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...device for calculating foolproof GM is called a Ralston Stability & Trim Indicator (Kenyon Instrument Co.). It is essentially an aluminum tray, engraved with a longitudinal cross section of the ship drawn to scale, which balances on a pair of knife edges. Weights, gauged to actual weight of cargo to be carried, are then placed over each hold on the diagram. The tray is then balanced by means of a sliding block, and the balance point is translated by graph directly into GM. Another pair of knife edges at right angles to the first can then be used to gauge...
Chief reason, as some 15,000 amateur and professional players have discovered, is that the recorder is almost foolproof. Blow into the end of the wooden tube, and out comes sweet, soft, sad music. The recorder is easier to learn, easier on the neighbors, than the piano, fiddle, saxophone, for which ten easy lessons are never quite easy enough. It is decidedly less corny than the mandolin, banjo, accordion. Bach and Handel, and many another before them, wrote fine, easily negotiable recorder tunes...
...still another important aspect of the problem the four agreed, namely that the United States government has done very little constructive work on the food relief problem. Since they felt that the government is the only medium for a foolproof, efficient plan, they are anxious that Washington devote more attention to it than it has to date. Only government interest can put across what the speakers consider an important step toward winning continental sympathy for England and America, and building sound minds and bodies in the next generation...
...latest call, the vandal turned the portrait of ex-President Lowell upside down and switched several volumes about on the shelves. Following the incident, the library staff announced that a thorough check-up of the books would be made to see if any were missing. In addition, a new, "foolproof" lock will be installed on the library door...
...stainless steel and only Budds are likely to be, as long as the Philadelphia plant keeps a tight hold on its "Shotweld" process for welding stainless sheets together. Invented by Budd's Chief Engineer Colonel Earl James Wilson Ragsdale, onetime professional Army officer, the "Shotweld" machine is a foolproof, delicately balanced electrical device that can be operated by unskilled labor. In less than the winking of an eye (1/20 of a second) it sends a stabbing electric current through overlapping sheets, tacks them securely without burning or over-melting, which would cut their structural strength. It also keeps track...