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When Moss turned up at Dayton's McCook Field with his turbo in 1918, he met the traditional experience of all inventors: the "glassy eye," as he recalls, of skeptical industrialists and Army brass hats. He took them to the top of Pike's Peak, where a 350-h.p. Liberty motor gave only 230 h.p. in the thin air at 14,000 feet. When Moss cut in his supercharger, the motor roared away...
...list of U.S. industries born or reborn out of wartime stress will soon be added one of the most obscure and unsuccessful of all: diamond mining. For a modest $175,000 Arkansas Diamond Corp. last fortnight sold its long-idle field in Pike County, only one in the U.S. ever developed commercially. The buyer: an anonymous Chicago syndicate which hopes that wartime demand for industrial diamonds (up 60%) and wartime prices (up 20-70%) will enable it to succeed where others long have failed...
Other speakers were Tudor Gardiner '40 1L, David P. Bennett '41, Miss Louise Sullivan, president-elect of the Radcliffe Student Government, and Robert G. Davis '29, Briggs-Copeland Instructor in English. Miss Jane T. Pike, Radcliffe '41, presided...
Chairman of the rally is Miss Jane T. Pike, Radcliffe '41, who will introduce her classmate Miss Louise Sullivan, president-elect of the Radcliffe Student Government. The girls' delegation will arrive en masse...
Arguing that "open war" is condemned by the American people as "destructive of our resources, lives, and liberties," Edwards and Miss Pike urged support of the strike as a protest against "the continued movement for military intervention...