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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans kept on fighting. General Ike commented: "I have searched and searched to find their reason for prolonging the agony." He finally decided there were two reasons: Hitler, with his determination to stay on, and the "one hope" that the Allies would split apart. "They had that desperate hope, unquestionably. Otherwise there was no sense in taking the last month of pounding...
Critical judgments apart, it was a big night at "The Wells." Peter Grimes was England's first new opera in almost ten years. The score called for some 200 singers and musicians. Gallery oldtimers had set up their camp stools in ticket queues 24 hours in advance. Ecstatic music-lovers kept throwing bouquets at the cast and composer until the historic old stage was carpeted with flowers. The peerage showed up in more furs, white ties and tiaras than Londoners had seen since the war began...
Using penicillin dissolved in water, treatment was gradually worked down to three hypodermic injections two hours apart. Then came the discovery, announced last year (TIME, Sept. 11), that penicillin mixed with beeswax and peanut oil is disseminated slowly through the body, keeping the penicillin content of blood high for hours. The Public Health Service acted swiftly. To 137 doctors throughout the land went instructions and the penicillin mixture with the request that they try single injections of 200,000 units (2 cc.) on as many patients as possible and report the results. Back came results on 1,060 cases: over...
...approach to the reparations problem. The U.S. and Britain regard reparations largely as a means to.an end-the pacification of Germany. The Russians are interested in reparations for the sake of reparations. To them (and to some of the smaller nations) German labor and materials have a value entirely apart from the effect on. Germany...
...tunnels, designed to discover how fast and high a plane can go before it burns up, falls apart or bursts, are at California Institute of Technology in Pasadena and at the Curtiss-Wright plant in Buffalo, N.Y. Cal Tech proudly calls its tunnel, financed by four California planemakers, the world's most advanced. It will test all-metal models with 8-to-10-ft. wing spans, at air speeds up to 750 m.p.h., generated by two giant aluminum fans...