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...Zero plus 30 minutes, if Admiral Blandy gives the order, two Mariner flying boats, equipped with Geiger counters to measure radioactivity, will roar across the lagoon, 40 feet above the water. If they report and if their report is favorable, a pair of helicopters will flutter down to take samples of the atom-stirred water. Then six small gunboats, also with Geiger counters, will approach the dread lagoon, sampling the water and reporting by radio. Next, a swarm of 20 launches, manned by raincoated scientists, will scoot like water bugs among the stricken ships. Finally, if all pioneers report that...
...King with a Flutter. But the Duke and Duchess of Windsor were gay. After five years of living death in the tranquil Bahamas, the world's most publicized hedonists were fluttery with the anticipation of returning to Paris. Their elegant mansion at 24 boulevard Suchet in the fashionable Passy quarter had not been molested by the Germans. It was ready to receive the ducal pair. Weeks ago the Duchess had cabled her instructions to the decorators (her bedroom was to be midnight blue and white). Another cable had brought the Paris hat now in the high hatbox...
There was no flutter in Harry Truman's matter-of-fact voice as he read the message from Tokyo...
...With a flutter of headlines, Alfred John Gock, chairman of the board of Bank of America, announced that, if the Reconstruction Finance Corp. will underwrite the venture, his bank will give Kaiser "100% cooperation" in raising $60,000,000 to finance purchase and expansion of his $110,000,000 plant at Fontana, Calif...
...modernization" has been clumsy. Opening with a few scenes of padres flying over the Eternal City of Rome and making appropriate expressions of awe while propaganda leaflets flutter down from bombers, the picture flashes back to the Rome of Nero's day, where Christians were feared and hated as Europe's underground is by the Nazis...