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...airmen, the stinger in the N.A.M. policy was not so much free air as free competition. On that latter point, the 19 U.S. airlines long ago split hotly. Against the 17 which have vociferously championed lots of international competition, Juan Trippe's Pan American Airways and William A. Patterson's United Air Lines have stoutly held out for the "chosen instrument" of one big Government-backed airline. In the N.A.M. the free-competition flyers found their strongest ally to date...
...five destroyers of the Narvik class, mounting five 5.9-inch guns, and six of the smaller Elbing class, with four 4.1-inchers. As a force they outweighed the British but they showed little stomach for battle. After a running fight, in which the cruisers scored several hits, the Germans split into three sections and fled. The British picked out one group of four, standing northward, and ran out the chase until three were sunk and the fourth escaped in darkness...
This hurt U.S. bondholders. Not only was interest drastically reduced, but bonds were split into seven classifications, with the top ones getting the interest preference. And 23% of all U.S. bonds were placed in the next to the last class...
...slickest ever seen in Manhattan's packed and cheering Madison Square Garden. Basketbol shares Cuban sporting fervor with beisbol and boxeo. The season lasts seven months on outdoor, wooden courts. It took Havana's team only ten minutes to get their indoor bearings. From then on split-vision faking and passing kept them always in the lead. The "Caballeros of the Caribbean" go home after two more games: with Canisius at Buffalo early this week, and with Temple at Philadelphia on New Year...
...this, they have a machine that flicks short phrases into sight for the subject to read. For example, a sentence like "Take the box" can easily be comprehended without being read letter for letter. But a smaller number of letters, "Xzu Psyfg," flashed before the subject in the same split-second would not register on his mind since it arouses no associational image...