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...over a year under all conditions. Its efficiency averages over 37%, reports Engineer Harold N. Hackett. It uses 1,300 fewer B.T.U. (fuel heat units) to produce a kilowatt-hour than any steam plant in historya saving of about 12%. "Future applications of the [mercury with steam] cycle may exceed 50% thermal efficiency," predicts Hackett...
Britons who get extra cigarets, food and candy from U.S. friends could not hope for much this year, either. According to British customs regulations, "unsolicited gifts, whether they include rationed foods or not, may be received from abroad by parcel post addressed to individuals: but no parcel may exceed five pounds gross weight or contain more than two pounds of any one foodstuff." Gift parcels must not be sent more often than is "reasonable" (interpreted generally as once a month). Parcels from the U.S. that don't conform to these regulations are confiscated and distributed to charity...
...suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved...
Sperry subcontractors now put in about 860,000 man-hours monthly, will shortly exceed 1,000,000. This means that Sperry, besides its own 18,500 employes will keep about 7,500 people on full time for defense. Excerpts from Sperry's "Creed for Subcontracting...
With a full quota of fliers already enrolled in the Harvard civilian pilot training course, five more undergraduates are taking the Fall preliminary course by filling in across the river at Tufts, where the supply of vacancies exceed the demand...