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...followers. This stone, marking the spot where a railroad car containing the German delegation stood from Nov. 8 to Nov. 11, 1918, was inscribed simply: The German Plenipotentiary. From there Hitler and his aides walked straight to Car 2419D. For two minutes they stood outside, chatting in the sunlight that sent a lengthening shadow of the old wagon-restaurant slanting across the grass. Then Adolf Hitler stepped nimbly aboard...
Many people know that most of Germany's army trucks, armored cars, gun carriages and motorcycles roll on synthetic rubber. Fewer people are aware that throughout U. S. industry for some time synthetic rubbers-;expensive but highly resistant to oil, acid, sunlight, water-;have been doing many small jobs better than natural rubber can do them. Last week in the U. S. synthetic rubber made news on both these fronts when Standard...
...which nine are stories, the others short panels of monologue giving the historical setting, sketching the traces of old times from which the author has imagined his scenes. The panorama extends from the Pueblo Indian civilization that "watched the steel and silver helmets of the invaders spark with sunlight" in the distance, to an imitation Hollywood pr'meer conducted by a promoter in a sound truck under a local marquee. It is an eventful 400 years...
...such specialty products as gaskets, fuel hoses, heavy-duty wire insulation, U. S. industry is already making synthetic rubbers. They cost more than natural rubber, but surpass it in resistance to oil, oxidation, sunlight, acids. Notable among them are Thiokol and Du Pont's neoprene. But none of them has been turned successfully into the finished product that uses 77% of U. S. rubber consumption-tires...
...jampacked Plaza de Toros at Tampico, Mexico, 5,000 aficionados sat stock-still one afternoon last week. In the centre of the ring, glistening in the sunlight, a wisp of a girl stood directly in the path of a charging bull, heels together, her sword poised ready for the kill. With one businesslike thrust over his horns and between the shoulder blades, the bull crumpled to the sand, shuddered, lay dead...