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Thomas, "the perennial candidate for president," has run for office six times on the Socialist platform. Thackrey, new editor of the New York Compass, supported Henry Wallace's Progressive Party...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Four Speakers Debate 'Liberalism' In Year's First Law Forum Tonight | 10/13/1950 | See Source »

Norman Thomas, perennial Socialist candidate for president, and Ted O. Thackrey, editor of the New York Compass, will be among the speakers this Friday at Rindge Teach when the first Law School Forum of the year discusses "The Future of the American Liberal...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Thomas, Schlesinger To Debate Liberalism | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

Last week Squadron 375 was sure it had the twilight problem pretty nearly licked. One gadget it has found useful is the Pfund† sky compass which polarizes light reflected from the sky-and points to the spot on the horizon directly above the invisible sun. When used with the proper tables, the sky compass gives the direction in which the plane is flying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In Arctic Twilight | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

Downward Pull. An even more promising instrument is a special version of the ancient magnetic compass. Ordinary magnetic compasses are of little use in the far north. Their needles do not swing normally, but often try to point almost directly downward toward the magnetic pole a few hundred miles away. The "flux-gate" compass, which uses coils instead of needles, eliminates the downward pull and shows only the small horizontal pull toward the magnetic pole. The compass does not point north, of course. Since the magnetic pole is many miles south of the geographical North Pole, the compass often points...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: In Arctic Twilight | 10/9/1950 | See Source »

...tabloid had taken in $1,081,458, chiefly from circulation at 10? a copy, and had spent $1,595,570. Net loss for the first year: $514,112. Although the Compass has a tiny (25) editorial staff compared to other New York dailies, close to half the expenses were on the editorial side for reporters, wire services, cable tolls, etc. Advertising income, largely from amusement ads,, was only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Wavering Compass | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

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