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...will glance into the near future you can see a very different picture from the one of today. The bombers will dwarf our present Flying Fortresses. They will carry half a carload of bombs across the Atlantic and fly home without stop. The bomber's skin will have numerous 'blisters,' which in reality will be multiple-gun power turrets controllable from sighting stations. Sights that compensate for almost every possible error encountered in firing on a fast-moving aerial target will control the guns-a sight as revolutionary as our present bomb sight...
...Babel one step is now being taken: the end of the war in Europe will certainly mean the end of the Nazi Ministry for National Enlightenment and Propaganda, of short-wave broadcast from Zeesen, of the Auslands-Deutsche organization, of Signal, the Nazi picture magazine, and of the Wagnerian dwarf, Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels...
...papers with their vertical headlines and back-to-front pagination are a wonder to Westerners. The style of Chinese news writing ranges from crisp American formulas learned in U.S. schools of journalism to the elegant circumlocutory prose of Chinese tradition, in which the Japanese are always referred to as "dwarf bandits" and the loss of a city is conveyed by the announcement that "our troops have trapped the enemy at -, and are now surrounding...
...electronic industry was no dwarf in the peacetime U.S. Then nearly 150 million tubes, of more than 400 different types, were produced in a year. Radio equipment production jumped from well under half a billion dollars in 1941 to $1 billion in 1942. Plans for 1943 will bring the production figure to $3 billion. Military secrecy cloaks the uses to which tubes are being put but these totals tell the story of their myriad usefulness...
...voices of the announcers are seldom natural, casual, human. Here is a solemn pulpit voice, preaching of clogged sinuses; here is a maniac with a congenital megaphone; here is baby talk, about as cute as a dwarf in diapers...