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...roof prism is used in a gun sight's elbow telescope, which enables an anti-aircraft gunner, for example, to look horizontally into the eyepiece and see his target overhead. The elbow telescope inverts the image; the roof prism's function is to turn the image right side up. Roof prisms are thum-sized, polished crystals whose two top facets are shaped like a peaked roof. In manufacture, a piece of glass is first sawed roughly to shape, then ground to exact proportions by a delicate hand. In the final product, every facet must be absolutely flat...
Ever hear the one about the absent minded professor? Well, this is almost as good. A. J. Gregory, who was trying awfully hard to function as the leader of the third platoon on the way to chow the other day, got his signals mixed as we approached the outskirts of Harvard Union. "Column left," commanded Mr. Gregory, who promptly did a very next column right and marched down Quincy Street all by himself. The Platoon, which was hungry, marched straight ahead toward the Union's main entrance. "Oh, pardon me," apologized Mr. Gregory, scurrying back to the head...
...contract is supposed to represent a balance of interests between two parties. Today there is no balance in the arrangements between workers and those whose function in the economy is to create work. The most important factor in the elements causing the lack of balance is the short sighted policy of the government which behaves as if all employers were the natural enemies of all who are employed. . . . This is a monstrous fallacy...
...pointed out that OWI's function is to keep the public informed about the war, but that, in his opinion, too much war news is being suppressed and delayed by the Navy and (to a lesser degree) the Army. (Examples: the details of the Tokyo bombing were suppressed for a full year; the news of the loss of four U.S. cruisers in the Savo Island battle was delayed two months, while the loss of an Australian cruiser in the same engagement was reported almost immediately...
...also sometimes bound to get cloudy-a fact that has saved and cost many combat flyers' lives. Because clouds are one of the important military concerns of World War II,* scientists have recently taken to more intensive cloud-gazing. Last week an unusually lucid explanation of the function of clouds in war was presented by an old cloud man, William J. Humphreys (retired) of the U.S. Weather Bureau, in a new book, Fog, Clouds and Aviation (Williams & Wilkins...