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Last week an unaccountable gloom settled over Washington, wrapping its marble palaces in melancholy thick as the wet grey fogs that float up from the Potomac. Congress seemed listless, disheartened, worried...
...house plan, by which undergraduates are expected to eat in the houses, has not changed Porkies' habits: they still have dinner every evening at the club. There they solemnly observe certain traditions. One of these is a crew song. At a certain point, as they sing "I float like a feather," members whip handkerchiefs out of their pockets and toss them into the air to float...
...grown to international complication, is still all within the grasp of Juan Trippe's Argus-eyed mind, down to the last pontoon float on the Alaska run. He is still Pan Am's one-man filing cabinet. He had flung out new lines, directed deals for foreign landing rights, drawn performance specifications for new airplanes that were years ahead of current design, and kept manufacturers on a hectic hop. The line revolved in a controlled orbit around him, and him alone. The head of the Atlantic division knew all about his piece of the system, the head...
...German instalment buyers, promising they will all get delivery by 1942, but the People's Car Works may have been converted to make munitions. Thus far the Führer has not thought it worth-while to risk further overstraining of the German financial structure by trying to float a war loan...
Standard anchored sea mine is 300 Ib. of TNT in a steel case about three feet in diameter, providing enough airspace to float it. The "uncontrolled" mine, which goes off at contact of any heavy object upon the "horns" (containing detonators) with which it is studded, is usually anchored by a sinker at such depth as will keep it invisible at low tide. U. S. mines used in World War I had 35-ft. antennae attached to their horns which greatly increased their contact range. For harbor defense, "controlled" mines are fitted with electrically charged detonators discharged...