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Through it all, announcers asked listeners to concentrate on the tick of a metronome placed before an open microphone on the abandoned Pennsylvania. When the ticking stopped, it would be because the bomb had gone off, and the microphone with...
What made Germany tick through six years of war despite skimpy resources and raw materials? After V-E day, hundreds of scientists, technicians and researchers from U.S. industry, started fine-tooth-combing Germany for the answer. From abandoned mine shafts, underground storehouses, and even river beds came documents, equipment and gadgets. This week officials concerned with the search lifted the veil from some of the 16,000 machines and processes that showed how cleverly the enemy had improvised and improved. Some of them...
...When Ripe. For 5 ft. 3 Stan Lipiec (he buys his clothes in the boys' department) life began at 14, when he skipped school and took to the turf. As a fourth-rate jockey in Cuba (he still gallops his nags mornings), he learned what makes a horse tick. Over & above his practical schooling, he developed a strategic sixth sense for razor-sharp hay-burners. His secret lies in knowing when to nab horses that other trainers have brought to peak performance...
...long, long time. Manhattan's bars would stay open until dawn, U.S. roadhouses would be neon-lighted after dark years, and the stiff white shirt front would be back once more, a gleaming and irresistible target for females with an urge to write with lipstick. Between the last tick of 1945 and the first tock of 1946, U.S. citizens would consume enough alcohol to float a rinkful of ice, and the thin, happy bleat of paper horns would echo from time zone to time zone in pleased disregard of the atomic age and all waiters...
...point in his favor: Willow Run's vast space is an ideal place in which to make cars and tractors, if the assembly lines can be made to tick smoothly. Plump, dapper Joe Frazer, optimistic as usual predicted that the Frazer would start coming off the lines in March, the Kaiser, with a front-wheel drive, by the middle of April. By July 1, he expects Willow Run to be in peak production of 1,500 cars...