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...disclosing no secret," said he, "in asserting that research is proceeding successfully on airplane engines that develop as much as 8,000 horsepower! Imagine a plane like the B19* equipped with four such engines . . . plus other vital improvements already available and you grasp the emerging revolutionary possibility of ranges circling the entire globe (25,000 miles) with ample margins for tactical operations...
Although most of the soldiers recovered without trouble, some may suffer aftereffects. Those with bits of metal left in their brains are liable to develop epilepsy about six months after injury. As a precaution, all victims of brain wounds were given a year's supply of. drugs to prevent fits...
...outdoor show people, the 'carnies,' who travel from town to town with carnivals." Ferocious Mr. Rogers and suave Mr. Dufour work their clients after the classical manner of detective teams, one rubber-hosing, the other soft-soaping. One of the more lucrative of their develop ments is the Aboriginal Village, on which the "nut" (overhead) is small "once the concessionaire has learned the fact, unreported by anthropologists, that all primitive peoples exist by preference on a diet of hamburger steak." Still more reliable are freaks, the more nauseating the better. At Flushing their most stunning attractions were...
...Mary Jeanne Byrd, representative of the consumers' division of the Office of Price Administration, called upon college women to enroll in consumer courses to develop economical hobbies...
Closed-Door Policy. "This country . . . during the 19th Century was able to develop its energies and its riches thanks to the unending stream of men from Europe . . . [but] now has . . . closed its doors in their faces, treating them as tiresome and undesirable beggars...