Word: prac
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bolsheviks of Kalinin's generation excor iated "capitalists imperialists" for ex ploiting patriotism and national aggran dizement in order to take the people's minds off their bellies. Kalinin now prac ticed what he used to denounce...
Benthocometes-Claude. Georges Claude had made a fortune from his prac tical inventions, spent much of it on bizarre experiments. Fifteen years ago he took a ship to Cuba's Matanzas Bay, sank a mile-long tube, pumped up cold water from the ocean floor. It was his idea to utilize the temperature differential be tween this cold water and warm surface water to power a turbine. One day his apparatus generated enough power to light 40 500-candlepower bulbs - about 30 horse power (TIME, Oct. 20, 1930). When an unknown species of fish was sucked into the tube...
...mind about these issues, the A.P. let the Times go ahead with its experiment.) It costs the Times about $1,000 a day to pass out 2,000 free copies a day to conference delegates. In return, the Times is getting a lot of good will, and some prac tical experience toward fulfilling its claim to be a national newspaper (it has always feared that quality would be diffused in chain publishing). Encouraged by the success of their experiment, Times editors are speculating right out loud that the Times, by facsimile transmission, could keep its Manhattan integrity while distributing late...