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...their struggle with General Motors, first target among the auto industry's Big Three, the United Automobile Workers played a last diplomatic trump card- an offer to arbitrate. But the union demanded that the arbiters have access to General Motors' books-a provision that was anathema to the company...
...destroyer. On Aug. 9, 1945, five days before war's end, he skimmed off the flight deck of the carrier Formidable, led an eight-plane attack on Japanese warships outside Tokyo Bay. Tearing through heavy flak, he piloted his riddled, blazing fighter to within 50 feet of his target, bagged his second Jap destroyer before he plummeted to his death...
...first by his fellow composers in a private "sitting," before it can be played in public. The sittings were pretty rough during the 1936-37 purge of "formalism" in music - which meant an end to fancy musical tricks that the masses could not understand. Shosta kovich was a prime target, and Prokofiev caught a few glancing blows. Now, considering that at one sitting rival composers can make or break a year's work by one of their colleagues, the sessions are fairly harmonious. Fellow members, regarding another's work in the communal spirit, can tell...
...Much larger atomic charges are in prospect. Present discussion assumes that atomic bombs will be dropped from planes; actually, atomic charges can be adapted for delivery to a target as rockets, as robombs, or shipped in wardrobe trunks...
Then the current in the coils begins to fall. A secondary magnetic field deflects the electrons from their circular course. They spiral inward and hit a tungsten "target." Out bursts...