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About four years ago, 1,000,000-volt machines began appearing in a few great U.S. hospitals on a new, more compact model, weighing about 4,000 pounds, one-quarter of this weight being lead to keep the rays from getting out into the hospitals. Costing some $40,000 apiece, every 1,000,000-volter is the equivalent of $90,000,000 worth of radium.* (Radium is still widely used in therapy because of its compactness: it can even be planted inside a patient and left there for a while to do its work...
Industrial use of 1,000,000-volt machines had to wait until they became compact and light (1,500 lb.) enough to be slung easily from a crane and aimed this way & that upon intricate pieces of machinery. The new giants have two great industrial advantages: 1) they can see through thicker metals, 2) they can do the work of smaller machines in less time...
Dodge develops 105 h.p. (last year 91) but is said to use less gasoline. A squarish, glittering grille extends from headlight to headlight. Running counter to the G.M. trend, Chrysler has made the Dodge fenders short and compact; they resemble the "pants" on aircraft wheels. Tourists' gadget: a map light set in the middle of the instrument panels...
...scarcely had young Mr. Carey drawn a resolute breath before the Communists popped out. They supported the President all right in his program of all-out aid to Russia, Britain and China, and incidentally repudiated old friend John L. Lewis* But a compact, fast-stepping minuscule minority seized control, persuaded the delegates to kill every anti-Red resolution Mr. Carey suggested. Carey-men on the floor flopped helplessly. The radicals argued that Carey had too many jobs, climaxed the session by getting the electricians to short-circuit Carey and oust him from the presidency...
...Compact, greying, pitcher-eared, with jowls that would do justice to a mastiff, Bill Henry is no stranger to radio. Five times a week he does a West Coast commentary, is sometimes heard on such CBS news roundup shows as The World Today. He claims he was the first radio front-line correspondent of World War II. He came by the distinction rather fortuitously. When he went to Europe in 1939, it was to advise the Finns how to get set for the 1940 Olympics. As technical director of the Los Angeles Games of 1932, the Berlin Games...