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...consonants and superbly rounded r's, is the same accent he used for credit in Manhattan speakeasies 20 years ago. He cannot be libeled by caricature. The close-cropped, greying hair, the imperiously immobile face, the thin mustache and the prominent nose that terminates in a kind of bulb are even more of a Romanoff trademark than his coat of arms. His most recent crest (supplanting an elaborate compound that included a sheaf of wheat, a gargoyle and a Martini glass) is a chaste pair of back-to-back R's topped by a regal crown...
...ship in the sights, the torpedoes crashing into the sides of the target - those things made any crew jubilant. But then came the Japanese destroyers, the deep submersion, and the suspense at 300 feet below while depth charges searched for the sub, shaking her like a light bulb on a cord. The first time it happened to Trigger, Tokyo Rose claimed her sunk, then played a recording of Rocked in the Cra dle of the Deep. It was a characteristic Japanese extravagance: they claimed 468 subs in the course of the war. U.S. sub losses in the Pacific from...
Flash Test. To help camera users eliminate poor pictures caused by faulty flashbulb connections, Westinghouse brought out a bulb to test synchronizers on cameras, the first such simple testing device. The bulb fits in either smooth-surface or threaded sockets. Price...
...aluminum, which he hammers into shape on wooden frames. He is affectionately called by Nash "the world's greatest fender bender." Farina lives more like a mechanic than a high-priced designer, sleeps in a room in which a bed is the only piece of furniture, a naked bulb the only light. He allows himself one luxury: a window air-conditioning unit...
...them, more than 500 of the company's 11,625 employees are kept busy; 47 service trucks cruise the Detroit area night & day to replace lamps and fuses, fix appliances, install lead-in wires for electric stoves, etc. For new homes the crews install up to 40 light bulbs free, thereafter replace any that burn out, requiring only the old bulb or the metal end in exchange...