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...five-minute prepared speech by Chief "Scotty" last week, relaying complaints from the dispensary of too much business via the basketball floor, seemingly failed to impress Company Charlie sufficiently. It took about 30 minutes by the clock until "Dit-dit-dit-da" Balmuth was carried off the floor in an improvised stretcher--sprained ankle...
...just dit-happy goons...
...radio repairs in the dark. >Toledo Scale Co. has a new instrument, invented by blind Evelyn Watson of Buffalo, which permits blind people to weigh by ear such things as powder for fuses, mica for radio installations, buttons, screws. The machine is set to indicate a certain weight, signals dit-dah when the needle is under the mark, dah-dit when it is over, buzzzzzzz when it is "on the beam." >Trico Products Corp. of Buffalo has developed a Braille-type micrometer for checking precision instruments, by touch, to one-ten-thousandth of an inch...
British authorities claimed last week that 100,000,000 people in Europe listened to BBC broadcasts of the Morse dit-dit-dit-dar, the opening notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, various versions of V propaganda. In Gibraltar British Tommies with paint pots sloshed Vs on all cars passing into Spain. The campaign spread to South America, where Brazilian students plastered Vs on the walls of an Italian newspaper building...
...jargon and technical functions. Before a cadet can pin on the silver bar of a Second Classman - the happy sign that he is at last flying - he must bone up for many a long, hot and sleepy hour on the rudiments of engines, aerodynamics, aerology, gunnery, navigation, the dit-dit-dahs of radio code...