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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...already won renown as a peerless air tactician. He devised "Operation Strangle," which paralyzed Nazi rail transport in Italy, sometimes flew a fighter over his own bomber formations. As one of the Air Force's pioneer instructors, Cannon has a roster of former pupils reading like a star chart. Among them: General Nathan F. Twining, Air Force Chief of Staff; General Hoyt Vandenberg, retired Chief of Staff; General Curtis E. LeMay, commanding general of the Strategic Air Command...
Finally, there are the permanent records: the heart indexes on a four-way chart, the sound on a tape, and (if funds become available) a full visual record on Kinescope. Everything can be played back so that physicians and surgeons can devise improvements in their methods...
...shortage of mortgage money, retailers warned darkly of a sales slump if the hard money policy continued, the stock market jiggled to a year's low of 255, thus pushing dividend yields up to 5.8%, in line with the rising trend of Government bond interest (see chart). George Humphrey did not need to be told what to do; he cut the interest rate on his next issue, while the Federal Reserve Board reduced bank reserve requirements to make more credit available...
...record $285 billion; savings will probably set a new record. Though the cost of living edged to a new high in October, said the Labor Department, it was still only 1.1% above the level a year ago. Food prices, in fact, were down (see chart), and it looked as though prices have just about stabilized. The October rise was due largely to higher rents and medical charges, and such scattered items as beer and haircuts...
...needed energy come from? Surprisingly enough, the Woytinskys estimate that four-fifths will be obtained just the way it is now-from coal, oil, gas, water, wood and work animals-and only one-fifth from such new sources as the sun, the wind and the atom (see chart). While petroleum consumption "is certain to rise from decade to decade," there may be a worldwide shortage by the end of the century. Coal, on the other hand, sometimes regarded as a dying industry, is in for a big boost in the coming decades. Say the authors: "The use of fuels extracted...