Word: ft
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...supply of Government rum made by the Virgin Islands Co.. he announced that a specialist of his department was at work devising a cocktail recipe. Object was to stimulate sale of Virgin Island rum when it comes of potable age in 1940. ¶Since 12,000,000 sq. ft. of floor space in 101 Government buildings plus 2,500,000 sq. ft. in 103 rented buildings is no longer adequate for the growing horde of New Dealers in Washington, Secretary Ickes. as purveyor of office space to the Government, declared he thought the Social Security Board, Coal Commission...
...enflaming cities and wiping out their inhabitants at long range. Yet Dr. Lawrence's neutron beam, though designed only to harry atoms, is probably the nearest actual approach to the lethal ray of fiction. He decided therefore to take ample precautions. The control panel was moved 50 ft. from the beam and between them was interposed as a shield a three-foot wall of water the hydrogen in which is most effective in braking neutrons...
...unsophisticated. But he had seen nothing yet. The show that Mike Jacobs cooked up for the tenth and last night of the tournament will be held before 15,000 people in Madison Square Garden. The players will be closeted in soundproof glass booths. On a table top 100 ft. square, 52 sandwich men will act as cards, running out as they are played, falling down and being "swept up" when a trick is won. The victorious team will receive a new bridge cup, the International Challenge Trophy. What Mike Jacobs will receive is problematical...
Last summer Queen Astrid of the Belgians was killed when an automobile driven by her King slipped off a Swiss road, hurtled 95 ft. before it crashed into a tree (TIME, Sept. 9). That tragedy, said Physiologist Yandell Henderson of Yale last week, moved him to inquire into the behavior of drivers involved in such accidents. Many a driver explains: "The car went out of control." To Dr. Henderson it seemed rather that the motorist went out of control. When a driver is jounced off balance in his seat, a powerful reflex comes into play to restore his equilibrium...
...photographs in the volume, readers may get an impression of an India far more serene than Katherine Mayo's words suggest. Pictures include queer ones of a holy man sitting comfortably on nails, a shot of the spiderweb suspension bridge, made of cane and rattan, that stretches 800 ft. across the Dihang River in Assam. Another holy man, dressed only in covering of thorns and spikes, is pictured twanging away cheerfully on a native banjo, while a holy woman of Benares is shown practicing devotion by staring into the sun without winking. Despite glimpses of temple prostitutes, riot victims...