Word: reds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Visible light does not penetrate thick fog, but visible light is only a small segment on the wide spectrum of electro-magnetic radiation. Radiation which is too long in wave length to be seen, called infra-red and embracing wireless waves of all lengths, has the faculty of sliding around obstacles such as fog particles. Therefore an artificial eye which "sees" by infra-red radiation appears to offer the best hope of piercing...
Four years ago Commander Paul Humphrey Macneil demonstrated a fog-eye which made use of infra-red radiation in the region of heat waves, naturally emitted by all objects warmer than absolute zero (TIME, May 8, 1933). It turned on warning lights, rang a gong when a fog-shrouded vessel passed another ship. Few months later Master Mariner Flavel M. Williams installed on the Manhattan and Washington a camera which took a picture of an obstacle through fog by infra-red radiation, producing the developed film 30 seconds after exposure (TIME...
...victim was not hanged but garroted, so that suicide is ruled out, no matter in what circumstances the body is found. In general, deaths by asphyxia are characterized by blueness (cyanosis) of the face, ears, fingernails and lips; the eyes are bloodshot and the inside of the lids are red; and there are tiny hemorrhages under the scalp. If the victim was manually strangled, the little hyoid bone in the throat is invariably crushed. If carbon monoxide was the asphyxiating agent, the skin is cherry red...
...long been known that the Marshall Field retail business lost money only once, in 1932, that what had dragged the company deeply into the red was its huge wholesale business. Chairman McKinsey's first reform was to lop off the wholesale business entirely, along with 1,600 employes. This was an eminently smart move, as was also his reorganization of Chicago's Merchandise Mart, each of whose first 19 floors contains six acres of floor space. The Mart has still to make money but McKinsey management rented...
...worth of Strads (violins, violas, cellos: 20 instruments in all) were played at a single Carnegie Hall concert. Noted Violinist Efrem Zimbalist played on his famed Lamoureux (Strads, like Pullman cars, all have individual names). Listeners marveled at the mellow, homogeneous tone quality of the eight glistening, red-gold instruments played by the Musical Art Quartet and the Stradivarius .Quartet of New York, the small string orchestra over which senatorial Walter Damrosch waved a deliberate baton. The occasion for this Stradivarius display was the 200th anniversary of the death of Antonio Stradivari. Proceeds went to the recently founded Stradivarius Memorial...