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...upped approximately 7%. Another 3% will be added later. Lowest Dollar Line round-the-world tours will now cost $915 instead of $888; first-class minimum San Francisco-to-Manila $460 instead of $430. With a record season since 1929 just completed, Atlantic fares are also due to move upward...
Bearish as these statistics were, there were ample other indications that fall business would be good, that the trend is still upward, the trend of prices still toward inflation. Commodities might indeed be falling, but that was a logical outcome of bumper crops which would still leave farmers with the biggest income in years. Industrial and agricultural bank loans attained the highest figure in five years ($620,000,000), while airconditioning equipment production, cigaret sales and electric power output were at all-time peaks. Moreover, retail sales were zooming happily. Payrolls were still fattening. In view of such indices...
...subject is seated and an attendant holds the head tilted backward about 45°. This is the usual position for a nasal examination. A speculum is introduced into the nostril and under direct vision the spray tip is inserted upward along the septum until definitely past the middle turbinate. If it impinges on the roof of the nose it is slightly withdrawn. The bulb is squeezed the number of times required to introduce i cc. of solution. This amount completely covers the olfactory area. A similar procedure is then carried out on the opposite side of the nose...
...sometimes make "a slight turn of some 20 degrees or so . . . to the left or to the right, and in each case the flight continued at what appeared to be uniform speed. Sometimes a short flight might"be renewed. One seemed to see the wings extended at an angle upward in a fluttering blur of movement...
...elevator engineering is based on the simple hoist. Suspended by cables (still "ropes" to elevator men) and balanced by a counterweight, the car is drawn upward on its rails by a motor-driven drum ("sheave") at the top of the shaft. The development of this mechanism from the old geared, hand-operated elevator to the modern skyscraper type was chiefly a matter of making the necessary high speeds comfortable and safe. Pioneering Otis engineers experimenting on Otis employes found that a speed of 1,200 ft. per minute was fast enough, that the rate of acceleration upward of an elevator...