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Only a few primitive guided missiles (such as the Navy's "Bat" and "Loon") have passed the blueprint stage. But Colonel McCutcheon can already outline how their successors will be used in war. Some will have enormous ranges, striking at enemy cities and blasting them to rubble with atomic warheads. These will not need pinpoint accuracy...
...Advised everyone to read Lenin and Marx for a "blueprint of Communist expansion...
...blueprint, the dam had been known as Boulder, since it was to be built across the Colorado River in Boulder Canyon. In 1930, when construction started, Interior Secretary Wilbur named it Hoover after his boss. When the Democrats moved in, Secretary Harold Ickes decided that Wilbur had had no right to rename the dam, changed it back to Boulder-despite the fact that the site had been shifted 20 miles southward to Black Canyon...
Mexico cannot pay for all, or even half, of Aléman's $656 million program. That is where the U.S. comes in. The dams, hydroelectric and irrigation projects, roads, railways and docks on Mexico's blueprint are planned to pay for themselves. So to the U.S. Export-Import Bank they seem to be sound investments. President Aléman may get from the Bank's depleted kitty somewhere between $50 and $100 million. That will get his program started...
...operation? The Civil Aeronautics Administration is already installing "Omnidirectional Ranges" to mark out the lanes. The chief component now lacking is a satisfactory instrument for marking out the blocks. A.T.A. says that the electronic principles to perform this service are already known. It hopes that its idealized blueprint will stimulate designers to put them to practical work...