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...Development Center for studying and testing the air weapons of tomorrow. They talked Buck Rogers language. Some topics: supersonic aircraft-piloted and pilotless-planes and rockets powered by nuclear energy, space ships, space bases that would float above the atmosphere, where gravity's pull is weak as a kitten's. An old-line pilot might just as well hang up his goggles and retire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Onward & Upward | 5/13/1946 | See Source »

Fifi had given normal birth to one kitten, then continued in labor without further result. Petersen probed her pelvic region, noted that no more kittens were on the way, attempted to stimulate labor with Pituitrin. When the drug failed to act, he operated, found that the afterbirth had become wrapped around the body of a second kitten, killing it and blocking further delivery. A third kitten, delivered more dead than alive through the incision, was revived by artificial respiration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Cat Caesarian | 3/25/1946 | See Source »

...honestly think that the most decent job on the networks is done by that old kitten-ball player, Lowell Thomas. He at least keeps calm. His stuff seems to have been carefully edited. He helps his audiences by saying, "This is significant," or "Here is an item which I have my doubts about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Pearl Harbor Report | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

...week, after looking over No. 10's 63 rambling rooms (seven baths), she solved it: the Attlees will live only on the top floor (19 rooms). When the furniture has been reshuffled and the family knickknacks placed, the Attlees will move in with their second daughter Felicity, their kitten Whisky and their terrier Ting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: To the Top | 9/10/1945 | See Source »

...Kitten Power in the war against vermin: . . . The achievement of Sally the Cat, producing kittens to deal with this menace, are worth noting. . . . Production remained at a fairly steady level of three litters a year . . . averaging 2% kittens a litter. . . . This is regarded as a war effort far exceeding that of. any other belligerent cat in the Allied camp and may be favorably compared to the output of Katinka Pusskin, champion mother cat of Russia and Heroine of the Soviet Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The War Effort of N. Gubbins | 12/18/1944 | See Source »

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