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...stage was set last week for the hottest political fight U.S. airlines have ever tangled in. The prize: postwar international air transport. Last week, 16 (out of 19) airlines plunked $250,000 into a brand-new committee to fight for "free" worldwide competition. Their aim: to blast out of its top-dog spot Pan American Airways, which monopolized prewar international air travel...
...school that his headmaster wrote: "It is very doubtful whether so vague and aimless a boy will profit by University life." He remained fabulously vague: he would buy a ticket to a play and show up by mistake at a musical show, grub in his garden in a brand-new suit and go to London in dirty old garden flannels...
...press conference the President was stiff, unsmiling. The morning papers had the text of an acrid exchange of letters between Mr. Roosevelt and his ex-Food Administrator, Chester Davis (TIME, July 5). The afternoons were ripe with the brand-new main bout between Vice President Wallace and Jesse Jones. One newshawk asked: Who was to blame for such bickering...
...Steam. At that temperature, ordinary steam pipes become red hot; consequently, new metal alloys had to be developed to withstand the heat. To regulate the heating of the steam, the Navy had to develop a brand-new kind of boiler in place of the space-consuming boiler dampers used in land power plants...
Photoperiodicity, still a brand-new theory, has little data as yet on the effect of light on man, but Professor Bissonnette notes that the long Arctic night seems to dull the mating urge among Eskimos. The professor hopes some day to investigate this report ; the American Philosophical Society and other scientific groups are already subsidizing his animal investigations...