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...profession. His first cartoon showed Franklin Roosevelt holding a stopwatch over Industry struggling to escape from a straitjacket. Caption: EVEN HOUDINI COULDN'T DO THIS ONE. Nos. 2 and 3 were equally unfunny, but Rube promised his fans that the Sun would soon publish his design for an apparatus to collect War debts...
High vacuums are essential not only to the distillation of vitamins but also in the manufacture of thermos bottles, radio tubes, X-ray apparatus, electric lamps...
...milk provided the U. S. farmer with $1,500,000,000, 18% of his income, was thus the most important of all farm products. But since the cow's biological apparatus produces an oversupply in the spring and a scarcity in winter, milk prices tend to fluctuate wildly. This, plus the sanitary necessity of supervising milk distribution, has long made some sort of co-operation inevitable between producer and distributor. It usually takes the form of so-called "milksheds" developed around urban centres...
...scoreboard at the opposite end of the oval is operated by remote control from the public address both, where George Whiteside and A. J. Cassidy chalk up the score by punching buttons on an apparatus that is a cross between a typewriter and a telephone switchboard...
Chief purpose of any direction finder in transport flying is not alone to locate ground points but to help determine the plane's position in flight. After a ground station is tuned in on the ship's radio receiver in this new Sperry-RCA apparatus, a loop antenna suspended beneath the plane rotates automatically until it is at right angles to the source of the signal, registering the bearing on the dial. Where two or more such bearings intersect is approximately the plane's position...