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...rockets. Air is compressed into a 32-ft. steel sphere, then released through a nozzle at air speeds up to 3,000 m.p.h. into a one-foot test chamber. Here small but exact brass models are connected to instruments which measure their lift in the air stream, their drag (resistance to air flow) and their stability (tendency to yaw or tumble). High-speed photographs of their action and of the air flow are taken through thick glass ports...
...Edge and the railroad lobby are behind it!" shouted the mayor. "But don't be frightened . . . just pull the first five levers. Then they'll drag those damned machines out of here...
...must tell your people how we've been lied to and betrayed! Every day we see it more and more! Every day we have more and more proof of how those men have ruined us! And they're still fighting, letting us be killed-they'd drag our whole country down to death with them if they could...
...Fleshy, Inhuman. Over all this the SS guards-both girls and men-had watched coldly and unmoved. I saw them too-fat, fleshy and inhuman. Now they have a different role in the camp. Under British guard they are made to collect the dead and drag them to a mass grave. From dawn to dusk the SS girls and men alike hold in their arms the bodies of the men, women & children whom they killed...
...newsreels, the well-fleshed, strong face had begun to look wasted and faintly wistful, and sometimes the firm jaw quivered unaccountably. The ringing radio voice seemed now & then to drag with weariness. These were bad signs, people felt uneasily, but they also felt that the doctors and the White House insiders must know...