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Scientists are also busy on defense. The Army has a smallish rocket called GAPA (Ground to Air Pilotless Aircraft) "believed capable of seeking out and destroying enemy weapons." Fired in salvos toward V2s picked up by radar, GAPA and its successors might "home" on them by magnetic attraction or heat radiation and destroy them high...
...double star Zeta Aurigae, said Harvard's Dr. Zdenek Kopal, consists of a smallish blue-white star waltzing through space with a huge "red giant." As he expected, the little star passed behind the big one. But its light did not dim out with proper regularity. Dr. Kopal peered long and hard at his spectro-photographs, concluded that the atmosphere of the red giant had shot out a vast "prominence," 600,000 miles wide. "Watch Zeta Aurigae," he advised the astronomers...
TIME'S London office reported that "the best available information shows the election results swinging heavily against Churchill. At best he can only win a smallish majority and there is a probability that the Conservatives will be in the minority and in that case Churchill's tenure as Prime Minister is over...
...first six months compared to last year's $31,086,053. But it did this by shipping more steel than in any first half-year in its history. Bethlehem Steel kept pace with Big Steel, netting $13,166,381 v. $12,842,000. But the smallish Pittsburgh Steel Co. provided the market-shocker. Its fat profit of $1,021,524 of last year turned into a dismal loss of $72,901 this year...
Lord Halifax, Britain's towering Ambassador to the U.S., fixed things so that when the smallish mayor of Nelson, B.C., delivered his welcoming oration at the depot they would be approximately face to face. The mayor stood on the train's rear platform, Halifax on the ground. "Ladies and gentlemen," began the mayor, as the train moved down the track...