Word: developers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Somehow Mr. Nast seemed to have had the ability to develop the best of those who entered his employ to a degree not to be found in any other magazine-publishing enterprise of our generation...
...designed as the Army's air arm, not primarily for mass raids. Its attack on Britain was a none-too-brilliant job of improvisation. Since then German aircraft production has kept abreast of the Army's needs, but it is doubtful if Germany has been able to develop the heavy-bomber production which Britain and the U.S. achieved only after prolonged travail. Nonetheless the British are preparing for the worst. (When Prime Minister Churchill boasted that British aircraft production exceeded German output, a British official plaintively observed: "How the hell does he know?") They have dug deep, well...
White-bearded Dr. Flagg, 56 and the father of twelve, is the man who brought Lindbergh and Dr. Alexis Carrel (now working for Vichyfrance) together to develop their mechanical heart. He also suggested to aviation engineers the principles (first embodied in T.W.A.'s Stratoliner) on which planes could safely take passengers into high altitudes without asphyxiating them. Asphyxiation is Dr. Flagg's special horror, and he thinks the subject should be combined with anesthesia into the science of pneumatology (Dr. Carrel's word...
...they also possess the astonishing ability to reproduce themselves like living organisms. A virus "generation" probably lasts for only 20 to 30 minutes, so that an eon of virus evolution can occur within a few years on the human time scale. New and fiercer breeds of virus can thus develop from time to time, then vanish. Doctors believe that the virus which caused the worldwide influenza plague of 1918 is still with us, but the once deadly old stock is relatively decadent...
...think of no way in which the Mil Sci Department can control the situation. It is up to the men themselves to develop necessary self-respect, if the men under their command are to have respect for them. William J. Fischman...