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Nobody, including the President, quite understood what the country was letting itself in for. Shortly before he signed the bill, President Roosevelt wrote to Judge Landis urging baseball as usual and suggesting more night games. To floodlight Ebbets Field (home of the Brooklyn Dodgers) for a single night game requires 18,560 kilowatt-hours of electric power...
...jobs are parceled out among 60 manufacturing plants in 35 cities. But in a hall at the company proving ground at Milford, G.M.'s visitors saw samples of G.M.'s vast work-in-progress: airplane instruments, Army trucks ranging from earth-borers (for planting land mines) to floodlight units, guns, airplane, automobile and ship engines, propellers. Prime exhibit was an Allison airplane engine. G.M. has contracts for $242,000,000 worth of them, is turning them out in Indianapolis at a rate of close to 700 a month. Other G.M. jobs...
...show. The assassination had occurred at 1:30 p. m. and punctually at 11 p. m. the same night seven young Iron Guards who had confessed to the murder of Little Hercules were brought to the spot where the assassination had taken place, forced to reenact it under police floodlight and then executed, in situ. The executioners were seven Rumanian soldiers, each of whom drew a pistol and killed one of the seven Iron Guards. The bodies slumped to the pavement, gushing blood and sprawled grotesquely next to those of two Iron Guards who had committed suicide, to lie there...
...envoy to their Union. He is in fact the first to make even a quick inspection tour of an important section of Red Industry. Typical of 99% of the Moscow diplomatic corps are the British who carry on with a dimly-lit Embassy front hall in which concealed lamps floodlight full-length oil paintings of King George V & Queen Mary in the most elaborate of royal robes. Nobody in the British Embassy sees any more than he can help of the "bloody Bolshies" and their walks are mostly taken in the Embassy's high-walled garden. This week Ambassador...
...poultry dealer, a graduate of the University of Kentucky, she has always been interested in photography but was limited to a small Brownie, until last Christmas when a friend gave her an inexpensive No. 616 Hawkeye camera with an F6.3 lens and portrait attachment. With the aid of some floodlight bulbs, she started making portraits of her friends at night. One Wallace M. Kelly, a neighboring artist, helped her with the composition. Margaret O'Daniel is the 3-year-old daughter of another neighbor...