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...procession sped across the bomb-scarred wasteland from Tokyo to Yokohama. Through his thick glasses Hirohito gazed on his country's devastation. Along the bumpy route his people-shabby, shivering, shambling-greeted their ruler's bizarre cavalcade with bewildered reverence...
...Chase. Led by their strike boss G. F. Brown, the pickets ran to their automobiles, sped east on U.S. Route 24, which parallels the T.P. & W.'s tracks, and soon passed the rolling train. At Eureka the strikers parked near the tracks. As the caboose passed, they threw rocks and stones. Shotgun blasts roared from the train. No picket...
...most notable finding of the Navy's experimenters-and the basis of Sofar-is the sound-carrying property of water 2,000-6,000 feet below the surface. This zone conserves, focuses and carries sound waves over great distances. Sped by the sound-carrying properties of deep water (a function of temperature and density), the explosion of Sofar's underwater bomb comes to the receiving stations as a noise something like a rolling kettledrum crescendo, ending in a sharp report which can be timed to a tenth of a second...
...first two of these editions have been reaching thousands of readers in Latin America and Canada for a long time (85% of all U.S. citizens south of the border read TIME'S plane-sped Latin American edition every week; in Canada TIME'S circulation has doubled in the last three years). And before the end of 1946 we expect to have commercial civilian editions branch-printed in France, India, China, the Middle East, and South Africa-so that almost anywhere you go throughout the world, you will find a copy of that week's TIME waiting...
Most awkward was the existence of the terror-stricken Jews themselves. Nightmares of the Hitlerian slaughter drove them on. In Poland sporadic anti-Jewish outbursts sped them. They filtered into the Allied-occupied zones of Germany...