Word: answered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...available data on both planes: speed, range, altitude, rate of climb and fire power, along with such variables as weather, time of warning and accuracy. Then like a giant Bendix washer, the brain will whirl into action, stirring, scrambling, sorting, poking, prodding and reassembling the figures until the answer pops out next year, all set to be neatly starched and ironed. The only thing the machine won't do is make a decision...
Last week, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the Food & Drug Administration's Dr. Arnold J. Lehman gave the answer for which U.S. women have not bothered to wait: cold-wave kits are safe-if used as directed...
...British government will not change its monetary restrictions, but keeping English students on the other side of the Atlantic is not a satisfactory answer to the problem. Continued cooperation by the University in providing scholarships and finding good jobs for exchange students will insure that its contribution to Anglo-American understanding can keep on going...
Like a man thinking out loud, Scientist Bush tries to answer certain questions: What would a third world war be like? Would the U.S. be ready for it? Could the U.S. win it? Could civilization survive the holocaust made possible by the new techniques of war? No one is better qualified to answer such questions than Vannevar Bush, director of the Office of Scientific Research and Development and of the project which produced the atom bomb; but in answering them he only half succeeds in removing from them the terror of the half-seen...
...Fantastic Cost. What would War III be like? Bush finds no ready answer. It would not be as easy as some optimists like to think, nor as dire as others predict. "For a long time to come," at least, there would not be fleets of fast and high-flying intercontinental bombers. The atom bomb would be dropped, but it is not the abso lute weapon it has been said to be. It is not even as devastating as popularly supposed, says Bush. The costs of manufacturing and of delivering it would be so vast that they might well exhaust...