booth Luce's disastrous intervention in the campaign to implicitly threaten Italians with a loss of American aid if they vote against Christian Democracy. (At least she had the good sense not to endorse the neo-Fascists!) We also get coverage of the vote in the French National Assembly (Mendes-France could not get enough votes to become premier), with a much kinder look at Mendes-France than <i>The Economist </i>mustered, and Adenauer has boosted his electoral chances by manoeuvring to appear to put in a pre-emptive veto on discussions of Germany at the <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/570645">Four Power Bermuda summit</a>. <i>The Times of London </i>calls on Britons to wake up and get very serious about things because this Coronation fuss has gone on long enough. Everyone is pleased with the B-47 deployment to Britain because it somehow brings the day when the B-47 turns into an intercontinental bomber closer. It is news that all the white women in Nairobi have domestic servants. Leon Volkov reads <i>Pravda </i>for us. Bargain Sale at Unimag! It's bigger news than the death of Stalin, and would never have happened if he were alive. It also has more personal interest stories and full page editorials. It shows something! Russia is loosening up! <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8KhD4lt9arXCaez0RrZnb2wcHcg2f6fvbmbM2sFQ2T3QIMt9YQ4KAjDToLf9YtUO5updisDGHa4sg2KnODKfm0T4-hlM_7akwSRQbWkcbyzog1uk9p38FqDfpNXhNjpwZMnnitRogQicA9poprzFNyy7GUoKlcqQGJYsg6_fsCVonrIz1DTaTLpwKt01O/s4032/20230927_171611830_iOS.heic" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8KhD4lt9arXCaez0RrZnb2wcHcg2f6fvbmbM2sFQ2T3QIMt9YQ4KAjDToLf9YtUO5updisDGHa4sg2KnODKfm0T4-hlM_7akwSRQbWkcbyzog1uk9p38FqDfpNXhNjpwZMnnitRogQicA9poprzFNyy7GUoKlcqQGJYsg6_fsCVonrIz1DTaTLpwKt01O/s320/20230927_171611830_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>In Canada there is fussing about the Coronation, Admiral Peary's cache at Cape Columbia has been found by Geoffrey Hattersly-Smith while he was out for a constitutional, and the <i>Montreal Gazette </i>is very, very old.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Business</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Periscope Business Trends </b>reports that the Korean armistice won't lead to the end of the boom, which will go rip-roaring along unless dumb old Americans get all scared, in which case the President has a super-secret special plan to stop the depression in its tracks by stopping all the dumb things he's doing to cause it. (Looser credit, more public works, and a commitment to buying all the planes that American factories produce.) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"EPT: Pros and Cons" Pros: Good for the economy, good for America, good for business; Cons: Business<i>men, </i>and by that I mean coupon clippers who read Hazlitt and gargle on about free enterprise, hate it. Guess it's gone tomorrow, then. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Expensive Boxcars" Well shut my mouth and call me Sally, because it turns out that Uncle Henry is turning out <i>expensive </i>planes at Willow Run! Also, there's a Republican Administration in, so my gentle suggestion is that he fold up his tent and light out for the territories before this gets any worse. In completely unrelated news, it turns out tha Gabriel Hauge is the smartest, handsomest, funniest fellow in the whole Administration, reliably reports sources close to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gabriel_Hauge">Gabriel Hauge.<br /></a></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Notes: The Week in Business </b>reports that the President is almost ready to name his new Council of Economic Advisors for the millionth time. Detroit may be the first American city to be served by an atomic power plant. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioyBZOt1H0ZTVNeSZaNMWwbM-6fJPc4Pkb61j1YDtgIh0lzYpdDDDDyDNyhJneuzBLqL7zZbTLm6ijWTi1y-jRgXcmwyZo2URO5nkFuwV72wqVg57zH99fy5NYlNNHdr6jKkcWhSsHx4EO0rGAmlFy17r-_wghXTgtyyK7b7uYJRa3AvSaHasRIx3n6WOP/s3592/phospor%20clock%20face%20GE.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="It's absolutely hilarious that the way the page is laid out, this picture appears to be captioned "atomic breeder"" border="0" data-original-height="3592" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioyBZOt1H0ZTVNeSZaNMWwbM-6fJPc4Pkb61j1YDtgIh0lzYpdDDDDyDNyhJneuzBLqL7zZbTLm6ijWTi1y-jRgXcmwyZo2URO5nkFuwV72wqVg57zH99fy5NYlNNHdr6jKkcWhSsHx4EO0rGAmlFy17r-_wghXTgtyyK7b7uYJRa3AvSaHasRIx3n6WOP/w269-h320/phospor%20clock%20face%20GE.jpg" width="269" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td></tr></tbody></table><b>Products: What's New </b>reports an adjustable metal screen door that snugly fits any doorway, from Stewart Screen, a better mortal mix from called Surco, from Surface Coatings of Atlanta, Georgia, an adjustable wagon frame from American Road Equipment, and a wooden slide that attaches to the upper bed of a bunk bed, from Herrmans' of San Francisco. Henry Hazlitt explains that it is wrong that we are sending so much money to Europe for defence aid when the Europeans spend less of their money on defence than we do. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Special Report: </b>"Air Conditioning: It's Always Fair Weather" Air conditioning is a booming business, with up to 50,000 new houses getting air conditioning this year compared with 15,000 in 1952. Total unit production including old and new houses is likely to be over 80,000, with a total retail cost of over $2 billion. One industry figure thinks that it will be $5 billion by 1960. (That includes industrial and retail installations.) <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Science, Medicine, Education</b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbrUrnjahWOf9rkm9Vcc8OkZtYHIvpRKVUssP5KrrMdNoIU-9e-D5CXcd43S9wUZx7geitJf8RQRqsA69pui5WNa7eLLDQrhevxLGEQfMMZZDjhXuAMVjao6lJUHx17vDjXgUpBVtURVscMuzPzw-Nsl6V2118FHuz-msXOs7_VhhNk3D060Lm2Orv1SdW/s4032/20230927_164147618_iOS.heic" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Why did so many Eisenhower Administration figures leave in 1958?" border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbrUrnjahWOf9rkm9Vcc8OkZtYHIvpRKVUssP5KrrMdNoIU-9e-D5CXcd43S9wUZx7geitJf8RQRqsA69pui5WNa7eLLDQrhevxLGEQfMMZZDjhXuAMVjao6lJUHx17vDjXgUpBVtURVscMuzPzw-Nsl6V2118FHuz-msXOs7_VhhNk3D060Lm2Orv1SdW/w300-h400/20230927_164147618_iOS.heic" width="300" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;">"Atomic Breeder" Can atomic reactors be powered by their own spent fuel? Well, yes; enriched uranium produces plutonium in fission when a U-235 atom releases a neutron which is picked up by inert U-238; and that plutonium can be extracted. However, the plutonium accumulates gradually and the chemical extraction process is costly, so it is important that the Argonne National Laboratory has demonstrated it in the lab. At Yucca Flats, the largest atomic explosion on American soil yet. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"M.D.'s in Manhattan" The highlights of the annual meeting of the American Medical Association, in New York this year for the first time since the war, include a speech against socialised medicine from Oveta Hobby. The Secretary was gently criticised for not having filled the office of special advisor on health after two months on the job, but explains that she is waiting on the FBI security investigation of the candidates. <i>Newsweek's</i> round up of talks and discoveries of note includes progress against polio with gamma globulins and vaccines, New surgical techniques for all the big-name organs, <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1448091/">C. M. Pomerat</a> has discovered a chromosome test to identify the "true sex" of hermaphrodite children and guide urological surgeons, a typhoid vaccine treatment for encephalitis, the discovery of wonder endocrine <a href="https://www.webmd.com/vitamins/ai/ingredientmono-879/trypsin#:~:text=Trypsin%20is%20an%20enzyme%20that,fungus%2C%20plants%2C%20and%20bacteria.">trypsin</a>, of plastic lens inserts for cataract patients, <a href="https://www.mayoclinic.org/drugs-supplements/probenecid-oral-route/description/drg-20065625#:~:text=Probenecid%20is%20used%20in%20the,will%20help%20prevent%20gout%20attacks.">Probenecid</a>, for treating gout, <a href="https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/drugs/18976-acetazolamide-oral-tablets">Diamox</a>, for heart congestion. Apologies to all the pioneers of medicine whose names I have not repeated. It's too much writing!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG_kImIqVbulXB2i2jA7Cs0VTTvwGKPZ0CuXp3nJ5rT_LJoZNbVgyL-8lvHHgTVvjkgRWtlqHCKy22SRJ-iYy6tt3Ez8ffA1Yu_h2mtOUSZGYEa1smM5D_KGl_nSQ7mnPlLS1pwnf4ha2spTmtcWN3F0KhNchLoOWgHf64Vu5ulC5YH_3JfDIbeaurYUS4/s4032/20230927_162613944_iOS.heic" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjG_kImIqVbulXB2i2jA7Cs0VTTvwGKPZ0CuXp3nJ5rT_LJoZNbVgyL-8lvHHgTVvjkgRWtlqHCKy22SRJ-iYy6tt3Ez8ffA1Yu_h2mtOUSZGYEa1smM5D_KGl_nSQ7mnPlLS1pwnf4ha2spTmtcWN3F0KhNchLoOWgHf64Vu5ulC5YH_3JfDIbeaurYUS4/s320/20230927_162613944_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div>"Bringing Up Mother" What's up with all this "women wanting freedom" talk, <i>Newsweek </i>asks. Simmer down, girls! However, Dr. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirra_Komarovsky">Mirra Komarovsky</a> of Barnard College is very pretty and wants to talk about how men and women can get along, and points out that there is a new wave of "anti-anti-feminist" literature these days that needs an answer from a Madam Professor Doctor who is also a girl's girl. Why, if girls want to study all this philosophy stuff, why can't they study the philosophy of cookery and flower arranging and waxing the floor? But on the other hand they should study geology and stuff like that too, in case they're too ugly to get a man. In conclusion I have no idea what this women is talking about, but she works next to <i>Newsweek </i>and the camera loves her. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_M._Hechinger">Fred Hechinger </a>is upset that educators talk funny with the jargon and the cliches. <br /> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQWPn8Npt8Bi0OQh3ZtPitqglRb6ai-J5nxhsYtJSGGTRGY4Q2-yYpaymES30LQ4xeA8GUSNg9S1JalsWuWFIea1-wLJhmPxniM4CCzZgiqzJqm4CYjV6y8znCV9u-0cyEs7fZmfhNUStW8Zf54JEMlUeipOtVzvvafZvTA849S6xF11vrPdCztY5WGEga/s3219/Gardner%20Cox%20portfolio.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2893" data-original-width="3219" height="576" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjQWPn8Npt8Bi0OQh3ZtPitqglRb6ai-J5nxhsYtJSGGTRGY4Q2-yYpaymES30LQ4xeA8GUSNg9S1JalsWuWFIea1-wLJhmPxniM4CCzZgiqzJqm4CYjV6y8znCV9u-0cyEs7fZmfhNUStW8Zf54JEMlUeipOtVzvvafZvTA849S6xF11vrPdCztY5WGEga/w640-h576/Gardner%20Cox%20portfolio.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Art, Radio and Television, Newsmakers</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge_AOv2JOCtwetMj2J7eL58GOfbiY-Qw-wevgZ3Qlorv3fekuq-ktgGHxKyVBxUG5F6upgq6cIWFDGtZ9fUZdNdsT5w-GwR7lFC2oUQhmkaHV0pKow13Wkh9_D7392YWOjTfc7St5D1bkqZHchFDSAWBzkmcuTdHcMLh0vtw5lAhz9U1b2SsRG-jiwlMSd/s280/Muggs,%20J.%20Fred.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="280" data-original-width="220" height="280" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEge_AOv2JOCtwetMj2J7eL58GOfbiY-Qw-wevgZ3Qlorv3fekuq-ktgGHxKyVBxUG5F6upgq6cIWFDGtZ9fUZdNdsT5w-GwR7lFC2oUQhmkaHV0pKow13Wkh9_D7392YWOjTfc7St5D1bkqZHchFDSAWBzkmcuTdHcMLh0vtw5lAhz9U1b2SsRG-jiwlMSd/s1600/Muggs,%20J.%20Fred.jpg" width="220" /></a></div><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/gardner-cox/">Gardner Cox</a> is getting a show at the Institute for Contemporary Art in Boston, which is good because he is the kind of artist <i>Newsweek </i>likes. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Who's On First" <i>Newsweek's </i>coverage of the NBC/CBS race to get the first pictures of the Coronation to America makes it sound even more childish than the British press. At least <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Fred_Muggs">J. Fred Muggs</a> didn't embarrass himself! <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Newsweek </i>really liked the <a href="https://content.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,2007228_2007230_2007264,00.html">President's panel show</a> and explains that it is better than televising his press conferences because if they do that, some clown will start asking questions. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiUZfaIRYh7mPciWiV6RqZZrqlvOtPpCy3u4dPp3KP02ldLL66UsJzvC0sTk74LvFtfGOJPtfNjfAfm2ZxIp5246evP_dZFhUhIonSlhanc00AM-gIdWY6Tb27xNxo2SJwXTMkYwJiWdlHbdEOrknzE3IqYP-WvH-Fj6tMYVFw6OhJ1iehub1h-EY_EF3L/s409/Hilligen,%20Roy%20S..png" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="409" data-original-width="220" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiUZfaIRYh7mPciWiV6RqZZrqlvOtPpCy3u4dPp3KP02ldLL66UsJzvC0sTk74LvFtfGOJPtfNjfAfm2ZxIp5246evP_dZFhUhIonSlhanc00AM-gIdWY6Tb27xNxo2SJwXTMkYwJiWdlHbdEOrknzE3IqYP-WvH-Fj6tMYVFw6OhJ1iehub1h-EY_EF3L/s320/Hilligen,%20Roy%20S..png" width="172" /></a></div><a href="https://www.cvce.eu/en/obj/franz_etzel_five_years_of_the_ecsc-en-298ef36d-b93f-44f7-8fa9-4bcc342393ab.html">Franz Etzel</a>, Greta Garbo, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Hilligenn">Roy S. Hilligen</a>, Henrik Kurt Carlsen, the Duke of Edinburgh, Walter Wanger, Sonja Henie are in the column because they are news but not really news. Jacqueline Cochrane is in the column because my eyes needed some rolling. Judy Canova has had a baby, Ethel Merman and Sir Alexander Korda are married, but not to each other. (Wouldn't that be something!?) Alben Barkley is still alive and getting honoured. William Farnum, Roland Young, Jane D. Rippin, and Lewis G,. Wood have died. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>New Films</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Not technically under the "<b>New Films" </b>sub-heading, a rapturous two-page review (including full page pictorial) of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_5,000_Fingers_of_Dr._T.#:~:text=T.%20is%20a%201953%20American,story%2C%20screenplay%2C%20and%20lyrics.">The 5000 Fingers of Dr. F</a> </i>celebrates "the first movie of its kind --a live action fairy story played strictly according to Freud." <i>Oh-oh, </i>Ronnie thinks, but, in relief, realises that it is only "Freudian" because it worries about Mom. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Books</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii5IcSEVS3YLx37zwWrwxyxfuiDVm_sZJo2YQaMa3X5BAVHQnozYj-LAUIgw7t6OUUlKTGb2LZ7stGMfRl5OqLaZ8egkUT2zqBdmKJYwNfvmEDaYEsAsUHeb4zRhPhUbjGeFOZWWBLc43lqcJBSWZ-XMUf8fEhXr0ok8N9ixJd5bh2DVEo8IXVGlC6sYYj/s3407/Kon%20Tiki%20Some%20More.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="3407" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii5IcSEVS3YLx37zwWrwxyxfuiDVm_sZJo2YQaMa3X5BAVHQnozYj-LAUIgw7t6OUUlKTGb2LZ7stGMfRl5OqLaZ8egkUT2zqBdmKJYwNfvmEDaYEsAsUHeb4zRhPhUbjGeFOZWWBLc43lqcJBSWZ-XMUf8fEhXr0ok8N9ixJd5bh2DVEo8IXVGlC6sYYj/s320/Kon%20Tiki%20Some%20More.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Thor Heyerdahl is upset that some people don't believe him about American Indians being all over the Pacific even though he floated from Peru to the South Seas (I refuse to be bothered to look up what island he arrived at) to prove it. So he is out with a picture to prove it, <i>American Indians in the Pacific</i>. <b>Other Books </b>looks at Felice Benuzzi on climbing Mount Kenya, Mika Waltari's latest sweeping historical saga, <a href="https://catalogue.nla.gov.au/catalog/2360938">Emily Wooldridge</a>'s diary of her shipwreck years, and Edward Barrett's memoir of psychological warfare during the war. Raymond Moley is upset that the Eisenhower Administration isn't firing everyone at State because they're probably redundant because what exactly does the State Department do, anyway? Is there really a "rest of the world?" If so, why hasn't Ray seen it?<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Aviation Week, </i>15 June 1953</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRQqbVZSEzDAriTgMVbKqY8tSwBpNbq_Ti5ogo8nL0L3UIgIUxiL9jdrjWp4GWZngWShNWtCE2G9bfM6lisdpjzS91bw6q_yNgUh27HwnDwWVhf28a9OBijDhXWqvnX7PGrrEM55lrYGLoGnAJoLpfIo1FHkzfP4dVYlujVjug-eKo8i58xUxgnVTD4hMA/s4032/20230929_204552498_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRQqbVZSEzDAriTgMVbKqY8tSwBpNbq_Ti5ogo8nL0L3UIgIUxiL9jdrjWp4GWZngWShNWtCE2G9bfM6lisdpjzS91bw6q_yNgUh27HwnDwWVhf28a9OBijDhXWqvnX7PGrrEM55lrYGLoGnAJoLpfIo1FHkzfP4dVYlujVjug-eKo8i58xUxgnVTD4hMA/s320/20230929_204552498_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><b>News Digest</b> reports that a B-47 has broken the west-east Atlantic speed record with a cargo flight from Limestone AFB to Fairford, UK. Fairchild says that it is developing a 500mph jet cargo transport. The Collins integrated flight system began scheduled service with Swissair last week. Transocean Airlines will operate a trans-Atlantic air shipping service for Aristotle Onassis. Other Greek shipping services are also interested. The Saab J-29 has made its public debut over Stockholm in 6 June. The French have developed a 30lb "pocket-sized" anti-tank missile that can be operated by a single soldier. The unofficial Canberra Atlantic speed record is noted. (Canberra record, "unofficial." B-47 record, 100% official.)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Washington Roundup </b> reports that no-one has any idea how the Pentagon will penalise aircraft delivery slippages, as promised by Charlie Wilson. The biggest beating taken by the helicopter industry in the Pentagon cuts was the elimination of 5 Air Force assault helicopter squadrons that the Army felt were duplicating its units. The CAA is still fighting amongst itself over the recommendations of the Office of Air Safety. Funding of the second and third Navy supercarrier is likely to be controversial, as the Navy found the money for them by stripping out funds allocated for antisubmarine warfare, which is supposed to be its main job. The heavy press programme is up for budget cuts, and may lose the 50,000t press. Aircraft procurement has "nose-dived" since the new Administration entered office, Charlie Wilson needs to crack down on the "Government-Furnished Procurement" side next to continue his economy drive, and someone wants everyone to know that Assistant Defence Secretary Wilfred McNeil is getting good press in Washington by slipping questions to his buddy on Homer Ferguson's staff that he can then knock out of the park. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZBNDg_NtTkRYcy-y3UJiqymX0qi0ZygVcSisO8o3AaAP4jIEttKvU-mrjahGHAldULnLUWmJ0dpNFW8ALbWT44j5ZWew-0QOAp95niOPvvLdilHEUDWHW3vOuIiDANOknlDbfkW2YwtMcEv9sIuFoycVZ0tWCIE3oT9KXkkO47BX8U5lWY6k3N4SYodlq/s4032/Runway%20crash%20barriers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="1993" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZBNDg_NtTkRYcy-y3UJiqymX0qi0ZygVcSisO8o3AaAP4jIEttKvU-mrjahGHAldULnLUWmJ0dpNFW8ALbWT44j5ZWew-0QOAp95niOPvvLdilHEUDWHW3vOuIiDANOknlDbfkW2YwtMcEv9sIuFoycVZ0tWCIE3oT9KXkkO47BX8U5lWY6k3N4SYodlq/s320/Runway%20crash%20barriers.jpg" width="158" /></a></div><b>Industry Observer </b>reports that Pan Am is still negotiating for its first Comet 2, as the programme has been set back by the Calcutta crash. Allison is not eager to go ahead with its Model 520 turbojet conversion of its T38 turboprop unless it gets some orders, meaning that the TX trainer programme has to ditch its French engine, the<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbomeca_Marbor%C3%A9"> Marbore</a>. Cornell is investigating the all-attitude landing gear as a replacement for tricycle gear on light planes. Bendix-Pacific is investigating a five pound telemetering transceiver for Navy jets which would transmit a visual indication to the landing signal officer of airspeed, engine rpm, and rate of change of same. The USN is cool to the idea, so Bendix is negotiating to put it on a new Canadian carrier. The story about Robert McCormick buying a Viscount is repeated, it is reported that de Havilland is fiddling with the Comet leading edge camber, GE is testing a new fire control radar in an testbed Skynight that feeds radar returns directly to the autopilot for "closed loop" interception control, and the USAF Directorate of Flight Safety has a complete set of recommendations for landing gear design. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Katherine Johnsen reports for <b>Aviation Week </b>that "AF Cutback Heads to Fight in Congress" which is the story of the fight between Vandenberg and Wilson over whether the 120 wing cutback has enough reserves, and whether the new budget allows the Air Force enough personnel. Meanwhile, Air Secretary Harold Talbott confirms cuts of the Beech T-36A, Chase 123B, and 200 B-47s. Fighting dirty, someone leaked that Wilson was talking about cutting research and development, on the grounds that there are too many bum aeroplanes and boondoggles coming out of the research, which the Defence Department has no business doing, anyway. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"K. F. Under Fire" I am just prostrate in shock at the news, coming out everywhere, that Uncle Henry has been charging far too much for C-119s coming out of Willow Run. This particular story pits Uncle Henry against Senator Styles Bridges, who should definitely know a confidence man when he sees one. Meanwhile, the Defence Department at this point plans to finish the Willow Run C-119 and C-123 contracts, keeping an eye on things in case Uncle Henry slips his automobile losses into his Pentagon bills, which he would NEVER! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">William J. Coughlin reports that 'UN Air Bases in Korea Open to Attack" <i>Aviation Week </i>went to press before the armistice news cleared, so here, have an eye-glazing story about how the Reds could bomb our air bases if they just had a few thousand M-15s and Il-28s. We need more AA and F-86s. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Engineers Earl M. Rader and John G. Rakowski told the recent annual convention of the American Society of Civil Engineers and American airports need to be bigger and better, and should look into opening their own industrial parks to keep costs down. McGraw-Hill World News reports the first deliveries of made-in-Italy F-84 parts and the revocation of Caribbean-American's license for flying too frequently. "Nonsked airlines" have to at least <i>pretend </i>not to be scheduled! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgClz6YnQm0LFTTRu13uyD43cvdyvfx7vD40YjPuZRBsYu7ocxEo0k0I2WRNBaiNRHCwxV2ABDFytzoqK5sCHoAUE7jaXB6gsZHOOTg0ld7IVe3bH9zJF4t19OESrObbSOjXCa4L3ShCgNgXnLvKZkSPDLc7ZlBefLJ8zyZc1cYvdxY08lC3CPc4MKDzFdT/s2135/Custer-Channel%20Wing%20Plane.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2002" data-original-width="2135" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgClz6YnQm0LFTTRu13uyD43cvdyvfx7vD40YjPuZRBsYu7ocxEo0k0I2WRNBaiNRHCwxV2ABDFytzoqK5sCHoAUE7jaXB6gsZHOOTg0ld7IVe3bH9zJF4t19OESrObbSOjXCa4L3ShCgNgXnLvKZkSPDLc7ZlBefLJ8zyZc1cYvdxY08lC3CPc4MKDzFdT/s320/Custer-Channel%20Wing%20Plane.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b>What's New </b>is taking <i>A Short-Term Training Program in an Aircraft-Engine Plant</i>, by the Department of Labour, <i>Airtab</i> the handy data sheet booklet, and no less than ten new catalogues of items ranging from single and double-pole switches to hermetic sealings to Teflon spiral rings to the beach with it. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">David A. Anderton reports for <b>Aeronautical Engineering </b>on "How Good is the Custer Channel Wing?" It turns out that NACA wind tunnel tests of crackpot inventor Willard Custer do not bear out the claims he has been making for twenty years that no-one has ever been persuaded to follow up on. That certainly deserved two-and-a-bit pages! <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Thrust and Drag </b>is upset about all this talk that the British were the first to fly a delta-wing plane, when, in fact, it was the Convair Sea Dart that was first. Then it makes fun of the atomic cannon, because it is pointless, notes a paper at the Society of British Aircraft Constructors that shows that adding extra weight to a fighter is a very bad idea, and even a very small amount seriously reduces its performance, and that the SAE heard a paper by Allen Puckett of Hughes Aircraft on the "Air Force Air-to-Air Falcon," so maybe the Air Force could stop claiming that this was a secret? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A full page advertorial for the Arnold Engineering Development Centre's shining new campus follows, and after that the even more interesting "New Value Set for Viscosity of Water" reveals that the National Bureau of Standards knows <i>exactly </i>how wet water is. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Exclusive Report: Analysis Shows MiG Limitations" The MiG-15 isn't all that, honest. On the other hand, it isn't the simple, spartan design first reported, either. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbNodhI46WMVBRYbJlxAc4NTsiK3wXVDHpE84RddWnynrlIJ3BxoegC9ORHZ3uunodyzp8xU9TSssxKUTX0OvW0y-g6v5_WvN_NDJDAuY5hjkG5Xdu9384LaiLfyqhDXEKYVI7XRt_47_qob5_IDerzJHccXMEHvwm4iuLDilNGoDDjjqTITnSFNKSwIYn/s4032/Carilloy%20B-36%20Ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbNodhI46WMVBRYbJlxAc4NTsiK3wXVDHpE84RddWnynrlIJ3BxoegC9ORHZ3uunodyzp8xU9TSssxKUTX0OvW0y-g6v5_WvN_NDJDAuY5hjkG5Xdu9384LaiLfyqhDXEKYVI7XRt_47_qob5_IDerzJHccXMEHvwm4iuLDilNGoDDjjqTITnSFNKSwIYn/s320/Carilloy%20B-36%20Ad.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b>Letters </b>has a very long letter from Robert Gibson of the UP about his attempts to report on F6F "drones" being flown off <i>USS Boxer </i>and mainly used to attack railway tunnels. Oddly, it wouldn't let the UP file, ostensibly because the story was top secret, or because it inappropriately designated the old fighter drones as guided missiles even though they weren't the "Dimension X" models from the slicks. But then it turned out that the AP could, because its story was about "'sleek, throbbing missiles' that zipped off the deck so spectacularly that it left the crew 'tingling with excitement.'" It turns out that the AP was allowed to print the story after it left out the bits about the missile being a radio-guided Hellcat with a 2000lb bomb and a television in the nose. So UP filed <i>its </i>story, and was threatened with being barred from Navy ships for being naughty, at which point the story hit <i>Time, </i>which described it as a "guided missile boomerang" hitting the Navy, which was clearly trying to make something out of an experiment that was nothing new. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Irving Stone reports for <b>Production </b>on "Why Designers Are Using More Plastics" It turns out that William Braham of Zenith Plastics gave a paper to the IAS, and summarising it makes for a good, low-effort article. If you're wondering, it's because they're light! No, it's true! And they're not as bad as all that. Maybe they'll even be used in turbine blades! And they're transparent to radar, so that's good.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVrVAZX2b7WLDFrPtmynRC6XdE_r1eDM5E4q8va9jmSrj6Qo34rG5h6dPDYzNujOsQPuy8iADW8v6dfiKLBAp7bIiS8yimgk_cGe4PfkR77S5qVaUPEuvA6lq5FIZiicWnwPmTPB0aIPOIcF8PSuwr7ZOMnJ9OxP7Ikz9aafPHUQhlKLO58K_OiaaaaCTc/s3903/Vickers%20Fuel%20Control%20Component%20Tester.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3903" data-original-width="1044" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVrVAZX2b7WLDFrPtmynRC6XdE_r1eDM5E4q8va9jmSrj6Qo34rG5h6dPDYzNujOsQPuy8iADW8v6dfiKLBAp7bIiS8yimgk_cGe4PfkR77S5qVaUPEuvA6lq5FIZiicWnwPmTPB0aIPOIcF8PSuwr7ZOMnJ9OxP7Ikz9aafPHUQhlKLO58K_OiaaaaCTc/s320/Vickers%20Fuel%20Control%20Component%20Tester.jpg" width="86" /></a></div>Philip Klass reports for <b>Avionics </b>that "Plane, Missile Reliability Needs Differ" F. A. Paul and C. R. Gates of Cal Tech told the Electronics Components Symposium that missile components need to resist vibration better. Also, there were thirty other papers about things like transistor troubles, new solid dielectrics for capacitors and gas dielectrics for transformers and wave guides, and "rugged" missile environments, which is where Paul and Gates come in. There's a lot of work on vibrations and temperature resistance to be done, before we get back to transistor troubles (they need to be kept dry, especially during manufacture), and those dielectrics, including Lanosterol. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">You will be glad to know that Industrial Electronics has an electronic counter which can be used by the "unskilled," while American Gyro has a two-axis gyro that floats in liquid for vibration and shock proofing. <b>Filter Centre </b>reports the new Gilfillan radar trainer, Chance Vought's purchase of a Bendix-Pacific air-to-ground telemeter for flight test monitoring, Hydro-Aire's purchase of a Electronic Analog Simulating Equipment analog computer (EASE) from Berkeley Scientific, and some bulletins and catalogues that didn't make it into <b>What's New </b>because it was already ridiculous. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">George L. Christian reports for <b>Equipment </b>onn "Jet Fuel Controls Tested Cheaper," which is about a jet engine simulator built for Navy BuAer by Vickers to develop, test and calibrate fuel control components for jet turbines. (It also uses an analog computer to analyse the results.) Also, Edison has a new fire detector which uses a solid-state semi-conductor thermistor to detect temperature changes. It is being tested in a Stratocruiser. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCiALjXAAb1TxSZTh8wYZAb_edYlgc5V8vVYPmvqghq_4j02JSa2HmNovFRh2dsoFd0LExwNPeBpvJsVtecDp3KYdK0pTZKqGJ_lvmbN5EUNJ8inF6abPhIxHF_Gu_s1RGqRB9JsVWcxpgYh6oJm5lcUO0rvCZFYiS2kBMGVgggP6XyvoNtJWn2gb6pF5h/s4032/20230929_221238620_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCiALjXAAb1TxSZTh8wYZAb_edYlgc5V8vVYPmvqghq_4j02JSa2HmNovFRh2dsoFd0LExwNPeBpvJsVtecDp3KYdK0pTZKqGJ_lvmbN5EUNJ8inF6abPhIxHF_Gu_s1RGqRB9JsVWcxpgYh6oJm5lcUO0rvCZFYiS2kBMGVgggP6XyvoNtJWn2gb6pF5h/s320/20230929_221238620_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><b>New Aviation Products </b>has a CAA-approved conversion kit for a four-abreast, 28-seat DC-3, an electronic device for accurate control of fluid level in tanks from Haledy Electronics, a high pressure switch for 3000psi aircraft systems from Wallace O. Leonard, solenoid-actuated Micro-Switch relays from Electrical Products of LA, a portable pickler (protective sprayer) from Texas Metal and Mfg, as self-aligning barrel nut from Shur-Lock, and the high reflectivity V-Cockpit cockpit cover from du Pont. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Transportation </b>notes that the Germans are planning an all-piston fleet to get their new national airline in the sky in the shortest possible time, considering training requirements. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Robert H. Wood's <b>Editorial </b>is very upset with the the Air Force cuts, but also with Uncle Henry's latest Willow Run fiasco, which helps explain why the Air Force can't get all the money it needs --it keeps throwing it away on Uncle Henry, and Congress doesn't like that. <br /><br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvQyRtRPnIYLmkDRAylYY78JgSIiqwQ5A1Ho2WkbnbtJ9S57otSE3xY3gtA8_TblnBzf0L9n6SlErL0tGgYcgQclHqOjE9h0GYA6XDh3XjZc-IJwesSOxneL3qlx3loh_AW7i8ebUlN9L_3UVkrfOEYnZEz0BakFh73COmSDyLsSTgu-6NHJcLrVxXTm5B/s4032/20230927_180340176_iOS.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvQyRtRPnIYLmkDRAylYY78JgSIiqwQ5A1Ho2WkbnbtJ9S57otSE3xY3gtA8_TblnBzf0L9n6SlErL0tGgYcgQclHqOjE9h0GYA6XDh3XjZc-IJwesSOxneL3qlx3loh_AW7i8ebUlN9L_3UVkrfOEYnZEz0BakFh73COmSDyLsSTgu-6NHJcLrVxXTm5B/s16000/20230927_180340176_iOS.heic" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Letters</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Robert Leopold of New York City is pleased that the President is too responsible to cut taxes but John Wicker of Richmond thinks we could balance the budget and cut taxes if people would stop whining about their share of the Federal budget being cut. Many people feel the need to say something about the Coronation, and some of them decide that saying something dumb is better than saying nothing. A. R. Simpson wonders if something like the American Cancer Society would be a good idea. The Science editor of the American Cancer Society really liked <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/12/obituaries/marguerite-s-clark-90-dies-former-editor-for-newsweek.html">Marguerite Clark'</a>s article about cancer research and so did Drs. Lee Clark (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Lee_Clark">Director and Surgeon in Chief at the M. D. Anderson Hospital</a> of the University of Texas) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alton_Ochsner">Alton Ochsner</a><span style="font-size: xx-small;">[<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1955/05/05/archives/bulbar-polio-kills-doctors-grandson.html">!</a>]</span>. Who, according to <i>Who's Who, </i>could toot his own horn at least as loudly as Dr. Clark, but chooses not to. <b>For Your Information </b>reminds us about the National Safety Council and, well, safety. Paul William, the author of the <b>Press </b>story about the <i>Omaha World-Herald's </i>campaign promoting the Council, started in journalism in 1941 and married his wife, then working for his paper, just before leaving for the Army "primarily to be sure there would be a vacancy on the news staff when I returned." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjbgrsx3hlsoeDZoUEWOy5vUfKp90uWGVTJcvQrpW4IPcVKMpKso3_hKB3Fv_rAvYkbpNwyHCX9LFHWadYwgLDSKUwffUJ09d3R3xu58w9utHbA0UYvkmHIP8Bphdtqgu-qJsBvxXaKAVhmWS9sAFrAP1OGQYx2Rux20C0y_RwvZ7dUjnpOIttQM4gOewi/s1200/Dien%20Bien%20Phu%20Victory.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="729" data-original-width="1200" height="194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjbgrsx3hlsoeDZoUEWOy5vUfKp90uWGVTJcvQrpW4IPcVKMpKso3_hKB3Fv_rAvYkbpNwyHCX9LFHWadYwgLDSKUwffUJ09d3R3xu58w9utHbA0UYvkmHIP8Bphdtqgu-qJsBvxXaKAVhmWS9sAFrAP1OGQYx2Rux20C0y_RwvZ7dUjnpOIttQM4gOewi/s320/Dien%20Bien%20Phu%20Victory.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><b>The Periscope </b>reports that "[k]nifing and backbiting are as prevalent as ever in Washington under the New Administration." Some at State are talking about arranging Secretary Dulles' retirement, and others are saying that <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1974/01/02/archives/charles-bohlen-diplomat-69-dies-exenvoy-to-moscow-and-paris-was-top.html">Ambassador Bohlen</a> will come back to Washington in August and resign. These are in the same paragraph, so I suppose they're related. Washington is worried that Churchill's efforts to organise a Big Four conference will succeed. Oh no! Paris has asked President Eisenhower twice to commute the Rosenberg's death sentences, rumour has it. The joke around Washington is about a rabbit that is running from Senator McCarthy, who is hunting kangaroos, because he can't prove that he's not a kangaroo. The Air Force is "quietly arranging" a Magic Carpet airlift out of Korea this summer, which is why no-one has heard about it except the airlines which have been told how many planes they will have to give up. Shhh! The President is surprised and disappointed that the Chamber of Commerce and the NAM won't back his plan to extend the excess profits tax. In other news, the President's fifth birthday party was a great success, with clowns, balloons, and a pony! The President's golf buddies say that he is really watching his weight. Latin American countries are insulted that the President is only sending his brother to talk to them. An unnamed French official explained that if someone like Syngman Rhee spoke out of turn in one of <i>their </i>colonies, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGmvmw_0Oys">an accident would be arranged</a>, but Churchill explains that Eisenhower's firm letter to Rhee was an act of courage considering the problems he is having with Congress. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvey_V._Higley">Harvey Higley</a>, the McCarthy-backed Wisconsin GOP chairman is almost certain to be the next VA Administrator. The <a href="Parks College of Aeronautical Technology">Parks College of Aeronautical Technology</a> at St. Louis University will hold classes on the theory of space travel in the fall. Boeing says that its first sweptback jet transport prototype will fly next year. Civil Aeronautics is testing a one-man British radar for GCA at small airports. The Swift, here a "supersonic fighter," may be delayed in service by a year or more by wing flutter. RAB Butler is now "generally accepted" as Churchill's heir, while <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Templer">General Templer</a> is expected to succeed Monty as Deputy Chief of SHAEF. The Soviets have released the Japanese fishing crews they interned in January, while on a less peace-offensive related note, are reported to be reinforcing the bridges of western Hungary to take 60t Stalin tanks. General Naguib is reported to be on his way out in Egypt, to be replaced by the younger General Gamul Abdul Nasser. The East Bloc press is also not sure about the peace offensive, with Radio Prague claiming that Rhee's anti-armistice position was orchestrated by Washington and <i>Pravda</i> giving a shamefully inadequate 13 lines to the Coronation. Oh, those Communists. <i>So </i>anti-monarchy! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Arthur Godfrey will be returning to his show without leaving his home in Virginia, appearing in split-screen. A 3D <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby_Dick_(1956_film)">Moby Dick</a>, </i>directed by John Huston and starring Gregory Peck, is "in the offing," while Darryl F. Zanuck is working on a movie about the wartime exploits of the US Foreign Service, inspired by Claire Booth Luce's helpful suggestion. Sonja Henie is "dickering" to get her "ice extravaganza" filmed in colour and 3D. Rumoured Broadway shows next season get their own paragraph, a typographical convenience that allows me to ignore them.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/NMPW4R727QQ" width="320" youtube-src-id="NMPW4R727QQ"></iframe></div><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;"><i>Moby Dick </i>wasn't 3D, but I'm giving <b>Periscope </b>that one. It's one out of four on the plays, as far as I can tell.</span> </div></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Periscope Washington Trends </b>reports that we shouldn't be misled by newspaper headlines saying that Senator Taft is giving up his power, <a href="https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/pancreatic-cancer/pancreatic-cancer-prognosis">because he isn't.</a> he's just dumping all the dirty work on Knowland because Taft likes and trusts Knowland. Knowland will succeed Taft if Senator Taft's health continues to worsen, and is expected to work well with President Eisenhower, except for the whole "Senator from Formosa" thing. Meanwhile, the President's speaking tour proves he is still popular, so Congress better shut up and sit down! No way, replies Congress. <i>You </i>fire all the Democrats in the Government and <i>then </i>we'll listen to you! The Pentagon cuts are now certain, and Secretary Wilson says that he won't punish anyone who spoke out against them before, but from now on, Pentagon insiders need to toe the line.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpQ_wsdbibLjkx8SjF8-F7rr5chRc69_4MZGLYV4uZB5Wkw6z31FBY5Iqdwm3Uim3isdQ6IO45F3diDXzOpJUzgDcn9d7s-0Kilouq0_DcCrzgRBZ19ti3hOIq0nBwBB4RPmkn9Yhi0CrwLZLS0AnVcMoxzrDtBqtCIhsJKtEgYRP8okPoxOJhBGFUauOO/s4011/Sieberling%20Safely%20Home%20Ad.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4011" data-original-width="2794" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpQ_wsdbibLjkx8SjF8-F7rr5chRc69_4MZGLYV4uZB5Wkw6z31FBY5Iqdwm3Uim3isdQ6IO45F3diDXzOpJUzgDcn9d7s-0Kilouq0_DcCrzgRBZ19ti3hOIq0nBwBB4RPmkn9Yhi0CrwLZLS0AnVcMoxzrDtBqtCIhsJKtEgYRP8okPoxOJhBGFUauOO/w279-h400/Sieberling%20Safely%20Home%20Ad.jpg" width="279" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>National Affairs</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Truce in the Hills of Korea Could Bring Big Four Talks" Peace brings poetry to the headlines, so why can't it bring Malenkov, Churchill, Eisenhower, and a French Premier to be named later, to Bermuda? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2D8N5dpHWRd_Csn-deejPadCntyXXfpD3IeZZBxQRHyRsjvMx9agVAVsl07yllOGexIr3q8sqlO0-rfa1LQAfngpoJ0Ncdg3gz5p4N18-n8GBF2Da1oKL8BfglUEYgRKBMiD8i8eX7CcWHLpijGf8yqgLzrb3adiXPGqcZUNqnXboM3gGcQWO1d1Vb5SK/s3077/Eisenhower%20speaking%20tour%20spring%201953.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3077" data-original-width="2728" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2D8N5dpHWRd_Csn-deejPadCntyXXfpD3IeZZBxQRHyRsjvMx9agVAVsl07yllOGexIr3q8sqlO0-rfa1LQAfngpoJ0Ncdg3gz5p4N18-n8GBF2Da1oKL8BfglUEYgRKBMiD8i8eX7CcWHLpijGf8yqgLzrb3adiXPGqcZUNqnXboM3gGcQWO1d1Vb5SK/s320/Eisenhower%20speaking%20tour%20spring%201953.jpg" width="284" /></a></div>"Taft to Knowland" It can now be reported that Taft's left hip started bothering him on 15 April, and that within two weeks the pain was so intense that he checked into Walter Reed, but didn't stay long enough to be diagnosed, as he had to make several speeches in Ohio. He was taking bed rest at the Holmes Memorial Hospital while doctors examined X-rays taken at Walter Reed when he wrote his Cincinnati speech that called for America to continue the Korean war alone if cease-fire talks broke down, but his doctors made him delegate the reading of the speech to his son, Robert. Cincinnati doctors found a lesion in the hip bone from the x-rays and suggested a wheel chair, but Taft left the hospital on crutches. He soon returned to Walter Reed with worsening pain, and the doctors there sent him to New York because as Army doctors they didn't feel comfortable ordering a Senator to bed rest. It was at New York Hospital, which he entered under a false name, that Senator Taft became convinced that he was seriously ill, which is when he delegated his more physically taxing jobs as Leader of the Senate to Senator Knowland. And that's where we are!<br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_1QTCd7-7XfCPhTGTs2Wu4kyo8XJ6PsdOJ-oorTkZa7RK5b38BgoeFURddnzEJ6UzXBAZjL6EH6gvWKH-D0TJIkNcCjITWFA-ExjIP-e2wJzpAKyM2cG1fTjHYQmSwWN4b6BNcvkhUDAQmB_-vZNguqm92HK8gvCR42uuYtiiJ8cTGykEa3mqAwtWPCSv/s3951/Tornado%20damage%201953.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3951" data-original-width="2685" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg_1QTCd7-7XfCPhTGTs2Wu4kyo8XJ6PsdOJ-oorTkZa7RK5b38BgoeFURddnzEJ6UzXBAZjL6EH6gvWKH-D0TJIkNcCjITWFA-ExjIP-e2wJzpAKyM2cG1fTjHYQmSwWN4b6BNcvkhUDAQmB_-vZNguqm92HK8gvCR42uuYtiiJ8cTGykEa3mqAwtWPCSv/s320/Tornado%20damage%201953.jpg" width="217" /></a></div>"Air Battle" The President, now more popular than ever after his speaking tour, has won his heroic battle to cut $5 billion off the Air Force budget, in this new version of the history of the last three months I'm learning right now. We're not abandoning the 143 wing Air Force, just not building it. And we probably didn't need it, anyway! B-47s can fly anywhere n the world, as long as they start flying there from somewhere close by, after all. The Pentagon points out that with the personnel cuts, a quarter of the planes will have to go into storage, anyway. In other news of dire threats to national security, the Supreme Court says that Harry Bridges doesn't have to go back to Australia, but the Rosenbergs do have to die. A story updating the President's tour notes that it was frenetic, although the President took time off to fish in South Dakota, and that he urged graduating seniors of Dartmouth College "not to join the book burners." (If I haven't remembered to update that, some of Senator McCarthy's friends are touring Europe scrutinising embassy and other agency libraries for evil books.) Speaking of Senator McCarthy, he is in trouble with his colleagues for attacking <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_H._Lehman#:~:text=Herbert%20Henry%20Lehman%20(March%2028,Senate%20from%201949%20until%201957.&text=New%20York%20City%2C%20U.S.&text=New%20York%20City%2C%20U.S.,-Resting%20place">Senator Herbert Lehman</a>, a critic, for using his franking privileges, in language that suggests that he thinks that franking is bad. Newsweek explains: It is bad, because it is expensive and can be abused. Looks like Tail Gunner Joe is right again, and he should know, considering he's sitting on a bill from the Post Office for abusing his franking privileges. Also, it's been a bad tornado season in the Midwest so far this year, and the EPT might be dead because the Democrats are refusing to rescue the President's budget after he blamed the "mess he was left" for forcing him to keep it. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clem_Graver">And it looks like another Chicago politician has crossed the wrong people</a>. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ernest K. Lindley uses this week's <b>Washington Tides </b>to explain that diplomacy is actually quite important and the President and Secretary Dulles are pretty good at it, so for God's sake everyone stop back-biting them, it just plays into Senator McCarthy's hands. Look, if Nehru says the President is doing a good job, the President is doing a good job! (Just in case you were wondering who was in charge of deciding that.)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsRaps_ucM_UT4mQmzqjCZOVvRI6MhWx1l21hEQ2xeC9mcM1ejF5FWV5Et1ie4oaaCGSH1sK06A-t8WLJXB04F7EnRGXccB_s3bhm65kbEopcUv7j_KOTAZ_L9prrK3CI8nYNJ3Ub5NJ7BUT51ADInUMFGmJZ4RD9KwOlGeFsYqE5S-JjorVE0UDvoP0DH/s3905/Korean%20demonstrations%20June%201953.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2440" data-original-width="3905" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsRaps_ucM_UT4mQmzqjCZOVvRI6MhWx1l21hEQ2xeC9mcM1ejF5FWV5Et1ie4oaaCGSH1sK06A-t8WLJXB04F7EnRGXccB_s3bhm65kbEopcUv7j_KOTAZ_L9prrK3CI8nYNJ3Ub5NJ7BUT51ADInUMFGmJZ4RD9KwOlGeFsYqE5S-JjorVE0UDvoP0DH/s320/Korean%20demonstrations%20June%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Korean War</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Stories about "Rhee Tangles the Truce Talks With Adamant Unity Stand" and "Nehru of India: Korean Middleman" catch us up. The truce talks at Panmunjom are going well and the British expect to be able to paper over differences within the alliance about trading with China on the grounds that they have always "sold pots to cannibals." What a nice thought! Rhee is talking about fighting on alone, which is ridiculous, and seems to be sponsoring demonstrations in Seoul, but his goal might actually be to secure a solid defence pact with the United States as the price for ending the war. Nehru, and Indian diplomacy, finally gets some recognition for trying to contain and then end the Korean war, and Prime Minister Nehru, who gets a long profile here, will play a leading role in administering the transition from war to armistice. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>International</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidlefQ3QtviryZW6fWXAKmg-uQDG_2Q0SRqa1hDvOZY1GFUKZnL454LKPONqbonueCVby2i8tZmijZpI3gEyjRv1bFVk4rEYxuXb46Uvk-k70oikdZQh_vLFIDjD1WejRK3zYsH61o4lScQMVCErijkP5OyvWQBB3QTTF99fbfsQArLDn-4zY0gmKDaPzN/s2854/Nehru%20inspecting%20troops.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2138" data-original-width="2854" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEidlefQ3QtviryZW6fWXAKmg-uQDG_2Q0SRqa1hDvOZY1GFUKZnL454LKPONqbonueCVby2i8tZmijZpI3gEyjRv1bFVk4rEYxuXb46Uvk-k70oikdZQh_vLFIDjD1WejRK3zYsH61o4lScQMVCErijkP5OyvWQBB3QTTF99fbfsQArLDn-4zY0gmKDaPzN/s320/Nehru%20inspecting%20troops.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"Sweet Music by the Kremlin Winning Audience in Europe"<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The new Soviet cruiser <i>Sverdlov </i>is visiting Britain and everyone is in a good mood because of that darned peace offensive. The Soviets and the Communist government in East Germany have rolled back controversial reforms, and so has the Czechoslovak government. In Italy, de Gaspieri's ability to control Parliament is razor-thin after his coalition won only 303 of 590 seats, losing ground to the left and the right. In France, Andre Marie is the next politician to be tasked with forming a government. Cambodia's King Sihanouk has fled into exile in Thailand because of differences with the French, Prime Minister Nehru is trying to mediate the Canal Zone dispute, with a loan to Egypt and American financial and technical assistance smoothing the way to an agreement in which British "technicians," but not combat troops, remain in the Canal Zone to maintain its facilities in the event of war, when they would be reoccupied by British forces. And <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doria_Shafik">Doria Shafik</a> is <i>quite </i>the Egyptian suffragette, fighting for women's rights in that backward Egyptian country. (Her picture is on the <i>same </i>page as swimsuit-clad Yoko Kimura, this year's Miss Japan.) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWY4LRjTqpFkp2yyG5GJ0gPoszbV3h6kVoqe9Aa2KjOq8GSJW6lPPb762afq6orUSdfkeoViUsydpL4mRgMJxLJRQR_eDQRBHm10hK08AlR7yr_AzsnSgBz32KowqYpzSBK4tsBAx8XcNfvd72b-riKCMxs_XBod_V_nTbRwouMTUoaSe4BAOOsCOTGDhu/s300/Shibata%20Yoko%20Akito.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Yoko Kimura as "Young Woman," by Ihee Kimura (1953)" border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWY4LRjTqpFkp2yyG5GJ0gPoszbV3h6kVoqe9Aa2KjOq8GSJW6lPPb762afq6orUSdfkeoViUsydpL4mRgMJxLJRQR_eDQRBHm10hK08AlR7yr_AzsnSgBz32KowqYpzSBK4tsBAx8XcNfvd72b-riKCMxs_XBod_V_nTbRwouMTUoaSe4BAOOsCOTGDhu/s16000/Shibata%20Yoko%20Akito.jpg" /></a></div></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Business</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Periscope Business Trends </b>reports that the steel settlement means that the boom is going to go on booming and the Korean peace <i>doesn't </i>mean that the boom is going to end, so we shouldn't make too much of the fall off in corporate profits last month or the government's move to offer incentives to businesses opening factories in "areas where unemployment is a problem." (There are sixteen metropolitan areas and eighteen smaller communities where unemployment is over 6%, but they're mostly one-industry towns so it is all understandable and their Congressional delegations are just being whiners when they complain.) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The <i>main </i>page of <b>Business </b>has the stock market anxious about a recession due to the end of Korean war spending. <i>Newsweek </i>reminds us that business investment will be a record high this year, that the country's 61,658,000 "job holders" still have full employment due to part time jobs, that the first quarter GNP is setting a record breaking annual rate of $361 billion, that steel's concessions to labour indicate that the industry thinks that the market is buoyant, and we shouldn't worry about soft farm prices. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Professor Lloyd Reynolds explains that we can have a depression just on the strength of people <i>believing </i>there will be one and reducing their spending, while Arno Johnson of J. Walter Thompson reminds the National Sales Executives Conference in Atlanta that it would take only a 5% increase from 1952 consumer spending to balance a $10 billion cut in government expenditures. On the bright side, you can deduct up to $750 for babysitting expenses now! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6GFDDnhGRt6nBpa_OCbg5HSnA4EpJshQIWaPuY1k1lOTK-jI6BsNFfl75oUy7vFmh5sS46vUNsHM5sBbcnvCEVghYf9e0C4Nm5FQNQkCcLnLCdIC3QW289u0GDZEHHTRl4lshmQcWlKIRZAXFLUJdDg7Kz8b16EptIe9OVyMjJtPG1bGfywO5LOhc5jG4/s3643/Agricultural%20slump%201953.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1689" data-original-width="3643" height="148" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6GFDDnhGRt6nBpa_OCbg5HSnA4EpJshQIWaPuY1k1lOTK-jI6BsNFfl75oUy7vFmh5sS46vUNsHM5sBbcnvCEVghYf9e0C4Nm5FQNQkCcLnLCdIC3QW289u0GDZEHHTRl4lshmQcWlKIRZAXFLUJdDg7Kz8b16EptIe9OVyMjJtPG1bGfywO5LOhc5jG4/s320/Agricultural%20slump%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"High Costs, Low Prices" Meanwhile, in the real world, bumper crops are running up against a 33% fall in exports, while farming costs are being driven up by the defence boom. Price support programmes are running out of space to hold the surpluses and cost up to $3 billion this year. The Department of Agriculture is working to take land out of production, but is running out of time. As for turning our farmers into sturdy champions of free enterprise, as promised in the Republican platform, maybe next year. Speaking of exports, Hans Christian Sonne, the new head of the NPA, promises to erase the world's $2 billion to $3 billion dollar gap in the next few years with a bit of foreign investment and a miraculous increase in American goods imports that can't possibly run into any political trouble. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Notes: Week in Business </b>reports the first concrete cuts in Air Force orders, for Beechcraft trainers, the first GM debenture offer since 1936, the fiftieth anniversary of Ford Motor Company and the appointment of Tom Lyon as the new head of the Bureau of Mines. Not a note at all is news of a Cynamid resin-treated paper "cloth," demonstrated by some models doing their best to make paper bags look good. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiY2nkdqp0ph1LWv-NIQhZYI00RRiAEToIqeuh7WzUIxYbDHDOTL5Pe9oTklo0T1fdnNRhj4QCZBjLwEQxvaaX2cTHdu31Ucwk-IOM6rH3FHd3Re-NP3q9xFCqkYkYmqKIWYDxlRIAf06IkqCna4sBlvsl6CluTNaZvXtQt16ZH1f7N0lRErXeHfxrV-lr/s3771/Paper%20swim%20suits.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3771" data-original-width="2562" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiY2nkdqp0ph1LWv-NIQhZYI00RRiAEToIqeuh7WzUIxYbDHDOTL5Pe9oTklo0T1fdnNRhj4QCZBjLwEQxvaaX2cTHdu31Ucwk-IOM6rH3FHd3Re-NP3q9xFCqkYkYmqKIWYDxlRIAf06IkqCna4sBlvsl6CluTNaZvXtQt16ZH1f7N0lRErXeHfxrV-lr/s320/Paper%20swim%20suits.jpg" width="217" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Products: What's New </b>reports a "metal file with a replaceable cutting surface" from 3M and Monarch Machine Shop, Incorporated. Brazamco International of New York offers corrugated plywood, imported from Brazil, Willard Storage Battery has an adjustable battery with water content adjustable by key to the season, and Ranger Trailer of Texas has an easy boat launcher with a valve-controlled, folding rear gate. Hedco Manufacturing of Chicago has announced that all employees with more than ten years service, starting from 1951, will qualify for a full year's vacation at full pay, or one year at double pay, beginning in 1961. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Henry Hazlitt thinks that the Federal budget is "out of control." Isn't it great when you can run the same column week after week, year after year? I particularly like the part where the forces of economy have been routed, year after year, for the last twenty years. Which, if you take off your shoes and count all the way back, would make Herbert Hoover's 1932 budget the last "victory" for the "forces of economy." <i>This </i>is why no-one trusts the Republicans to run the economy. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Science, Medicine, Education</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Electromechanical Traffic Cops" Newsweek covers <a href="http://electronicvalley.org/derby/halloffame/Haugh,Harry.htm">Henry Haugh</a>'s "volume density traffic controller," the relay switch that activates a green light or red light depending on traffic in the intersection. It is being produced through Automatic Signal Corporation, and GE and Eagle Signal Corporation are offering competitive controllers. It sounds as though it is a bit tricky to implement in practice, but seems necessary, especially in Eastern cities with strange intersections from before the automobile. Button-controlled pedestrian crossings are integrated into the system by means of automatically controlled delay periods based on congestion. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoeLkQ1W-y_s0KENMDh_Ni6wSsBCKlgTelV5C2ncMr41PhxpuKMFqj4tyYjvkbAnS5pXgnV161VfxiDd_sPrBq16BL6Wzz_DDvIfu0PIeGY5nRZd_ZYfxRB4XRbJHfD0d8ZI1QAHj5TCRF_BGuxn6A0oWCWQwIy081ZM9fz_yjW3-pm0HmHIIYvq5ebxgQ/s3003/White%20Plains%20New%20York%20automatic%20traffic%20controller%20implementation.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2201" data-original-width="3003" height="470" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhoeLkQ1W-y_s0KENMDh_Ni6wSsBCKlgTelV5C2ncMr41PhxpuKMFqj4tyYjvkbAnS5pXgnV161VfxiDd_sPrBq16BL6Wzz_DDvIfu0PIeGY5nRZd_ZYfxRB4XRbJHfD0d8ZI1QAHj5TCRF_BGuxn6A0oWCWQwIy081ZM9fz_yjW3-pm0HmHIIYvq5ebxgQ/w640-h470/White%20Plains%20New%20York%20automatic%20traffic%20controller%20implementation.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3NESsjOeBpaHyBTU7hkyZutOMa2h-P7k4oh5xtOyRQ2vNbKz6bqOhpkZTyMAnQygx-u7_qB1YQT1MRqCbZ0OvATEqb7uKW8WRPyzt5S4FZL1A6gcfWw0GBZzvxgkSJxI74VUcQwEg5seX4Ny6h4Rv4HtJhRrx_qI3_YB6vAiFtJTLZLKO88MhdaIkvc5z/s4032/Polio%20serum%20production%201953.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="2705" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3NESsjOeBpaHyBTU7hkyZutOMa2h-P7k4oh5xtOyRQ2vNbKz6bqOhpkZTyMAnQygx-u7_qB1YQT1MRqCbZ0OvATEqb7uKW8WRPyzt5S4FZL1A6gcfWw0GBZzvxgkSJxI74VUcQwEg5seX4Ny6h4Rv4HtJhRrx_qI3_YB6vAiFtJTLZLKO88MhdaIkvc5z/s320/Polio%20serum%20production%201953.jpg" width="215" /></a></div>"The Drunkard's Wife" Dr. Samuel Futterman, an LA psychologist, has gathered evidence of a "reciprocal relationship between a husband's alcoholism and the wife's neurotic state." That is, he found a 30-year-old psychiatric nurse who went into clinical depression after her husband went cold turkey. He concludes that there is a <i>mutual </i>dependency. The husband was dependent on alcoholism, while the wife was dependent on her status as the protector and manager of her husband's condition. These women are crazy, he says, and no wonder they're always volunteering to join charitable societies! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Victory over Yaws" Yaws can be treated with penicillin, and UNICEF is making rapid progress against it in the tropics. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1n6y7DxF2vvebviKbCrlq2bdvZlnpN-pEYtM2FD_MNW6xKr8OvTrND_dRBdNxe8tU15SCYlsB7eUMOI0fRYRO2t7u9hwCTQ6orndMuTi4GhvoyqVw3Xc_ClE3x7MJrdj4TZnS07zOX5_HJtiupRwRKneUncETc2qmJVrLYLpjsNdU0dGQXyXmizgU2jvD/s4032/20230928_165320739_iOS.heic" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1n6y7DxF2vvebviKbCrlq2bdvZlnpN-pEYtM2FD_MNW6xKr8OvTrND_dRBdNxe8tU15SCYlsB7eUMOI0fRYRO2t7u9hwCTQ6orndMuTi4GhvoyqVw3Xc_ClE3x7MJrdj4TZnS07zOX5_HJtiupRwRKneUncETc2qmJVrLYLpjsNdU0dGQXyXmizgU2jvD/s320/20230928_165320739_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>"Einstein Says Don't" Albert Einstein has blasted the Senate Internal Security Committee, telling it, and educators, that all teachers should refuse to appear before it and discuss their politics on principle. Senator William E. Jenner, chair of the committee, points out that communist teachers are all controlled by Moscow, which makes teachers' politics the committee's business. (Way over in <b>Newsmakers, </b>the head of the Pentagon's service for disposing of all the newly classified papers in classified burners is complaining about all the half-eaten sandwiches they're having to fish out of the top secret document bins.) At the University of Nevada, the new President introduced relaxed admission standards last fall, because honestly, who goes to university in Reno? The chairman of the biology department, Professor Richardson, disagreed with this, so President <a href="https://www.unr.edu/president/past-presidents/minard-stout">Minard W. Stout</a> called him a "buttinsky" and told him to stop butting in, at which point professor and best-selling author Walter Van Tillburg Clark resigned, leading to the Board of Trustees to ask for Richardson's resignation, and now it is going to the Nevada Supreme Court. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valparaiso_University">Valparaiso University</a> has found a great alternative to raising fees to cover its declining enrollment. It is going to get students to work in a furniture factory it bought. I'm not going to go into the details because it just sounds so ridiculous. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piedmont_University">Piedmont College</a>, the Demorest, Georgia, Congregationalist college which has been teaching white supremacy (that's white supremacy, not "white supremacy"), thanks to generous donations from the one and only <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Van_Horn_Moseley">Major General George Van Horn Moseley</a>, and which is too much for even Demorest, Georgia, has been kicked out of the church, and is on its own after rioting students attacked a town councillor. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Radio-Television, Press, Newsmakers</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">KIXL is the only radio station you can pick up driving around Dallas that doesn't play hillbilly music, so that's good, which is why owner Lee Segall gets the lead story in <b>Radio-Television. </b>The TV station in Kansas City is on strike, and that's news, too. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Press </b>gives Bill Marriott of the newspaper-insert <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Weekend">Weekly Family Magazine</a> </i>gets a full page in <b>Press. </b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMmexTnNhJgiSscuj6hgRbZ4DpWmCWdzhDQTpDBAB5Qdnstv9LdmnYGL56VEteUblosBTVWv0FcUC3tHlRyzamtfMqZ3RUAwTahmhVmwncccFeUY3XgGyoFObY-pRMRvUJvVBUqha7CxBnxFY6JxXzA8XgvPsWZXmcQqFEwZ8lQIpO2Hnsjbpj_f33Tpdx/s3343/Roosevelt,%20Sara%20Delano.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgMmexTnNhJgiSscuj6hgRbZ4DpWmCWdzhDQTpDBAB5Qdnstv9LdmnYGL56VEteUblosBTVWv0FcUC3tHlRyzamtfMqZ3RUAwTahmhVmwncccFeUY3XgGyoFObY-pRMRvUJvVBUqha7CxBnxFY6JxXzA8XgvPsWZXmcQqFEwZ8lQIpO2Hnsjbpj_f33Tpdx/s320/Roosevelt,%20Sara%20Delano.jpg" /></a></div>In Latin America, t<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo_Rojas_Pinilla">he army has launched its first coup in Colombia in a hundred years.</a> Having backed the Conservatives in the five-year civil war against the Liberals, the Army has now been caught by a split within the ranks of the Conservatives between the really conservative ones and the not-as-conservative ones, and has decided that things have gone far enough. And Canada's election gets a story. George Drew of the Progressive Conservatives and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M._J._Coldwell">M. J. Coldwell</a> of the CCF are upset that an election in August will have a low turnout, effectively disenfranchising farmers and students. Newsweek likes George Drew, which is great, someone has to, and his wife is giving him that sideways look.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: start;">Two of the Marx brothers are in hospital. </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_Gilmore" style="text-align: start;">Edy Gilmore of the AP</a><span style="text-align: start;">'s Russian wife has been granted an exit visa. Louis Grasso, Ingrid Bergman, James C. Petrillo and Oscar Levant, a syndicate of Hollywood actors turned oil well investors, and James Bryant Conant are in the column for being famous or else settling a labour action. Three Uruguayan businessmen who drove motorcycles from Uruguay to New York City in just three months are in the paper for being supermen, and British MP Peter Baker for twitting Joe McCarthy.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Cornelius Vanderbilt is getting divorced again, in Reno. So is Randolph Turpin. Harry Truman is an honorary Indian chief of the Oklahoma Chamber of Commerce "tribe." Douglas Southall Freeman, sir Godfrey Tearle, Joseph M. Darst, and Robert M. Haig have died. (All in their late 60s.)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>New Films</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The coronation is a film! So is <i>Column South, </i>a Universal-International vehicle for Audie Murphy, which is an acceptable Western. <i>Pickup on South Street </i>(Fox) is "an undistinguished but reasonably exciting slapdash of sex and sadism with cops and crooks and Communists." <i>Sangaree </i>(Paramount) is a pirate movie set in colonial North Carolina, completely different from a Western except for the violence and the melodrama and the "enforced kissing." I guess the slavery part is a different angle? And it's based on a Frank G. Slaughter movie, so it's literature! Speaking of, <i>The Paris Express </i>is a British import and a bit more sophisticated, <i>and, </i>it says here, a good movie. Will wonders never? <i>Keepers of the Night </i>is a German religiously-minded movie that starts out "luminous, revelatory," and descends into allegorical inventions and melodrama. Too bad, <i>Newsweek </i>thinks. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Books</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The annual summer reading feature gives us <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Among_the_Savages">Shirley Jackson's </a><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_Among_the_Savages">Life Among the Savages</a>, </i>which is Jackson being domestic, believe it or not, Jane Soman's <i>Love is a Lonely Thing, </i>which is good, in spite of a seemingly-cliched beginning, <a href="https://www.shakariconnection.com/e-w-bovill-books.html">E. W. Bovill</a>'s thrilling history of the battle of Aleazar, the catastrophic 1578 battle in Morocco that temporarily ended Portugal's existence, Robb White's odd .memoir of a writer's retreat to the West Indies,<i> </i>Audrey Lindsey's "natural and spontaneous" thriller, <i>Singer and Not the Song, </i>Howard Swiggert's biography of George Washington, the collected letters of Sherwood Anderson, and archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley's memoirs.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Raymond Moley doesn't like the EPT. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><i>Aviation Week, </i>22 June 1953</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>News Digest </b>reports that the aircraft industry has formed a special committee on equipment cooling systems for the Air Force's supersonic planes, that the DC-6C is in the air, that Air Force C-124s were grounded for several days this month after a fire on an Iwo Jima-bound plane(!) that Aerojet's latest Rato rocket-assist has been approved for commercial use, and crashes of a Costa Rican airliner, the prototype Gloster Javelin, the first test flight of the Fairey Gannet, and a prediction that Lufthansa will have Comet 3s by 1960. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Katherine Johnsen's <b>Washington Roundup </b>reports an uphill fight in Congress to contain the size of the Air Force cuts, that the latest way to irritate Charles Wilson is to compare him to Louis Johnson, that the Air Force wants to slash tactical wings rather than strategic, that the Office of Defence Mobilisation is "here to stay," that <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Lister_Hill">Senator Lister Hill</a> is General Vandenberg's biggest defender, even though he sure doesn't sound like it, and blah blah we really should do something about civil aviation subsidies. <br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggMlTO3sCtXkWN8GJmF9pDH_hd-PtTA0igf_ZUXFjK2F8IP6hoJmLlF0dn2coYwNQh0c54L1FKRqYqGlxKu2QGRPd5VIbTwLcPCbh0a5bD68IY7pEvnFTy-FiBSoiwhbz-WfO-cYBMB3dAcu0pFqFH3iyJaPU9jsVNzEfv25W92Zd0BKeChlrgHXAX0dF1/s4032/20230929_221820597_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEggMlTO3sCtXkWN8GJmF9pDH_hd-PtTA0igf_ZUXFjK2F8IP6hoJmLlF0dn2coYwNQh0c54L1FKRqYqGlxKu2QGRPd5VIbTwLcPCbh0a5bD68IY7pEvnFTy-FiBSoiwhbz-WfO-cYBMB3dAcu0pFqFH3iyJaPU9jsVNzEfv25W92Zd0BKeChlrgHXAX0dF1/s320/20230929_221820597_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><b>Industry Observer </b>reports that sources are reporting that the DC-8 will be turboprop, not turbojet, at a very considerable saving, and that military money may underwrite its development. Convair's spring-loaded canopy release latch on the F-102 is popular with the Air Force. Allison has a monopoly on turbojet engines for missiles right now, good for it! Lockheed is racing to finish its F-104. Rolls Royce is making progress reducing jet engine noise. Allison deliveries of the J35 will fall by half this summer when the Air Force receives the last F-84G and the Curtis-Wright J65-powered F-84F replaces it. Grumman is testing a ramjet guided missile at Marquardt Aircraft's California jet lab. The Douglas DC-8 mockup is hidden behind a green canvas curtain and guarded by plant police at all times. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Katherine Johnsen reports for <b>Aviation Week </b>that "USAF Loses Ground in Cutback Fight" This is probably better followed in <i>Newsweek'</i>s less invested coverage, because no-one cares about General Vandenberg's "yes, but . . ." explanations of cost overruns and unspent allocations. Senator Margaret Chase Smith's sharp questions about naval aviation and the atomic cannon are also being ignored. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">India is buying the French Ouragan jet fighter, Piasecki reminds us about the H-21, the latest word is that F-84F spare parts will be made in Europe, the Air Force is recalling 37 C-54s from the airlines and threatens to take back C-46s from the nonskeds, next, for mysterious and not-to-be-disclosed reasons that definitely isn't preparation for a "Magic Carpet" operation in Korea. Cuts in military aircraft production now extend to the North American XA2J, and, of course, Willow Run C-119s, even though Uncle Henry says that it is all a big misunderstanding and that he will soon be getting his costs under control. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-tSaVcpmIYbw0buMsLC_c9WQf4YDkPycplldNiSUGv6gHGfe-D5aFQK43UF3g5jsXQC9ASfIDkX1FMLFFVROHWDCjI_OoWvSTiWJ_aLl7PVT-Vv1cuxucz0JJpPCqHyAR9S2S69YYP_N9gmXXozFG9Jz5vxMxlRDZTHgrFmX8Zd4lhnjn8EtLDHiU1u9n/s3670/Nagler%20Personal%20Helicopter.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3670" data-original-width="2275" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh-tSaVcpmIYbw0buMsLC_c9WQf4YDkPycplldNiSUGv6gHGfe-D5aFQK43UF3g5jsXQC9ASfIDkX1FMLFFVROHWDCjI_OoWvSTiWJ_aLl7PVT-Vv1cuxucz0JJpPCqHyAR9S2S69YYP_N9gmXXozFG9Jz5vxMxlRDZTHgrFmX8Zd4lhnjn8EtLDHiU1u9n/s320/Nagler%20Personal%20Helicopter.jpg" width="198" /></a></div>"AF Tries 'Weapon System' Plan" The Convair XB-58 bomber is being ordered as a 'weapon system,' which means that Convair will be responsible for all the installed equipment, hopefully cutting the time and cost of development, which is undermining the value of new bombers. Westinghouse has signed a ten-year development pact with Rolls Royce to get access to its jet development work, while the "Comet Crash Report Draws Fire," according to McGraw-Hill World News. The Indian court diagnoses structural failure. BOAC and de Havilland believe that this is premature. Robert Gross of Lockheed says that avionics are of growing importance, while Northrop is closing its school</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"RCAF Shows Off First Comet" It does! George L. Christian reporting. Italy's Fiat will build 50 F-86Ds, and Alexander McSurely reports on the Temco turboprop trainer and Australian Canberra and Sabre production is hitting snags. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">David Anderton has been a very bad boy and is sent off to cloud cuckoo land to investigate the rocket-assisted autogiro, convertiplanes, and personal helicopters on offer from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagler_NH-160">Bruno Nagler of Nagler Helicopter, Westchester, New York.</a> <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Thrust and Drag </b>has Dutch Kindelberger on atomic aeroplanes: They're ridiculous, Dutch thinks. Well, maybe some day in the distant future. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Letters</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Frank Highley asks whether there is <i>actually </i>an engineer shortage, or just a shortage of engineers willing to work for aviation industry money. Three readers write in to say just how good various articles were. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLwwPVl5danDcWd_5qpBeNCi9w_aLcLqvlmzLDxwBQnXttbduFTGXF1YLZyf8SmcT8mdYnpMvG0YjUrxkiqXmetDGtltJFjch-lT7ouvEtRE8TjWVZhiWujxJe-QroxSOHhB8MMXMqvMwSy3bwg7FDoaLabMZGKh31IntOZjLbYWPaQnlBVriTQVSuuDUs/s4032/20230929_230613925_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt=""Not enough payola to run this as a paragraph, but the girl's cute"" border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLwwPVl5danDcWd_5qpBeNCi9w_aLcLqvlmzLDxwBQnXttbduFTGXF1YLZyf8SmcT8mdYnpMvG0YjUrxkiqXmetDGtltJFjch-lT7ouvEtRE8TjWVZhiWujxJe-QroxSOHhB8MMXMqvMwSy3bwg7FDoaLabMZGKh31IntOZjLbYWPaQnlBVriTQVSuuDUs/w240-h320/20230929_230613925_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>Convair writes for <b>Production </b>that "Many Plastics Go Into Convair 340" About 3.4% of the structural weight, mainly in the cabin. <b>What's New </b>loved Perkins <i>Bulletin L453 </i>about magnetic amplifier regulated power supplies, Alpha Corporation's <i>Bulletin 100 </i>about Molykote silicon-based lubricants, Chicago Tool's untitled catalogue about machine tool accessories, South Bend Lathe Work's <i>Catalog 5304 </i>about same, . . . And you know what? The next FOURTEEN entries didn't make the first of the three pages of this feature this week, and so don't get any coverage because they are big stinky LOSERS. Pony up a bit more next week. <i>Aviation Week </i>had a bad streak at the track last Saturday. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ryan Aeronautical reports, I suppose still for <b>Production, </b>that "Streamlining Speeds Parts Production" They have an overhead conveyor now. And a heat treatment vat and a pressure ram for forming skins on a mandrel. Those aren't really "streamlining," but we'll just shove it in here anyway.<br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Aviation Safety </b>has the CAA report on the Lake Central Airlines Bonanza crash in Indianapolis last year. It was caused by turbulence. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">George L. Christian reports for <b>Equipment </b>that "Fram Strikes Pay Dirt in Engine Oil" Fram has done a study that proves that engine oil filters in big engines pay for themselves, and that is why the USAF and now TWA are using them. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKeCoF3AnGpCBmhd2ladhjEX7uFFq76yg1wOfTl3Hd0VzR3wZqO3HT99j3MDTWXPgrLp6T9drddRLbLwfKdnAYJMZ7poqnIr55a74n05hsYKbSomc55_x3PpiMpdwS7mfxkoCQCycc4HjZvqIVhgvj2_A7rKYxtdG5DIMyNz6w5H0BByIDUBY0hxWbUXBM/s4032/20230929_231125225_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKeCoF3AnGpCBmhd2ladhjEX7uFFq76yg1wOfTl3Hd0VzR3wZqO3HT99j3MDTWXPgrLp6T9drddRLbLwfKdnAYJMZ7poqnIr55a74n05hsYKbSomc55_x3PpiMpdwS7mfxkoCQCycc4HjZvqIVhgvj2_A7rKYxtdG5DIMyNz6w5H0BByIDUBY0hxWbUXBM/s320/20230929_231125225_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div><b>New Aviation Products </b>reports the tiniest VHF receiver ever from Schuttig and Company, the toughest silicone coating ever from GE, a non shorting single-pole rotary switch from Shallcross, an environmental test unit from Gavin, a miniature, geared, torque producer from Globe Industries, a self-closing drain from Technical Development Corporation, and a dual-purpose cockpit control wheel from Adams-Rite. <b>Air Transport, </b>which we don't ordinarily cover here, has an interesting article on BOAC's search for a Comet successor, a 150-seat jetliner, with the Vickers VC-7 having the inside track, notwithstanding the Avro Atlantic's high speed. Handley Page's Victor design doesn't have a pretty model yet, the Comet 4 is just a rumour, and Peter Masefield is pushing for the VC-7so as not to risk Britain's lead. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Captain Robson's <b>Cockpit Viewpoint </b>looks at the weather this year, which fortunately hasn't been lethal to air passengers, but has been very hard on planes. What can be done to help? Better weather radar! And why has it been so long appearing? One can only wonder. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Letters </b>(again) has a reader who is impressed by coverage of the SAE, Colin Nicholson of the RAeS who wants to talk, of course, about the old days, before the war. Joe Jessup, of Air Force Manpower Management Training, is impressed by Convair's executive development programme, Robert Smith of Pioneer Air Lines reminds everyone about the need to replace the DC-3, Arnold Hayes liked the article about Howard Hughes, H. W. Richardson of McGraw-Hill liked Captain Robson on plane lightness, and Burt Dyar has a joke for us. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5edhkW6JRCz-gLwo-Gd6Okmi62Xig2PZl4as6Q0EiGdUpz3FCyf-2goaseOIpVIqP3wLzC5hcI4Io8fK-XbiJVW5bkV_uLvOWISVL2cq6WhWkQidfmi41f9mQwBLM1UY6W7BsNzCjL4Y4ouqBQTMmOuIIELqF5v9QMjMP8RODOHBSJPtOaARVp7ervtWq/s4032/20230928_194023982_iOS.heic" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5edhkW6JRCz-gLwo-Gd6Okmi62Xig2PZl4as6Q0EiGdUpz3FCyf-2goaseOIpVIqP3wLzC5hcI4Io8fK-XbiJVW5bkV_uLvOWISVL2cq6WhWkQidfmi41f9mQwBLM1UY6W7BsNzCjL4Y4ouqBQTMmOuIIELqF5v9QMjMP8RODOHBSJPtOaARVp7ervtWq/s16000/20230928_194023982_iOS.heic" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div><b>Leaders</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div>Julian P. Muller, who is the Editor of the Vanguard Press, has strong opinions about the diabolical Chinese technique of brainwashing, fully explicated by Vanguard Press's book, <a href="http://www7.bbk.ac.uk/hiddenpersuaders/blog/hunter-origins-of-brainwashing/"><i>Brain-Washing in Red China, </i>by Edward Hunter</a> and now on show in Korea. Deejay John Luther of Station WERC writes <i>Newsweek </i>to explain that the new music is great. I think. It's all in the lingo the young folk talk nowadays, and I'm beginning to suspect that I'm not one of them, anyway. (By age, by the fact I have two kids, and above all by the fact that I'm approximately over the edge of the world this summer.) Cash Sanderson of Lancaster and John McDonald of Costa Mesa are agreed that the British shouldn't be building an extravagant royal yacht when they're taking American money. Kenneth Hood of the Better Business Bureau of St. Louis must have got an earful, because he writes to explain that his bureau never once meant to suggest that anyone should hesitate for a second to get a UHF TV or convert the one they had to receive UHF channels, even though it is a stupid thing to do right now. Albert Woolson may or may not have been the oldest Civil war veteran when he died, but he was a very nice man, say two readers. <b>For Your Information </b>welcomes Leonard Slater back from the distant wilderness of Los Angeles, Ernest K. Lindley got a nice plaque from the Navy for giving a talk to the Naval War College, and this week's cover picture is of the East Berlin rioters who are shaking the Iron Curtain. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZi6nQSW1p73ROtaMynYHnCyc1Jh2mtJ_uWR5GdrVYmsBEy4vp_z7ee0Uu0c7zOD1CnhpdZhzXKpiLE0BNFQCeI3yt3jmMG-cMR_LrTcXJl18jFZLCzbFZ0y9nMjffhJjo3aoXYltUTWa0sqBYc7H-SOW-ypZZ2O-8hM_aczh5LZVWXivXPasO9qEbUMco/s4005/NCR%20Live%20Keyboard%20Ad.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4005" data-original-width="2909" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZi6nQSW1p73ROtaMynYHnCyc1Jh2mtJ_uWR5GdrVYmsBEy4vp_z7ee0Uu0c7zOD1CnhpdZhzXKpiLE0BNFQCeI3yt3jmMG-cMR_LrTcXJl18jFZLCzbFZ0y9nMjffhJjo3aoXYltUTWa0sqBYc7H-SOW-ypZZ2O-8hM_aczh5LZVWXivXPasO9qEbUMco/s320/NCR%20Live%20Keyboard%20Ad.jpg" width="232" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><b>National Affairs</b></div><div><b><br /></b></div><div><b>The Periscope </b>reports that a "usually reliable source" (How would <b>The Periscope </b>know a reliable source from a bump on their bum? HOW?) says that the Communists are going to spirit the Rosenberg boys off to Moscow for a free Communist education with extra propaganda as a reward for their parents' silence. Central Intelligence reports that American intelligence is still getting to the Soviets, and according to one intelligence estimate, has "seriously affected the national security of the United States." The sudden collapse of Congressional resistance to Air Force cuts is due to discovery of a sinister Air Force plan to expand the Air Force to 160, and not 143 wings against the will of the civilian government. Eisenhower's speech at Dartmouth against the "book burners" was completely spontaneous. McCarthy headquarters are rife with dissent due to the rising influence of young Roy Cohen, who is elbowing out older stalwarts like Howard Rushmore and Joe Zack. The Pentagon notices that the President never talks to the Joint Chiefs during emergencies, and also doesn't wear his seatbelt. The VA is overstaffed, the Civil Defence Administration has a plan for a $100 underground reinforced concrete bomb shelter, and a $200 cinder-block one, Washington-area real estate agents report the worst market since the Depression, an "influx of known espionage agents, political opportunists, and FBI agents" in the Miami area points to<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Revolution"> a possible Cuban revolutio</a>n. Senator Johnson and Speaker Rayburn are talking up Frank Pace as chairman of the DNC. US B-47s are flying practice bombing runs out of Elgin Air Force Base with radar countermeasures, pathfinders, and "some still secret devices," and are passing evaluations with flying colours. General Vandenberg is literally sick over the Air Force's manpower shortfall. The "100" series of USAF fighters --the North American F-100, McDonnell F-101, Convair F-102, Republic F-106, and Lockheed F-104 are the bee's knees. SAC is having such a serious divorce problem due to long overseas and Alaska postings that General LeMay is preparing a report to Congress about it. French businessmen in the United States report visits from mysterious Americans claiming to be important figures from various agencies and wanting to know all about their dealings with Communist countries. They are upset and want to know if these men are from McCarthy, Central Intelligence, or what. Tito is said to have called Aneurin Bevan "naive." As soon as there is a French premier, Emperor Bao Dai and Premier Van Tam will fly to Paris to demand that he be made commander-in-chief in Indo-China, that the "mixed-law courts" in Vietnam be scrapped, and that Saigon's exchange-control bureau be transferred from French to Vietnamese hands. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernst_Wollweber">Ernest Wollweber,</a> the "chief Soviet instructor of saboteurs," has been seen in Swedish ports, explaining all those maritime accidents we've been having. Scientists at the University of Wisconsin are testing the idea that salmon are led back to their spawning beds by scents, and could perhaps be diverted to good spawning sites by artificial odours. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBEStsBMPx1AZDWNffzHzaJAHrIIL1ivzFwLCLQMBN687XFd_-tNF8PLW04Xf1gyvkIraJC-M048sOFnaFA1Oosf50k_hqvKH3ljxYgRQP8kNSoQZzVsytmvHULlsegk1wDOW2oa8TUxJIFcrV4h8nOMM3FFEkestBohFCAYNRuKORN9PRIfprMeHi7vOj/s4032/Honeywell%20Outside%20Temp%20Ad.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2953" data-original-width="4032" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBEStsBMPx1AZDWNffzHzaJAHrIIL1ivzFwLCLQMBN687XFd_-tNF8PLW04Xf1gyvkIraJC-M048sOFnaFA1Oosf50k_hqvKH3ljxYgRQP8kNSoQZzVsytmvHULlsegk1wDOW2oa8TUxJIFcrV4h8nOMM3FFEkestBohFCAYNRuKORN9PRIfprMeHi7vOj/s320/Honeywell%20Outside%20Temp%20Ad.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tea_and_Sympathy_(film)">Deborah Kerr</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Ashore">Mickey Rooney</a>, Eddie Bracken, and <a href="https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw214150/Nol-Coward-as-King-Magnus-in-The-Apple-Cart">Noel Coward</a> will have shows in the fall, and there will be an adaptation of the Nathaniel Benchley novel, <i>Side Street, </i>called "The Frogs of Spring." Adlai Stevenson will make his first public address since his world tour on CBS on 11 September, while <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0380909/"><i>Inner Sanctum </i>will make the leap to TV</a> in the fall, and<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Story_of_Mankind"> Hendrik Van Loon's Story of Mankind</a>" will be a major colour TV film series. The next Bob Hope-Bing Crosby travelogue will be <i>Road to the Moon, </i>Claire Bloom will be in a made-for-TV version of <i>The Tempest, </i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Brown_(film)#:~:text=Father%20Brown%20is%20a%201954,Peter%20Finch%20and%20Cecil%20Parker.">Alec Guiness will do </a><i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Brown_(film)#:~:text=Father%20Brown%20is%20a%201954,Peter%20Finch%20and%20Cecil%20Parker.">Father Brown</a>, </i>and <a href="https://cometoverhollywood.com/2022/05/16/musical-monday-gentlemen-marry-brunettes-1955/">Jean Crain and Debbie Reynolds will be in </a><i><a href="https://cometoverhollywood.com/2022/05/16/musical-monday-gentlemen-marry-brunettes-1955/">Gentlemen Marry Brunettes.</a> </i></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MqaYj31qQJk" width="320" youtube-src-id="MqaYj31qQJk"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">The only clunker is the <i>Road to the Moon </i>repeat</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Periscope Washington Trends </b>reports that the next thirty days will be the most momentous in the history of the United States because the Kremlin will have to "give the tipoff" as to whether it is serious about peace or is just luring us in before doing something about the East Berlin rising or something. That's it, I'm cutting <b>The Periscope </b>off. Meanwhile, the President is going to continue to be cautious with McCarthy, since the man makes a grand a speech, and attacking him will just mean that he'll start charging two grand instead. Still, there's <i>probably </i>going to be a show-down at some point, as the "book-burners" speech shows. Meanwhile, Democrats might start criticising the President directly soon. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwN1o4lkKd7_ivypR42xMPyzLzWcgUD5_fsayz4dPp4Ljb2ZviYRHFHADLcv9L1VfC7O7RSeRFM2yOOJuusZcsdSz5G-MeypNpkXOwLOiidjRBFLGK1pBhO_Lm0q5epMC98cn_v7XYClHxQQdvFztQPR5GzUYAei8Qo9iNptNW7_6dOvZYsxyR9rPVC2sc/s3971/Bundyweld%20refrigerator%20ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3971" data-original-width="2599" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwN1o4lkKd7_ivypR42xMPyzLzWcgUD5_fsayz4dPp4Ljb2ZviYRHFHADLcv9L1VfC7O7RSeRFM2yOOJuusZcsdSz5G-MeypNpkXOwLOiidjRBFLGK1pBhO_Lm0q5epMC98cn_v7XYClHxQQdvFztQPR5GzUYAei8Qo9iNptNW7_6dOvZYsxyR9rPVC2sc/s320/Bundyweld%20refrigerator%20ad.jpg" width="209" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>National Affairs</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Rhee' Revolt, Berlin Riots Upset West --and the Kremlin" Rhee's decision to release the POWs has brought armistice negotiations to a stand still while the Kremlin is shaken by the East Berlin riots. Now Rhee is refusing to order his troops to withdraw to the armistice line when the ceasefire comes into effect. In fact, he has given them orders to follow the retreating Reds, reigniting the war. So far, he has resisted all calls and invitations to back down. Is something going to happen? <b>The Periscope </b>thinks so, which is probably the best argument that it isn't, but if the atom bombs are going off over there are you read this, I apologise! From, as I said, Nakusp. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Relief Pitcher's Error" Senator Taft is back in Washington, still on crutches, but so far is content to watch Knowland drop the pitch in a negotiation with Lyndon Johnson for a quorum to vote on a provision of the Defence Production Act. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU_oG4Bw1zm46G4HY5Ljw98f4C-q-Jh8Pyrz6vRj-cAbnjN6EEmEO7vvTYwLgNggOYWg5Nxzd8SZO_vikMHj_M6SDGYAb-01UDK-6TBQGaRmyPnc1buw013DImZ43lP8x_RABRq9lP2IThMV0M-FVOMvryRl7WcIAMOKcxSyGgQBa2YqK7oxbYYa3HLj54/s4001/McCarthy,%20Joseph(3).jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1822" data-original-width="4001" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgU_oG4Bw1zm46G4HY5Ljw98f4C-q-Jh8Pyrz6vRj-cAbnjN6EEmEO7vvTYwLgNggOYWg5Nxzd8SZO_vikMHj_M6SDGYAb-01UDK-6TBQGaRmyPnc1buw013DImZ43lP8x_RABRq9lP2IThMV0M-FVOMvryRl7WcIAMOKcxSyGgQBa2YqK7oxbYYa3HLj54/s320/McCarthy,%20Joseph(3).jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"Something Burning" The President's "bookburners" speech came right after Senator McCarthy's committee called for the removal of 30,000 "controversial" volumes from Government libraries overseas, so it might <i>seem </i>like it puts the Senator on the spot, but, after all, he says he hasn't, personally, burned any books, and the President didn't specifically mention him, so he's fine! Then the question came up again when James Conant was hauled before the committee. Conant is currently the United States High Commissioner in Germany, so he's <i>kind </i>of responsible for all those controversial volumes as being in charge of all that government stuff over there in that one country, AND because he's an egghead from Harvard. Meanwhile, Dulles says that there has been actual, literal book burning at the United States Information Service libraries in Sydney and Singapore, where eleven actual volumes were burned. "Officials denied it." Meanwhile, the President says that he didn't mean to single anyone out specifically, and he wasn't endorsing Communist books. He just wants to know exactly how controversial volumes have been handled overseas, because burning Dashiell Hammett's <i>The Thin Man </i>and Owen Lattimore's <i>Pivot of Asia </i>would be too much. Meanwhile, the Senate Investigations subcommittee has moved on to the pressing matter of FBI informant <a href="https://casetext.com/case/mesarosh-v-united-states">Joseph D. Mazzei</a> naming<a href="https://www.peoplesworld.org/article/lou-bortz/"> Lou Bortz</a> as the Philadelphia Communist Party's designated assassin, tasked with killing Senator McCarthy himself. <br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTKXsgFqNMnAYWX2OJ1oaGEKGC8Q3Qru2CjoZKjwwlLDNFr2Fe12H_ojHbsyu3i_eTIuQ-YOOQdTav7Vk2HpmiSFjDDZdrNf1YUVrh_CzMXgmsh8qrYnAYvdUQ8PAAX33i9tf1wqBLN1Q2hA_ZBX4IWZO1sPTpeHQyhci3fiSolq3cq-fwW9-W75CA3m8D/s400/Bortz,%20Louis.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Lou Borz as a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, 1938" border="0" data-original-height="400" data-original-width="245" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgTKXsgFqNMnAYWX2OJ1oaGEKGC8Q3Qru2CjoZKjwwlLDNFr2Fe12H_ojHbsyu3i_eTIuQ-YOOQdTav7Vk2HpmiSFjDDZdrNf1YUVrh_CzMXgmsh8qrYnAYvdUQ8PAAX33i9tf1wqBLN1Q2hA_ZBX4IWZO1sPTpeHQyhci3fiSolq3cq-fwW9-W75CA3m8D/w196-h320/Bortz,%20Louis.jpg" width="196" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Ike Today: Still a Middle Roader, Still Learning"Considering that he's had to learn on the job, the President is doing a great job! Great! He has come to realise the importance of social security, the TVA, farm price supports, and the EPT, so forget what he said on the campaign trail. Except that one time he said privately that he didn't like Joe McCarthy. That's still true! But that doesn't mean he's against government security investigations. Why, the reports on some members of his own campaign were shocking! Also, the slimmed down foreign aid bill is going to be a "must pass" bill for the GOP, so everyone get in line, and the Rosenbergs are absolutely going to fry, says the President and now the Supreme Court. Earlier, Justice Douglas had issued a stay, on the grounds that the jury never recommended a death sentence, which is required under the 1946 Atomic Energy Act, but not the 1917 Espionage Act, the argument being that the Rosenbergs were improperly charged under the latter and not the former. Douglas might have intended to give the courts, or the President, a safe exit from the highway to execution, but "the Justice Department and the White House" decided that there would be none of that and ordered an expedited hearing, and on Friday a 6 Justice majority voted to vacate Douglas' stay. (Not to be outdone, Congressman Wheeler of Georgia wants Douglas impeached.) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At 8 pm Friday, 19 June, 1953, the Rosenbergs were executed.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rggCCyDB8V8" width="320" youtube-src-id="rggCCyDB8V8"></iframe></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">Ernest K. Lindley thinks things are out of control, what with the Four Powers meeting and Rhee's mutiny and the riots in Berlin. "[O]ther people do things which could not reasonably be foreseen, or, perhaps, could not have been prevented if they had been foreseen." A special report details the duties and makeup of the National Security Council. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Korean War/International</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIYhQLvhyqAWjqW9mZfmJUZ0NptFxTyTqnLhxdysatjaPtRvvHdNCIVj_m5973Df4xvYhQaFiDK7hTNBgHsEQBW6MJ441x77G9OpvjgPSW1sX3VAWBmAGtLpXc_2HYoUt9kEaF2gLB5frkpqFitsOVP-HsR3G3S_-BwQMVEXNJuGJMMFPoS9bhFP_xnPnR/s2944/POW%20Escape%20Korea,%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2805" data-original-width="2944" height="381" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhIYhQLvhyqAWjqW9mZfmJUZ0NptFxTyTqnLhxdysatjaPtRvvHdNCIVj_m5973Df4xvYhQaFiDK7hTNBgHsEQBW6MJ441x77G9OpvjgPSW1sX3VAWBmAGtLpXc_2HYoUt9kEaF2gLB5frkpqFitsOVP-HsR3G3S_-BwQMVEXNJuGJMMFPoS9bhFP_xnPnR/w400-h381/POW%20Escape%20Korea,%201953.jpg" width="400" /></a>"Syngman Rhee Poses a Riddle: Will the Reds Still Sign a Truce?" Rhee's decision to release 25,000 anti-Communist North Korean POWs, less the 76 gunned down by American guards at Camp No. 10 and the thousand who have since turned themselves in to the UN, does not invalidate the armistice from General Clark's point of view. He will still sign it, in spite of Rhee's threat to withdraw the ROK army from UN command. The question is whether the Reds will follow through on the armistice, and whether 8th Army and the UN will have to depose Rhee, declare martial law, simply abandon Korea, "continue the war on Rhee's terms," or pass the buck up to State. The embarrassing thing is that none of this should be surprising. Rhee threatened to release the POWs repeatedly, and action had to be coordinated with guards, prisoners, and the ROK army, which received the fleeing POWS and issued them clothes and "old identity cards." Speaking in Japanese with ROK soldiers and Seoul-area civilians, <i>Newsweek </i>finds brought support for the President's action, and for continuing the war.<br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8cgB_VkBSj42y3bE7v8E-KIsPO7I6FYRNCIFjcT1ipitGeCxDvpop2zi1dqVO2Rv0B6rkWOTdcgC9MnX6KnR8WcF71He-09zopnhLiCfAbjNXUlkGxU-z-IQvoon4LRRfvhDvmMqBi-1fiaG3TsE1wsOJ5AlfWm5rITHn_lDBae7VEuVO4Qj9oTBYQiC9/s3857/East%20Berlin%20Riots%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1860" data-original-width="3857" height="193" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8cgB_VkBSj42y3bE7v8E-KIsPO7I6FYRNCIFjcT1ipitGeCxDvpop2zi1dqVO2Rv0B6rkWOTdcgC9MnX6KnR8WcF71He-09zopnhLiCfAbjNXUlkGxU-z-IQvoon4LRRfvhDvmMqBi-1fiaG3TsE1wsOJ5AlfWm5rITHn_lDBae7VEuVO4Qj9oTBYQiC9/w400-h193/East%20Berlin%20Riots%201953.jpg" width="400" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Berlin Surprise Outbreak Jolts a Weakened Kremlin" East Berliners protesting the new work norms have provoked a general strike leading to an uprising, with Red Army tanks and machine guns seen in the streets as martial law was proclaimed in the city and sympathy rioting broke out in West Berlin. Also, "Significance of Setbacks to West and Reds" explains the <i>other </i>problem, which is that our allies are not behaving as they ought. It looks like the European army, and thus West German rearmament, is out, and Winston Churchill is fighting for that Four Powers Conference that the Administration is desperate to avoid, and thereby reasserting the importance of diplomacy versus, as Western Europe sees it, dictation. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Follows an interview with Mayor Ernst Reuter of West Berlin, and Leon Volkov's meditation that the riots in East Berlin must be worrying the Kremlin, which can hardly count on the Red Army to protect them if the same thing were to happen in Russia, especially since the German riots have already resulted in the work norm increases being reversed. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYOYaTGhAA9rDAAdst_pjXbIXnyahxg9sYlUagSL3tKE5aU886jGVj5SrrkoW5bMA_EzsyP81uq7cSEYeGmfjnpxqJ3e8GTItrOHi6fUgmL1y0XChImvnhZbbKMY9jrZEQLcRpttd1E_9b_zYnPQH9aVA42bNDn-jmA2MQVQ6-DfHmtSAn-OJLJllLltLu/s1024/Los%20Angeles%20slum%20area%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="See credit at link" border="0" data-original-height="714" data-original-width="1024" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYOYaTGhAA9rDAAdst_pjXbIXnyahxg9sYlUagSL3tKE5aU886jGVj5SrrkoW5bMA_EzsyP81uq7cSEYeGmfjnpxqJ3e8GTItrOHi6fUgmL1y0XChImvnhZbbKMY9jrZEQLcRpttd1E_9b_zYnPQH9aVA42bNDn-jmA2MQVQ6-DfHmtSAn-OJLJllLltLu/w320-h223/Los%20Angeles%20slum%20area%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>In briefer <b>International </b>notes, <i>Newsweek </i>covers the latest MATS crash, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tachikawa_air_disaster#:~:text=The%20Tachikawa%20air%20disaster%20(Japanese,Tachikawa%2C%20Japan%2C%20killing%20all%20129">Douglas C-124 Globemaster that went in due to engine failure at Tachikawa air base outside Tokyo, with 129 crew and passengers dead</a>, the worst accident in aviation history. In Malaya, the bodyguards of Communist guerilla leaders Law Fatt and Ha Yong have murdered their bosses and turned themselves in to the police. King Sihanouk has put himself in command of a Cambodian army of national liberation just across the border from Thailand, General Naguib has been kicked upstairs to be President with the proclamation of the Egyptian Republic, while Gamal Abdul Nasser runs the army. (If you're wondering why he was "Gamul" last week, it is because Arabic vowels can be confusing and no-one at <i>Newsweek </i>could be bothered.) Now we just have to settle the Canal Zone, which is hard because Winston Churchill won't say what Britain's position is. A Russian ship captain interviewed on Radio Moscow says that life is pretty hard in Harlem, that there are underaged workers on the LA docks, and working class suburbs of LA are full of oil derricks and stink of petroleum, while the homes are "rusty car bodies" and <a href="https://www.jstor.org/site/california-state-university-northridge/hpla/">huts knocked out of plywood</a>. Which is obviously Communist propaganda. The French still don't have a government, with Marie winning the lowest vote of confidence yet; Pinay will try next. The British are mad for horses and Four Power conferences in Bermuda, with Downing Street announcing that the conference will open on 8 July and that Churchill will leave Britain on 30 June aboard <i>HMS Vanguard. <br /></i><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgReFuHmm0aO-dPfEaie0TcrGG9ajMI55WvH0DTUrJ4AqVMcZsoSbPAtv6tgxe6LUu3HWf1pX7lN5FFw6YkPrtDh4KPzhSXULftjBEoeCPjFaOTjbZ_A9BYRhMMIVn0L0pQIDGOabIaCU40uQg3ayUelBxHGy2j4ULx3FZ-8g2OlEZEJSrk-INAjWBDmqjI/s3014/Schaack,%20Christel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3014" data-original-width="1552" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgReFuHmm0aO-dPfEaie0TcrGG9ajMI55WvH0DTUrJ4AqVMcZsoSbPAtv6tgxe6LUu3HWf1pX7lN5FFw6YkPrtDh4KPzhSXULftjBEoeCPjFaOTjbZ_A9BYRhMMIVn0L0pQIDGOabIaCU40uQg3ayUelBxHGy2j4ULx3FZ-8g2OlEZEJSrk-INAjWBDmqjI/s320/Schaack,%20Christel.jpg" width="165" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On this continent, everyone in Colombia is happy about the coup, because five years of civil war is very inconvenient, and lots of people died, which is bad, one supposes. Brazil is having an economic crisis, which is their own fault for being so extravagant and absolutely not that of the U.S., whatever those silly Brazilians say.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Business</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>The Periscope Business Trends </b>reports that "Cautious optimism marks the business mood. Even though business is at record levels, businessmen are becoming increasingly concerned over some of the soft spots." Besides farm incomes, there is the first April-to-May slump in housing starts since the war, and the $5 billion rise in consumer credit to $256 billion, which all the responsible economists say is no big deal. So don't worry, the soft spots are perfectly explainable, incomes are up, and in fact the AFL and CIO are planning where to strike next! (Which is a good thing, at least on this page.)</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Shoppers Buying Widely, But Warily, Nationwide Sounding Shows" Meanwhile, in the real world, retailers are worried because consumers are only buying the sales. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Idea Man" The $194,000 essay contest sponsored by GM on solving the nation's traffic congestion problem has been won by an obscure fellow named Robert Moses. (He's mainly been employed in New York City on tidying up matters like planning Central Park, which I'm sure you've never heard of.) Obviously with that kind of low-profile job, he's had plenty of time to work out the perfect solution to our traffic problem, which is to spend twice as much on the highways as we do right now, mainly by giving Federal highways money (raised by increasing the gas tax) to congested urban areas to spend as they see fit. More stoplights, a ban on truck loading and unloading, more one way streets, more parking meters, more white lines, more one-way streets, fewer taxi-cabs, are other suggestions. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Steel prices are up, corporations should be thinking hard about how much money they are borrowing, since the boom won't last forever, says Paul E. Crocker of the Pepperell Manufacturing Corporation to the American Management Association annual convention, and Manhattan developer Harvey Zeckendorf is the best real estate developer ever. Harvey Firestone is the latest American businessman who can't understand how the dollar shortage works. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Notes: Week in Business </b>reports that the Southern is the latest railroad to dieselise, that the Agriculture Department is trying to figure out how to deal with its butter surplus without crashing the market, that Olin is buying Interstate Natural Gas from Standard Oil of New Jersey to develop its 455,000 acres of land in East Texas and Louisiana. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLDE448Whcdn54nbP836RypCJ6rtiTaAad2j_b8BdZJCF0dNyym-KYQmQT1nC58_yUFK-XDpjE7nVTC_RVoKkL7Q1YxBSTrlFkt6OYql_TrCoqFYyr3q1ehp4hwRHKVbJp-8Bl-ee7j7hWFMHVwxkuijnCFmpBNlBe_STJCZTHKIIkivtHDE_TAjXrwWRk/s4032/GM%20Diesel%20Ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjLDE448Whcdn54nbP836RypCJ6rtiTaAad2j_b8BdZJCF0dNyym-KYQmQT1nC58_yUFK-XDpjE7nVTC_RVoKkL7Q1YxBSTrlFkt6OYql_TrCoqFYyr3q1ehp4hwRHKVbJp-8Bl-ee7j7hWFMHVwxkuijnCFmpBNlBe_STJCZTHKIIkivtHDE_TAjXrwWRk/s320/GM%20Diesel%20Ad.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"Lockheed First" The first Super Constellation to be delivered to KLM this week is the <a href="https://aviation-safety.net/database/types/Lockheed-L-1049-Super-Constellation/losses">first turbocompound airliner</a> to fly anywhere in the world. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Products: What's New </b>reports gas ranges with "deep-toned, antique copper finish" from Chambers of Shelbyville, Indiana, an ice maker from Polar Chips Company of Fort Worth, and a high-fidelity record player with adjustable turntable speed from Zenith. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Over at <b>Business Tides, </b>Henry Hazlitt asks "Can We Prevent Depression?" Yes, he explains, by preventing booms! You see, when things go up, they have to come down, and so if you have a boom, you will have a depression. (He is <i>very </i>upset at Dr. Burns for saying that capitalism leads to cyclical economic trends and that the government has to manage them "countercyclically.") Because what causes booms? Government! So the solution to not having depressions is not having governments, as was clearly shown by all the depressions we didn't have back in the Nineteenth Century. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Science, Medicine, Education</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Atomic House Cleaning" At Oak Ridge, there are special atomic janitors in charge of radioactive spills who sandblast away surfaces exposed to radioactive spills and strip special wall paper. But what if there is some kind of uncontained atomic accident (like, for example, World War III)? What's a mere housewife to do? <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1981/01/01/obituaries/foster-snell-chemical-engineer-and-head-of-consulting-concern.html">Dr. Foster Dee Snell</a>, "an eminent consulting chemist of New York" says, wipe it up with some Vim and some elbow grease! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Formulas for History" The University of Chicago's Committee on Mathematical Biology, headed by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Rashevsky">Nicholas Rashevsky</a>, is working on the "mathematical foundations" of various sciences, and is now looking at the "challenge of the social sciences." For example, there was a recent study on the spread of rumours, and now the committee is ready to tackle the question of "Why did the tremendous acceleration of technological development take place in Western Europe rather than in older sites of civilisation . . .?" It wasn't race or climate, Rashevsky concludes, but rather the length of shoreline in Europe. That's actually surprisingly sane considering some of the things I've read on this subject. "Mathematical history is in its infancy," so look forward to more mathematical "postdicting" of historical events. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8q5zOk-BFoyScRTRSJVBWKxPnPkNu4adTSXiTGzRXH9zSCL6sEDB3FcObwlmcr-3EWziuixIIn9x_ZMjAFJg94hxXkIK8Gi0NV1N5jwpgf4DjoWclekpa2FumYQKN-vxH50THFwocYnM3vinu1ZNTcKOUuIuVEa_rblfkYqjsQSZu63_LWQbSZxAfbt4V/s3775/Nursing%20shortage%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1849" data-original-width="3775" height="196" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8q5zOk-BFoyScRTRSJVBWKxPnPkNu4adTSXiTGzRXH9zSCL6sEDB3FcObwlmcr-3EWziuixIIn9x_ZMjAFJg94hxXkIK8Gi0NV1N5jwpgf4DjoWclekpa2FumYQKN-vxH50THFwocYnM3vinu1ZNTcKOUuIuVEa_rblfkYqjsQSZu63_LWQbSZxAfbt4V/w400-h196/Nursing%20shortage%201953.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>"Scared Fish, Safe Fish" Hatchery-raised trout are far too complacent and need a healthy dose of random terror to flourish once released into the wild, say three Michigan State College students who have studied the matter. Wait 'till they're released from Michigan State College! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Team Nursing" The Division of Nursing at Teachers College, Columbia University, has been studying the graduate-nurses shortage since 1947. It has concluded is that the solution is for the graduate nurse to boss around some underlings, and also the patients, who, Heaven knows, could use more bossing. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Medical Notes </b>reports that Marius N. Smith-Peterson, the famous orthopedic surgeon who recently operated on Arthur Godfrey's hip, has died of a massive heart attack at 66. <a href="https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16602679/">Dr. Irving Cooper's artery-crushing surgery</a>, which has helped some victims of Parkinson's Disease, is being extended, as Dr. Cooper looks for other kinds of paralysis, rigidity, and tremors that he can treat with "artery crushing." (This seems wise, as the patients can't run away from the artery crushers very fast.) Warfarin, the rat poison, is also great for heart patients. I mean, besides the ones who are rats, says Dr. Sephard Shapiro of the New York University College of Medicine. He's been experimenting, you see. Two doctors in Raleigh, North Carolina, have been successfully treating polio paralysis victims who are stuck in braces with a surgery which was abandoned forty years ago for being too gruesome for people back then, but this is a bright new day, so why not remove the ankle bone and peel the bone of its cartilage and covering, then scrape and clean adjacent bones, before reseating the ankle bone. The resulting stiff foot will support the patient without braces. Success! <a href="https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,890513,00.html">Commander Gerald J. Duffner</a> of the Navy Medical Corps has discovered a promising technique for choosing men for submarine service involving torturing them and removing whoever breaks first. Okay, okay, it is a specific kind of torture that is vaguely submarine related. (High frequency vibrations.) Happy? </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="Lee Mohrman Thurston">Lee Mohrman Thurston</a>, who is, sources close to Lee Mohrman Thurston confirm, a great educator and "practical philosopher," is the new Commissioner of the United States Office of Education, filling the office vacated by Earl McGrath over budget cuts. The American Association of University Women heard some interesting papers about prejudices and peer pressure at its biennial convention. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Press, Radio-Television, Newsmakers</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG0u1xoJp_rus4ropjZmzyFLfgDrVJwVyHmq_ujTnkK408dPIuLmTqoHPRtnsvLlQ2gxSQ5_KQovaKABBcIz4qp0ALr7GRt_Eom28R-QRwV7LEtpX76-aC1yUOOFmWUpoiMh9aB-U65Drj7-Hoj3DYUpznNilpKN0nF_rQVWoqdDmWf8_SQ6S1jZ-10mqj/s599/Jacob%20Epstein,%20Rock%20Drill.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="445" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiG0u1xoJp_rus4ropjZmzyFLfgDrVJwVyHmq_ujTnkK408dPIuLmTqoHPRtnsvLlQ2gxSQ5_KQovaKABBcIz4qp0ALr7GRt_Eom28R-QRwV7LEtpX76-aC1yUOOFmWUpoiMh9aB-U65Drj7-Hoj3DYUpznNilpKN0nF_rQVWoqdDmWf8_SQ6S1jZ-10mqj/s320/Jacob%20Epstein,%20Rock%20Drill.jpg" width="238" /></a></div><b>Press </b>has stories about the <i>El Paso Herald-Tribune </i>investigating corruption at City Hall and the police department and Maxine Hall uncovering a sad case in the <i>Knoxville News-Sentinel. </i>The Eisenhower Administration has responded to newspaper complaints about the Truman secrecy act by reducing the number of classifications and stripping 29 agencies, some faintly fairly ridiculous (American Battle Monuments Commission, Committee on the Purchase of Blind-Made Products), of the power to classify documents. Arthur Sulzberger of the <i>New York Times </i>thinks that Americans who gave up being Communist before some date like the Berlin blockade should get a "political amnesty."<br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Wasn't that Ford Anniversary Show something? Also, Bert Parks, Paul White (of CBS news) and KFMB-TV reporter Harold Keen are great guys. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Ingrid Bergman and Isabella and Ingrid Rossellini, Faith Baldwin and Hugh Cuthrell, Hoyt S. Vandenberg, the President's grandchildren, Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, Clark Gable, Suzanne Dardolle and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Epstein">Jacob Epstein</a> are in the column for being famous, related to someone famous, or standing next to someone famous. The national marbles champion, Princeton valedictorian, Clarence Beutel, and a crook in LA are here in their own right. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Frank Borzage and Bob Mathias are married. Donald O'Connor and Martha Raye are divorced. Anthony de Bonaventura is recovering from the appendicitis that interrupted his honeymoon with Sara Delano Roosevelt di Bonaventura. Margaret Bondfield and Rene Fonck have died. I'm a little surprised that he is still alive, but I misremembered his entry into the Orteig Prize as killing him, where it was only the other three other crew members. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/wtHvetGnOdM" width="320" youtube-src-id="wtHvetGnOdM"></iframe></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">His estate was probated. He was seventy grand in debt, which is <i>perfectly </i>reasonable. </span></div><div><b>New Films</b><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /> United Artists' <i>The Moon is Blue, </i>based on the hit 1951 touring play, has been refused a Production Code seal and has been released without the approval of Eric Johnston's office. (Remember when he was going to be the Republican nominee in 1944?) It is funny, flippant and frank, and far too racy for its own good. <i>Hundred Hour Hunt </i>is three episodes of a British drama covering the search for a blood donor for a tragically ill little girl. The last part is a bit melodramatic, the rest is a "deft and credible exercise in suspense." <i>Never Let Go </i>(MGM), is a Clark Gable vehicle in which he plays a "conquering American" getting his Russian ballerina bride out of the country and back to the Land of the Free. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>New Books</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSgfQuv38o_yiegIGnIsuRAMx-VTqDxJ20PTN9EWJLJ_cXWlx7LnBtz0PNvEyN_g0aFJ-Voyqx5iY8V5crujhzr7KTbkXatyexLqvA54VIUFCnuYwaMbS_hRV8OQ-i-yZ1GoUd5EpMYH_5oepiRk0uWQiOWRRn08PZ13MgWIjHtzH94Iw2f20iZYCfd10m/s4032/20230929_203224780_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSgfQuv38o_yiegIGnIsuRAMx-VTqDxJ20PTN9EWJLJ_cXWlx7LnBtz0PNvEyN_g0aFJ-Voyqx5iY8V5crujhzr7KTbkXatyexLqvA54VIUFCnuYwaMbS_hRV8OQ-i-yZ1GoUd5EpMYH_5oepiRk0uWQiOWRRn08PZ13MgWIjHtzH94Iw2f20iZYCfd10m/s320/20230929_203224780_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>We lead off with Pete Martin's life of Bing Crosby, <i>Call Me Lucky, </i>illustrated with a picture sure to have Uncle George swooning. Besides that, it isn't much, and we can bring him down to Earth pretty quickly by rubbing a copy of the eighth volume of Samuel Eliot Morison's history of America's war at sea, or, as <i>Morison </i>would have it, "US Naval Operations in WWII." Or maybe not, because this specific one covers Leyte, and might bring back unpleasant memories, so never mind the cheap joke. <b>Other Books </b>notices Vina Delmar's historical novel of the Civil War, Francois de Bernardy's study of <i>Albert and Victoria, </i>translated from the French. (No, I don't understand, either.) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Raymond Moley is upset that people are complaining about Congress. Congress rules, it says so in the Constitution, so shut up, sit down, have a drink and watch Senator McCarthy having a drink on the TV while he assassinates another reputation! <br /></div><br /><br /><br /><br /><i>Aviation Week, </i>29 June 1953</div><div><br /></div><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie9_MFPUNR8l0XP7F2yf1qepCl_pa-CY-glWT3FJVo90QL_nlMhi_JRYzftmo0YAxzAZ6P161xQ3x3PXldGA9l_VZ5-ZpTWn8oEK55CraIs9CQ5_tTxq6K8kZGAtyLM67ApvEXkYlbr_5vhCthP9guaV1rplquSAY6O52fkzjCTgcaXCAhZzvmu19z_lCZ/s1118/Soucek,%20Admiral%20Apollo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Heart attack at age 58, 1955" border="0" data-original-height="1118" data-original-width="800" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEie9_MFPUNR8l0XP7F2yf1qepCl_pa-CY-glWT3FJVo90QL_nlMhi_JRYzftmo0YAxzAZ6P161xQ3x3PXldGA9l_VZ5-ZpTWn8oEK55CraIs9CQ5_tTxq6K8kZGAtyLM67ApvEXkYlbr_5vhCthP9guaV1rplquSAY6O52fkzjCTgcaXCAhZzvmu19z_lCZ/w229-h320/Soucek,%20Admiral%20Apollo.jpg" width="229" /></a></div><b>News Digest </b>reports that Republic has given SNCASE a $30 million contract for spare parts for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Republic_F-84F_Thunderstreak">F-84F</a> and that the Navy cancellation of 30 Piasecki HUP helicopters will have no effect on the work force at Piasecki. There has been a $100,000 cash settlement in the case of the first family in the apartment hit by the Elizabeth NAL DC-6 crash, with more to come. Pratt and Whitney is about to begin mass production of its <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pratt_%26_Whitney_T34">T34 turboprop</a>. The Air Transport Association forecasts 60 passenger helicopters by 1960. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_Soucek">Rear Admiral Apollo Soucek</a> is the new head of BuAer. Pan Am is furloughing 80 co-pilots out of its total pilot roster of 1340. A single Pan-Am crew will be able to fly non-stop Los Angeles-New York when the DC-7 enters service. Pan Am is adopting the Selsig Selective Signalling Device, which is like a telephone ringer for air crews. The new de Havilland Gyron, advertised as a 15,000lb turbojet, is running considerably below that power. Advertised as a simple, light weight engine with an efficient compressor, it does not use titanium, contrary to reports, and is expected to give 20,000lbs by 1960. GE engineers have been working on it under the GE-de Havilland technical cooperation agreement and it is likely to be the engine of several new British fighters on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawker_P.1121">the secret list</a>. Rolls Royce may get an off-shore purchase contract to build Avons for the Italian F-86Ds, but the first 50 will have GE J47s. Avons will aslo go into the Australian F-86s, and on paper will give them better performances than MiG-15s, Hunters and Swifts. <br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf8HB0oeenHAIvzSxXBL1Mw86-bo6i0Wz8gM_e3dybrFWBPr6k8HDa9qw0d5Xv9HX94T1kIIhrJbU0nArRkBC68B1vinWOnSLoulm-RsFYgtmDwdgGmdWovbPzljj2MJ9-hCNF-LsOant4Afjila0l_lcFcmxWiyJ3siBpE1PB8YoUDVjweaP95cLcPTfw/s1024/Hawker%20P.1121.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="1024" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf8HB0oeenHAIvzSxXBL1Mw86-bo6i0Wz8gM_e3dybrFWBPr6k8HDa9qw0d5Xv9HX94T1kIIhrJbU0nArRkBC68B1vinWOnSLoulm-RsFYgtmDwdgGmdWovbPzljj2MJ9-hCNF-LsOant4Afjila0l_lcFcmxWiyJ3siBpE1PB8YoUDVjweaP95cLcPTfw/s320/Hawker%20P.1121.JPG" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Aviation Week </b>has "First U.S. Jetliner to Be World's Fastest" The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_707">Boeing 707</a> will make its first flight in 1954 and will be faster and more powerful than the de Havilland Comet, cruising in the "near 600mph class, presumably around 580mph," with block-to-block performance as high as 550mph on some routes. It will use a commercial version of the J57, the JT3L, giving 11,000lbs with water injection, to get its edge over the Comet 3 (four Avon 3s giving 9000lbs) and be comparable to a stretched-out Stratoliner in size and cabin capacity. Wings will be swept 35 degrees with podded engines, as in the B-47 and B-52. There will be inner and outer ailerons, the latter locked when flaps are used and only deployed at low speeds. There will be upper surface spoilers, as in the B-52. Wing loading will be a hair under 80lbs, undercarriage four-wheel bogies like the B-52, cockpit protruding unlike the flush B-47 to give better visibility. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjadR1izakqf0Z1Zr9PR3YoBsc6X_-YjvRm7UFMvaqVjBBtgOUP-AMztCZ0TS_w1c1CgXvYTiYWv1A7Gm8x9p7QwruTZ2T_sEA4biN3KdEzCF08sH3QMIHzfDuI73tEbHPi8n9YiztiuAI-hvrKoOzWBqbzos7Tl7hDepnXL9vDqOVItQhYOCaOdmz6nTgD/s2800/Boeing%20707%20weight%20statement.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1993" data-original-width="2800" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjadR1izakqf0Z1Zr9PR3YoBsc6X_-YjvRm7UFMvaqVjBBtgOUP-AMztCZ0TS_w1c1CgXvYTiYWv1A7Gm8x9p7QwruTZ2T_sEA4biN3KdEzCF08sH3QMIHzfDuI73tEbHPi8n9YiztiuAI-hvrKoOzWBqbzos7Tl7hDepnXL9vDqOVItQhYOCaOdmz6nTgD/w640-h456/Boeing%20707%20weight%20statement.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPcn8SphI0bLNxlpxBzxUHo3iO9ryRgBSQRCJsIt_KYnr_Uvfbfp-3BieDhIlKtRrk_lzmnGWbiKZBYwYtgkWm8oVwVEwGfA5ACqDX0WNHmz05UhhNzOjjlC8U99Nq57Ttzta499Xjuo_F0g7zzFa8XhjQtM69puqtF7VrrzBFZ817bNCxiJAeC1VFbvYK/s4032/Sikorsky%20Helicopter%20Ad.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjPcn8SphI0bLNxlpxBzxUHo3iO9ryRgBSQRCJsIt_KYnr_Uvfbfp-3BieDhIlKtRrk_lzmnGWbiKZBYwYtgkWm8oVwVEwGfA5ACqDX0WNHmz05UhhNzOjjlC8U99Nq57Ttzta499Xjuo_F0g7zzFa8XhjQtM69puqtF7VrrzBFZ817bNCxiJAeC1VFbvYK/s320/Sikorsky%20Helicopter%20Ad.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Two stories on the developing cuts to the heavy press programme, which are heavier than expected, but also not unexpected. If that doesn't make any sense, it's because even the Air Force sees the need to clarify what is going on. Seven presses are being cancelled, including Uncle Henry's 35,000 and 25,000lb presses at E. W. Bliss in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newark,_Ohio">Newark </a>(75% complete when cancelled) and the 35,000lb press at Harvey, so two of the biggest presses are going, although the 10 continuing include the two 50,000lb presses, at Loewy, Grafton, Connecticut and Mesta-Alcoa, Cleveland. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Wilson Hits AF 'Over-Financing'" The Air Force and Secretary Wilson are still in the bedroom screaming at each other. WE CAN STILL HEAR YOU! Also, Canadian Pacific is cancelling its jet service to Hawaii for this year because it can't run the service with a single plane. Also, just in case it hasn't been foreshadowed enough, "USAF Axes Kaiser Aircraft Role" </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"House Vetoes Wilson Cut in Atomic Funds" Specifically, the House vetoed the cancellation of the aircraft carrier atomic engine programme and earmarked funding for it. It is okay with the cut to the atomic aircraft programme. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTI3-4mOaFs6VtJPDvnf9YFRBcsVyF9YZQI3D4fVlXjCwE-egO10i47tm6NO897ZOolFhF9CN4zow7MDUmAnuAyeTZSTV9rAB6DP_1kMaiJ54gAoqpFbAKBcILn2tG2oeJDW55OSM4-SocDjQjFmpILSdvYZbSFDohNVoGW5Dwt2ZFVS2EeVwTzd4Bw2EA/s2412/Supermarine%20Swift3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2246" data-original-width="2412" height="298" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTI3-4mOaFs6VtJPDvnf9YFRBcsVyF9YZQI3D4fVlXjCwE-egO10i47tm6NO897ZOolFhF9CN4zow7MDUmAnuAyeTZSTV9rAB6DP_1kMaiJ54gAoqpFbAKBcILn2tG2oeJDW55OSM4-SocDjQjFmpILSdvYZbSFDohNVoGW5Dwt2ZFVS2EeVwTzd4Bw2EA/s320/Supermarine%20Swift3.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Nat McKitterick reports for McGraw-Hill World News that "RAF Picks New Swift F.4 Over Hunter" While the USAF selected the Hunter for the offshore defence procurement programme, the RAF has given it a bit more thought, waited on the F.4, and selected it over the Hunter, <i>Aviation Week </i>has learned. It is more expensive to build than the Hunter, requiring more machining, but Vickers-Supermarine has "set up an American-style production network of seven plants in the vicinity of Marsden, Wiltshire." General Boyd didn't like the Swift's wing stall, liked the Hunter's handling, and was persuaded that it would match the Swift's endurance with under-wing tanks. But the F.4's wingtip stall problems have been rectified with fences, the Avon engine installed now has afterburners, and power boost to the controls has been increased. Hawker now has 500 orders in hand for the Hunter, 450 for the USDAP, while the RAF's order for 350 Swifts will be considerably increased. Also, Canadian Pacific plans a DC-6B service to Hong Kong starting in the fall to serve the "Orient-South America immigration market" by skipping right past American immigration red tape with direct flights to Mexico City. And Ansett Airlines has been refused government aid in Australia. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixKg6W6H9cuJT03l4rYcpjQoaDnySoNI0cfatyGz1_bmFKXgSaPPCe-axiVfPFasEWw67mFKe2UexZ7zasFL1exBEHqypZfAAduPfNTZDEs8CJGrqGcyzal31iA_pnom2zTl5n-0TCEG7Pm_mo5B2bRBFzisVbojVL3Xqxlbj-DJKPwV0w972_RYfVMNHn/s4032/20230930_144649297_iOS.heic" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixKg6W6H9cuJT03l4rYcpjQoaDnySoNI0cfatyGz1_bmFKXgSaPPCe-axiVfPFasEWw67mFKe2UexZ7zasFL1exBEHqypZfAAduPfNTZDEs8CJGrqGcyzal31iA_pnom2zTl5n-0TCEG7Pm_mo5B2bRBFzisVbojVL3Xqxlbj-DJKPwV0w972_RYfVMNHn/s320/20230930_144649297_iOS.heic" width="240" /></a></div>Alexander McSurely reports for <b>Aviation Safety </b>that "AF Research Cuts Crash Rate" McSurely toured the Air Force's Air Safety Research Directorate at Norton AFB, in San Bernardino, California, and came away with the important information that crashes are down this year, and that there are many reasons why the boys at Norton might be partly responsible, including better arrangements for reporting, better education efforts, and the fact that there's lots of good people at Norton, so it stands to reason all that investigating, engineering, and design brief-writing must be doing some good!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Production </b>has "Forum Answers Heavy Press Questions" That is, a forum of engineers from the various companies building heavy presses at their aluminum plants held a forum at the SAE National Aeronautics Meeting, and here's a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhpO_WcR_jE">precis of the question and answer session</a>. So now you know whether you can use stainless steel dies and whether extrusions or rolling stock makes better forgings. Also, De Havilland wants us all to know that its plant turns out a new plane every two hours, and wouldn't it be great if they were Comets and not Vampires and Herons. H. F. Steere is a new company in Seattle that does nothing but repair rejected vender-collect subcontracted parts to Boeing standards. There's not nearly enough titanium sponge to meet the demand, and Lockheed is speeding up spot checks, while Boeing has recently found a way to triple the power through its wind tunnel. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhKWP1MEBz0bLPOpcjVfgKemQZXQN6U9eiQV6HUBTsKPCiMWacGz66POySKYrodUcb1-ur6p4-kNqCIMQPWGGjpky79A_rty2X-xCAdwxA0C-HdiXvudXgdRPFKCOd8XwakxGZixdNmdzPJpS61PjFqE7QqD-6vF06cTNhXTnzAPFD53PdR06dhXn9N_YJ/s2226/3M%20Magnetic%20Computer%20Blocks.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2226" data-original-width="1142" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhKWP1MEBz0bLPOpcjVfgKemQZXQN6U9eiQV6HUBTsKPCiMWacGz66POySKYrodUcb1-ur6p4-kNqCIMQPWGGjpky79A_rty2X-xCAdwxA0C-HdiXvudXgdRPFKCOd8XwakxGZixdNmdzPJpS61PjFqE7QqD-6vF06cTNhXTnzAPFD53PdR06dhXn9N_YJ/s320/3M%20Magnetic%20Computer%20Blocks.jpg" width="164" /></a></div>"Magnetic Blocks Aid Computer Design" The Naval Ordnance Laboratories this week revealed standard magnetic blocks for building computers, or Magnetic Decision Elements, developed by 3M. They can be used to build "the entire arithmetic, program, control and memory sections of digital computers," and consist of cast blocks of epoxy resin containing no vacuum tubes or transistors, so just logic circuits, I guess. Cooper Alloy's new stainless steel alloy is harder and non-galling. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Now Showing on TV: Jet Tests" Pratt and Whitney is using closed-circuit TV to monitor test cells at its Willgoos laboratory. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Philip Klass reports for <b>Avionics </b>that "Hughes Aircraft Company Accents the New" What that means is that Hughes no longer just builds equipment that employs "closed loops" and "feedback." It is organising the company around these concepts! For example, people talk to each other, which is why Hughes has such a fresh and vigorous atmosphere. Also, they give machine operators precision gauges without worrying whether they'll be damaged. So that's definitely fresh and new! Everything is being sped up and streamlined. Everything is a "system." "Know how" is being transferred. Feedback is being fed. The company is learning to "cope with complexity." </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioRPyZiD59EFkLKkmm3rt5YH5aWMkVENUlnmVQfpVK_tMrF9Kbbk8IkSb_feFQ-8Q8C-iVO0UM1aEPdfyl-rrL9D3XSYR_oUJA6AHvr7pO16uRk9g-GDSgHj8IUpOjf7OkJINi85TjoLrQaHv4B5wohj0IBbL2awe5m6VpmeLxCXZ1n0hZoLtkqkLiCojE/s3466/Hughes%20Goes%20Cybernetic%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3466" data-original-width="2949" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEioRPyZiD59EFkLKkmm3rt5YH5aWMkVENUlnmVQfpVK_tMrF9Kbbk8IkSb_feFQ-8Q8C-iVO0UM1aEPdfyl-rrL9D3XSYR_oUJA6AHvr7pO16uRk9g-GDSgHj8IUpOjf7OkJINi85TjoLrQaHv4B5wohj0IBbL2awe5m6VpmeLxCXZ1n0hZoLtkqkLiCojE/w544-h640/Hughes%20Goes%20Cybernetic%201953.jpg" width="544" /></a></div><br /><div style="text-align: justify;">National Aeronautical's new DME for corporate and executive aircraft is the easiest to use and lightest yet. <b>Equipment </b>reports that the latest version of the runway light is almost good enough for the CAA. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGYy5h6M4ZEnSRro3T91uAVtWpWyngfnFDhXBnYD78MktfH3iG8Capomt3JyfOaDCQS3-Atqef3qy8320p5cwrmp0nbkN5n7IDAmdtEdK2hQre9qnDHE2BidrOFzFFr0ydukQbJtNW4Y6BcmUd9z8eyGIgI3Mk6FwNZXnVOZJkrEhj6oDIIsX5vZhhgsK8/s3924/Douglas%20DC-6C%20proposal.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3924" data-original-width="2212" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGYy5h6M4ZEnSRro3T91uAVtWpWyngfnFDhXBnYD78MktfH3iG8Capomt3JyfOaDCQS3-Atqef3qy8320p5cwrmp0nbkN5n7IDAmdtEdK2hQre9qnDHE2BidrOFzFFr0ydukQbJtNW4Y6BcmUd9z8eyGIgI3Mk6FwNZXnVOZJkrEhj6oDIIsX5vZhhgsK8/s320/Douglas%20DC-6C%20proposal.jpg" width="180" /></a></div><b>New Aviation Products </b>has a cockpit sun visor from Hardman Tool and Engineering, a pressure regulator for airborne radar from Accessory Products that can cope with up to 200 cubic inches of leakage, a canopy desiccant from Socony-Vacuum and a compact valve reconditioner from Black and Decker. <b>Air Transport </b>breaks from industry news to report the Douglas press conference revealing the Douglas DC-6C convertible cargo-coach version, which does <i>not </i>sound comfy, although it sounds like it would work for MATS. But you know, if you make Seattle alive aboard a MATS flight . . . </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Robert H. Wood's <b>Editorial </b>tells us about how TWA's new management team is revitalising the company, which doesn't <i>seem </i>like something for the <b>Editorial </b>page, especially for a magazine that blatantly sells editorial (small "e") pages to advertisers. <br /> </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> <i>The Engineer </i>for 19 and 26 June, 1953</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Is it time to check in with the world's most boring magazine? (That I know about. <i>Actuarial Weekly </i>try harder!) </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">For the week of the 19th, the <b>Not-the-Seven-Day Journal </b>reports that the seventh report of the Select Committee on Estimates urges that funding increases and expansions at the <a href="https://www.secretscotland.org.uk/index.php/Secrets/UnderwaterExplosionResearchEstablishment?from=Secrets.NavalConstructionResearchEstablishment">Naval Construction Research Establishment, Rosyth</a>, Radar Research Development Establishment, Telecommunication Research Establishment, Admiralty Signal and Radar Establishment should not be "stretched out," as this would be a false economy.The annual RAeS Garden Party was a smashing success with old planes and new. The annual meeting of the British Road Federation heard that Government cuts on road maintenance were a false economy. The annual general meeting of ICAO is going on this week. The British Rubber Development Board heard about rubberised asphalt at its annual general meeting. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFC_t_Dzojy1LLiDT1Cl2TbnfIXi9aNZ3Tb_Ex42C7SP68qAOLV97aK7ozol3Cb8BMkRULn_Bpz25f6TSQqFBGjE64y7AwH18gEudFwQs3kTifGMVFHtDcGe3R6kMPlceObPmjSBaSPwxaRhMkIrpHUKdKr8me3M7XCOE4H-FEGV859qejaVlPF6MfqR4U/s3440/Blowing%20Up%20Rivers%20Sketch%20Map%20from%201953.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1688" data-original-width="3440" height="157" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFC_t_Dzojy1LLiDT1Cl2TbnfIXi9aNZ3Tb_Ex42C7SP68qAOLV97aK7ozol3Cb8BMkRULn_Bpz25f6TSQqFBGjE64y7AwH18gEudFwQs3kTifGMVFHtDcGe3R6kMPlceObPmjSBaSPwxaRhMkIrpHUKdKr8me3M7XCOE4H-FEGV859qejaVlPF6MfqR4U/s320/Blowing%20Up%20Rivers%20Sketch%20Map%20from%201953.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>R. Haslam and J. Hancock aren't waiting for the actuaries to be heard from and pre-empts them with "The Excavation of Rock and Silt From Watercourses by Blasting" Sure, you can blow up riverbeds (goodbye fish, goodbye turtles!) any old way, but it is better with science! To be fair, from the sketch map, it looks like Mother Nature has been beaten to a bloody pulp along this stretch of creek long before the mad bombers got there. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A. G. Dean begins a series on "Structural Applications of Stainless Steel" with a look at the use of various grades of stainless steel to make a luxury railway coach, the "Vista Dome," painfully explaining how the body of a railway coach requires construction techniques that call for those various grades. since one installment can't possible cover the whole of this fascinating problem it is continued in the 26th June issue. Maybe in July we'll get things made out of stainless steel that aren't luxury rail cars! </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Continuing this week is C. A. Cameron Brown, "Electricity for Agriculture," covering various uses of electricity mainly in dairy farming other than the obvious. (So, in other words, mainly heating things that you wouldn't think need to be heated, such as hay and mud.) This is followed in the 19 June issue at some distance by the session on "Electricity and Food Production" at the British Electrical Power Convention, which concluded that farms need more electricity. (Electrification is still only a third done!) New for the 19th is "The Preparation of Structural Steel Sections," describing Boulton Paul's shop for same. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu3KfGX-ygTkVzQOqKUlGA_8da74HGgHo3LIXXw0LYa2zKR2FkujI8saGv2Ly52kCxGERGV9X5uJ1BMCuWjz4tgAxiGbsL81cOm_cwrJ9L7ZV9DH0qpSP4UCsnh0iELmV9AypPsLki37MJk7X89aYv7_rLf0i56l8H-2hVPPb7Nd5VgimlzsEHpErN22K1/s2519/Rowland%20Emmett,%20Hogmuddle%20Niggler.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2430" data-original-width="2519" height="309" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgu3KfGX-ygTkVzQOqKUlGA_8da74HGgHo3LIXXw0LYa2zKR2FkujI8saGv2Ly52kCxGERGV9X5uJ1BMCuWjz4tgAxiGbsL81cOm_cwrJ9L7ZV9DH0qpSP4UCsnh0iELmV9AypPsLki37MJk7X89aYv7_rLf0i56l8H-2hVPPb7Nd5VgimlzsEHpErN22K1/s320/Rowland%20Emmett,%20Hogmuddle%20Niggler.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>"Ship Failure Research at the National Bureau of Standards" (by Our American Correspondent) It turns out that this is something they are doing at NBS. Also from OAC is a short article on the recent atomic tests that blew up those dummy homes, cars and people. A-bombs are pretty good at levelling cities, it turns out, but perhaps not at killing troops in trenches. <b>American Engineering News </b>catches us up with the "Kinorama," a testing equipment joint effort by BuAer and the NBS for airport lighting that improves on RAE Farnborough's "cyclorama." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The Hogmuddle Rotatory Niggler and Fidgeter" Is a joke from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rowland_Emett">Rowland Emett</a>, but it is an engineering joke, so we'll print it. Actually, the published specifications are also part of the joke, which <i>The Engineer </i>gets too pretty gleefully. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The Avro 'Atlantic' Delta Transport Project" The Atlantic will carry 94 passengers in basic seating, up to 131 in tourist with bar at 40,000ft and 600mph, London-New York direct with an AUW of 200,000lbs and a payload of "10 to 20 tons." </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Clino Machines has an "automatic shell mould making machine" and Ferguson Pailin an 11kV fuse switch ring-main unit, while the new gas plant in Berwick-on-Tweed is something. B. Elliott has asn improved milling machine, with a short article on "Mechanised Joint Maintenance for Concrete Roads," the latest from the Road Research Establishment following because it mainly seems concerned with two new equipments, the priming machine, and melter-pourer. Auto-Diesel has an aircraft starter kit for Comets. Next week, Trojan of Croydon will have a universal oil grooving machine,specially built to meet its need to produce more phosphor bushing machines and now available to those interested. Crompton Parkinson has a "fault-making, load-breaking ring-main unit" and a mobile high-voltage testing unit, for cable connections, Gillott has an electric steam steriliser and combined water heating unit, George Cohen a power press attachment, Chamberlain a two-stage, hand-operated hydraulic pump, Stenzel a die-grinding and polishing machine, Switchgear and Equipment a high voltage isolator with ice breaking contacts, and Brooke Marine has built a fleet of custom launches for Nigeria<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilBgNksZqS2Z1Chnl8TslP_lV-k4eIqOS7LThiACFUsBHPLflEixSHrOcaiC89Ex8qeCZd2zmffDjzPRD_XhTNpN8QfpCglgVwLMxNSuQ0xT2XnqaGnlfmAmK8u6Gdbjj3wyp5GtosSRbhLxTs7asx6ZiprB-SXKIK7Q9p-nHjYBpdaUslwyGMj8gGu3OW/s2693/Crompton%20Parkinson%20mobile%20high%20voltage%20testing%20unit.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2386" data-original-width="2693" height="284" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilBgNksZqS2Z1Chnl8TslP_lV-k4eIqOS7LThiACFUsBHPLflEixSHrOcaiC89Ex8qeCZd2zmffDjzPRD_XhTNpN8QfpCglgVwLMxNSuQ0xT2XnqaGnlfmAmK8u6Gdbjj3wyp5GtosSRbhLxTs7asx6ZiprB-SXKIK7Q9p-nHjYBpdaUslwyGMj8gGu3OW/s320/Crompton%20Parkinson%20mobile%20high%20voltage%20testing%20unit.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Moulding Equipment at the Plastics Exhibition" is about same, in some detail. "The Annual Meeting of the Association Technique Maritime et Aeronautique" heard a wide variety of papers (servos, gamma ray examination of hull flaws, "Flexible Isotropy of Warped Tubes." How do you summarise? You don't, you take a tour of the Seine and head to the hotel for the banquet. <b>Industrial and Labour Notes </b>reports mainly improving trends this week, and <b>Launches and Trial Trips </b>has three new motor vessels, two new steamships, 800 and 900 degree steam respectively. Two oil tankers, two cargo liners, one banana boat. <br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Not The Seven-Day Journal </b>for the 26th June has the BBC's announcement of its television expansion plans, the ceremony opening the particle physics laboratory at University of London, the sixteenth annual report of the Air Registration Board, which seems to down play the role of fatigue in the Central African Airways Viking crash, an expansion of the Pilkington Committee with a section advising on industrial fuel efficiency, and the productivity council's visit to American ammunition factories that concludes that their higher productivity must be due to administration because it can't be anything else. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Leaders</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Loss of the <i>Princess Victoria" The Engineer </i>is reminded of things long gone, years ago, before the war. Then it leaps down the throat of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gurney_Braithwaite">Gurney Braithwaite</a>, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, for poo-pooing all that expensive "safety" stuff since what we need for fewer accidents is for people to pay more attention. One <b>Letter</b>, on the article on "Present Day Locomotive Working in Great Britain," and two and a half cheers to those who read and write those articles. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The first noncontinuing material in this week's issue is Commander (E) H. G.. H. Tracy on "The Training of Engineering Designers," laying out the current training scheme of Engineering Branch officers --two years basic engineering, one year at sea, one year "post-graduate" training, focussing on engineering design. Some examples of student designs and the course curriculum are explained. And speaking of education, the <i>Times </i>"Careers in Industry" Supplement had a nice article on vocational training that we quote here. There should be more of it!</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuqvbH7jCaAX0BlxPKZFmWbPqWdFKBsoNbt_Bbtmve7ynyzTnjJGwQ9r8MQ2d1A6exnH4aUAk_HCDXnztf1fmKZf_9_oCgoQFOCopqKo3nJACd8F2m-2XB7LUvLZOHxvxCLrY9XCOwZA3SvMghi8Pr9EMlS4ipPSHzOTNwGJ0QjdJM4csa5ot1U1acCDBB/s4032/Engineer%20article%20on%20transistors%201953%20prt%202.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2912" data-original-width="4032" height="231" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuqvbH7jCaAX0BlxPKZFmWbPqWdFKBsoNbt_Bbtmve7ynyzTnjJGwQ9r8MQ2d1A6exnH4aUAk_HCDXnztf1fmKZf_9_oCgoQFOCopqKo3nJACd8F2m-2XB7LUvLZOHxvxCLrY9XCOwZA3SvMghi8Pr9EMlS4ipPSHzOTNwGJ0QjdJM4csa5ot1U1acCDBB/s320/Engineer%20article%20on%20transistors%201953%20prt%202.jpg" width="320" /></a></div>Our indefatigable American Correspondent has "Transistor Development in America" It summarises four hears of progress in the germanium triode transistor device since it was first announced. The Army Signals Corps has now placed orders for the production of machinery sufficient to make 5000 transistors per week, and Bell is widely using them in its telephone network relays. Information in this article is from Bell Labs, and was provided by J. A. Morton. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The previous four years have been spent working out the bugs in the transistor device so that it could fulfill its potential as an amplifier replacing vacuum tubes that was smaller, more reliable, and did not need a heater current. Much progress has been made and transistor performance is now as consistent as commercially-available vacuum tubes; they are more rugged, but more subject to temperature variation. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Letters </b>has a jeremiad from <a href="http://www.navweaps.com/index_tech/tech-111.php">H. Clausen</a> in connection with the article on training engineering designers (in the Navy Engineering Branch) about how people don't appreciate engineering drawing enough and how not enough people want to be engineers in Britain and it is ruining our export trade. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWGCUNgDebWgMAymcIQzg2PaPEB9IuS_WbmQNPtdifUKRfLpcIVUIkHaP24O_gevdQ_3tp8CpGS2Qg28tNzdCozZRe97Nt08VW7GHSMGKTgIbHupKX1FrIcGOcxmp6jn2u8vBz-cgdxupWWI_uClG2rZ1lFRKsKgKpEDENsX_v6hxrPeFuDwvxs5qEoGts/s3024/Engineer%20article%20on%20transistors%201953%20prt%201.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2843" data-original-width="3024" height="301" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWGCUNgDebWgMAymcIQzg2PaPEB9IuS_WbmQNPtdifUKRfLpcIVUIkHaP24O_gevdQ_3tp8CpGS2Qg28tNzdCozZRe97Nt08VW7GHSMGKTgIbHupKX1FrIcGOcxmp6jn2u8vBz-cgdxupWWI_uClG2rZ1lFRKsKgKpEDENsX_v6hxrPeFuDwvxs5qEoGts/s320/Engineer%20article%20on%20transistors%201953%20prt%201.jpg" width="320" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1953_British_Mount_Everest_expedition">The Mount Everest Expedition</a> Oxygen Equipment" Elegantly burying the lede, <i>The Engineer </i>explains that when the successful attempt on Everest was made (a month ago, if you somehow weren't paying attention), they used this equipment. Also in Coronation-relate news, the Spithead review used ship-to-shore VHF transmitters provided by GEC to give television coverage.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Cunard Cargo Liner <i>Pavia</i>" Is a motor ship with refrigerated and regular holds, 4400t deadweight, 14 knots, one crane.Boilers to provide steam for auxiliary equipment. Also, steamship <i>World Enterprise </i>is a 33,000t deadweight oil tanker under production at Vickers-Armstrong's Walker yards. There are three turbines to drive the pumps, and four-ram electro-hydraulic steering by Brown Brothers. Turbines are by Parmetrada, operating at 850 degrees, with 45% of ahead power for reverse. Boilers are Foster-Wheeler Ds, closed feed systems by Weir. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"The British Transport Commission's Report" £600,000 in improvements this year, a bit under 600 new diesel locomotives ordered, 85% of London Transport busses now postwar, £3 million in improvements to docks authorised. Not bad for a Commission that is going away this year. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Metallurgical Topics </b>hears about the effect of nitrogen on blue-brittle steels, the activity of "fresh"metal surfaces, red-shortness due to sulphur in steel, and a new method from NBS for electrode-less nickel plating. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b>Leaders</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><br /></b></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Swan Song of the Iron and Steel Corporation" on 15 February 1951, the new Corporation became responsible for 298 companies employing almost 300,000 people. It seems that the company had a good year, with substantial profits and expansion. We hate it and are glad that it is gone, but it was fine. <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuMyDDBmY5ZwUcSnQwv6FT-aVI3qgXzVt3-7LT-c-kxr0ja142rP6KKjlBfOuTR_I_AbLahvFu1ByN7V1FNazaLFpbmWnMwM1rYlJNJS6VG8XG8Cz6uW4o1Hb4xVyhHhzWvJRG17-tyCWwH-M4Veq9GMy_U6RUHu2z4QFT-hg67-6k0hUI19jt4i6Ecx_Y/s308/SS%20World%20Enterprise%20tanker.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="164" data-original-width="308" height="213" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuMyDDBmY5ZwUcSnQwv6FT-aVI3qgXzVt3-7LT-c-kxr0ja142rP6KKjlBfOuTR_I_AbLahvFu1ByN7V1FNazaLFpbmWnMwM1rYlJNJS6VG8XG8Cz6uW4o1Hb4xVyhHhzWvJRG17-tyCWwH-M4Veq9GMy_U6RUHu2z4QFT-hg67-6k0hUI19jt4i6Ecx_Y/w400-h213/SS%20World%20Enterprise%20tanker.jpg" title="SS World Enterprise" width="400" /></a></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">"Report of the Transport Commission" And speaking of nationalisations that are horrible and have been reversed, but which turn out to have been fine while they lasted, the fifth and last annual report. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">Professor A. W. Tuplin will no longer suffer fools: "Commonsense in Applied Mechanics" explains with examples how "common sense" principles can guide the solution to complicated problems at which the textbooks, and so engineering designers, tend to throw up their hands. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The British Electric Authority is carrying out cross-Channel cable laying trials. H.S. Prosser and A. W. Pedder look at "Combined Electricity and Heat Supplies" A look at the current economics of "district heating." It is probably pretty good? The council of the Machine Tool Trades Association has issued comments on "certain sections" of the British Metalworking Tool Productivity Team, published last January. Those comments are, roughly speaking, it was a terrible and stupid and wrong report except for the conclusions to Chapter 5, which were written by an independent author who seems to have taken his commission as an excuse to not only go off the reservation, but to scalp any paleface this side of the Great Water.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The trans-Atlantic cable has been almost completely renewed, there is a nice exhibit of engineering models at the Institution of Civil Engineers annual convention, <b>Industrial and Labour Notes </b>are on an upward trend, including productivity for a change. 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