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This week one statistic told the whole impressive story: West Berlin food authorities handed out the two-millionth parcel to a needy East German. Thus, within a fortnight, more than 10% of the whole Soviet zone population have defied or evaded their government and risked arrest for a ten-pound package of lard, dried beans, flour and canned milk...
With his daily output at 700 cars, up 165 from last year's average, Nordhoff has set a new goal. By adding a third production line, he hopes to boost daily output to 800 cars by year's end, is aiming for Volkswagen's millionth postwar...
...Springfield, Mass, retired an old civil service employee who had spent the past 34 years there working on rifles. At a testimonial dinner, shy, Canadian-born John C. Garand, 65, inventor of the Army's basic M-1 (Garand) rifle, was given, as a farewell trophy, the millionth M-1 which was made during World War II (over 4,000,000 have been made for the Army). Said Gunsmith Garand, looking at his famous product: "I've never felt bad about designing the rifle even though its only real use is in war. If it were used...
...measuring wave lengths, one angstrom - 100-millionth of a centimeter. Visible light ranges between 3,900 A. (violet...
Super-Speed Camera. University of California scientists described their new camera that needs less than a three-millionth of a second to click off a single picture. Unlike conventional motion-picture cameras with moving rolls of film the U.C. camera has two stationary strips of film and a bank of lenses. A thin mirror, spinning at 10,000 r.p.m., flashes the moving image from lens to lens down the film strips. As many as 100 snapshots can be taken in 1/120,000th of a second. Probable purpose of the superspeed camera: to photograph the luminous, super sonic shock wave from...