Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...connection with the article on the Reader's Digest in your issue of Nov. 2, it might be of news interest to your readers to know that a complete issue of that periodical is published simultaneously in Braille by the American Printing House for the Blind in Louisville. There is very slight resemblance in format as the greater bulk necessitated by the embossed letters results in three volumes, each 13½ in. by 11 in. and over an inch thick, instead of the pocket-size edition for those who can see. Originally each issue was incorporated in one volume...
...present, the magazine has 2,200 subscribers but the number of readers is much greater as the copies are usually forwarded to several other blind persons. Some are known to be regularly sent as far as Australia. Some are read to groups of the blind who have not learned to read the Braille system, so that the number of those who benefit from each issue is many times the 2,200 circulation. Many blind people without means receive the magazine because of the kindness of someone who has donated the subscription price...
...Blind and stubborn reaction will not solve the problem, but will create class hatred instead. Today a man is not a "prince of privilege" because he is wealthy or because he is president of a large corporation, but he does become one when he becomes an anti-social force, and uses his power to further his own ends at the expense of those over whom he has control...
...first time since he established residence in England, Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh piloted an airplane of his own, a new black & orange 200-h.p. touring monoplane which he tested at Reading Airdrome. Built secretly to specifications prepared by himself and Designer Frederick George Miles, the ship is equipped for blind flying, fitted with a transparent, sliding roof, tandem seats convertible into bunks...
...Star for a Night" is an inconsequential bit about exaggerated filial devotion. Claire Trevor and Evelyn Venable, both rather neutral young women, pretend to be riding high so that their mother back in Austria will accept money to be spent to her blind eyes. When mamma comes to America the deception is a little harder, and then when she regains her sight there is the utmost consternation as to how to pull the wool over the freshly-cured-eyes. It's pretty sugary up to this point, but when Mother Jane Darwell discovers the fraud, things get stickier than ever...