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After six years in China, Chennault is as American as a baseball bat. With eyes narrowed and cheeks twitching, he can discuss the quickest way to kill in battle and the next moment, leaning back in his chair and puffing contentedly on his pipe, tell of his longing to return to Louisiana and shoot ducks. He talks incessantly about his family of eight children, is openly proud of the fact that five of his six boys are in service. His ever-present companion is a dachshund, Joe, a veteran of the China air lanes. He likes...
Tenth-there is the miniature, one-ounce pony edition which the armed forces are flying pretty much all over the world so our soldiers and sailors can get news about the war and about how things are going at home-and get it the quickest possible way. Today I can reveal for the first time that 28,000 of these ponies are being rushed to our troops in England. Next week we will be printing a total of more than 80,000 copies a week for our armed forces overseas...
...traps record both intensity and duration of the flash. Electric-eye cameras reveal the number of separate pulses within a single stroke. Another device (the fulchronograph) clocks the quickest stroke and measures the amount of current. Its heart is an ever-turning aluminum wheel, with hundreds of small strips of magnet steel projecting from its rim. Lightning, when it strikes, creates an electrical field in coils which magnetize the strips. When the fins are removed in the laboratory their magnetism is measured, gives the strength of the stroke charted...
Several of the new magnesium makers (Ford among them) use the little-known ferrosilicon process developed by Canada's Lloyd Montgomery Pidgeon. Requiring minimum plant-construction time, the Pidgeon process has been recommended by the National Academy of Sciences as promising the quickest yield with the least risk. Unlike electrolytic methods, it does not require great power. Since it uses dolomite (magnesium-calcium carbonate, one of the most plentiful limestones), plants can be almost anywhere...
Curiously, breakage is no drawback: the quick-fingered people who get to be inspectors seldom drop things. In the rare accidents that befall even the quickest-fingered, a dropped steel gauge is useless until recalibrated; a glass gauge either breaks or is as good...