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...long led the world in communications. But in its awesome postwar expansion, U.S. industry discovered that the old communications methods were not good enough. The telephone, telegraph and teletype lines that connect the scattered plants of big corporations were limited in use, expensive to install and maintain. As a solution, industry is turning to another medium: microwave transmission,* i.e., ultra-high-frequency radio...
...Planets connect with a dull thud in this rehash of an earlier science-fiction thriller made last year by the same producer. There are some shots of a familiar-looking space ship and rumors of an impending collision between the earth and Bellus, but the picture spends most of its time on a cold love triangle between a hot flyer, a hot woman scientist, and a drab doctor. Unfortunately the picture never shows how the world would act as Doomsday approached...
...death. Another bad habit of sows is producing more pigs than they can feed properly. The average sow has only eight or ten teats (some of which may not be functioning), and she often farrows as many as 16 pigs. The runts and laggards that don't connect with a functional teat during their early mealtimes are gone pigs. Hunger makes them too weak to compete in later battles...
Sound Effects. So the Pfizer people selected a resonant sow and recorded both her mealtime grunt and the joyous squeals of her litter. That does the trick, says Pfizer. When the deep-sleeping pigs hear the sound effects, they wake up in a flash and connect with rows of rubber nipples charged with Terralac...
Rubber tubing can be used to connect the two flasks. The more ingenious will find a means of hitching this to suspenders, belt, or some other support...