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A rising hum filled the still darkness of the hangar. Small motors were driving endless paper belts which, riding on pulleys and whizzing invisibly up & down within the columns, picked up electrical charges from the exciters below and piled them up on the balls above. One belt carried negative electricity...
Engines. Last week Clarence Duncan Chamberlin marched into print with a charge that the increase in transport accidents since last summer was due to the inability of new twin-engined planes to take off and fly safely on one engine. Few nights later a twin-engined Curtiss Condor of American...
"Height regulations in zoning ordinances," Mr. Bassett said, "have brought to American cities greatly improved forms for office buildings, hotels, and other tall structures. Before the days of zoning the tendency was toward the packing box type which produced the greatest number of cubic feet and left the minimum of...
Perhaps the greatest advantage of the House libraries is their convenience. On the one hand this convenience dispenses with the major reason for wanting to take books out by the week. When the library is a mile away, there is some excuse for reserving books over a long period; but...
They met in the vast study of Montesquieu at La Brode. Scores of tapers which flickered in the intricately wrought candelabra scarcely brightened the hall, but reflected dimly from the gilt and calf binding which lined the walls, or brought into sharper relief the darkness of the richly ornamented carving...