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Despite a last-minute lag in interest, the three civilian Houses went almost 500 per cent over their quota in the Fourth War Loan drive which ended Wednesday at noon. The inter-House competition was swept by Lowell, which rolled up a total of $7,610.60 to more than double the total of second-place Adams and to go almost $660 above the combined totals of its two rivals...
...Negro Problem, he concludes, is grim but not hopeless. It "represents nothing more and nothing less than a century-long lag of public morals. In principle, the Negro problem was settled long ago; in practice, the solution is not effectuated. The Negro in America has not yet been given the elemental civil and political rights of formal democracy. . . . This anachronism constitutes the contemporary 'problem...
...speed, altitude and trail (air and ground lag) had already been set on the sight indicators. As the target came in view, Arpaia's problem was to calculate in a flash the correct dropping angle, make this final adjustment. Then he hunched tensely over the rubber-padded sight telescope, deftly fingering the control knobs. The target crawled across the sight until the two cross hairs were directly on it; at that moment Arpaia engaged the synchronizer and the sight did the rest. A string of white-painted bombs hurtled from Mischief Maker's belly. As they...
...result, according to a Bendix spokesman: "The new compass will not go off its reading when the plane dives or climbs rapidly ; it will not lag or overshoot during a turn, and it will not oscillate or hunt back and forth in rough weather." It is also usable in regions where a magnetic compass breaks down completely-near the North & South Poles. Because of the weak magnetic currents there, a magnetic compass is useless within 1,200 miles of either Pole; the new compass, much more sensitive, works as close as 300 miles...
...least, such a program can measurably shorten the crucial time lag between war and peace production, by making a sizable number of employers blueprint their conversion to peace in advance...