Word: musts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most Jews consider themselves lucky if they can get across the border with 6%-8% of their original possessions. A Jew of moderate circumstances desiring to leave Germany must first surrender 25% of his capital. Then, after he has liquidated the rest of his assets, generally at considerable loss, he must either buy German goods for his personal use abroad (and pay 100% tax) with the remainder or accept German blocked-marks in exchange, since Nazi currency restrictions forbid the export of more than $12-$24 in cash after payment of passage. These blocked-marks may be sold only...
DANGER-HIGH VOLTAGE. It must be realized that the plate supply of even a low-powered transmitter is a potential lethal machine...
...turn such blades efficiently, airplanes must have lustier power plants. Last week Vega Airplane Co., a Lockheed subsidiary, announced specifications for a plane with two motors in one unit, geared with overrunning clutches to a single propeller. Overrunning clutches, similar in effect to a bicycle coaster brake or to the overdrive principle in some modern automobiles, permit a failing motor automatically to disengage itself, saving the still-functioning motor the strain of working against the inertia and compression of the dead...
...syringe a gynecologist introduces a few drops of semen directly into the cervical canal, lower part of the uterus. Best time for artificial insemination is the fertile period occurring from ten days to two weeks after menstruation begins. More complicated are the legal arrangements. Both husband and wife must sign a joint agreement permitting the wife to bear the child of a third person. The identity of the donor is kept secret, and if he is married his wife must give her written consent as well. Other practical suggestions made by Drs. Frances Isobel Seymour and Alfred Koerner of Manhattan...
...picture contract. Of their six pictures they, like the public, vote Love Me Tonight, with Jeanette MacDonald and Maurice Chevalier, the best. There pours out of them an old familiar tale-of a Hollywood cockeyed, imbecile, exciting, exasperating. The medium: marvelous. The methods: terrible. "Music," they insist, "must be written for the camera. People can't just stand around and sing songs." For Rodgers, the usual experience was to hand in a score and, when the picture was produced, to find the score either missing or massacred. Once they worked for 15 months at M-G-M., and turned...