Word: idealizations
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...major factor in last winter's airplane crashes was radio failure due to snow static. United Air Lines therefore set aside a Boeing laden with instruments and experts which flew almost daily over the mountainous Northwest-an ideal snow-static laboratory. Snow static was supposed to be caused by impact on the antenna of droplets containing tiny electric charges. United last week announced that it is caused by discharge from trailing edges of electricity gathered while flying through heavily charged clouds. When sufficiently severe, snow static affected the shielded loop, heretofore the best-known remedy (TIME...
...such purposes Dr. Wyckoff was ideal. His impeccable reputation, his potent offices were jury-proof. His fame, the demands of his jobs and of his practice made him just that more likely to take the evidence presented him in consultation at their face values, without waste of precious time...
...three other big independents: Republic, Youngstown Sheet & Tube, and Inland. Promptly 27 steel plants, most of them in Ohio and Illinois, were shut down, some 75,000 men quit work, and 15% of the Steel industry shut up shop in the midst of its busiest season in years, an ideal strike season from Labor's viewpoint...
...Varsity boats were a little late getting away from the stake boat. The little wind that had been rippling the muddy waters of the River had died, and the conditions for rowing were ideal. Then the referee sent the boats away, and the greatest sprint race of the season in the East was under...
...contracts, then had the happy thought of introducing Mr. Fremming, who made a nice little speech about how Harry Sinclair's labor policies were outstanding in the oil industry. Before he finished buttering Consolidated, its officials and stockholders, Mr. Fremming pronounced relations of Consolidated and its workers "ideal...