Word: speciale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sumner Welles, 56, onetime Under Secretary of State, who almost died after collapsing and lying for some eight hours in a frosty field last Christmas night, was about ready to leave the hospital. Special treatment for severe frostbite (cold packs, whirlpool baths, penicillin shots, drugs) had saved his frozen toes and fingers from amputation...
...main roles, William Prince (The Eve of St. Mark, John Loves Mary) does well enough and Mildred Joanne Smith (St. Louis Woman, Set My People Free) very well. Yet Forward the Heart sharply fails. It mingles two such general problems as race and rehabilitation to produce the most special of stories-one that calls less for earnestness than intensity. It is a story to be treated, if at all, in terms of tragic irony rather than realistic protest. As realism, the play can no more achieve an artistic resolution than it can supply a practical answer. As realism, it also...
When a labman wants one of the dangerous rings, he takes it out of the cave on the end of a three-foot stick. Working carefully, with special tools, skilled mechanics fit the ring onto the piston of a test engine. After the engine has run for a few hours, its lubricating oil becomes radioactive because of "hot" iron rubbed off the ring...
...work (TIME, Dec. 6). Last week the bureau's chief, Dr. Francis W. Reichelderfer, told a Manhattan meeting of the American Meteorological Society and the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences that man-made weather is a very unreliable project. The dry ice method may work locally under special conditions, said Reichelderfer, but the physical forces in full-scale weather are too big to be affected...
...years later Ted Farley, now Cat's vice president in charge of special projects, went to the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan. He found some Englishmen working a cotton field with a dragline plow operated by a gasoline engine. Like Botts, he had Cat ship him a couple of its prize tractors. But by the time he got to the plantation, the Englishmen were using a German-made diesel engine-and had slashed their costs...