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...postwar world in which "night time will be made safer and more colorful" by phosphorescent gadgets was pictured by R.C.A.'s Chemist H. W. Leverenz. He mentioned houses with luminescent walls, ceilings, murals, doorknobs and keyholes; articles of luminescent plastics...
...course, it would be a lot safer just to quote both sides and let your friends guess what was really going on, for then no one could accuse you of bias or unfairness. It would be a lot easier, too, for it might take you hours of digging to get to the bottom of the story. You would have to talk to your newspaper friends to find out what they had uncovered too late to print because the story had "cooled off." You would have to talk off the record to politicians of both sides. You would find some...
There was an unspoken ritual in the pubs. When the buzz of a bomb or the repeated wail of an alarm as heard, the customers put down their drinks, walked out. whistling. Even the street was safer than a place of bottles and mirrors. The danger passed, they returned to their beer...
...what the Services are up against here is that realistic American workers, skeptical of the it's-a-long-long-war talk that comes from Washington, are already seeking safer peacetime jobs. Individual Americans, in short, are cannily doing their own reconverting right...
...senior adviser to the Emperor, the kind of post that navies the world over like to hand out to failures with broad stripes. When Nagano left, Shimada took over his job as Chief of Staff, thus made himself responsible for Navy strategy and grand tactics while retaining the safer administrative duties of Navy Minister...