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...large, well. It has made mistakes. Some of its data have been gathered too quickly, then reduced to generalities that glittered without illuminating. Its members, including Chairman Harry S. Truman, have sometimes failed to look before they leaped to conclusions. But it has never strayed too far off the beam, nor stayed there too long...
...World War I. Some of the long-range types can travel 14,520 miles on a single load of fuel. Refueled and reprovisioned by undersea tenders ("milk cows"), they can remain at sea for months at a time. Monstrous metal whales, 220 ft. long with a 20-ft. beam, they carry in their bellies a dozen torpedoes, a crew of 45. When submerged they displace 882 tons (about half the displacement of a typical destroyer...
...ship was gone in a moonslick littered with wreckage. The raider made for a cruiser, splashed three bombs into the water not a hundred feet from her, saw them hurtle to her side, watched her heel over in a spreading pool of oil after the bombs burst. A searchlight beam burst from the shore, probed high in the sky. A few A.A. guns chattered. But the Fortress was clean away. Climbing to 5,000, she dropped her last bombs on a seaplane tender in the harbor's heart and streaked for home, while her crew made to one another...
...this time the Farm Bureau's Edward Asbury O'Neal III, the National Grange's Albert S. Goss and the representatives of smaller farm pressure groups were smugly confident they could put through a broad-beam farm program of their own. In the new Congress they counted on a bigger, friendlier farm bloc. They knew the country, desperately in need of more food, was hardly disposed to much argument about ways of getting it. And their onetime friend and present opponent, the Agriculture Department, was scared and two-minded about policies...
...blind people to weigh by ear such things as powder for fuses, mica for radio installations, buttons, screws. The machine is set to indicate a certain weight, signals dit-dah when the needle is under the mark, dah-dit when it is over, buzzzzzzz when it is "on the beam." >Trico Products Corp. of Buffalo has developed a Braille-type micrometer for checking precision instruments, by touch, to one-ten-thousandth of an inch...