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...attitude, as a boatman rowed them to their waterlogged house in Windsor. Said twinkling Mr. More: "I've always wanted a holiday in Venice; now I know what it's like. At first the wife was fed up, but now she treats it like a joke." Said thin, worried-looking Mrs. More: "The truth is, we're getting used to disaster...
Some Vermonters agree that Ayres's ideas might do the state some good. To help make syrup uniform, Ayres invented a combination thermometer-hydrometer. If the syrup is too thin, it will spoil; if too thick, sugar crystallizes. But farmers were more impressed by the way Ayres got around the low OPA price last season. Ayres mixed maple sugar with pecans, sold the confection by mail at a rate of about $15 a gallon...
...basic device of MAU: radio transmitters which shoot thin "fans" of radio energy into the air. They are arranged in pairs so that their fans intersect at a predetermined altitude. Long lines of these intersections form tracks leading down to the airport. The pilot of an approaching plane "latches on" to the end of a track, 40 miles out. Then automatic instruments take over, keep him on the track of intersections until he is practically on the ground. Receiving sets spotted along the track flash lights in the control room, tell ground operators just where the plane...
...want of newsprint, the biggest evening paper in the U.S. went virtually adless last week. After J. David Stern's Record folded, the Philadelphia Bulletin (circ. 750,000) had picked up 30,000 new readers and started a Sunday edition ; its paper supply was stretched thin. Many another paper had put itself on the short est rations since...
...Martin Niemöller's speech-making tour of the U.S. officially ended last week. Before 2,600 students and others at Yale's Woolsey Hall, Dachau's most publicized prisoner raised his rich voice and pounded the lectern with his thin hands...