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Well might Tom Girdler be proud. Mass-producing bombers is as much more complicated than building autos as the growth of the human body is more complex than the growth of an amoeba. The average car has 15,000 parts. The bomber that rolled off Consolidated's line last week had 101,650 parts, laced together by more than 400,000 rivets...
This year S. Hurok has consolidated a near-monopoly on the spins and leaps that bring in the money. As usual he has two ballet troupes, but-because of ballet's tendency to behave like a slap-happy amoeba-the troupes are different this year. In the finely trained Massine ballet are the most glamorous (Tamara Toumanova) and the most technically accomplished (Alexandra Danilova) of ballerinas, as well as three of the fleetest male dancers (Frederic Franklin, Igor Youskevitch, Andre Eglevsky...
...Buck Rogers talk had to admit that the practical harnessing of atomic power was now much nearer-though they still insist it is far off. When a slow-moving neutron hits the uranium atom's nucleus, the nucleus is constricted around the middle and finally splits, like an amoeba reproducing itself. But though the energy of the activating neutron is only a small fraction of one electron-volt, 200,000,000 electron-volts of energy are released. Last fortnight, Dr. Richard David Present of Purdue described a three-way split. If conditions, including the energy of the entering neutron...
...document told remarkably little about the Army. But Secretary Woodring did get at the main difference between the U. S. Army as it traditionally has been in peacetime, and the Army as Commander in Chief Roosevelt wants it to be from now on. The old Army was a feeble amoeba, unfit even for its theoretical role as the core of a fighting force to be raised after war starts. What is now wanted is an Initial Protective Force (Regular Army plus National Guard), manned, equipped and ready to fight at the drop of an enemy...
Leaders. Poland is the amoeba of Europe. Since the Tenth Century the rhythm of its life has been grow, divide, grow, divide. The very first king to give Poland substantial nationhood (Boleslav, the Wry-mouthed, 1086-1139) split his inheritance between four sons. And the most recent man to contribute to Polish statehood, Marshal Pilsudski, similarly divided his power (though not his land) among three favorites...