Word: charts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that are to take her, within the next few years, to many an out-of-the-way corner of the seas. She is the Royal Research Ship Research, a trim 770-ton brigantine. Chief job of naval and civilian scientists, to be quartered in her midships, will be to chart magnetic variations, compare their readings with those taken by the Carnegie Institution's Carnegie before she blew up while taking on gasoline in Apia, Samoa...
...plagued navigators is that variation is not only different for different localities, but that from year to year the variation varies because the magnetic pole moves. No one knows why and no one knows precisely how much. Scientists do know that since famed Astronomer Edmund Halley first made his chart of variations, A.D. 1700, the variation in England has changed by more than 37°. Seaman-scientists of the Research are not sure they will discover the reason for the annual changes. But they will determine the amount of change by comparing their readings with those taken by the Carnegie...
...Rebellion-when John Garner returned to Washington after six months in Texas. After two hours with National Chairman Jim Farley, the Vice President spent three and one-half hours with the President, trying to tell him that the November election results were not (as a famed Janizariat chart purported to prove) a collection of local overturns, but first evidence of a popular trend to the Right, toward economy. Ray Tucker, oldtime Washington correspondent who enjoys Mr. Garner's confidence more than most men, reported that in this session the Vice President told the President to "decide whether...
...Cuba, receiving Governor Lawrence Cramer of the Virgin Islands on board in St. Thomas Harbor, and paying a courtesy call on the Dutch island of St. Eustatius ("Statia"). The President let it be known that he was following every minutest move of the opposing forces on a big chart in Admiral Leahy's quarters. "Results" of naval war games are not usually made public but this time nation and world looked forward to a Roosevelt's-eye account of what happened, in laymen's language, upon his return this week...
Feild explained with the aid of over 100 color slides, mostly from the experimental "Sorcerer's Apprentice," the coordination of music, color, and composition involved in the creation of a Disney feature. He particularly stressed the importance of the "exposure sheet," a sort of master chart of a production...