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...built in the U.S. in peacetime.* Financed by a $10 million Government appropriation, it will be the heart of the great Brookhaven National Laboratory, to be built by the U.S. as a common experiment center for the nuclear scientists of Eastern universities. Other atomic giants will soon cluster around it: cyclotrons, synchrotrons, a Van de Graaff electrostatic generator-all the monstrous machines of the Atomic...
After a bad winter and early spring, U.S. overseas airlines were in the black. A few foreign airlines were making small profits-if one ignored state services not charged to their books. But U.S. airlines' biggest rival, Britain's state-owned cluster of chosen instruments, was bogged down. The cluster's biggest star, BOAC, had lost ?5 million for the twelve months ended in March. There were estimates that the 1947 loss would double that...
...contestants spent most of each day riding in a good-natured cluster, taking turns sheltering each other from the wind, saving their strength for a late-afternoon sprint. The tour was broken into 21 laps, with overnight and one-day stops between (the cyclist with least total elapsed time is the winner). At frequent intervals, some of them sucked up wine by rubber hose from tankards on their handlebars. Ahead of the racers moved a cavalcade of commercials on wheels; behind came les suiveurs-masseurs, newspapermen, photographers. In some bombed towns, they had to be billeted in prisons and brothels...
...ordinary transport plane, Mather pointed out, was said to have kept pace with a cluster of plates for several minutes. This would have been impossible at the super velocity of a guided missile of the V-2 variety...
...spreading a simple, primitive and powerful music; but the Duke was talking a new pulsing and sensual language. He had not yet heard of Stravinsky, and he had quit studying harmony after his first lesson, but he was using dissonance and rhythm, and thick, murky six-and eight-tone cluster chords in ways that were not recommended in the harmony books...