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...inferred from this that the Commission passes upon the investment merit of securities registered with it-that registration in itself may be taken as some assurance if not a guarantee against loss to those who purchase registered securities. General acceptance of such a misconception of the Commission's function under the Securities Act of 1933 would defeat the very purpose...
Even before OSS began to function, Bill Donovan was convinced that such an agency should be set up, to work not only in war but in peacetime. In 1941 he sent a confidential memorandum to President Franklin D. Roosevelt outlining a plan...
...notable finding of the Navy's experimenters-and the basis of Sofar-is the sound-carrying property of water 2,000-6,000 feet below the surface. This zone conserves, focuses and carries sound waves over great distances. Sped by the sound-carrying properties of deep water (a function of temperature and density), the explosion of Sofar's underwater bomb comes to the receiving stations as a noise something like a rolling kettledrum crescendo, ending in a sharp report which can be timed to a tenth of a second...
Through these shadows, and a dozen others, one reality loomed: UNO was beginning to function. When the League of Nations opened the New York Times had gazed sadly at its own nonparticipating country and paraphrased Voltaire: † "Hang yourself, Crillon, for there has been glorious fighting and you were not here...
G.C.A. is made up of two microwave radar systems. The first is a rotating search beam: it is a modification of the two-dimensional radar used during the war to warn against the approach of enemy planes. Function of the search system is to find the approaching aircraft, and guide it through air traffic into the ten-mile range of the precision system...