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...dash for the open sea to raid the Atlantic convoys. Powerful units were at once mobilized to intercept them. At dawn Saturday, she was engaged by the Hood and the Prince of Wales. The Hood was destroyed "with very few survivors" by a lucky hit on her powder magazine at a range of more than 13 miles. But in the battle the Bismarck was slowed down by a hit on her bow. She was still further slowed by an aerial torpedo which struck her that afternoon...
...Machine parts made of powdered metals. Says Electrochemist Colin Garfield Fink of Columbia University: "The basic idea is simple. Fill any mold with a metal powder. Apply pressure, and increase the temperature to a certain point. ... A hard metal object is promptly produced." Advantages: speed, economy and the opportunity to make parts of a single object out of different metals, molded together...
Warden Joseph William Sanford of the Federal Penitentiary at Atlanta recently assembled his 1,000 convict laborers, told them that U.S. defense required a speedup in the production of uniforms, tents, powder bags, other Army and Navy items manufactured in the prison shops. Last week the prisoners' monthly publication (The Atlantian) reported the response: a hearty cheer for Warden Sanford, a doubling of overtime, a 100% speed-up in production...
...realism, not theory, should be the basis of a sound education. So dissatisfied was he with the history texts used in schools that he wrote one of his own. (No school has yet adopted it.) Joe's version of the Revolution: "The people who were here took cannon, powder and shot, and buried them in King George. . . . And King George went up in the air in a million pieces and came down in flakes called dollar bills. And the people went out and grabbed the dollar bills, and then they began to act like kings . . . up to the amount...
...that I can tell you." Consort Magda Lupescu, whose given name the curious had discovered was Elena, whose body was taller and thinner than rumor whose hair was blonder than red and had never had a permanent, dazzled the populace with a chiffon blouse, outsize earrings. an anklet, white powder, orange lipstick,' blue eyeshadow...