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...second. He felt it advisable to prevent the Glenn L. Martin Co. of Baltimore from fulfilling a $2,000,000 deal with Russia for 20 bombing planes and an aircraft factory. As British trade representatives informally explained at the State Department, a war was raging in China with Reddish forces on one side (see p. 30), and more war threatened on the Afghanistan border just south of Eastern Russia. There thus seemed a good chance that the Martin planes for Russia would soon see service. A joint board of the U. S. War and Navy Departments had not found these...
...Boys' Life. Age: 80. Date: June 21. Celebration: opening presents from boy and men admirers all over the U. S. at his home, Brooklands, near Suffern, N. Y. Some of the presents: an alligator skin from Florida; a bolt of homespun from the Kentucky Blue Ridge Mountains; catlinite (reddish slate) peace-pipe from Indians in Minnesota; a coonskin cap from the Carolinas; a bronze bucking broncho from the Executive Board of B. S. A.; riding chaps from Texas; a blanket from Navajo Indians...
Emily's brother left home but Emily and her sister Lavinia were life-long sacrifices on the altar of filial piety. For years Emily never went outside the garden gate, but all the time she wrote poems secretly, lived intensely her seismographic life. She was small, with dark reddish hair, eyes the color of brown sherry; not pretty, excessively...
Aimee Semple McPherson, soul-saver, returned to the U. S. (via Paris) from a trip to the Holy Land, with Bibles, lamps, some Palestinian garments (to wear in the pulpit of her Angelus Temple Church of the Foursquare Gospel) and bright yellow hair (it was reddish when she left the U. S.). While she whirled away on a 200-mile week-end trip through the Catskills, U. S. Customs agents checked her luggage, levied $138 against her in duties and penalties for undeclared imports. Returning to Manhattan to find she had made Page One all over the U. S., Sister...
...Ives colored television apparatus contains a battery of 24 cells. A filter or "mash" of orange-red gelatin allows only reddish colors to affect certain cells. A yellow-green filter controls other cells, and a greenish-blue filter controls the balance. Three separate electrical transmission channels must be used. A red gelatin filter makes the bright red neon light the same shade as the receiving cell registered. The yellow-green-sensitized waves go to an argon lamp which glows through a green filter. The greenish-blue-sensitized waves affect another argon lamp with, in this case, a blue filter. Mirrors...