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Naval Big Guns. The argument about the relative value of plane and battleships boils down to a complex problem in strategy. In current naval theory planes are employed primarily not to sink rival battleships but: 1) to scout their position, 2) to disable them by bombing, 3) to direct the fire of their own ships which may be hull down over the horizon...
...this character hold the most promise for abstract art in the U. S. To the artist an abstraction may be either child's play with pretty shapes or a highly organized intellectual design. To the spectator it is decoration-at best, pure and simple; at worst, impure and complex. Last week's spectators saw a few abstractions that were pure and simple enough to be lived with...
Last week the third volume of this major work was published. Joseph in Egypt is the longest and most complex of the books in the series. Like the other volumes, it departs a little from the bare Biblical record, sometimes in minor details, sometimes by the addition of characters and situations that are not in the Old Testament...
...studies the language, tries to under stand the complex religion of "the refined and fortunate and vulnerable land of Egypt," and makes himself valuable to his master by his ability to write and calculate. From the great fortress of Thel, through the religious centres of On and Per-Bastet, on a nine-day voyage up the crowded Nile past Memphis and the pyramids, he gives himself up to observation, impressed and depressed at the grandeur of a civilization of which, as a child of the desert, he has heard only evil...
...complex combination of all three, the Act empowers Secretary Wallace: 1) to set a national acreage allotment for each crop each season based on production during preceding years; 2) to give farmers who cooperate with the acreage allotment program loans on their crops whenever prices fall too far below "parity"-the purchasing power relative to other commodities which wheat, corn, rice and cotton enjoyed between 1909-14 and tobacco between 1919-29 (unless Secretary Wallace thinks other base periods would be more just); and 3) to invoke compulsory marketing quotas, subject to rejection by one third of the growers involved...