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...square miles make it the world's largest island and stationary aircraft carrier. It would be as valuable as Alaska during the next few years, before bombers with a 10,000-mile range are in general use. It would be invaluable, in either conventional or push-button war, as an advance radar outpost. It would be a forward position for future rocket-launching sites. In peace or war it is the weather factory for northwest Europe, whose storms must be recorded as near the source as possible...
...squawks from the thousands who had chipped in five shillings apiece (total: ?40,000) for the statue were being heard. Sir William's Roosevelt is shown in his flowing cape and a double-breasted suit, with the trouser cuffs flopping over his shoes and the top coat button characteristically undone. He leans on a walking stick...
...Operation. The operation is delicate. The surgeon cuts two openings in the skull, one on each side above the temples, removes each bone button (to be replaced later), cuts and folds back the brain covering, the dura mater, then carefully slices through a measured section of the frontal lobes' white tissue. As the knife cuts the nerve fibers, the patient's tension visibly relaxes. He grows confused, dull, slow in speech, childish...
...coffee drinkers, who down some 94,000,000,000 cups a year, might drink a lot more if they could get it simply by pushing a button. And Chicago's Bert E. Mills Corp. (automatic vendors) thought the idea worth trying. So' last week it unveiled its newest gadget-an automatic coffee vendor. From piped-in water and powdered coffee, the machine makes an electrically heated brew, for 5? Its four buttons serve a paper-cupful with cream or sugar, both, or neither...
Stripping down a car to the thousands of parts Ford buys from suppliers, Browning took a long, hard look at the pieces. That nickel-plated horn button emblem, couldn't that be replaced with a painted emblem? It could and would be. Savings: 8.9? per item; total saved...