Word: forwarder
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...needs, except for a few specialties. Then, said the Commission, there is no excuse for carrying pulp prices higher. Pulpmen agreed that further price changes should result "only from actual changes in basic costs." Blamed for the pulp squeeze by both sides were "psychological factors"-i.e., hysterical forward buying...
...Horton, "saving" civilization is not "preserving it as it is" or "restoring it as it was" but "carrying forward its enduring values into a new social order." "Civilization" itself is "both the means by which and the ends for which any literate culture group carries on its common life." Man, he implies, can do with fewer bathtubs and blueprints. No cut-&-dried plan can save world civilization and Christianity; a religious rebirth is necessary. "Christ planted the seeds of a new humanity [which] saved Roman civilization without even intending...
Professor Kirsten's cycloidal propeller, as used for boats, has four to eight parallel blades projecting vertically downward, like fingers from a revolving hand. Driven by a vertical shaft the blades on one side move backward while those on the other move forward. Propulsion is obtained by a rhythmical automatic shift in the pitch of the blades so that those moving backward push flatwise against the water, while those moving forward are "feathered" to slip sidewise through it with little resistance. One advantage of this arrangement is that quick stops and reverses can be accomplished without altering the speed...
...bombing raid, a Heinkel bombardier, who is also second pilot, rides up forward in the nose ("meat-can" to U. S. Air Corps big-ship crews). There he has a machine gun, convenient in case his ship is jumped by enemy pursuit. Back of him sits the pilot, still farther back two machine-gunners to deal with pursuit attacking from behind. The top gunner rides in a wind-screened cockpit looking for attacks from above. The gunner on the bottom rides in a "dust-bin," on his belly, to range his guns on pursuits attacking from below...
...Because these art works have been carefully packed by the French to protect them against wartime air raids and bombardments their return would be an exceedingly easy matter. It would be necessary only to forward them from France to Italy in the packing cases in which they now rest...