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...British businessman has also . . . found ways and means of removing the stick from his back. The growth of trade associations, of price-fixing and market-sharing devices-the whole apparatus of protection, in fact-is inspired by nothing so much as by the desire to prevent the bankruptcy of the inefficient-even if, thereby, the progress of the efficient is also impeded. . . . In a competitive economy, such as the American, when one firm acquires a more efficient machine and cuts prices, all others are compelled to follow suit, whether they can "afford...
...students, Emily Griffith would perhaps have been proudest of a 26-year-old veteran, racing against approaching blindness. Opportunity had set up special training apparatus for him to study electricity, using bells instead of lights as signals. He planned to open his own electrical repair shop in Pueblo, when the night closed...
Sphere & Float. The pressure-resisting part of the submarine will be a 15-ton steel sphere nearly 7 feet in diameter, with walls 3½ inches thick. By itself, packed with apparatus and Professor Piccard, it would sink like a stone forever. But immediately above the sphere will be a submerged, boat-shaped float filled with light buoyant oil, which cannot be squashed. Below it, held tight by powerful electromagnets, will be enough iron ballast to make the submarine sink. When the Professor shuts off the current from a one-ton battery, the electromagnets will drop the ballast...
...victims were male guinea pigs. Thirteen were penned in small cages 18 inches from the antenna of a radar transmitter. Nine were exposed to the waves direct. Others were shielded by sheet copper, which would not stop any X rays the apparatus might be emitting...
...nearly 1,000,000, there was only one foreign doctor to fight the epidemic: Frank H. Herrington, who resigned from the U.S. Navy last fall to join UNRRA. He diagnosed 162 cases of cholera, watched the fatality rate climb to 50%. Canton lacked cholera vaccine, the distilled water and apparatus to give intravenous saline solutions as part of the prescribed treatment for cholera patients...