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...soon as the robot is improved in distance and accuracy, Britain will live permanently in range of a barrage from Europe. If another war starts, Britain and Germany may make a shambles of each other's cities any morning, at the push of a button...
Some economists have regarded the steady expansion of the service industries as a parasitic growth. Social Scientist Grattan rebuts the theory that service industries create no new wealth as "antiquated nonsense." To Grattan, who realizes that technological improvements tend steadily to reduce factory work toward button-pushing by fewer & fewer workers, a higher standard of living means many more services, and thus more opportunity for employment outside factories...
...hand. Norm Brown, representing the Amalgamated Real Estate Dealers of Malden, Mass., promises an apartment or room of any type to all who will vote for him as Battalion Commander. All those who are interested will please drop by Room E-22, Chase, and pick up (1) a Brown button; (2) a marked ballot. Better hurry up; they're going fast...
...Push-button machinery to open & close windows...
...Istanbul a friend of the Nazis was missing. Thomas Ludwig (or Lewine), Gestapo agent and "honorary Aryan," had a trap door in front of his desk which, in his heyday, he used to snap open by means of a concealed button. Said he: "In this work [spying] one must be prepared to spirit away undesirable elements without a trace." Last week Ludwig had vanished without a trace...