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...successful: a carburetorless Hornet engine of 525 h. p. had been installed in a Boeing mail plane for actual service. Advantages: direct fuel injection eliminates all carburetion troubles including the danger of ice formation in the carburetor during winter operation. Also, like the Diesel, it permits the use of cruder and less inflammable fuels. Successful tests were made with a "safety" gas recently developed by Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. Produced by hydrogenation, this fuel will not ignite below 107° F. ("flash point"). The flash point of ordinary gasolines lies anywhere between...
...perhaps as old as the Press itself, is the foregoing strategy, known in its cruder manifestations as the "we boys" racket ("We boys on the staff want to give you the breaks. . . ."). Twenty-five years ago William Travers Jerome, famed crusading District Attorney of New York, tried unsuccessfully to make it a reason for putting Town Topics, oldtime "society" gossip sheet, out of existence. Last week the editors of Town Topics (still going strong as a 25? biweekly) and of the younger and more venomous Tatler & American Sketch (50? monthly) were in the offices of New York State...
...pornographic literature than any living American, or European. However, in spite of this hearty endorsement, it cannot be repeated too often that this capacity and this knowledge is not a prime requisite for holiness. Hunger, not holiness, must be the explanation of this strange preoccupation with sex in its cruder forms...
...Schoolmaster Taussig" is an early story of Neumann's, a grim naturalistic sex tragedy considerably more effective than "King Haber", though much cruder and more exaggerated. "The Patriot", familiar to movie fans as one of Emil Jannings best pictures, stands out as the most skillfully handled and the most appealing of the three stories. The gradual development of the conspiracy against the mad Czar Paul, the struggles of Count Pahlen against external opposition and against his self-accusations of ungratefulness, are told with careful objectivity, yet with a much finer dramatic sense than appeared in "King Haber". "The Patriot...
...Where any rising tide of black Republican votes may occur, white concern for the all-white ticket is calculated to insure the Democrats against the dangers of sloth, carelessness, disaffection among themselves. The new Texas method of disfranchising Negroes by simple race discrimination in the party membership supersedes early, cruder. methods. Texas used to bar Negroes from the polls by a State law. But Negroes had this law declared unconstitutional. Other methods have been...