Inertial Guidance Aims Missiles To Exact Spots
MIT scientists unveil Inertial Guidance a gyroscope based system that supposedly directs missiles without magnetic, radio or radar signals. It reportedly guided a B29 from Boston to Los Angeles and stays fixed relative to the universe, unaffected by weather or earth motion. The work traces to Dr. Charles Draper and began in 1939 with a plan for space flight and weapon control.
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MIT Department of Aeronautical Engineering
Labor Groups Denounce Medical Profits Over Polio Vaccine
Labor leaders accuse organized medicine of prioritizing reimbursements over polio prevention. Officials from the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, the U S Public Health Service, and the AMA deny the claim, noting a recent vaccine backlog and a plan to allocate by readiness and priority groups.
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National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
U.S. Public Health Service
The
American Medical Assn
Health Service
Raymond H. Barrows
Polio Foundation
Bill pays $1500 to estate of man shot by sentry
The House passed a bill to pay 1500 to the estate of Army employee William Vernon Stepp Jr of Newport News Virginia, killed June 4 1948 when a sentry on an Anchorage Alaska ocean dock fired as he ran toward his ship. The Army report found the force used excessive and out of proportion. Stepp's father and stepmother live in Hampton Virginia.
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Alaska
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Senate
William Vernon Stepp Jr
Newport News
House Judiciary Committee
Stepp
Department of the Army
Melville Rd
Hampton
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