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...shiftover called for many skills alien to the old airframe makers. Each successive generation of planes relied more heavily on electronics-a science pioneered by such ground-based giants as A.T. & T., General Electric Co. and RCA. And with the advent of missiles, where guidance and propulsion are more important than the "tin can," the planemakers found themselves losing more and more defense dollars to previously ground-bound companies that did not know a vertical stabilizer from a hole in the wall but were expert in automatic control systems or chemical fuels...
After experiencing a well-earned nervous breakdown. Leckie is brought round to his bourgeois salvation by the advent of Alison's baby and World War II. Registering for military service, he wondered what to put down as his profession. "I thought to put 'gentleman,' but decided that I did not look the part. 'Bankrupt?' Accurate, but liable to cause prejudice. By what had I kept myself alive for the greater part of my adult life? By faith. Faith and appeal to motherly instinct in the middle-aged . . . Evidently I had no profession...
...many nuclear bombs have the Russians? They have too many. In the early years of the Atomic Age. it was difficult to turn out primitive A-bombs in quantity because they were made of plutonium or uranium 235. and both elements require enormous plants for production. The advent of the H-bomb was a big break for the Russians because H-bomb ingredients (deuterium, lithium, etc.) are comparatively cheap and easy to get. Chances are that the Russians have turned most of their plutonium and U-235 into detonators for H-bombs. This should give them enough nuclear explosives...
Dear Little Nira. U.S. companies were meanwhile calling themselves Alcoa (Aluminum Co. of America) or Nabisco (National Biscuit Co.) or Socony (Standard Oil Co. of New York). After the advent of Basic (British American Scientific International Commercial) English, acronyms faltered in favor of the New Deal's AAA, CCC, TVA, WPA, led by F.D.R. himself. Indeed, legend has it that the death of the National Industrial Recovery Act (ruled unconstitutional) left bereft of rhyme or reason a host of Depression-born U.S. girls named Nira...
...lifetime, and I thought that you might be interested not only in our coverage of the well-known Hemingway years (he was on TIME'S cover in 1937 and again as a Nobel prizewinner in 1954) but in how the young TIME greeted the young Hemingway's advent...