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...examined; reported him unbroken but suffering from shock. Smoke Cloud. Observers saw the black bulk of the lie de France, French liner, approaching New York Harbor. They saw an airplane approach the lie de France, circle it, spouting white smoke. No longer did they see the liner. The smoke test, an Army experiment, had completely swathed the steamship in a shroud...
...cars. Never since familiar Ford Model T first appeared (in 1907) has the change of complexion been radical. This time it seemed that a radical change of complexion must come. Last week a photographer waylaid one of the forthcoming Ford models as it whizzed along on a country road test in southeastern Michigan. The blurred pictures revealed a radiator on the general style of the Lincoln; a spring-suspension giving a lower front effect; a hood larger and more streamlined to the body than ever before on a stock Ford. Evidently, too, all four of the wire wheels were braked...
Sirs: Having received a few copies of TIME I am pleased to be able to say that I am favorably impressed with your literary style of condensing. I gave TIME a rigid test but your news magazine stood it nobly. I purchased 14 newspapers - a few of them being our local newspapers, the remainder of them, newspapers representing all the news types in New York City. I also read the last issues of Harper's, Forum and Critical Survey, in an effort to see just how much you eliminated in your process of condensation and just what your rejected...
Divertissement. To test the repeated British statement that the Admiralty's demands were "absolute"?that is to say not "relative" to U. S. naval strength?Mr. Gibson suddenly proposed last week an arrangement under which the British demands for 7,500-ton cruisers would be largely met, but the U. S. would have a slight supremacy in 10,000-ton cruisers...
...Buckingham Palace whirled the twice royal cavalcade. Portly Ahmed Fuad was soon shown into a suite in what is technically known as "Wing V." There the Egyptian Great Chamberlain marshalled Ahmed Fuad's numerous attendants?not the least of these being a chemist to test his food, a taster to sample it, and two of George V's physicians skilled in antidotes...