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When war came, Burroughs got the job of making Navy Norden bombsights and handed it to John Coleman. He worked out a system of mass production (previously believed impossible because of the half-millionth-of-an-inch tolerances). Said Coleman of the famed secret sight: "Its only secret . . . was extreme accuracy in manufacture...
...expect to sign up the millionth recruit this fall...
...receipts: more than 2,000 roughs. (Out of 15,000 mailed in each year by unknown hopefuls who just know they can draw, Collier's finds only three good enough to buy.) Said mustached, soft-spoken Gurney Williams, 42: "The other day I found myself staring at the millionth cartoon submitted to me since I became humor editor here. I wish it could have been fresh and original. Instead, it showed several ostriches with their heads buried in the sand. Two others stood nearby. Said one to the other: 'Where is everybody?' " Having seen at least...
...minute unit of length, named for Swedish Physicist A. J. Angstrom. One angstrom is one hundred millionth of a centimeter...
Bringing such "reactors" together is touchy business. The scientists work with infinite caution, watching instruments which measure the number of free neutrons within the experimental mass. Under some conditions, the chain reaction starts slowly. But sometimes it leaps into violence in a millionth of a second. There is no explosion, no vibration, no sound. No human sense can detect the outburst of deadly radiation. The only warning, which comes too late, is a faint bluish glow. Some experts think it is caused by ionization of the air; others believe it to be an optical illusion telegraphed to the brain...