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...scum of Broadway. In the pool hall and in Jollity Danceland, which largely support the building, Mr. Liebling is less interested than in the "Indians," the "heels" and the "tenants," who use it for their "promotions." To promote means to cheat anyone "of a dollar, or any fraction or multiple thereof." and the essence of praise in the Jollity Building is, "he has promoted some very smart people." Everyone there is busy promoting everyone else...
...Bill Drucker. Everybody had predicted this would be a close race, but the feeling was that "Druck" would take O'Mara when the chips were down. Instead, O'Mara stayed on Drucker's heels throughout the event and in the last few yards forged ahead to win by a fraction of a second...
...have a practical application when it cold logic was focused on the English language. Dr. Ogden discovered that effective communication in our language is possible with only 850 Basic English words. With this list and a few streamlined simplifications of grammar, foreigners were soon learning English in a fraction of the time demanded by the tedious formal approach. Then they could make phenomenal progress in learning the most advanced words and idioms. Realizing the tremendous implications of these experiments, the old partners, Ogden and Richards set up in 1939 the Committee on Communication in a frame house at 9 Kirkland...
...large electromagnet" (see cut). Inside the tube, a hot filament gives off electrons. Magnetically guided, each electron circles about the tube 400,000 times, accelerated at each rotation by small 70-volt kicks whose cumulative push gives the particle an energy of 20,000,000 volts within a fraction of a second. These fiercely energized electrons are then either: 1) Released continuously from the tube as a beam of beta rays-whence the betatron's name-which are one of the three types of radiation naturally given off by radium; or 2) Directed at a metal target, battering from...
...Without a war there were $2,500,000,000 in bonds sold. That's only a fraction of the foreseeable cash needs of America rising to its colossal destiny, and it will fall, it must fall, it has fallen to the broadcasters of the U.S. to disregard all former ideas of a proper amount of 'free time' to give any Government agency. The Treasury is perhaps incapable of being 'popular' in the frivolous sense, but it must have 'popular' support in the wider sense....Radio will perform a real service if it applies...