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...start on its new $511,607,630 school-expansion program (TIME, July 31), but last week President Maximilian Moss of the Board of Education marched before the City Planning Commission with an afterthought. In view of the world situation, Moss said, the Board of Education recommended the construction of built-in atomic bomb shelters in each new school. Estimated extra cost: $50 million. The Planning Commission was thinking it over...
...Dayton, the U.S. Air Forces Air Materiel Command produced a parachute with a built-in brain, which automatically goes into action even if an airman is inured bailing out of his plane or blacks out at high altitude. Designed for high-flying fighters and bombers, the release is tripped by a timer (to be set before take-off at from one to 26 seconds), includes an aneroid barometer which opens the chute above 5,000 ft. no matter what happens...
...radiant heating in the floor, 12-by-16 ft. living room, bath, kitchen, two bedrooms on the first floor, and an "expansion attic" which can be converted into two more bedrooms and bath. The kitchen has a refrigerator, stove and Bendix washer; the living room a fireplace and a built-in Admiral television...
...Statler, ninth in the chain, will have an outdoor swimming pool, hotel shops on three levels; each of its 1,275 air-conditioned rooms will have an outside exposure and a built-in television set. Travelers who dislike the nuisance of parking their cars and entering a lobby in rumpled clothes, won't have to. They will be able to drive into a 475-car underground garage, register as they alight and take a special elevator direct to their floor...
...fence posts in Hoppy's old corral. Last year small fry bought 15 million Hopalong comic books. They clamor incessantly for such items as Hoppy roller skates (complete with spurs and jewel-studded ankle straps) and Hopalong bicycles (leather-fringed saddles, handlebars shaped like steer's horns, built-in gun holsters). Because of the craze for Hopalong hats, shirts, chaps, boots, six-shooters and gun belts, Boyd claims that U.S. manufacturers of 56% of all the Western-type merchandise are paying him royalties for Hopalong Cassidy endorsements...