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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian thought for a long time, then he said, "Dalstroy." "Dalstroy," cried the Poles. "That's not a funny story. That's one of your biggest slave-labor projects in Siberia." "That's right," said the Russian, "but some tellers of very funny stories helped to build...
With a will as hard as the heart of a front-office executive, Olivia prepared to fight Hollywood for a place as an actress. To build up a reserve, she saved money, chiefly by cutting down on clothes. When Warner tried to put her back into the slush-mines after lending her out to play Melanie in Gone With the Wind, she rebelled and was suspended for a total of six months. Her seven-year contract at last expired (in 1943) and Warner tried to make her serve the extra six months she had "lost." Against the advice of everyone...
...Guggenheim centers will not build bigger & better jet engines, nor even try to. Their job will be to push into unknown regions where the jet engineers of the future may want to follow. One project at Princeton will be the study of air behavior at "hypersonic" speeds-above Mach 5 (five times the speed of sound). When wind tunnels are forced to this speed, and a few of them can be, they hit a fantastic difficulty. The air expands and gets so cold that its oxygen and nitrogen condense into liquids. Princeton will study this disturbing phenomenon...
...Chubby in build and cheery in face, Sir Edward likes human beings, and says it will be a terrible wrench to leave his closest colleagues in the British Civil Service [since 1939, he has been Secretary of Britain's Department of Scientific and Industrial Research]. If he's climbed to any eminence at all, it's been on their shoulders. Although he looks forward to resuming academic life, he's found his ten years in civil service a great adventure, which he wouldn't have missed for anything! Always takes life at great pace...
...From China, from an anonymous Chinese Christian businessman, came a gift of $1,000,000 to the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. This, the largest cash donation ever received by the board from a living donor, was to be used to build a settlement for retired Presbyterian missionaries. The gift, said its modest donor, was "in gratitude to God for my Christian education and life, and in appreciation of the service your missionaries have given China...