Word: pointer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While Adolf Hitler and Anthony Eden spent last week making history in Europe (see pp. 19, 22), Franklin Delano Roosevelt faced his own major problem,, Recession, by turning lecturer. Sitting in his office chair, directing a pointer at an easel covered with price charts, he expounded his Administration's theory of price trends: That some are too high, some too low and the U. S. will not have prosperity till they are balanced...
...should be lowered and prices too low should be raised was not by itself a highly enlightening eco nomic doctrine. But as a political announcement it had force, for it laid at rest conjectures that the Administration was specifically bent on inflation. Professor Roosevelt picked up a slim wooden pointer and, leaning back in his chair, proceeded to elucidate his meaning with nine separate graphs on specific prices...
Sporting (pointers, setters, retrievers, spaniels). Westminster's versatile Chairman Harry Peters (who last month insisted in a Metropolitan Museum of Art lecture that sport has influenced art more than religion) had entered, beside his greyhound, a lemon & white pointer named Sensation, which his son had bought "for a bark" (actually $50) from a Rochester, N. Y. farmer. Though best of the pointers, Ch. Windholme Sensation lost in the sporting group to a mere pup, Sportsman Dwight Ellis' gay English setter, Daro of Maridor...
...radio receiver, containing a reed converter, locates the course beam from the transmitter-trailer. About four miles from port at a given altitude it strikes the glide beam, a curved path of constant intensity in a field of radio waves. On the pilot's dashboard is a "cross pointer dial" operated by the reed converter. One needle indicates the course beam, the other the glide beam. Keeping the needles crossed at right angles,* the pilot guides his ship down the beams. As he passes the boundary of the airport at a known altitude the marker beacon signals his position...
...farmers who needed the money tearfully parted with prized hounds (see cut). Children put pets up for auction, tremblingly saw them sold, burbled as they received them back from laughing purchasers. Lowest price of the day: fifty cents for a mongrel. Highest price of the day: $55 for a pointer. (One dog, however, was sold privately for $250.) Biggest thrill to Auctioneer Kinsey: selling to Radio Announcer Larry Elliot for $7 a dog on which its owner had placed a value...