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...smoothly rolling production lines came 17,000,000 radios, 3,000,000 vacuum cleaners and 3,500,000 washing machines, about double prewar production. The automobile industry crowded its throttle; 4,794,000 cars and trucks rolled off the lines. It was a gain of 55% over 1946, and 34% above 1939's production. The U.S. production machine also had time to turn out a flood of knick-knacks-from bubble gum and atomic rings to a doormat that automatically scrubs shoes, rings the doorbell and turns on the porch light. The U.S. alone turned out well over...
...made cyclotrons work by making electrically charged particles (such as deuterons) circle faster & faster inside a vacuum chamber. On each trip around, they get two boosts from a rapidly alternating electrical field. If the vacuum chamber were big enough, they might move in straight lines and pick up their energy from one long boost...
...Telegraph Co. The other 51% of Mexicana is owned by International Telephone & Telegraph Co. (see above). For that, Wenner-Gren agreed to pay I.T. & T. some $11 million, raised by selling other Swedish holdings and using U.S. dollars earned by his stock in Servel, Inc. (refrigerators) and Electrolux Corp. (vacuum cleaners...
This odd legal vacuum, caused by science, affects much more than the squabbles of dry-land farmers. The General Electric Co., which developed scientific rainmaking, has stopped all outdoor experimenting. G.E. lawyers get the horrors when they think of what might happen to the company if one of its planes made a dry-ice-sprinkling flight just before a cloudburst. They might be drowned in damage suits for years. Even the Army & Navy have been jumpy since they were accused of "meddling" with dry ice and herding a hurricane toward Georgia (TIME...
Even before Sun acted, Acting Interior Secretary Oscar L. Chapman had called for price control and rationing of oil, along with coal. Socony-Vacuum was already rationing its East Coast dealers, and last week Standard Oil of Kentucky did the same for its 3,000 Alabama dealers. But the industry was still on the price spot...