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...Navy this week proudly released an artist's drawing of its new supercarrier. Unnamed as yet, the CVA-58 will cost an estimated $124 million. Though the money is still to be appropriated, the Navy has scraped together enough to start laying its keel by early 1949. From its decks, the Navy claimed, planes carrying the atomic bomb will be able to reach and bomb 92% of all possible targets anywhere in the world...
...They like the way he memorizes the stances of each batter so that he can figure out what has gone wrong when somebody slumps, and they don't even mind when he drills them on sandlot fundamentals. The Southworth approach has kept the Braves on an even, unspectacular keel: they have put together no winning streak longer than seven games, no losing streak longer than four. Billy admits that the Braves may not be the best club in the league, but he expects to win-because the boys have the "will to win." Says Billy: "You just keep preaching...
...enormous underwater pressure. It will not be suspended from a cable, like William Beebe's bathysphere (which set a 3,000-ft. depth record in 1934). The Piccard sphere will float like a balloon in the ocean depths, supported by tanks filled with buoyant gasoline. A heavy iron keel attached by electromagnets will cause the sphere to sink. To rise, Piccard will cut the electric current and release the keel. The bathyscaphe can cruise slowly by means of two propellers driven by a small electric motor. A searchlight will seek out whatever sea monsters live in the Gulf...
...Even Keel. But Uruguayans have also to thank the skill of their government for their good fortune. One prime reason for Uruguay's escape from inflation is that she spends little money on armament. Another is that she did not attempt overambitious postwar industrial expansion, confined it in the main to buying new textile machinery, a couple of hydroelectric plants, a limited amount of farm machinery...
...with machine guns removed. Objective this time: darkest Europe. Before leaving, he reassured all potentially anxious friends: "One could make a million flights before three of the four engines would fail simultaneously ... If all [five] of the crew should become incapacitated, I can hold the plane on an even keel and hit Europe somewhere...