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...them off under water deliberately sacrificing some of their blast effect. In such cases, radioactive contamination would become a massive problem. The deadly dust or spray drifting slowly downwind would not be obviously dangerous. Its radiation could not be detected by any human sense, and a man might absorb a fatal dose of it before feeling any ill effect...
...stabilizers had assumed that the profits of the auto industry were big enough to absorb increases in wages and raw materials. It was true that the profits of some auto companies had been enormous. But they were big largely because of capacity production. With big cuts in auto production ahead, profits would drop far faster than the actual reduction in volume. In short, the Government's new venture into price control gave businessmen little confidence that the present control program would be a success...
...fighters, the slim, fast whippets of the sky, look delicate. Actually, they are tougher, said the Air Force last week, than comparable propeller-driven aircraft. They can absorb an astonishing amount of battle damage and bring their pilots home alive. In Korea, up to mid-November, the Air Force's busiest jets (Lockheed F80 Shooting Stars) flew 57% of the fighter missions and suffered only 25% of the losses due to enemy antiaircraft fire. The Navy made a similar report on its Grumman F9F Panther...
...This marked the end of the U.S. troops' role in Germany as an occupation force and the beginning of a fighting force to stand against Communist aggression. Eddy's command will consist at first of the 1st Infantry Division and an armored constabulary division, and will soon absorb most of the 87,000 U.S. troops in Germany. Purposes of the move were 1) to show French and Germans that the U.S. means to defend West Germany, and 2) to provide a cadre for the absorption of more U.S. divisions when they can be released from Korea...
...Asked when he thought color TV would be seen generally throughout the U.S., CBS's Frank Stanton could give only an iffy answer. If the courts do not rule against CBS; if congressional probes do not hold up the FCC decision; if U.S. rearmament does not absorb the electronics industry; if there are no serious shortages of essential materials- waving away all these ifs, Stanton believes that color will be transmitted from all U.S TV stations by the end of 1952. That means that even if things move as fast as possible, the buyer of a new black & white...