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...ordinary auto horn can be used to increase the rate of gasoline distillation by agitating the air in which the condensing molecules and droplets hang. Hence smaller cracking equipment and lower costs are claimed by the patentee of the process, Shell Development Co. of San Francisco. If the blare hurts nearby ears, inaudible supersonics will serve as well...
...warm air were in motion across the country. One swept inland from the Atlantic, bringing rain and fog-fog that covered the land from Maine to Florida, from Sandy Hook to the Mississippi, that grounded planes, made trains run late, and filled New York Harbor with the melancholy blare of foghorns and whistles. Another warm air mass moved from the Southwest bringing hot days to Florida, fog on the Gulf Coast, warm weather in Kansas (temperatures were ten to 15 degrees above normal). Another warm air mass moved inland from the Pacific...
When they, heard the blare of trumpets one day last week German civilians turned up their radios. This was the signal for a Sondermeldung, an especially important announcement about fighting somewhere. Perhaps the British in Africa had been defeated already...
That Day Alone is another plangent blare, vibrantly sincere, full of acute social discernments, tremulous with human pity, and, like the works of many social seers, somewhat rambling. It includes: 1) Farewell to France, possibly the most subduedly ominous of the many firsthand reports of France on the eve of the debacle; 2) As Time One Day . . ., a resumption of van Paassen's boyhood memories about the Dutch village of Gorcum, begun in Days of Our Years; 3) The New Order Comes to Gorcum, a vivid account of the coming of the Nazis; 4) In the Steps...
...nights, under mammoth silver palm trees rising toward a starry blue-silk sky, a changing trio of bands will blare out over a vast dance floor holding 5,000, spectators' stands seating 4,000, cafe sections seating 1,500. Admission is 66? on weekdays, 88? on weekends and holidays, with the partners of Service men admitted free...