Word: wonder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Said Pfc. Thomas R. Murray of Baltimore: "A lot of the time I worried about what was right and what was wrong. After they've pounded it into your head so long, you begin to wonder. I wavered myself-it would last for a week-and then I'd say, 'Hell, that don't sound right,' and I'd go back to thinking the way I always did . . . But after three years, you had a little doubt, you were a little confused...
Surveying the wonder world of titanium, most U.S. businessmen have kept their eyes fixed on the sky. The lightweight, heat-resistant metal was obviously just the thing for high-speed, high-flying jet aircraft. But Chicago's Crane Co., No. 1 producer of valves and pipe-fittings, and one of the three biggest U.S. manufacturers of plumbing equipment,† has been looking closer to the ground. From the moment he heard about titanium's resistance to corrosion, Crane's President John L. (for Lindesay) Holloway began thinking of titanium as the ideal material for industrial valves...
Totting up the balance sheets on titanium, Holloway thinks the wonder metal's future is just beginning. He thinks that titanium now is about where aluminum was when it was selling for $28 a Ib. Titanium now costs $20 a Ib. in sheetmetal form, 50 times as much as aluminum. But Holloway says: "In a few years we should be able to cut that price in half," and eventually get it down to where it could have a wide civilian use. Holloway himself already has begun to use it in small key parts of valves, soon will be making...
...desperate attempt to keep the woman from poisoning his brother's other child, Gotten poisons her first-with a tablet of strychnine he found in her own aspirin bottle. Unfortunately, Actor Gotten looks so earnest and bashful at the climax that the audience is apt to wonder whether, after all, he is involved in a matter of life & death or whether he is simply expressing a mortal longing to know the shortest way to the taffrail...
Medical scientists now have both the knowledge they need to wipe out tuberculosis as a public-health problem and the tools to finish the job. In the U.S., at least, with plenty of space for its people, resources to house and feed them decently, and wonder drugs by the carload, the TB victim these days dies not so much from his disease as from neglect. Last week health and Government officials in Alabama were in distress as they faced up to the fact that, although their state runs an energetic TB detection campaign, it lags sadly in preventing the disease...