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...hear, but does one fire a cannon with one's ears? They can hold their own in any activity where hearing is not absolutely essential-such as in radio communication. Among them are bakers and barbers, painters and carpenters, shoemakers, machinists, truck drivers, draftsmen, chemists, and even radio repairmen. Many of them are college educated. All they ask for is a chance...
...distilleries are making alcohol for munitions and synthetic rubber, gin will get scarce; so will some whiskeys. But U.S. liquor stocks on the whole add up to perhaps a sober four-year supply. Most seriously threatened U.S. pastime is travel; most seriously threatened U.S. comfort is servants, handymen, and repairmen (because of the draft and war jobs for women); to the extent that it is real "suffering" for the citizen to have to stay at home more and to do his own house and yard work, the citizen will suffer...
...used record for every three new ones they obtain, and music stores feel that soon they will have to ask customers to bring in old recordings in exchange for new purchases. Radio manufacture also was stopped in April, but the most acute shortage in this connection is of skilled repairmen, many of whom have joined the Army Signal Corps...
...enormous reserve on which the army and navy communications people depend for personnel in case of war. Some 4,000 amateurs are in Chicago this week for the first national A.R.R.L. convention to be held in 14 years. Amateur operators range in age from 8 to So, include radio repairmen, engineers, corporation executives, bellhops, coal miners, women, small girls, professional men. Their stations are worth anywhere from $25 to $35,000. They are called in by the army, navy and the Red Cross to assist in times of disaster, set up emergency communication systems for relaying messages from isolated communities...
When this is accomplished the cripple will be moved forward into the spacious midsection of the ARD-3. The water will then be pumped out of the bottom tanks and the ARD3 will rise, lifting the damaged battleship high and dry so that repairmen can get at its vital parts. The ARD3 will t»e so big that it can take care of anything the U. S. Navy now has afloat, and almost anything smaller than the Queen Mary that it is likely to launch...