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...advertiser, I vote for visibility, but visibility is only the first step. I have experienced the power of space in TIME, and I believe the potency of that space dependent upon proportion and selection as psychological factors. Visibility is but the physical aspect of the same principle. L. E. FIRTH Vice President...
...ponderous Rodney, were the destroyers Tilbury, Vivian, Thanet, the tugs Resolve and Grappler. Lighters, submarine chasers, mine sweepers, hustled out from all the British coast. Aboard the Tilbury was Rear Admiral Henry Edgar Grace, commander of British submarines, taking a new diving apparatus which in tests oil the Firth of Forth had descended successfully to a depth of 300 feet. In London, King's Messenger routed from his bed Professor Leonard Hill, physiologist of the National Institute of Medical Research, authority on deep sea diving, and despatched him north to join the rescue fleet...
...meeting with Mr. MacDonald followed, at Forres on Moray Firth. Two days later the Ambassador was to speak before royalty at the Pilgrims Society dinner in London. The same day, the Prime Minister was to address the dour fisherfolk of nearby Lossiemouth, his birthplace. They agreed to have both speeches touch on all-important naval reduction, and issued a joint communiqué to the effect that their speeches, when delivered, should be regarded as the starting point of a new disarmament movement in which "other naval powers are expected to co-operate...
...last week by Krupp Steel Works (Essen, Germany) and Ludlum Steel Co. (Watervliet, N. Y.) is a patent holding and service company for the exchange of Ludlum and Krupp ideas. President Edwin Corning of Ludlum will be chairman of the board of directors. "Licensees" (Central Alloy Steel Co. and Firth Sterling Steel Co.) will share U. S. rights with Ludlum...
...peaks have the same convincing symmetry as nature herself. Edward Elgar, the eminent English composer, well says, "A modern composer, while listening to the C Minor Symphony or studying its design, feels as humble as a travelling tinker standing before that marvel of engineering skill, the bridge over the Firth of Forth...