Word: compasses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...berth the head is by choice placed toward the front of the train. In ambulances it is also routine for the head of the patient to be at the front of the conveyance. This brings to mind the practice of Charles Dickens and other Victorian notables of carrying a compass and having the hotel bed placed with the head to the north...
Fisher's Compass...
...BEHALF OF CAPTAIN WILEY, U. S. S. MACON AND MYSELF YOU ARE REQUESTED TO CORRECT YOUR ACCOUNT ABOUT RADIO COMPASS ON MACON IN TIME MARCH 25. MACON COMPASS ORIGINALLY DEVELOPED BY GERHARD FISHER RESEARCH ENGINEER FEDERAL TELEGRAPH CO., PALO ALTO. RADIO COMPASS WAS INSTALLED BY FISHER ON MACON AND DEVELOPMENT COMPLETED BY FISHER AND MACON PERSONNEL RESULTING IN RADIO COMPASS SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER KIND. KRUESI HAS NO CONNECTION THIS FISHER RADIO COMPASS ON MACON...
...this sour note was concluded last week the experiments by the Department of Commerce with the Kruesi Radio Homing Compass for transpacific flying (TIME, March 25). The resignation was that of Major Chester Snow (Reserve), Department of Commerce aeronautical expert in command of the test flights. It was written some 300 mi. out over the Pacific in the Douglas transport which the Department had chartered from TWA for the tests. The wealthy son of a Washington real estate owner, Major Snow had wanted to fly all the way to Honolulu but Director Eugene Luther Vidal of the Bureau...
...some crooked lines showing where the fluctuations of political sentiment are likely to lead. Then why watch politics exclusively? Instead let us stick to the one formula we all know- 'business as usual.' Never did this country need that slogan more than it does today. Box the compass of your own industry. Plan your future requirements. Cut your cloth according to your pattern, as the motor industry has done. . . . Don't dodge the duties of citizenship by blaming government interference for the lack of business initiative...