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Before World War I, Sir Edward Grey, Britain's Foreign Secretary, remarked to Winston Churchill that the U.S. was like "a gigantic boiler; once the fire is lighted under it, there is no limit to the power it can produce." Right after Korea, the U.S. thought it lit a fire. The boiler, however, was a lot slower to heat than it used to be. Last week, nearly 17 months after the invasion, the fires still smoked and sputtered, the boiler bubbled weakly, and the instruments of war were still coming out in a thin trickle...
...when she was refused admission to a university. She was told: "You must be of proletarian origin in order to study here. You belong to the employee category, for which we have no quota." She was finally admitted to classes at the Oil Refinery Institute, worked part-time watching boiler gauges. A month's wages came to 83 rubles at a time when a loaf of bread cost...
...some Canadian "opportunities." To all U.S. stock exchanges it sent a list of 179 Canadian stocks which it "had reason to believe" were being illegally sold in the U.S., i.e., were not registered with SEC. But nobody thought that the list would put an end to Toronto's "boiler-shop" operators; they deal with buyers direct, not through U.S. brokers...
...train was approaching Asch, its last stop. But instead of slowing down, it picked up speed. On the Asch station platform, baggage men watched wide-eyed as the locomotive, a 3-ft.-high Red Star on the front of its boiler, roared toward them. "I pushed the throttle all the way forward," Konvalinka said later...
...with a mathematical bent, went with them to the AEC's giant Oak Ridge plant for an atomic refresher course. His engineers and sub men pored over old Annapolis manuals and textbooks on steam turbines, rigged one up, and started figuring ways to hitch it to an atomic boiler. In Washington, the Bureau of Ships began designing a thick new hull to hold the new engine...