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...over the present locks and make them bombproof? This could be done by building a number of bascule leaves over the locks, making the leaves as near bombproof as possible, and adding further protection by having ten or twelve-foot standards supporting heavy chain-net ten foot above the floor, similar chain-net as used by battleships as a protection from submarine torpedoes. When the leaves were put down, nothing would be in sight, all mechanism being underground. When vessels were sent through the Canal, the leaves could be raised in less than five minutes. Mechanical operation could be electrical...
Last year Irving Air Chute had net sales of $1,928,400 (retail cost of parachutes: $180 to $300) and netted $398,321. After that record year's business it still had a record backlog of $1,000,000 in unfilled orders. Last week its backlog was a secret but the litter of cablegrams and war orders on the desk of its pink-cheeked, spectacled President George Waite was evidence that last year's sales and Jan. 1's backlog were marks that had long since been erased by the incoming tide...
...with parachutes) behind Polish lines, where they reconnoitred, reported back to their army via small, portable radios. Poles captured them right & left, gave 'them short shrift. Over bombed Warsaw, the Poles erected a poor imitation of London's "balloon barrage," claimed that a German pilot got caught in the net...
...East that the crosscurrents boiled and eddied, across the 1,100 miles from the British base at Malta to the entrance of the Suez Canal, around the islands of Greece, in & out of the Dardanelles. There lay a net of variables, each as dangerous, each as explosive, as a floating mine...
...Great though their take is, because of inefficiency the industries of distribution as a whole are no gold mine for those engaged in them. ". . . The elimination of the net profits of distribution all along the line from primary producer to consumer would result in an average saving of no more than three cents out of every dollar paid by consumers for finished goods." The research done, ten economic bigwigs were asked to confer, formulate a "program of action." They nibbled like scared mice at the big cheese of distribution, recommended: strict accuracy in labeling and advertising, consumer education, commodity research...