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...evening began with a talk by Sweetman describing the various began. He set off incendiaries to demonstrate the use of water, showing how to stead, stream will cause the bomb to burn very fast and scatter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bomb Demonstration Draws 1200 to Yard | 10/29/1942 | See Source »

...minute later a squadron of absolutely World War model biplanes took after the B25. These machines were so decrepit that the wind from our bomber was enough to scatter them. After this the American raider flew away unchallenged and disappeared against the side of Fujiyama...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 14, 1942 | 9/14/1942 | See Source »

...certificates to be presented to the student officers will credit them with satisfactory courses in the elements of seamanship, navigation, and naval history. Although the class will scatter widely to take up active duty or enter other technical schools all over the country the largest group will remain at the University where 125 men are to enter the Communications School for five months of intensive training...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: INDOCTRINATION CLASS, 500 STRONG, GRADUATES TODAY | 8/28/1942 | See Source »

...Dominion, kept a fabulous 98.1% of all schedules. Then came the call P.G. had waited five years to hear-the U.S. wanted him back. The company: Boeing. The situation: terrible. Waterlogged with the first gush of World War II aircraft orders. Boeing had a rheumatic production line, a small scatter-trained working force, a two-year deficit of $3,800,000 (caused mostly by huge development and experimental costs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Outcast into Hero | 8/10/1942 | See Source »

...Studio 8-H in Radio City was designed by engineers and cursed by music-lovers. Built to stifle reverberation, it was acoustically satisfactory for variety shows, bad for symphony concerts. (The best auditoriums allow tones to bound about and scatter until they attain depth, warmth.) Toscanini accepted 8-H uncomplainingly, but admitted it was "too sec." Musicritics complained about the studio's woolliness. Last fall, when Leopold Stokowski took over the NBC Symphony, he balked at playing in Studio 8-H, induced NBC to accept an inconvenient, expensive substitute: moving the orchestra to Manhattan's Cosmopolitan Opera House...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Floodlighting Sound | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

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