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Flight of the Flagship (American Airlines, General Records). Exciting two-faced documentary disc of a scheduled supper-to-breakfast. Long Island-to-Los Angeles transport flight. Fine operations' sound effects "recorded on location": teletypes giving weather data, radioed flight reports, beam signals. Children should...
...individual shells are divided into five classes at present, ranging from wherries 24 inches wide to singles with a beam of only 10 inches...
Because of interference from the sun's own magnetic field, sunspots spray out their particle beams unevenly. The earth may therefore suffer severely from relatively small sunspots if it happens to be in a dense region of the particle beam. Moreover, as the spot cycle wanes, the spots tend to crowd around the sun's equator, and Dr. Harlan True Stetson, Massachusetts Institute of Technology's authority on "cosmic-terrestrial relations," believes that equatorial spots get a truer bead on earth than others. Finally, the earth last week had barely passed the spring equinox, at which time...
...present plans prove practical, it will work like this: You slide the book you want to return through a slot onto a chute; the chute carries it to a tray; when the tray has piled sufficiently high with books, a photo-electric beam is intercepted which works an automobile jack, lowering the tray; as soon as the tray is full an alarm clock goes off that wakes the night watchman, who then empties the tray of books...
Only the fact that a substantial cross-beam extends across the open top of the elevator saved the students from death...