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...carried out with "magnificent precision." Reasoned Major Eliot: Last August when Russia was fighting off Germany's renewed attacks and it seemed certain that Japan would seize the chance to invade Russia's Far Eastern provinces, the U.S. went into the Solomons. Japan "fell into the trap" and diverted the troops she needed for a Siberian adventure...
...Eisenhower, Admiral Sir Andrew Cunningham and Major General James Doolittle conferred with Sir Arthur William Tedder, R.A.F. chief in the Middle East,* and Major General Lewis Brereton, chief of U.S. Middle East air forces. Tedder and Brereton had flown in from Egypt. The moment Tunis was cleared, the trap would probably be sprung on Rommel...
...young research engineer, Gaylord W. Penney (now manager of the electrophysics laboratories), sought a conclusion to German experiments with ionized air, found a clue to cleaner air. With a wire, a couple of aluminum plates and a burning oily rag, he rigged his first crude electrostatic dirt trap. The modern unit is as simple in principle: air entering it travels over fine tungsten wires carrying 12,000 volts which impart a positive charge to passing particles of dust. Then parallel steel plates charged with negative electricity snatch and hold the electrified particles, removing from them 95% of the airborne dirt...
Charles E. Mohr of Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences reported in Frontiers last week on his ten-year study of the homing urge of the common (Little Brown) bat. Most bats can be caught only in caves when hibernating. No one has yet devised a bat trap for catching them on the wing. But in winter they can easily be picked from their underground perches and fitted with light aluminum bands for identification. Mohr has been banding bats for years...
Meanwhile, a board of inquiry, headed by Fire Commissioner William A. Reilly strove to establish whether the holocaust involved criminal negligence, and if so, who were responsible for the fire trap...