Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reprinted from England's Horizon...
...flight instruments which Sperry produces contain small, rapidly spinning flywheels called gyroscopes. Their useful characteristic is the obstinate way they keep steady while the airplane twists and turns around them. Most valuable service: they provide an artificial horizon; when a pilot cannot see the real horizon, he looks at the gyroscopic one, to see if he is on an even keel...
...chief, he is primarily the workers' man, where Kalinin was the peasants' champion. The son of a Leningrad janitor, he was the only member of the All-Union Soviet of Trades Unions Secretariat to survive the purge of 1937. As Russian leaders go, he has a wide horizon: he made two wartime excursions to trade-union conferences in Britain. But he is isolationist enough to cultivate a bushy, eminently Russian mustache...
...German bomb fell across the street from his office, delaying one issue for weeks. He never did catch up with his schedule. Last week his February issue, on the stands in London, had not yet reached its 500 U.S. subscribers. When the paper shortage pinched Britain in 1941, Horizon all but starved to death. Appeals from such surprising readers as Manhattan's Fiorello LaGuardia convinced the British Government that the magazine should be kept alive. (Last year it lost only ?30 and considered it a victory...
Heads Up. Horizon's critics berate the magazine for being too cultish, for not being cultish enough. Recently, in his column of comment, Connolly taunted complainers who said that his magazine is over their heads...