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...course, impossible to predict the future. . . . You are, I believe, the most enlightened and the best-informed people in all the world at this moment. You are subjected to no censorship of news, and I want to add that your Government has no information which it has any thought of withholding from...
...logic cannot predict where the next battles will be fought because: i) military men are often stupid, and 2) each side is trying to outguess the other and knows that the least likely point of attack is often the most profitable. Today General Staffs have the map of Europe spread before them and are playing a shell game with one another. Instead of three shells, however, they have half-a-dozen, each covering one of Europe's theatres of war. Not till the big guns blow the shells to bits will anyone know under which shell lies...
...Stromberg-Carlson is also preparing to put sets on sale. Besides Alpine, two other frequency-modulating broadcasting stations (at Paxton, Mass, and Hartford, Conn.) are underway and others (Buffalo, Syracuse, Albany, Washington, Milwaukee) are scheduled to get going soon. And some admirers of the Armstrong system predict that by next Christmas most radio purchasers within the 100-mile range of a station will insist on double-duty sets (both ordinary and Armstrong receptions...
...event of European war the effect of a mandatory embargo is not difficult to predict. It would improve Hitler's chances for victory in a Blitzkrieg, or lightning war. It might not appreciably hurt the long-term chances of England and France, both of which have rich empires of their...
Corning officials figured that it would take two more years to manufacture and market the new glass in quantity. Then, they predict, it will be used in industry and in households wherever heat-resistant glass is needed. Expansion of the new glass under heat is imperceptible - three times less than the expansion of the great 200-inch telescope mirror which Corning cast for Caltech. When the next big piece of astronomical glass is made, preshrunk glass will probably be used...