Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deaf person can watch the fluctuations of his voice indicated by the pointer of the instrument which registers the impulses immediately. Frequencies from zero to 16,000 cycles per second can be recorded, while the range of the human ear is from 20 cycles up to a high squeak of about 16,000 cycles per second...
...Open to all," refrained Laval, Stalin and Litvinoff over & over, "open to all," for the benefit of Adolf Hitler who had said last month that he would gladly put Germany into precisely that sort of arrangement. Other presumptive invitees: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia. The new instrument dropped the mutual assistance clause of the abandoned Eastern Locarno Pact. It was in effect a "do-nothing" trap for aggressors, within the framework of the League of Nations. It left the way open for member nations to pair off in treaties of mutual assistance. It ignored such complications as the facts that...
Plymacoupe seats two side-by-side, cruises 100 m.p.h., has a topspeed of 120 m.p.h., lands at 42. Its engine is geared 2-to-1, uses 4 gal. of fuel per hour. It has a standard Plymouth instrument board adapted for airplane use. Following successful test-flights last week, the Department of Commerce promptly ordered a Plymacoupe through Chrysler Motors' Amplex Division, planned more tests...
...other basic commodities. These new powers are for the purpose of letting AAA extend its control over other commodities. AAA answered this charge only in general terms. Said Chester Davis in a broadcast to farmers last month: "Unless the Act can be made fully effective as a national instrument serving the 2,000,000 farmers who grow special crops or milk, then, with support from that group missing, the whole Act is in danger...
...Franco-Russian pact is not the instrument of Nicholas II and Poincare. It does not exclude Germany. Rather Adolf Hitler, if he chooses to join Russia and France in pledging ''mutual assistance" against "unprovoked aggression," will find WELCOME written on the doormat signed last week in Paris. It specifically takes care of the Hitler crochet which made Der Führer say he would sign up for non-aggression "with any country except Lithuania" month and a half ago. In the new treaty all European countries east of Germany except Lithuania are made eligible and urged to sign...