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...slamming ahead on a 75-mile front from the southern corner of Luxembourg to the Rhine-Marne Canal north of the Vosges. He was encircling the ancient fortress of Metz, German kingbolt position on this sector and strongest shield in front of the coal, steel and pig iron of the Saar Basin...
...staggering clinical experiment, in which English Psychologist K. O. Newman acted as his own guinea pig, is recorded in Two Hundred and Fifty Times I Saw a Play (Pelagos Press, Oxford; $1). Moreover, Newman saw the play-Terence Rattigan's Flare Path-at successive performances, always sitting in the same third-row aisle seat...
...three channels for frequency modulation (FM) broadcasting. On these, three types of programs would be broadcast: 1) uninterrupted classical music; 2) continuous popular music; 3) shopping news and educational programs. Subscribers would pay 5? a day ($18.25 per year) to listen. Nonsubscribers would be kept from listening by a "pig squeal" which would be broadcast along with the programs, "jamming" all sets but those of the Benton subscribers, whose radios would tune out this squeal by a special apparatus. Benton proposes to let other broadcasters use the attachment for a small royalty so he would not have a monopoly...
Make It Run. The most optimistic answer to this question came, not from politicos or steelmen, but from the University of Utah's steel expert, Professor J. R. Mahoney. In a comprehensive 73-page study, he said: the cost of production of pig iron is lower at Geneva than in any other U.S. steel center. As the Geneva Works are the finest in the world, private operators should also be able to turn out steel far cheaper, if a reasonable capital value is placed on the plant. With new-facilities, he saw no reason why Geneva should not undersell...
...Ellison the title of "Star Farmer of America" and $500 prize money. For Farmer Ellison, recently inducted into the Army, this prize money was just another cash token of an operating success that started when he was 13. By then he had saved up enough money to buy a pig. A little later he borrowed money to finance an eight-acre cotton patch; paid off his debt with his first crop...