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...personally disliked by many of the hardheaded local bosses who are perforce supporting him. The thought of such a candidate, with weathervane views on all important matters, running against his own handpicked Democrat, John J. Bennett Jr., the State's Attorney General, made foxy Jim Farley beam...
Immobilized: the powerful old 22,146-ton aircraft carrier Beam; the 5,886-ton cruiser Emile Bertin; the 6,496-ton cruiser Jeanne D'Arc, at Guadeloupe; some small auxiliary craft. Most important, U.S. patrol vessels which have had to stand vigil will be freed for tasks elsewhere...
...occasional mornings when, with an early fog not yet dispersed, one finds oneself . . . stepping onto the parapet. . . . Literally, there is nothing to be seen but mist. . . . What apocalypse is about to be revealed? . . . Soon, somewhere off in the mist, a single lofty highlight of gold appears: the earliest beam is upon the tip of the Metropolitan Tower...
...world-wide broadcasting beam of WRUL has carried the voice of Harvard to occupied Europe for the past month, William Tyler, assistant program director of the station stated yesterday. Two series of programs have been devoted to the presentation of the American point of view by members of the Graduate Schools and Faculty...
...better than Joshua's, he announced that he had invented a horn to outshout all horns. Called a parabolic reflector type of air-raid siren, Professor Kirsten's horn has a ten-foot wooden cup which focuses the siren's shriek into a single noise beam, instead of throwing it to the four winds, and the reflector rotates the beam, like the beam of a lighthouse. With a small two-h.p. siren, Kirsten's reflector will outblast and outdistance any of Seattle's factory-made sirens. Kirsten believes that a 12-h.p. siren, parabolically...