Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Trip 16 was at 13,000 feet. The radioman heard her turn south and begin the prescribed letdown procedure to get under the ceiling. Few minutes later she was overhead again, now at 9,000 feet, headed north and flying out her problem as she had done scores of times before. Few minutes later Howard Fey made his last call. He was over the Layton marker, 18 miles north of the field. The operator knew his next move would be a turn to the left, into the "A" Zone, a swing back on the beam, an easy letdown from...
...chief obstacle standing in the way of the Drang nach Osten is Turkey. With help from Russia the Turks could make trouble for the German Army, and with help from Russia the Turks would not be averse to doing so. Stalin's tough problem has been whether to encourage Turkey to resist the Axis, at the price of concessions from Turkey that would make it a virtual Russian protectorate, or whether to sell Turkey out, at the price of territory in the Near East and (if Turkey should resist anyway) a share of Turkish territory...
Doctors do not know the cause of cancer, but scientists have produced tumors by rubbing mice with certain coal-tar substances and synthetic chemicals. The great research problem now is to grow tumors in mice with extracts from human cancer victims. Six weeks ago Dr. John Frederick Menke of Stanford University Hospital announced that he had injected mice with fat-soluble essences from human breast cancers. For the first time in cancer history, he claimed, two of the mice had grown tumors. But his experiments have not yet been confirmed...
Strange are the characters Vox Pop has attracted to its mike. Faced with the problem of naming the Father of All Waters, Mrs. Vanderbilt, wife of Rhode Island's Governor, answered tersely: "Pluto." Among those it has interviewed Vox Pop includes Jock Scott, a Scot who has walked around Africa, the U. S. and Canada, and bared his heroic feet for Interviewer Johnson (see cut); Jim Moran, the sedulous wag who claimed he once sold an icebox to an Eskimo in Alaska. For Vox Pop Moran attempted to demonstrate that people could lose their inhibitions by throwing eggs into...
Stravinsky's Rite, which has caused high-brow audiences to rise, shout and pound on their neighbors' skulls in ecstasy, offered a serious problem. To match its cosmic hullabaloo, nothing less than a planetary cataclysm would do. So Disney men began studying nebulae and comets at California's Mount Wilson Observatory, mugged up on theories of protozoic life, earthquakes and other geologic upheavals, did portraits of every prehistoric monster in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History...