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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bevin went far beyond this cue, but in doing so he gave UNO its strongest stimulant in many months. Bevin insisted that Britain stood wholeheartedly behind the United Nations Organization and would utilize it-"stretch it to the limit of its capacity from the security point of view." He added: "There must be no weakening of the institutions which were built at San Francisco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Bevin's Vision | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

...bank has already helped many grateful patients to see. Its researching doctors have now found out how to keep corneas three days, thus reducing cornea waste (two days used to be the limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Expanding Eye Bank | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

With some planes, the shock wave may form at speeds as low as 550 m.p.h. Captain Wilson's Meteor was probably designed specially to push the danger limit upward. Even so, he did not dare use the full power of his jets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Faster, Faster | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

Speeds above the danger limit have already cost many lives. Designers of high-speed aircraft, rather than risk their test pilots, are turning to radio-controlled planes equipped with television. Last week Bell Aircraft Corp. described an experimental plane which takes off and lands with the unwinking eye of a television tube watching the instruments and the horizon ahead. Everything it sees is projected by radio on a screen in a mother plane or on the ground. Observers can study the plane's performance as if they were in the cockpit. If the speed limit is passed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Faster, Faster | 11/19/1945 | See Source »

...possible, trainees will have their choice between Army & Navy, among different branches inside the services. Like World War II's selectees, they will take aptitude tests, be assigned-within the limit of quotas-to training and jobs for which they are best fitted. They will probably wear some sort of cadet uniform, not yet designed, to distinguish them from regular soldiers & sailors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Conscription's Pattern | 11/5/1945 | See Source »

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