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Finally the Governor showed up in person on Staten Island, where his administration is starting a $5 million project for converting Army barracks into temporary housing for veterans. Wearing his inevitable Homburg with the preciseness of a toy soldier, he accepted an honorary membership in the A.F. of L.'s United Brotherhood of Carpenters & Joiners, thereupon took six hammer strokes to drive the first nail into a two-by-four. The resulting picture looked for all the world like candidate-with-Indian or candidate-with-dead-fish, only a little better...
Then nine-year-old Michael Spivak (whose father is concertmaster of the orchestra) gravely led the musicians through two movements of Haydn's "Toy" Symphony. At the proper moments, a two-note "cuckoo" chirped from the orchestra. It was Sir Ernest, on the ocarina...
Businessmen had pored over blueprints of new plant layouts; they had moved toy men and machines in toy plants; they had tailor-made new models of autos and washing machines in secret rooms, hidden from the prying eyes of competitors. In Washington, the planning had been an off-again-on-again affair. It was off after the Battle of the Bulge, on at the Battle of Germany. Hastily, WPBoss Julius A. Krug had unwrapped the Government's overall plan. In its broad outlines, it was a plan to reconvert cautiously, to pluck the web of controls from industry...
...scientists, with the purest scientific motives in the world, still toy with the idea of a scientifically induced Doomsday. They know the gun is loaded, but their fingers itch to try the trigger. They have a pretty good idea about how to attack this scientifically fascinating problem. Their most powerful cyclotrons and betatrons shoot out particles with energies up to 100,000,000 electron-volts. This is practically no energy at all, said Professor Wheeler. From outside the earth's atmosphere a wealth of high-energy particles is constantly showering down. By studying these cosmic rays, Professor Wheeler believes...
Trains by Air. First electric trains to be made since 1941 by The Lionel Corp., the nation's biggest toy-train maker, were lifted off the assembly lines. They were flown to retailers. But parents will still have trouble buying them. Lionel will make only one model (retailing at $33.50 with tracks and cars), will be able to ship at most only 50,000 before Christmas (1941 production...