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Laurels, Old & New. It took German scientists twelve years to develop the V2, and U.S. experts nearly a year to learn how to operate it, with the aid of German technicians working in "voluntary protective custody." But the Army does not intend to rest on its secondhand laurels. Soon it will start work on bigger, longer-range rockets designed to carry a worthwhile atomic payload...
Back of the Barn. The public swiftly caught on to every unethical trick. The man who wanted a new automobile in a hurry, but had no car to trade in, knew that some dealer would sell him a secondhand car at $800 and then take it back in trade at $400. The OPA was virtually helpless against the racket in autos. It caught some little fish (some of them several times), but snagged few really big ones...
...from Hendy's beginnings as a mining machinery company, 90 years ago. In 1940, Hendy had only 60 employes, was so shaky that Moore and the Six Companies combine bought the whole outfit for $400,000, intending to turn a quick profit by selling its machinery on the secondhand market...
...death stepped closer, Unjebanenjebet was at last obliged to accept a hand-me-down: a roomy, elegant coffin of pink granite which had obviously belonged to a high priest of Amun. Then death came. Embalmers laid the General's linen-wrapped mummy in the secondhand sarcophagus, put the lid on, and built the coffin into its niche in the royal tomb...
Last week, General Unjebanenjebet and his secondhand sarcophagus were ready to follow Psousennes to the Cairo museum. His secret, hidden for 3,000 years...