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Benson Blast At Pay Hikes Brings Criticism Of Policy
EL CENTRO, Calif.-(U.P.)—Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Censon's claim that "unjustified" pay hikes in the food industry contributed to declining incomes of the nation's farmers today stirred a new controversy over his department's policies.
Benson told the Western States Meat Packers Association convention in San Francisco Thursday that the food industry granted "round after round of soft wage settlements" since 1947. Half of the settlements, he said, were "unjustified."
"Consistent with the general policy of this giveaway administration he is attempting to fasten the responsibility for the giveaway of the farmers' income on to the workers of the packing industry," charged Ralph Helstein, president of the United Packinghouse Workers Union Chicago.
Congressional Democrats and spokesmen for farmers, meat packers and packinghouse workers criticized the Benson statements.
When Mr. Benson spoke here last night at a $99-sn-plate Republican dinner, he was picketed by members of the union's Local 78
In his talk, Mr. Benson said the administration is preparing a campaign to eliminate surpluses which robbed farmers of $2 billion in profits last year. He said farm profits would have been 20 per cent higher in 1955 if it had not been for surpluses piled up under previous programs.
The administration, he said, was proposing a "direct and effective attack" to pull the surpluses down to normal in "about three years."
His prepared speech here did not repeat his San Francisco charges
He Favors Integration
MIAMI—(U.P.)—Sen. Estes Kefaauer (D-Tenn) said last night he strikes the Supreme Court de-segregation orders should be obeyed but that time will be required in some areas to avoid "passions and prejudices."
He told a group of high school football players and political figures that the Supreme Court decision on the race issue "is the law of the land."
The Tennessee senator, engaged in a campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, spoke Thursday at the Miami Springs-Hialeah High School football banquet. Ken FEAUver said he is against withholding federal education funds from states operating segregated schools because "children should not be penalized by having federal aid cut off."
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that labor unions had demanded and the food industry granted "unjustified" wage increases which were paid by the nation's farmers and ranchers.
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LONDON—(U.P.)—Queen Elizabeth II flew home today from the tumultuous royal tour of Nigeria and into the arms of her excited son and daughter. The huge four-engined airliner bearing the Queen and her husband, the Duke of Edinburgh, landed at London Airport this morning.
Queen Elizabeth Flies Home From Nigeria
Young Prince Charles—who cried when his mother and father flew off to Nigeria 19 days ago—and his sister Princess Anne, eagerly awaited the royal Argonaut plane.
Band Against Negro Student
Friday, Feb. 17, 1956.
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (U.P.)—Segregation leaders today planned organized opposition today to the turn to classes of Autherine Lucy the University of Alabama's first Negro student.
Word was spread inviting all "interested persons" to a mass meeting today to form a local white citizens council, an organization which has already spread over much of the South.
The councils have the goal of seeking to preserve all forms of racial segregation by lawful means. Attorney Hugh Locke told a Birmingham, Ala., council at its meeting Thursday that Miss Lucy "is not in Alabama to get an education—that is real ridiculous. She is a tool of people who want to blacken the white race of the South."
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Jet Engines Tested in World's Most Complete Privately Owned Turbine Laboratory
Engineers in control room of one of eleven test cells at Willgoos Laboratory record important characteristics of gas turbine engines in operation.
Located on the bank of the Connecticut River at East Hartford is a singular development facility—the Andrew Willgoos Turbine Laboratory. Here, behind windowless, thick concrete walls, many types of engineers find a never-ending challenge in the development and testing of advanced aircraft engines.
Test methods used by Pratt & Whitney Aircraft in their unique laboratory are highly complex. Tests are conducted on full-scale experimental engines at simulated altitudes up to 76,000 feet. Extremely high speed airflow, with pressure and temperature accurately controlled, duplicates speeds as high as Mach 2.75. To reproduce such prodigious flight conditions, extraordinary equipment had to be devised. For example, a 21,500-hp driving dynamometer supplies the enormous power needed to test jet engine compressors over a range of speeds from 800 rpm to 16,000 rpm.
Giant refrigeration units from which conditioned air is piped to test cells are located in the large central section of Willgoos Laboratory.
The time lapse between development and production of new engines is reduced considerably by the advanced facilities of the Willgoos Laboratory. An outstanding example of results achieved through concentrated engineering effort and complete research support is the Pratt & Whitney Aircraft J-57 turbojet. Today the unchallenged leader in its field, the J-57 is merely the forerunner of greater aircraft engines that will power the preeminent military and commercial aircraft of the future.
Andrew Willgoos Turbine Laboratory where jet engines and their components are explored. Cooling water from the Connecticut River can be pumped through a maze of conduits at the rate of 160,000 gallons per minute $ - 3 \frac{1}{2} $ times the consumption of a city of half a million people.
B-45 flying test-bed is shown here with an experimental jet engine suspended directly beneath the bomb bay. Its regular engines are idled while in-flight performance of the turbojet is observed and recorded. The perfect complement to the complex ground-testing facilities of the Willgoos Laboratory, the flying test-bed is another vital factor in reducing engine development time.
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