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Waiting for What? At most bases and on most ships of war it is necessary to arrive half an hour early to get a seat. Various games may be played while waiting. One of these is "Chase Me," with flashlights. One spectator will flash his light on the blank screen. Another spectator flashes another beam. Then the chase around the screen begins. This can be funny when played by two experts. Another game, invented by the marines in New Zealand, is played with white rubber balloons, which are inflated and batted through the air. The object...
Back in 1941, the U.S. Supreme Court took a major step along this line in its famed "flash of genius" decision involving the Cuno Engineering Corp. But Justice Arnold had taken a big leap further, to establish an outpost on the far left. Because modern corporate research is based, not on the flash of genius, but on the work of groups painfully sifting through thousands of costly experiments, the new ruling, unless reversed, may make many a corporate discovery unpatentable. Of this possibility, Manhattan's conservative Journal of Commerce took a Stygian view, saying: "The Arnold dictum . . . could spell...
...Argentina cheese, and that is very high. I think it runs to 35? a pound. So if you buy a little piece for your Sunday dinner, it costs about 15?, and I tell you it is no bigger than this little ball (he held up a small flash bulb). Fifteen cents or maybe 20, whatever the butcher charges. That is what you get when he puts it on the scale and that is the conditions in our department, gentlemen...
...best planes for reconnaissance. The U.S. favorite is a stripped-down P-38, with five cameras in the nose instead of guns. The Flying Fortress, with eleven cameras, is also used, on less hazardous missions. The British use Mosquitoes and Spitfires. Military needs have fathered many innovations, such as flash bombs for night photography, a new camera with a strip of moving film for fast picture-taking at low altitudes...
...famed U.S. Third Division emulated airmen, formed their own society of aces. Members qualify by killing one German, get a distinctive sleeve flash when they have killed five, call their society the Kraut Killers' League...