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...this and more befell the boys who trained with the Yale Unit at Locust Valley in 1916. Under Calvin Coolidge two new sub-Cabinet posts were set up: Assistant Secretaries of War and of Navy for Aeronautics. To the first Trubee Davison was appointed. To the second, three years later, David Ingalls...
Production centers are also less vulnerable than they were. Aircraft and other factories have been "diluted," spread out over as many as 45 sub-centers for a single plant. "We may suffer [from bombing]," said Churchill, "we may be retarded, but we can no longer be destroyed...
...week it looked as if Lord Halifax had won his point, and was at last identified by the U.S. as an individual rather than as a symbol of Britain's upper class. He flew from Los Angeles to San Francisco, talked to 700 men building marine engines for sub chasers, to 1,500 shipyard workers, was cheered by both groups. In San Francisco police had to clear a path for him to the speaker's table. He warned Japan that, while Britain had no desire to pick a quarrel, she would not let her interests...
...Naval Reserve (Intelligence). Accustomed for generations to razzing the Army on its personnel, the Navy wondered tremblingly what propeller-gnawing admirals, who knew little of woomance, debutramps and swingy thingy, cared less, would think of him; cringed at what bloodthirsty revenge the Army would undoubtedly take. Sub ject : Lieut. Commander Winchell...
This was just what meteormen were looking for to explain why some meteors apparently smite the earth, then vanish without a trace. If a contraterrene meteorite wandered into the solar system and met up with terrene matter, the respective sub-atomic charges would cancel out in a great burst of energy and both kinds of matter would vanish into nothing-literally nothing at all. This would explain why Soviet scientists with elaborate geophysical equipment could find no fragments of the great meteorite which smacked Central Siberia in 1908, although similar searches around Canyon Diablo, Arizona's famed meteorite crater...