Word: armes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Artificial arms & legs are still in the Model T era; changes come slowly, are often mere tinkering. But last week the Veterans Administration had good news of a sort for the 17,000 World War II amputees. It had approved a new arm & leg which embodies some useful improvements. They were produced, oddly, not by limb experts but by an aviation company, Northrop Aircraft...
Northrop was persuaded to go out on the limb because of its experience in working with light materials. Designed by a crew of engineers, the Northrop arm is a plastic and aluminum affair weighing half a pound to a pound less than previous arms. Other advantages: a new wrist mechanism (for arms amputated below the elbow) which makes it possible to rotate the wrist in either direction; a steel cable, replacing smelly leather thongs; an improved elbow lock. The Northrop leg, similarly, is lighter, has a suction socket and locking knee...
Disaster struck in a finger snap. The sleek, shiny Constellation tumbled drunkenly across a swampy, weed-covered islet on an arm of the Fergus River not two miles from the airfield. The left wing struck first, then the nose, which broke off and threw the pilot and copilot clear. The rest of the plane hurtled on, scattering its guts, plowing a deep rut in the mushy land. Watchers on Rineanna heard a thunderous crash as the Star hit, saw the flare of the gasoline.fire reach high into the night...
...government-organized demonstrations against the U.N. were impressive. In Madrid (see cut) 100,000 herded into the Plaza de Oriente to hear Franco. In Barcelona more than 100,000 marched down the Paseo de Gracia in the icy winter sunshine. The raised-arm salute was used only once (it has been replaced by waving white handkerchiefs). But the barked "Franco, Franco, Franco!" is still used with almost hypnotic effect. Signs carried included one showing a man preparing to lower his trousers and a dog lifting his leg over the letters "U.N.O...
...week's end, after another series of futile meetings, exasperated elder statesman Blum said: "I have gone as fast as I could . . . I was over optimistic." Then he suddenly took matters into his own hands, proposed a Cabinet composed entirely of his fellow Socialists. Under his own arm he tucked the portfolio of Foreign Affairs in addition to the job of President-Premier...