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...bedside carpet is important and must be gratifying to the bare feet. Persians, Kermans and Kashans lack the necessary thickness of pile. A subdued Shiraz would fulfil most people's requirements, though leptoforms [delicate people] may require something with a more stimulating pattern, say a Tabriz...
...cries Author Reynolds, "for a magic carpet of infinite dimensions that could transport all the leaking drains and condemned closets from all the slums of the Empire and heap them in Downing Street [as an] object lesson. . . !" Viewed from his standpoint of the philosopher-sanitarian, the course of world history is essentially intestinal...
...stock issues, long a headache to underwriters, became a matter of Government concern last week. Specific object of Government curiosity: the bizarre price fluctuations of new issues. Examples: Publicker Industries, issued at 23, hopped to 30 by 3 o'clock the same day. Alexander Smith & Sons Carpet Co., issued at 31, closed...
...largest single University laboratory was the Radio Research Lab, set up in March 1942 in a wing of the Biology Building. Directed by F. E. Terman, now Dean of the Engineering School at Stanford University, the lab turned out 150 devices, including aluminum foil "window," and "carpet," to confound enemy radar. Its developments were credited with saving 450 American bombers and 4,500 lives...
...more proof that the Army is badly in need of ... an Inspector General's Department interested in uncovering facts. It has been our experience that when the I.G. plans a visit, he warns the victim ahead of time to have all the dirt under the carpet. . . . [SERVICEMEN'S NAMES WITHHELD] New Delhi, India