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Gamma rays are rougher. If they are "hard"' (high frequency), they slam through many feet of most materials. The human body can stand a certain amount of them without apparent damage. If the system gets too much, the blood corpuscles disintegrate...
Anna and the King of Slam. Lively period piece in which Irene Dunne and Rex Harrison prove that boy-gets-girl is lot the only kind of movie fun (TIME, fune...
...Grand Slam, Declared. In Lair, Ky., the State Highway Department condemned a 200-foot bridge; 30 minutes later it collapsed into the South Licking River...
President Truman's slam at the Senate's version of price control bespeaks the Administration's lack of faith in the effectiveness of any halfway measures. When government fails, the power of restraint passes on to the larger business organizations. But no one can be encouraged by the callousness to the common interest illustrated with the "Let 'em go on relief" philosophy of Mr. Hayes of Hayes-Bick, or the "Take it out on Labor" doctrine of David Lawrence, or the pressure apparently put on the press to keep from the public the ominous picture of worthless values made...
...Helgoland, Germany's rocky North Sea fortress, would be battered soon by "Tall Boy" and "Grand Slam," Britain's bigger & better (12,000 lbs. and 22,000 lbs.) R.A.F. bombs...