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On Capital and Security. Fact-finding Mr. Benton came up with two reasons for the British liking for cartels: 1) England has never had antitrust legislation such as ours, thus cannot understand such legislation in the U.S. nor the fear of the American people of concentrated power in private hands...
Now irrigation projects worth millions of dollars nourish endless acres of the finest apple trees in the U.S. In October the trees are dusty grey from spraying; the boughs are heavy with fruit; thousands of wooden poles prop up the limbs' ripe red burden. Nowhere else does nature conspire...
For navigators, the traditional magnetic compass has the defect of being too crude. Despite modern refinements, it is still essentially a magnetized needle kept pointed north by the earth's magnetic field. It must be corrected constantly by tricky calculations, because of 1) interfering magnetic fields from surrounding metallic...
The result, according to a Bendix spokesman: "The new compass will not go off its reading when the plane dives or climbs rapidly ; it will not lag or overshoot during a turn, and it will not oscillate or hunt back and forth in rough weather." It is also usable in...
Local Penetrations. Back at his Biltmore suite for a scheduled rest, he spent most of his time telephoning or greeting callers who came in unannounced. At 4, he was at the Los Angeles Athletic Club amidst a milling crowd of some 200 in the low-ceilinged assembly room. They were...