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...some military circles V-2 had been expected to arrive with a formidable warhead of ten to twelve tons. It was rumored that the Nazis, experimenting with this heavy load, had found it so ruinous to the launching apparatus, or to the crews, or both, that they had reduced...
...American war. . . . In an American campaign everything is terrible; the face of the country, the climate, the enemy. There is no refreshment for the healthy nor relief for the sick. A vast unhospitable desert, unsafe and treacherous, surrounds them, where victories are not decisive but defeats are ruinous; and simple death is the least misfortune which can happen to them." Because Librarian MacLeish conceived American Story as the account of the settlement of America, North and South, his chronicle joins the two continents. Last week, for instance, he gave Governor William Bradford's record of the founding of Plymouth...
...London blitz damaged but did not destroy the Tussaud museum on Marylebone Road. In the ruinous days of September 1940, a bomb blasted two of the museum's rooms into reportedly picturesque and possibly symbolic confusion: Hitler lurched on his beam-ends, his head chipped to its core. Göring's resplendent tunic was ripped to shreds and his countless medals strewn on the floor. Goebbels lay on his back, staring at nothing. But firm and unshaken, the blue eyes of Winston Churchill gazed blinkless at the scene...
...rotary tiller which, avoiding the ruinous, soil-destroying effects of the moldboard plow (TIME, July 26), chops, harrows and disks the ground...
...rollback victims unanimously contended that OPA's plans were both stupid and ruinous. Samples: the National Coffee Association pointed out that a 3?-a-lb. reduction in coffee prices would save the consumer a neat 36? in a whole year, while costing taxpayers $30,000,000 a year in subsidies. The meat industry pointed out that meat is so much more desirable than money that the above-ceiling black markets are flourishing...