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...stocks began to vanish at a rate that would have cleaned out a four-month supply in a week, some, stores clamped down, limited purchases to three pairs per customer. Before the rationing, one store reported a single order for $75 worth of stockings...
...behind the plane's tail, the second man had jumped. Within ten seconds, the cabin was empty. The 'chutes drifted compactly together, behind the clump from the other plane, scudding swiftly downwind. The crews aboard the planes circling overhead saw the first jumpers hit ground, roll, vanish among their flattening parachutes. A flight sergeant yelled: "Hell, they're in the trees!" Some of the 'chutists had indeed gone into the trees; one landed in a creek. Damage: a couple of ripped 'chutes, no injuries...
...gives OPACS full control over civilian supply. The other gives control to OPM, confines OPACS to the big job of watching prices. Unsigned, they have remained one of the many bottlenecks on the President's desk. Like many another of these bottlenecks, the OPM-OPACS jurisdictional feud would vanish if there were a single boss of defense...
...holding company, set up by and once on intimate terms with I. G. Farben. The intimacy was ostensibly terminated a year ago; I. G. Chemie paid I. G. Farben 25,000,000 Swiss francs, and the Farben's interest in I. G. Chemie seemed almost to vanish. But General Aniline's outward characteristics remained not Swiss but German. Its president, Dietrich A. Schmitz, is a brother of the chairman of the board of I. G. Farben, Hermann Schmitz. Walter H. vom Rath, Aniline's secretary, is the son of a Schmitz predecessor as chairman of the Farben...
This was just what meteormen were looking for to explain why some meteors apparently smite the earth, then vanish without a trace. If a contraterrene meteorite wandered into the solar system and met up with terrene matter, the respective sub-atomic charges would cancel out in a great burst of energy and both kinds of matter would vanish into nothing-literally nothing at all. This would explain why Soviet scientists with elaborate geophysical equipment could find no fragments of the great meteorite which smacked Central Siberia in 1908, although similar searches around Canyon Diablo, Arizona's famed meteorite crater...