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...Added two Oak Leaf Clusters to Air Forces General Henry H. Arnold's Distinguished Service Medal-for creating and expanding the air corps program...
...humorous dozens of cracker-barrel stories. There are shrewd estimates of hundreds of obscure people, cowhands, politicians, maiden aunts, Indians, legalites, buffalo hunters, dirt farmers. There is a bloated recapitulation of human knowledge (all set down as revelation), from casual botanical observations ("a three-leaf plant, like the poison Oak, is usually poisonous [but] a five-leaf plant like ... the Virginia Creeper is never poisonous") to startling historical discoveries (Egypt's "pyramids were constructed in order to satisfy groups and blocks...
...Lewis Burrie Swift, president of Rochester's Taylor Instrument Cos., which turned out 40,000 instruments for Oak Ridge, more than had been needed in the synthetic rubber and high octane programs combined...
Plant before Design. In the Oak Ridge plant, 6,000 centrifugal pumps were needed which would send a viciously corrosive gas through pipes. There was no time to design such a pump, then tool up a factory to produce it. So Allis-Chalmers took on the job of building the factory first, tooling it up and training the workers, then waiting for the pump to be designed...
...process worked. Nevertheless they turned out hundreds of acres of such screens. The notable contribution of Chrysler was something which sounded simple-nickel-plating the all-important pipes. The trick that had to be done was to nickel-plate them inside. Not until Chrysler turned the trick could Oak Ridge operate...