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Convair's unconventional 160-ton monster will have a range of 10,000 miles and a speed of around 300 miles an hour. Test flights will start this summer. If the tests are successful, Convair will build another prototype. Then it will tool up to fill an Army order for a fleet of planes to cost hundreds of millions...
...42nd Street skyscraper that houses the tabloid New York Daily News, the monster presses were still, resting like exhausted giants from the ordeal of grinding out 4,500,000 fat Sunday newspapers. Upstairs in Ihe city room, a handful of early-trick Newshawks dawdled over Sunday-morning chores. They paused as a telephone buzzed, and stared at the deskman who picked it up. A quiet voice on the wire said, "He died...
Unlovable Evan L. Evans-who always wore a dirty straw hat and a bandanna, even when he drove in one of his Rolls-Royces-is the principal monster in Frederic Wakeman's sharp, comical novel about the monstrousness of present-day radio advertising. (Author Wakeman, whose first novel, Shore Leave, has averaged a comfortable thousand-a-week sale since 1944, used to write radio commercials for Campbell's Soup, Lucky Strike...
...National Academy of Sciences added a "foreign associate" to its goodly company: Russian physicist Peter Kapitza, Hero of Socialist Labor. He was worthy of the honor. Besides a monster string of Soviet decorations, he held medals from Belgium, Britain, and the Franklin Institute of Philadelphia...
When the "huge, dropsical monster" known as the Associated Gas & Electric System was finally driven into reorganization proceedings in 1940, 40% of its billion-dollar bulk turned out to be bookkeeping water. Last week, as the fabulous reorganization was ended, more water was struck. Manhattan's Federal Judge Vincent L. Leibell angrily said that fees asked by 72 lawyers and assorted utilities experts for the five-year job of dehydrating the monster were themselves heavily watered...