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...Army was using up its captured V-2s, growing wise and skilled in the process. When the last are gone, rockets of U.S. design should be ready to better the V-2s' records, in the invasion of the ionosphere. "One of 'our most important projects," said Air General George C. Kenny, U.S. member of the United Nations Military Staff Committee, "is in the field of guided missiles...
...over New Mexico is immaculately blue. On May 8, that clear blue sky will be gashed by a dirty grey-white smoke trail. The first German-American V-2 rocket, a mongrel fabricated by U.S. engineers, Army ordnance men and German scientists from odds & ends of captured German V-2s, will be launched from the White Sands (N.M.) Army Ordnance Proving Ground. If the experts have figured correctly (see diagram), the rocket may be expected to zoom faster and higher than any projectile has yet flown, with the possible exception of a few wartime German V-2s. If the Army...
...Thirty are already abuilding or contracted for, at a cost of $93 million. At the end of this month, the Commission will open bids for the fastest merchant vessels ever built in the U.S.: two 670-ft., 28-knot, 543-passenger liners. It is also busy reconverting the P-2s, originally built as Navy troop carriers, for private shippers. Their cabins, in which the beds neatly fold into the bulkhead (see cut), will carry tourists more comfortably-and probably more cheaply-than prewar ships...
...armorer for the Nazis, I.G. made all of Germany's synthetic rubber and lubricating oil; 95% of its poison gases (Farben tested them on concentration camp inmates); 90% of the nickel; 88% of the magnesium, most of the gasoline and explosives for the buzz-bombs and V-2s...
Part of the shopping battalions concentrated on the pet shops. Since the V-2s stopped, there has been a big boom in dogs, cats and birds. Siamese cats (females, $35; males, $40 and $50) are favorites. Last week pet shops were deluged with orders for unborn kittens...