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...White Sands (N.M.) Army Ordnance Proving Ground. If the experts have figured correctly (see diagram), the rocket may be expected to zoom faster and higher than any projectile has yet flown, with the possible exception of a few wartime German V-2s. If the Army knows where the monster is going to crash land, it is not telling...
What shall the U.S. do with its $700 million worth of synthetic rubber plants? Last week the Inter-Agency Policy Committee on Rubber,* chairmaned by William L. Batt, laid down a broad program for the care and feeding of this wartime monster which might easily turn into a peacetime white elephant...
...atom bomb ended the war and changed the world. What did the monster do to the men who had fathered...
Quicker than he could say pardon!, another announcer broke in: "Atomic energy has turned [into a] Frankenstein [monster and] mastered its inventors. Shattering explosions have rent the earth from Siberia to Ontario...
With this plan, the War Department ran head-on into representatives of private cemetery interests. To the cemetery associations, the plan was a tax-consuming monster, violating the "American tradition" under which, they said, the soldier preferred to lie among members of his own family, in a graveyard in his own community, in ground consecrated according to the rites of his creed. The cemetery associations wanted Congress to allot families a set sum for private burials. Private cemeteries, they claimed, have enough vacant plots for 200 years...