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Best interim solution for the U. S.: internment of the French warships, especially the airplane carrier Beam, in U. S. ports until the war's end. Last week State Department officials let it be unofficially known that U. S.-Martinique negotiations with that end in view had been broken off by Martinique, that the U. S. was taking steps to immobilize French warships in Martinique harbors...
They were men of all sorts: lean and broad of beam; men of integrity and men like rats; obscure men and famous; of fixed prejudices, and fixed ideals. They filled Philadelphia like a flood, jamming hotels, squeezing into elevators, pounding on restaurant tables for quicker service. Wherever they were, they argued, worried, plotted. Some were wise guys, some were simpletons. All were Americans...
...Philco's extremely light pickup, a rounded sapphire point almost floats in the record groove, transmits the groove's vibrations to a tiny mirror mounted above it. The mirror, jiggling imperceptibly, picks up a beam from a pea-sized bulb, which it transmits to a photoelectric cell. The cell converts the light waves into the same sort of electric impulses transmitted by an ordinary pickup. Philco claims that the sapphire-tipped pickup will play a disc 700 times without damage; that the sapphire will survive 30,000 to 40,000 playings-about eight years of normal...
...accumulated many astronomical proofs through the years, explains mass, gravity, inertia, space and time, but not atoms and electric particles, which seem to perform in a bizarre, non-relativistic world of their own. Quantum mechanics, the mathematics of the atom, has developed apart from relativity. Physicists of broad beam feel, however, that this should...
...individualist. Exceptions: 1) after Ford Motor Co. bought Lincoln Motor Co., an A. M. A. member, Lincolns continued to take part in A. M. A. shows; 2) Ford suggested and cooperated in the industrywide Used Car Week of 1939; 3) Ford joined in the simultaneous introduction of the Sealed-Beam headlight in the industry's 1940 cars...