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Though such an achievement may be far away, the fantastic new possibilities of electricity and electronics have already been widely apparent both in war and industry (TIME, Feb. 8 et seq.). Last week Westinghouse gave an especially striking illumination of the future of heating and lighting. In a Manhattan show for architects and designers, Westinghouse engineers displayed: > Brilliant fluorescent lamps, not attached to any wiring, carried freely around the room. The energy that lit these wireless lamps came from a high-frequency radio beam generated by a physician's ordinary diathermy set. (Westinghouse admitted that this was a stunt...
Since Britain's Lord Keynes and the U.S. Treasury's Harry D. White unveiled their international currency plans, many a U.S. banker has grumbled publicly & privately at the financial mumbo jumbo of "unitas" and "bancor" (TIME, April 5 et seq.). Almost to the last vice president they have pleaded for a simpler, more down-to-earth plan...
...three months Seattle's Boeing Airplane Co. has been frantically hunting for 9,000 more workers to boost lagging Flying Fortress production (TIME, Aug. 2, et seq.). Scouts were dispatched into the Middle West to lure workers to Boeing; the War Manpower Commission asked Puget Sound shipyards to lay off some 14,000 men; patriotic Seattlites went from door to door begging housewives to take jobs; a giant rally was held in the University of Washington stadium. Result: last week Boeing was swamped, had to turn job-seekers away. Boeing still needs some 5,000 to 6,000 workers...
Errol Flynn had more blonde trouble (TIME, Oct. 26, et seq.). Shirley Evans Hassau, long-limbed, curly-locked wife of a singer and mother of a three-year-old girl, charged that Flynn was the baby's father, sued him for $1,750-a-month support, $17,000 for hospital and legal expenses. The actor promised to "fight . . . to the bitter end before I'll make any payoff to avoid unpleasant publicity...
Publishers have already met the 10% cut previously ordered (TIME, Jan. 4, et seq.) by rationing ad space, reducing the size of comics and other canned features, refusing new subscriptions, telescoping editorial content, etc. Because advertising is booming, and population in war-industry cities is mushrooming, they have not done the job too well. In this year's third quarter some 230 newspapers had to get extra allotments of newsprint from WPB. (Biggest grant: 1,772 tons to the Los Angeles Times; smallest: one ton to the Salem, Ohio News...