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...British, the Transport Command was an important move. On the world's new international airways, British pilots will now have a chance to absorb the newfangled techniques of land-plane, over-water, high-speed operation which the U.S. has been developing...
Banker, What Next? So long as the war lasts, however, the U.S. banker has no choice. He will go on trying to Sell as many Government bonds as he can to the public. But what the public will not take the banker will have to absorb. After the war, he hopes for something different-even though, according to some economic planners, the postwar world will see the Government doing the lion's share of the spending and lending...
...record. Overcrowding was especially evident in science courses last summer where even the heavy laporatory schedules imposed were far from adequate. Shortened examination periods together with the abolition of reading periods meant a dangerous lack of assimilation of material. In addition the continued capacity of the human mind to absorb daily educational doses for twelve straight weeks is in itself questionable...
Their thick skins are double, with oil compartments between to absorb the shock of depth charges, which must explode within 20 ft. of them to blast open their hides. They can crash dive in seconds, submerge to 100 fathoms (600 ft.), resist with safety the pressure of more than 19 tons per square foot. On the surface they can shoulder through the sea at 20 knots, driven by great 2,800-h.p. diesel engines. On their bows is a quick-firing gun big enough to enable them to engage Allied corvettes in surface action. U-boat production...
...majority of music critics today fill their columns with superficial talk about conductors and soloists, it means that something that would otherwise absorb their energies has gone dead on them. They are in the familiar nightmare dilemma of being forced to address a huge, hushed audience with nothing whatsoever to say. In other words, the time has passed when the comparative greatness of contemporary composers was a fighting proposition, and critics were looked to for real leadership in the matter of opinion. So much facile and bewilderingly unintelligible music has been turned out in the last decade that critics...