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Leather-lunged Big Bill could make no retort, no defense, since Soviet censorship closes down-smothering and airtight-around a fallen man. The explanation seemed to be that the Five-Year Plan period, when the Soviet Union's whole stress was on building, expansion and quantity (rather than quality) is now definitely over. Russia has entered a less exuberant phase in which she must nurse her railways and try to make her plants efficient. Blatant "drivers" like Big Bill are giving place to quiet specialists. After the shake-up last week Premier Molotov of the Soviet Union signed...
Competition is the keynote of Yale. Though this generalization may not be airtight, to the outsider the most noticeable trait of the Yale undergraduate is that of being "on the make." The competition takes place in athletics and other forms of extra-curricular activity. Success is measured in terms of social recognition. There exists a good deal of equality of opportunity...
...Blake girls Ginger (Frances Dee), who loves young. Morrow, and Martha. When Mrs. Curry kills herself to make her husband sorry, the circumstances implicate the husband as murderer. When the witnesses come up, each discovers that he has something embarrassing to conceal. Several little harmless perjuries make an airtight case for the prosecution. But at last simple hearts in the persons of Grandpop Strawn and a bootlegger enter as surprise, witnesses and tell the truth, which sounds entirely incredible against the massed perjuries of Glenwood Park. So they perjure themselves, too, and so credibly that the prisoner is discharged...
...pitch blackness. They were on tour of various industrial research laboratories and had stopped at George Eastman's kodak plant for Dr. Charles Edward Kenneth Mees to take their pictures in the dark. The room they posed in was flooded with infra-red light from an airtight, light-tight cabinet. A camera was loaded with a proper plate. The camera clicked a one-second exposure. The lights went on. While the businessmen blinked their eyes and chatted, photographers developed the plate, made prints. Fifteen minutes later the businessmen could see themselves as no man had ever seen them...
...stratosphere as Regener, Hergesell, Hansen. His instruments were inadequate; Regener's devices would have permitted accurate measurements. Science already knew as much about the cosmic ray as Piccard could learn at firsthand. All told, his most important contribution was the proof that men can live in an airtight container. Those findings might be useful to the men who are building a stratosphere airplane in the Junkers plant at Dessau...