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...m.p.h. Skyrocket has a magnesium-sheet fuselage). In the field of atomic power the most important metal, next to uranium, is zirconium. Reason: it is one of the few metals yet found which will not absorb atomic neutrons. But it is a frightening metal to process; in powder form it is so unstable that it will ignite from the motion of just being transferred from one dish to another. Its ores are more plentiful than tin, but the metal itself is still scarce...
...today and always. From Mac and Smith"-her personal maids. For the moment, the handmaidens ruled the Queen. Her beauty expert applied make-up specially concocted for its versatility in daylight or Abbey shadows, or under TV klieg lights-"a peach-tinted liquid foundation, a touch of red-blue powder rouge . . ." The coronation gown, bejeweled and embroidered white satin, swished softly. On top of it went the crimson parliamentary robe to be worn to the Abbey. The Duke of Edinburgh, blond and handsome in the uniform of an admiral of the fleet, joined her, and together they visited the nursery...
...Powder Barrel. Rommel needed fast-moving quartermasters to carry out his formula for tactical success: hit the enemy first, hit him hard, keep hitting him when he is on the run. "I found again and again . . . the day goes to the side that is first to plaster its opponent with fire. The man who lies low and awaits developments usually comes off second best...
...expected a rational discussion of my arguments . . . But ... the mere mention of the strategic question worked like a spark in a powder barrel. The Fiihrer flew into a fury and directed a stream of completely unfounded attacks on us ... I began to realize that Adolf Hitler simply did not want to see the situation as it was, and that he reacted emotionally against what his intelligence must have told him was right...
...Into the presidency of Hercules Powder Co. went Albert E. Forster, 52, succeeding Charles A. Higgins, 65, who remains board chairman. A Stanford University engineering graduate, Forster joined Hercules in 1925, left it for four Depression years to try his hand at a Brazilian engineering job. Back at Hercules again, he helped run an explosives plant, switched to sales and service, became a director in 1940, a vice president two years...