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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What these fishermen saw was the U. S. Navy's newest gadget: its growing squadron of motor torpedo boats, getting a sea test in rough water. Returning to the Brooklyn Navy Yard at nightfall each day with his five waterbugs, handsome Lieut. Earl Stevens Caldwell, youngest (and lowest-ranking) squadron commander in the Navy, was able to put down a favorable report. The new PTs (patrol torpedo boats) were as seaworthy as the designer of their prototype, famed Britisher Hubert Scott-Paine, had said they were. In 15-ft. waves they charged along at 40 knots, in smooth seas...
...basic stuff of living cells. An intriguing characteristic of all raw protoplasm is its "streaming"-a flow like watery jelly. For some years Dr. William Seifriz, professor of botany at the University of Pennsylvania, has cultured an exceedingly primitive, golden yellow slime mold called Physarum polycephalum, just about the lowest observable form of life. In its streaming he has clocked a major rhythm of about 45 seconds (TIME, Dec. 6, 1937). Rather like a primordial heartbeat, this pulse may be the ancestor of all real heartbeats...
Events finally convinced me of what had been a growing suspicion; namely, that whereas my interest was to enlighten the theatre-going public, the film industry's motive was consistently to appeal to the lowest common denominator of human intelligence so as to equally appeal to the greatest possible number of potential box-office patrons. . . . With such cross-purposes, it is little wonder that the industry and I parted ways...
...dander up. He smashed hard at the "high professions and low performances" of the New Deal. At Schenectady, beside the railroad tracks, he roared to 2,000 people: "The opposition party's strategy has now become perfectly obvious. It is to have the National Committee deal in the lowest type of politics and smear; to deal with the most corrupt of political machines, while the candidate himself engages in lofty speeches and expression about world leadership and his knowledge of foreign affairs...
Cadillac begins with Model 61 ($1,345, lowest-priced Cadillac in history), designed to replace the discontinued La Salle. Others range up to the Fleetwood seven-passenger formal sedan at $4,045. Custom-built types are still higher. Big Cadillacs bear big square grilles which make the business end look like a Union Pacific Diesel locomotive...