Word: idea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1933 some scientists have left Germany, others have stayed there and kept quiet, and still others have chimed in with the Nazi idea that German science should be distinct from the brands of science in evidence elsewhere. A most outspoken and articulate defender of Nazi scientific ideology is crusty old Professor Johannes Stark, head of the German Bureau of Standards, an able physicist who won a Nobel Prize in 1919 for his discovery of the "Stark effect" (splitting of spectrum lines when a glowing gas is subjected to a strong electrical field), and his studies of "canal rays" (beams...
...quick-moving, quick-witted. In his Chicago office his papers heap two desks. Between the desks, in a swivel chair with well-oiled casters, Mr. Patterson shuttles back & forth. What has made the papers so many and the shuttling so nervous was a bad situation and a good idea. The bad situation: the wasteful competition between U. S. airlines, particularly in independently developing expensive experimental planes, then all investing in a standard plane-first the DC-2, then the DC-3. The good idea: that U. S. airlines should use the collective knowledge of their engineers, pilots, technical and traffic...
...Last week American, having waited out the 18 months, was on the verge of tumbling for six 307s. The Boeings will be ready for airline service before the Douglas plane. T. W. A., Pan American and American all protest that they are still behind the co-operative idea, but Mr. Patterson is naturally uneasy...
...fringed with immortal music. The characters hide behind doors and talk crook lingo while the sound track throbs with Liszt, Chopin, Grieg, Moszkowski, Strauss. The music is introduced by having the pianist practicing incessantly for a promised return to the concert stage. Best number: a montage giving an idea of what Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody might look like if sounds were pictures...
Best-informed Washington opinion last week was: That the interview was Correspondent Krock's own idea, that it was originally intended as a background Sunday story in which the President would recapitulate his views; that Mr. Krock was closeted with the President for an hour-and-a-half in the White House oval study; that the entire interview was then submitted to the President, who suggested new insertions and approved its use as a news story-even approved the headlines. But all Mr. Krock would say was: "No comment...