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Twenty-five years ago, in the wake of World War I, Hungarian-born Marcel Fodor set out for the Balkans with equal zest. An engineer, fluent in five languages, he had been grumbling along as manager of a steel mill in the English Midlands. Postwar retrenchment shut the mill, freed...
And the U.S. people, anxious to see exactly where Son John or Cousin Bill is stationed, rushed to buy maps. They needed the maps in their homework. For while cables and radio brought news of the invasion in staggering quantity, an even greater amount of a different kind of news...
What makes Frank Crowe a master builder is his audacity of invention. He pioneered in using horizontal cables strung across river canyons to carry concrete from mixer to chutes into the dam. Without them, Boulder would have been almost impossible to build.
The Sacramento's banks were too low to use Crowe's cross-canyon cable device. So he built the world's tallest headtower (465 ft.), and poured every 16-ton bucket of concrete from cables in a semicircle above.
The Allies made a sharp counterattack against Argentine censorship last week. The sally was led by Colonel Sosthenes Behn, president of the potent International Telephone and Telegraph Corp. Argentina had ordered suspension for 24 hours of I.T. & T.'s All America Cables for the crime of transmitting a cable...