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...charges can be controlled to adjust the size and shape of the head to within .02 in. This breaks a major plane-building bottleneck: riveting points which can be reached from only one side. So troublesome have been these inaccessible points that plane designs have often been modified to avoid them, but there are still 800 in an all-metal pursuit ship, 10,000 in a large bomber. A skilled workman, with costly tools, has been able to set two to four old-fashioned rivets per minute. But, with fairly simple tools, almost anyone can set 15 to 20 explosive...
...national wage policy; payment of wage increases in defense bonds, to be held in trust (to avoid inflation...
...book also contains much useful information on how to avoid just such a dismal outcome...
...During swift turns and pullouts from dives, pilots cannot avoid momentary blackout-loss of consciousness-because blood rushes from the head. Small, heavy-set pilots are more resistant to blackout than tall, slender men, and those leading a sedentary life have more resistance than men in athletic training. Men with high blood pressure are less affected by dives...
...been called a power miser. He likes to gather all the power into his grasp, but then refuses to use it." He will "go to any length to avoid strikes. ... He has always preferred consultation to coercion." He has "unending patience in negotiations." Yet "he was one of the first among the leaders to recognize the threat of Fascism." Ernest Bevin does not like radical intellectuals. Neither, Author Strauss makes it clear, do radical intellectuals like Bevin. The fundamental difference between their doctrinaire attitude and that of "this fearsome-looking man, with the brusque voice and genius for brutal direct...