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Dates: during 1940-1949
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For these and other technical reasons, scientists heard the news about Russian science with respect and foreboding. If the U.S.S.R. is producing plutonium, it has come a long way in the four years of its sped-up atomic-bomb program.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: So It Was Plutonium? | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

The Navy owned up last week to having an airplane, the Douglas D558-II Skyrocket, that has flown faster than sound "many times." Like the Air Force's pioneering XI, the Navy's Skyrocket is a rocket plane. But the X-I is intended to be dropped at...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dual Power | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

Three Skyrockets have been built. One has cracked up; the remaining two have been used as flying laboratories in the hands of two redoubtable old men of the air: the Navy's Captain William Virginius Davis, 47, and Douglas' test pilot, Gene May, who is 45 and a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dual Power | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

"Society," raved one social chronicler, "staged a magnificent comeback, with blazing jewels and gorgeous gowns." It turned out to be an audience of distinction in other ways: nobody stood on his head nor did any of the ladies put their feet on the tables. Before the curtain went up there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fragrant Cheddar | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

As the Marschallin, whom Strauss describes as "a beautiful woman of 32 . . . with Viennese grace and lightness," who has "one wet eye" from the loss of her young lover Octavian "and one dry" with sophistication, pretty Soprano Eleanor Steber could not quite make up in tenderness and charm what she...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Fragrant Cheddar | 12/5/1949 | See Source »

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