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...human being's vulnerability to electric shock is determined largely by skin resistance. Water reduces skin resistance more than a hundredfold. About the most dangerous possible electric shock is one from an ordinary, Go-cycle A.C. house circuit, received by anybody with wet hands or feet. Even at only 100 volts, it means certain death...
...long-nosed man, he is one of the Red Army's ablest tacticians. His myaso-roobka (meat-grinder) concept has dominated Soviet military thought since 1941, has bled Germany white of her young manhood. Sokolovsky's antidote for Blitzkrieg is slow, continuous grinding, a Verdun multiplied a hundredfold. The advance on Smolensk delights him; only two years ago he had trod this very road in retreat...
...Reuther pointed out that two automobile body makers (Murray, Briggs) had already contracted to make aircraft parts, that General Motors was producing parts for its Allison engine in a Cadillac shop in Detroit. By compulsion if necessary, by maximum coordination in any event, he would multiply such examples a hundredfold. Furthermore, he would restrict the industry's aircraft production to a few standardized types. These would be mostly trainers and single-engined fighters; to experienced aircraft makers would be left the job of producing more complex bombers...
...life on earth would be a freeze-out. Dr. Gamow's own researches show that as the sun converts more & more hydrogen into energy, it must get continually hotter. Toward the end of its hydrogen supply, Gamow estimates, the sun's radiation will have increased a hundredfold. Thus a heat-death instead of a cold-death is threatened for earthlings...
...many respects the most remarkable ever shown. For if the utter freakishness of the new usage of fighting wars in town instead of in the country has vastly increased the peril of noncombatants, it has at the same time advanced the efficiency of news coverage of the hostilities a hundredfold. For instance: on the afternoon of Aug. 14, three Chinese bombers flew over Shanghai's Bund, accidentally or intentionally slipped two bombs out of their bomb-racks and blew in the fronts of both the Cathay and Palace Hotels, which face each other across teeming Nanking Road. Two hundred...