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...berth the head is by choice placed toward the front of the train. In ambulances it is also routine for the head of the patient to be at the front of the conveyance. This brings to mind the practice of Charles Dickens and other Victorian notables of carrying a compass and having the hotel bed placed with the head to the north...
Scientific purpose of Mrs. Putnam's flight was to test a radio homing compass in her capacity as $1-a-year employe of the Department of Commerce. Over the State of Hidalgo both radio and compass went sour, a bug flew into her eye and she lost her bearings. Thereupon Flyer Putnam "sat down" in a cow pasture, learned that she was 60 miles from her goal...
Fisher's Compass...
...BEHALF OF CAPTAIN WILEY, U. S. S. MACON AND MYSELF YOU ARE REQUESTED TO CORRECT YOUR ACCOUNT ABOUT RADIO COMPASS ON MACON IN TIME MARCH 25. MACON COMPASS ORIGINALLY DEVELOPED BY GERHARD FISHER RESEARCH ENGINEER FEDERAL TELEGRAPH CO., PALO ALTO. RADIO COMPASS WAS INSTALLED BY FISHER ON MACON AND DEVELOPMENT COMPLETED BY FISHER AND MACON PERSONNEL RESULTING IN RADIO COMPASS SUPERIOR TO ANY OTHER KIND. KRUESI HAS NO CONNECTION THIS FISHER RADIO COMPASS ON MACON...
...some crooked lines showing where the fluctuations of political sentiment are likely to lead. Then why watch politics exclusively? Instead let us stick to the one formula we all know- 'business as usual.' Never did this country need that slogan more than it does today. Box the compass of your own industry. Plan your future requirements. Cut your cloth according to your pattern, as the motor industry has done. . . . Don't dodge the duties of citizenship by blaming government interference for the lack of business initiative...