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...Equip the blind with radar-like instruments that enable them to obtain visual images...
...equip herself to answer all "reasonable" requests, a serene and amiable young lady named Irene Burbank spent a year investigating New York City. As a result, when she recommends a restaurant she knows its price range, its specialties, and how good the food is. If you want to know about a play, a movie, a hotel, a broadcast, or a historical site, she has undoubtedly been there, too. If she has time, she will even try to answer questions like these that have cropped up lately...
...half of the working party (including Cuthbert Clegg, two other owners' representatives, the three public representatives) opposed the key recommendations of the report: 1) a three-year levy on each spindle for a fund which the Government would use to help equip plants with new machines; 2) grouping of small mills into larger, more economical units; 3) shutdown of plants now having idle machines (because of labor shortage), to permit more intensive use of their labor force in modern plants...
...much the U.S. disclaimed any intention of starting an arms race south of the border, many a sincere Latin American democrat was worried by the prospect of more pistols for Panchito. "The intentions, as almost invariably, are sterling. The effects, deplorable," said one thoughtful Latin American last week. "You equip a dictator's army to modern standards and you provide the dictator with an unfailing instrument to perpetuate his tyranny. Do the same in a fledgling Latin American democracy, and you strengthen the already heady military caste...
...Nominal Sum. The Western powers were busy on their own side of the line. Britain announced that it had undertaken ("for a nominal sum," said one Briton) to equip and help train a new French Air Force. The U.S., pressing for economic unity in Germany, suspended reparations shipments from its zone. The British did not immediately follow suit, but the betting was that ten war plants (including part of the Krupp works at Essen), ready to be shipped to Russia, would not be moved...