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...Caribbean last week was the first of a new class of monster aircraft carriers, the Midway - the U.S. Navy's and the world's mightiest warship. As a fighting machine, the Midway seemed to have everything: her flight deck was armored; thousands of tons of alloy steel encased her vitals; she had 200,000 h.p. to drive her 45,000 tons (60,000 or more at full load) at better than 33 knots; in her new, long-barreled 5-inch guns there was fire power to keep an enemy away while 120 planes operated from her roomy...
...beam, becomes dangerously radioactive. The rays knock neutrons out of silver atoms, turning them into an unstable silver isotope, which breaks down into cadmium, giving off powerful streams of electrons. Some silver, too, is turned into palladium, while some of the copper in the coin's alloy is turned into atoms of nickel.* The betatron is controlled from a neighboring room...
...More than 95% of its orders for carbon and alloy steels, copper, aluminum, artillery, tanks, guns, railroad rolling stock, telephone, radio and telegraph equipment...
...brand-new and radically different Superfortresses. Gradually, sometimes by means mystifying to zealous ground crews, the bugs began to come out. Sample exterminations: ¶ The B-29's big engines were exploding when they caught fire. Dr. William J. Crozier, a Harvard physiologist, suspected that the magnesium-alloy parts blew up when they were doused by the carbon dioxide in the automatic fire extinguishers. Tests proved him right, and combat crews were immediately instructed to use their extinguishers at the first slight hint of fire, or not at all. Later, aluminum alloys were substituted for the magnesium-alloy parts...
Their method is simple, requiring only a piece of vein and a few bits of bloodvessel-sized vitallium tubing. (Vitallium is the non-irritating surgical alloy.) Given an artery with a section missing or damaged, the doctors snip each end neatly, then cut a section of one of the patient's own veins for a patch. (Loss of a vein is not dangerous, as other veins readily take over its work...