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...amusing. From Archer to Yachtsman, it describes the knots of nearly 100 occupations, including the baker's pretzel twist and the parachutist's sling. It gives explicit instructions on how to spit and truss a fowl, lace a football, mend a garden hose, string pearls, fly a kite, string a fiddle, tie a necktie. It offers such engaging oddments as the Norfolk-to-Washington Boat Heaving Line Knot, Department-Store Loop, Cuckold's Neck Knot, Bathrobe Cord Knot...
...East Block the speech looked like a kite deliberately flown to test the political winds in Canada before the meeting of the Commonwealth's Prime Ministers in London scheduled soon, when Empire policies will finally be threshed out. The provocation for direct reply was great: some of the Prime Minister's supporters talked angrily of an "imperialist ramp" (i.e., "Swindle...
...stands still. Last week a physicist claimed to have proved that magnetism moves. Professor Felix Ehrenhaft, formerly of Vienna, told the American Physical Society meeting in Manhattan that magnetism flows as electricity flows. If he is right, his discovery is at least as revealing as Benjamin Franklin's kite, and technology has a new horse to harness...
...into use a hand-powered radio transmitter by which flyers forced down at sea can call for help. A compact (35 lb.), waterproof, unsinkable affair, the transmitter has a tiny antenna which is raised into the air by a pair of balloons in a calm or a box kite when there is a wind. To signal with it, the operator simply turns a crank, which both generates power for the transmitter and automatically grinds out the SOS message...
...Baruch report made U.S. motorists realize the rubber crisis. The experts compressed ten years of normal development into two, created gigantic, intricate plants with almost nothing to go on except small-scale laboratory experiments. This was almost like building a Flying Fortress out of the experience of flying a kite...