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...example, are reported about 100 small, telegraphic transmitters, some of which have lately been suspected of sending off streams of dashes to hedge off U. S. short-wave radio transmissions to Italy. Each such transmitter, radio engineers know, could be operated to transmit a "sawtooth" signal which could affect all broadcasting on a band 300 kilocycles wide (as much air space as 30 U. S. stations occupy...
...supplies. The relative demand for various goods had completely changed. 2) The costs of transportation changed just as radically. There were few ships available to carry cotton, coffee and tobacco. More important, the cost of insuring these staples in transit through mine-and-submarine-infested waters rose to affect commerce in the same way as if new tariff barriers had been erected. Rubber, for example, zoomed to 90? a pound in New York during the War, but in Singapore, it brought growers only 20? wholesale...
...elegant imported British set (with Spanish-cork, French-kid-covered, Czecho-Slovakian-goose-quilled birds) like those used by Bette Davis, Pat O'Brien, Douglas Fairbanks and other Hollywood enthusiasts. Although serious badminton addicts play indoors where there is no breeze to affect the true flight of their birds, many a tournament player, such as Mrs. George Wightman (donor of the Wightman Cup), Tennist Sidney Wood and William Faversham Jr., plays outdoors with heavier birds just...
...news for a week. While the London Times augustly observed that "there was nothing political in the visit," the liberal News Chronicle probably reflected European reactions more accurately when it predicted: "The result will be not only to make a marked difference in Anglo-American relations, but also to affect all political calculations in Europe...
...Dental Society of the State of New York, largest dental group in the country, met with 4,500 other dentists in Manhattan last week for the prime purpose of discussing Senator Wagner's Bill and how Federal grants to States for their various health plans would affect dental practice. To their dismay, their meeting started off with two surprises not on the agenda...