Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Then come a series of reluctant, coughing gasps as the pilot tries to start the engine. At last the motor responds to his desperate tug, and the little boat dashes across the bay, the puttering sound of the engine reflected faithfully by the towering cliffs ahead. The boat goes faster & faster, and at last races altogether out of control. We see the pilot wringing his hands and hear his frightened moans as, the boat roars for the rocks, and crashes with a series of hellish explosions, the broken propeller thrashing against the stone...
...length of six-sided pipe filled with gasoline thickened to a sticky, raspberry-pink jelly by the addition of a still-secret powder. This oil-bomb produces almost twice as much heat in proportion to weight as magnesium and spreads destruction much faster...
...Belgian cities along the V-bomb routes, sirens wail frequently, as the noisy V-1s pass overhead. But no sirens sound in Antwerp, the bombs' principal target. In Antwerp men never leave the ack-ack guns, the city's defense against the V-1s. Against the faster-than-sound V-2s, there is no defense...
...Relay to anyone with a receiving set a coast-to-coast broadcast of a movie, television or a facsimile of a newspaper. Raytheon says that microwaves will make possible much better television and radio reception and faster telegraphy than is now possible...
...carrying the whole blood to his arm. Dr. Silvis said: ""See his lips. He's washed up." Then he turned to the corpsman and said: "Let's give him another bottle and put it in the femoral [big vein in each groin]-the blood can run in faster than it can through...