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Trial Dip. The cramped (141 cubic foot) space inside the steel-shelled coconut will be crammed with control apparatus, batteries and instruments. The bathyscaphe will carry enough oxygen to keep two men alive for more than 32 hours, and chemicals to absorb the carbon dioxide given off by their breathing. Powerful searchlights outside the cabin will light up the sea, and allow fish and other bathyfauna to be observed and photographed. Because time for note-taking will be short, a recording device will bring back a running commentary on the dive. The depth ship's experimental compass will...
These, he explained, reflect heat waves upward like a Turkish bath. Living things, however, such as trees, grass, and well-filled strapless bathing suits absorb the sun's rays, and proximity to them makes for a cooling effect...
...Chairman George M. Humphrey, who had helped negotiate the wage contract, told Senator Robert A. Taft's Joint Committee on the Economic Report that the rises might prove temporary. He promised to reduce prices by Aug. 15 if costs rose less than 73? a ton, absorb the difference if they rose more. Pittsburgh Consolidation's first-quarter earnings-up some 40% over the same period last year-provided an ample cushion...
...absorb the first shock of war, and to build the ready forces to full power, the planners say they need an industrial and manpower reserve which could mobilize a total of 131 air groups and 56 divisions in the first twelve months of war, 180 air groups and 74 divisions within two years...
...there? He was shopping for manpower. Ontario farms, said he, can absorb 10,000 new workers. The forest industry needs 40,000, mining several thousand more. He wants to get Ontario's workers from the British Isles for the same reason that French Canada always prefers immigrants from Latin countries: "It is Ontario's desire that in the increase of [Canadian] population there should be as high a proportion as possible of British stock." An office has already been set up in Toronto to funnel immigrants to waiting jobs. The big problem, George Drew admits, is shipping...