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...college of the 100 classics) opened his Odyssey and called the class to order. His students, sprawled around the library in Service Club No. 3 at Fort George G. Meade, Md., were 24 privates and officers, including a couple of majors. Teacher John O. Neustadt called first on a bulb-nosed little buck private...
Sleepy. In Thomaston, Ga., John Meier headed for bed, twisted an electric bulb to put out the light, dropped the bulb, cut his hands, stepped on it, cut his feet, stooped to pick out the glass, blacked his eye on a chair...
...Transportation Coordinator Joe Eastman said there would be no truck production for civilian use after March 1. > Vending-machine makers next month will get 50% less iron and steel than last year, 75% less zinc. > Vacuum-cleaner production for the first quarter will be cut 25-40%. > Electric-light-bulb output will be cut to 1940 volume, about 20% under 1941. Purpose : to save brass and tungsten. > OPM, in a precedent-setting move, ordered all sulphite pulp producers to set aside a monthly pool for allocation to 120 customers of three competing manufacturers (Rayonier, Eastern Corp., Brown...
...committee's mice-like labors had brought forth a mountain of confusion. The chairman, bulb-nosed, tobacco-chawin', houn'-dog-lovin' Henry Bascom Steagall of Ozark, Ala. had shown no disposition to hurry price-control legislation until the cotton-marketing season was over. The farm bloc, in complete control of the committee, had searched long and skillfully for a formula which would substantially inflate all farm prices, had finally found it: a ceiling on farm prices may not be set below the highest of these three levels: 1) 110% of parity; 2) the average price from...
...then in use. As better furnaces were developed, his technique was little used until about 1910 when U.S. scientists, notably General Electric's William David Coolidge, revived it as the only practical way of making ductile tungsten (melting point 6100° F.) from which thin wires for light bulb filaments could then be drawn through holes in diamonds...