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...device is a wallboard box, about one cubic foot in size, which contains a smaller box made of galvanized iron. Between the two boxes are alternating layers of rock wool and steel wool. A tube from the inside draws off the accumulated orgone...
Warheads on air-to-air rockets, which can be carried by such interceptors as the null null and F-102, can be set to give a predetermined yield of bomber-killing heat, radiation and shock effect; a single burst can make an area of two-to-five cubic miles uninhabitable by an enemy bomber. Moreover, an atomic rocket can down a low-flying enemy bomber while causing only minimum radioactive contamination of the ground area below, since new warheads have been designed with a low fallout yield...
First, Dr. Southam used Novocain to anesthetize an area about three inches across. Into the middle of the area he stuck a tattoo needle that left a blue dot for a reference mark. Out of a vial and into a hypodermic syringe he drew up a cubic centimeter of pink fluid-mostly water, but containing millions of cancer cells from human victims of the disease. The cells had been grown for years in test tubes by Dr. Alice E. Moore, Sloan-Kettering tissue-culture specialist, who had carried the cells to Columbus herself -in her handbag...
...adman to make even the also-rans sound like world-beaters. But Chevrolet and Pontiac had easily been the week's winners, and the Chevrolet-makers could claim to have reached an automotive milestone: the first U.S. stock auto engine that can put out one horsepower for each cubic inch of displacement without benefit of a supercharger...
...canal cost 453 million francs to build. More than a hundred million cubic feet of earth were moved in ten years. De Lesseps was accused of employing slave labor by using the corvée (impressment of workers), but when the practice was halted and the fellahin laid down their primitive picks and baskets, the work went on faster than before with free labor and the rapid development of steam-powered excavators. De Lesseps' real roadblocks lay not in the sand and rock of the Sinai desert but in the chancellories and salons of Europe. In France envious rivals...