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...climate machine which brings all but the view of any resort from Miami Beach to Sun Valley right into the home. Duplicated are proportions of carbon dioxide and oxygen in the air, humidity, smells and (via sunlamp) its special brand of sunshine...
...line expected to do it non stop and pare Pan Am's eastbound flying time from 23 to 20½ hours. For that American Export relied on three four-motored Vought-Sikorsky 8-443 to be delivered by United Aircraft Corp. eleven, 14 and 16 months from now. Carbon copies of the U. S. Navy's new long-range bombers (with mail compartments substituted for bomb racks), the 175-m.p.h. (cruising speed) S-44s will carry 16 passengers, a crew of eleven, and 2,300 pounds of mail & express for 3.600 miles without a stop. Two avid watchers...
These words, which appeared in a Shanghai Japanese newspaper last week, illustrated a familiar truth: the Japanese flair for exact imitation wanders occasionally into the realms of caricature. Last week Japanese leaders were busy as bits of carbon paper trying to copy European totalitarian techniques, and this vituperation was supposed to sound like a last gruff word before a crushing blow, a Hitlerish warning before total obliteration...
France, like her ally, is calm and proud." As he concluded, swift Reynaud made one last plea for speed: "Immense values are at stake and time is limited."Calm and proud. Someone has said that though most human bodies are composed of oxygen (65%), carbon (18%), hydrogen (10%), nitrogen (3%), calcium (1.5%), phosphorus (1%), the body of a Frenchman is a simple compound of pepper, garlic, pate de foie gras, common bread and good red wine of the land. The French are pungent people. Little things make them gesticulate wildly and pour maledictions like a flood: a bowl of soup...
...chemicals in solution, some of which have since been used in medicine, though generally in smaller doses than I took. I think I hold the record for the amounts of ammonium, calcium, and strontium chlorides which I have taken." In one essay, "After-effects of Exposure of Men to Carbon Dioxide," he reprints his Lancet article on an experiment he made in connection with the Thetis disaster. This study, as its author points out, has both stylistic and factual interest for the average reader...