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...would be far better (and cheaper) to get electricity direct. How? Piles give their energy in a snarl of assorted forms: zig-zagging neutrons, high-speed beta particles, heat, light, gamma rays. Confined within the pile's thick shield, they all simmer down to heat, the most "degraded" form of energy. It takes the costly boiler-turbine-generator combination to "elevate" the heat into usable electricity...
Permanent Possession. In the Pacific, complexities were almost as numerous as the flyspeck islands. The U.S. wanted to draw a military Equator across that ocean and assert its claim to one-power control of everything north of the line. The military Equator closely follows the geographic, save for a zig to the north to exclude Dutch Morotai, and a zag to the south to take in Australian-mandated Manus. South of this line (in Indonesia and Melanesia) the U.S. would be content with transit privileges for ships and aircraft...
...Bill Linney, his two bobbers and his brakeman, could have run it with their eyes closed. His brakeman's carefully practiced pushoff (25% of a bobsled race) gave Linney's team a valuable one-tenth second. They rounded hairpin Shady Corner at approximately 57 m.p.h., zoomed around Zig Zag's treacherous S curve. (A General Electric eye timer clocked them doing 118 m.p.h. at the finish line.) Linney's final four-heat time-4:25.96-was 1.66 seconds short of the course record he set two weeks ago, but an impressive five seconds ahead...
...winter; he had won all but one race at Lake Placid. Some of those who tried, on too little practice, had landed in the hospital. The course, because of unusual weather, was icy and fast. One sled had failed to make Shady Corner, two had catapulted into space at Zig Zag (where the 1932 German Olympic team met disaster) and sent the bobbers to the hospital. In bobsledding, attention to detail is not only prizewinning but healthy...
...crew made up chiefly of kids from The Bronx, Brooklyn and South Boston, and Idaho-born Dixie Kiefer knew how to handle them. The Ti was ragged at first-she would sometimes zig when she was supposed to zag. Her stack often poured smoke. But she settled down. Soon she was breaking records for launching and recovering planes. The raw kids became sensationally good...