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RONSON, biggest U.S. manufacturer of cigarette lighters (1953 sales: about $20,000,000), is going into the electric-razor market. The company has signed a $15,000,000 licensing agreement with the Max Braun Co. of Frankfurt, Germany to make a self-sharpening electric razor. The razor will first be marketed in April. Price...
...Even if space flight is mastered, the logistics of earth-moon transport are not encouraging. According to the calculations of one optimistic authority, Dr. Wernher von Braun, more than 2,000 Ibs. of fuel must be burned to land each pound of cargo on the moon. If half the fuel is hydrazine, at $2.50 a lb., the fuel cost alone of transporting a 10-ton machine to the moon would be more than $50 million. The space vehicles themselves would add even more to the cost...
...example. Leonard has made several visits to White Sands for TIME, to Wright Field, and to the Air Force's Department of Space Medicine near San Antonio, Texas. He first met Wernher von Braun. head of the former V-2 rocket project, for a TIME story in 1946 when Von Braun was brought to Fort Bliss, Texas as a civilian employee of the War Department. There was also new research which included hours spent browsing in Leonard's own extensive home library at Hastings-on-Hudson, more interviews with scientists, including members of both the American Rocket Society...
...Wilhelm Meyer-Cords, chairman of the North Rhine-Westphalian branch of Germany's Space Research Society, told fellow rocketeers that U.S. scientists are probably already at work building a space station. In case anyone doubted him, Dr. Meyer-Cords also presented a paper by Space Prophet Wernher von Braun, guided-missile expert for U.S. Army Ordnance. Von Braun already has plans for a man-carrying rocket that can reach the moon. His rocket would carry 20 passengers and make the round trip in ten days. Give him some $4 billion, says Von Braun, who is no man to boggle...
When defeat came closer & closer, Hitler's audience dwindled to his female secretaries, his hard-drinking adjutant, his quack doctor and his vegetarian cook. They had heard his theories many times before and were bored, but they sat helplessly drowsing into the morning, a captive audience. Only Eva Braun, Hitler's mistress, ever did anything about it. She would pointedly ask the Führer the time. Hitler usually took the hint and closed the window on the refuse-laden backyard of his mind...