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...cloak rooms of the Capitol Congressmen goggled last week over a tidbit of information that came out of their hearings on National Defense. Last May when the War Department was short $3,300,000 to purchase machinery to make smokeless powder for the Army, rich, patriotic Financier Bernard Mannes Baruch made an offer to Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson to put up the money from his own pocket. Financed instead by a Congressional appropriation recommended by the President, the machinery is now nearly complete. An obstacle to this generosity: such gifts to the U. S. require...
...People's Ratty, selling Mennen's shaving cream, talcum powder, et al. to Sunday afternooners on MBS's nine-station network, is a weekly cross-patter of sense and nonsense run by veteran Commentator John B. (for Bright) Kennedy in a 192-seat theatre 50 stories up in Manhattan's Chanin Building. The nonsense part is a studio audience participation quizz game called "quixie-doodles" conducted by Comic Bob Hawks. Sample: "Could a baseball game end in a 6-6 tie without a man touching first base?" Answer: "Yes, if the game was played between...
Skiing Snow in. Bartlett, N.H. Cloudy Good 13 Powder Canaan, N.H. Cloudy Fair 7 Cannon Mt. (Tramway) N.H. Snowing Good 46 New powder Conway, N.H. Cloudy Fair 13 Powder Dartmouth Region, N.H. Snowing Good 5 Franconia Notch, N.H. Snowing Good 29 New powder Fryeburg, Mc. Cloudy Good 13 7 in. powder Greenfield, Mass. Fair Fair Light snow Intervale, N.H. Cloudy Good 14 in. powder Jackson, N.H. Cloudy Good 14 in. powder Laconia (Gilford) N.H. Cloudy Fair 4 to 13 in. in trails Lancaster, N.H. Cloudy Good 12 5 in. dry over crust Lincoln, N.H. Snowing Good...
...their flash, they place a spark gap close to the gun's muzzle so that the bullet passes just below the electrodes. The hot gases and burning powder which follow the bullet enable the spark to jump the gap, completing the circuit and discharging the voltage through the vacuum tube. Only one picture is taken at each shot. But by moving the spark gap nearer to or farther from the gun's muzzle, the bullet can be snapped at various points of its trajectory...
...last March Mayor Wilson has tried to get the explosives out of Fort Mifflin. So touchy a spot, he has argued, is as much a menace to Philadelphia as to the airport. But the Navy Department stubbornly insisted that there and nowhere else will it keep its Delaware Bay powder. Last week the Civil Aeronautics Authority announced it would withhold approval of the field until the direction of the dangerous runway was changed. WPA withdrew the 800 workers working at the field...