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Miss Jones's device, about 18 in. long, outwardly resembles an ordinary Ford automobile muffler. Inside is a series of small "pinwheels" which retard the speed of the exhaust gases-"chewing up" the sound waves without creating excessive back pressure upon the engine. (The latter factor, involving loss of power, has been the principal drawback to most attempts at muffling.) The pilot who tested the Jones muffler in flight said the engine lost none of its normal speed-1,900 r.p.m...
Charles Ruffin Hook, vice president of American Rolling Mill Co.: "Wage reductions would, in our opinion, retard and not stimulate business...
...urgent that the uncertainties in the business world which have been added to by the long extended debate on this measure should be ended. They can be ended only by completion of this bill. Nothing would contribute to retard business recovery more than this continued agitation...
Last month the Department of State did a record May business in passports. Plain was the fact that business depression had not been sufficient to retard foreign travel by U. S. citizens. In February, passport applications exceeded those for the same month the year before. Since then there has been a steady increase until last month more than 35,000 applications?15% above last year's May record?were received...
...business recession changed his belief that: "It is unnatural to curtail production of anything. . . . Any plan to manipulate conditions and retard production is inadvisable if not ruinous. . . . Machines eliminate drudgery. . . . Strange as it may seem, the more machines in operation, the more men at work. There are more men working today by 50% than at any time in the history of the world, and the standard of the worker has been raised to a much higher level...