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Show Power of Bomb Raised 10-Fold, Says Inventor SALT LAKE CITY. A young Utah inventor, J. Lloyd Peterson, is completing com-pleting work on a demolition bomb that he believes will be 10 times as deadly as any explosive now known. United States army authorities have inspected the missile and privately pri-vately described it as "the first new step in bomb development in the last decade." Pilots at the Fifth Air Base in Salt Lake City have been authorized to test the bomb when Peterson finishes it. According to the inventor, the new bomb will have several advantages over present types of aerial explosives. explo-sives. It is inexpensive to manufacture, employs materials readily available, and in unlimited quantities, and is much safer to handle than bombs now in use. Until it is released from an airplane air-plane bomb rack, its "trigger" pulled, the bomb won't explode. Army fliers say a plane could make a forced landing on rough terrain while loaded with the bombs, and without danger. |