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...that their gradual march toward space may disappoint the oversold public. All the necessary, cautious first steps (a small missile shot into an orbit, a hit on the moon with a small payload. etc.) are a long way from manned space ships. But Dr. von Braun (of the V-2s), who would hurry the cautious missile men along, says that manned space flight "is as sure as the rising of the sun." He tells just how the U.S. military can establish a "satellite space station" in an orbit around the earth, and he insists that such a station could dominate...
...French fears, the Germans are forbidden to manufacture atomic, biological and chemical weapons. They would be allowed to recruit an 85,000-man air force, but not to make airplanes. They may build guided missiles-but only for short-range use: the British, remembering what Hitler's V-2s did to London, vetoed long-range rockets...
Both ships were World War II T-2-type tankers, whose welded hulls tend to crack in two when subjected to low temperatures and hammering seas. Of 523 T-2s built between 1943 and 1945, eight had split before the Pendleton and Fort Mercer. Seamen could only guess how many more might break in years to come...
...fighting erupted in one sector after another, U.N. combat commanders asked their G-2s, "Is this it?" The G2s didn't know, but the portents were strong. Red motor traffic behind the front was the heaviest of the war. Allied airmen destroyed or damaged 4,364 vehicles in one week-but they could not claim to have stopped more than a fraction of the traffic...
...sets great store by her weekly 5-oz. ration of chocolate, caches it in the office filing cabinet. One morning last January Miss Maloney entered her office at David Shanks & Co., Birmingham manufacturers of sheet-metal pressings, found files and paper strewn about, the cash box rifled of ?4 2s. 9d. Her chocolate bar was half eaten...