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...system, which will soon be familiar to air travelers, is remarkably simple. Twelve powerful lights are arranged in groups of three around the threshold of the runway. In front of each lamp is a filter with a red upper half and a clear lower half. In front of the filter is a two-inch horizontal slit. When an observer is above the center of the beam, the lamp looks white; in the middle it changes to pink, and in the lower half...
...hesitate to call them snake oil) which were sold from wagons to people. It was claimed they could cure TB, baldness, hives, and any other affliction on earth. Undoubtedly Jack has created the greatest mass of hot air since Mrs. O'Leary's cow kicked over the lamp...
Surrounding the ruby rod is a spiral flash tube rather like the tube of a photographer's strobe lamp. When a pulse of electricity passes through the tube, it gives a powerful burst of white (mixed) light, some of which strikes into the ruby rod. Certain wave lengths are absorbed by the chromium atoms, raising them momentarily to very high energy levels. They drop back down almost immediately, but instead of falling all the way, they accumulate at a level that still contains considerable energy. After the light flash has shone on the ruby rod for a few millionths...
...marked men. We'll remember you." At G.E.'s Electronics Park plant in Syracuse, 800 pickets battled with 210 police who were trying to escort carloads of nonstrikers into the plant. Result: 15 union men were arrested. Breaking through the lines at a small G.E. lamp plant in Bucyrus (pop. 11,600), Ohio, nonstriking women squealed and wielded umbrellas as pickets stuck them with hatpins...
...head. To buy bread and rice, she scavenged scrap paper, selling it to a junkman and getting as much as 30? "on good days." But Carolina's nights, in recent years, were quite untainted by the brawling and raw sex that surrounded her. By kerosene lamp in her 4-ft. by 12-ft. shack, she wrote down the vivid details of slum life, filling 26 notebooks gleaned from trash piles. To her neighbors, this seemed putting on airs. While Carolina was out tramping streets, one slattern would regularly empty her chamber pot into Carolina's window...