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...pilots side by side, mechanic and radio operator behind them. Each pilot has a set of flying instruments and controls before him, and neither sees the engine instruments which are mounted on the rear bulkhead under the eyes of the mechanic. At the mechanic's elbow is a lever with which he can instantly flood the motors with extinguishing chemicals...
...used a "reversing thermometer" for taking depth temperatures in the Mediterranean. This instrument had a constriction in the tube above the bulb. Having been lowered to a measured depth, it was flipped upside down by some such expedient as slipping a weight down the line to actuate a lever at the end. This upset broke the thread of mercury at the constriction, preserving the temperature record until the instrument could be hauled up and examined...
...addition to solving the difficult problem of what to do with the apparently useless islands this latest effort of the administration should open to the United States a large supply of good, cheap rum. This will undoubtedly be a lever with which the government may force the distillers to lower their exorbitant prices, for the rum will be admitted duty-free and should be sold at a moderate price. With a supply of cheap rum available the few large companies now controlling the whiskey traffic should soon be brought to their knees and forced to sell their products...
Alison Skipworth as the social commission merchant and Harry Gold as the Jewish orchestra leader and romance mender give particularly able characterizations, while Gene Raymond as the in-human lever hits a new low. In spite of his assertion that he is "four years older than you are and knows all about life" we have to believe his other gem that "I have never played with anything except a violin...
While the building of the waterway would undoubtedly provide much employment, the same amount of money could be put to better use elsewhere. The only real benefit which would derive from it would be to make it possible to use the electric power potentialities as a lever for forcing the utility companies to lower their rates; but once again this could be better accomplished by some other methods. The objections of Ham Lewis on strategic grounds, are, of course, ridiculous; but they are neither so ridiculous nor so dangerous as the arguments of the proponents of this economic fallacy...