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...right. Six times the tide came in and washed away Canipe's causeway. But on the seventh try the sandy road held fast, and soon the two 'dozers and an escort of trucks were moving down to the "Baboon" and hauling away the cargo. To get the heaviest parts of the cargo ashore, Canipe buried huge steel plates deep in the beach, hooked cables to them and easily slid the unwieldy factory parts ashore, above the high-water mark. A 23-ton steel press, worth $45,000 alone, was the biggest problem. As it was being winched over...
...manner: it decided to gamble $650,000 of its remaining bankroll on a plane to compete for an Army multi-engined bomber contract. To most bomber designers, the word "multi"meant just two engines. But Boeing, using its knowledge gained in big transports, planned on a true giant, the heaviest warplane ever built. Designed by Beall and Wells, Boeing's prototype 6-17 weighed 22 tons, had four engines, could hit more than 200 m.p.h. for 3,000 miles at an altitude of 24,000 ft. Looking at it, a newsman exclaimed: "It's a Flying Fortress...
Eastern Industries. Microwave beams count traffic coming in from all directions and transmit the total to a central brain at the intersection, which automatically switches lights to speed up the heaviest flow. Price: about $1,000 per intersection, plus installation...
Bossman. The show's heaviest burdens fall on Oppenheimer, whom Lucy calls "Bossman." A onetime "gifted child" whose career has been closely watched by psychologists ever since he was in the second grade, Oppenheimer, 41, has one of the toughest jobs in television. As producer of Lucy, he must keep track of 13 separate Lucy shows at all times. Last week, for instance, he discussed the show to be shot nine weeks from now, edited the finished script for the show eight weeks away. The same day, he had to check on costumes and casts for episodes three...
Mutiny's heaviest handicap is built right into its biggest box-office advantage: the fame of the book the movie was made from. Since a large portion of the public has studied the case of Captain Queeg right down to the last notorious strawberry, the moviemakers may have felt obligated to reproduce the main details of the case precisely as the public remembered them. As a result, the camera spends so much time swallowing evidential strawberries that it hardly has time to note that a war is going on, or that real people are involved...