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...appropriation of the funds raised, the direction for their disbursement are but part of the plan. They are but means to an unconstitutional end." For nearly two years since the Supreme Court swept away that New Deal mainmast, the Administration's farm policy has been sailing under jury rig...
...Generally, when I have a news item for local publication and same is written up, there prevails an atmosphere foreign to the oil fields. A lot of phrases are always included that we never use around a rig, it sort of conveys the idea that perhaps the society editor was doing the reporting. After I read pp. 52-53 in TIME, I had the feeling that you knew more about producing oil and gas and acidizing than I. So convinced am I that I'll bet a dollar to a slug that you have seen more than one well...
Even if Ranger had not lost her mast last week-which means that she will have to use a makeshift rig until July-it was by no means a certainty that she would be this year's Cup defender. The Cup races are preceded by trial races in which the two other candidates for the honor of defending yachting's oldest, ugliest trophy are Gerard B. Lambert's Yankee, and Rainbow, which now belongs to Chandler Hovey. Like everything else about America's Cup racing, contender trials are grand scale. The Preliminary Series, which starts...
Pursuing his researches, Curator Coates enlisted the aid of New York University's Physicist Richard T. Cox, who helped him rig up testing apparatus which demonstrated that the eel's current courses along its body at the rate of 1,000 meters per second, approximately ten times the speed at which impulses travel along the nerves of man. Last January, Physicist Cox & party set sail for Brazil to delve further into the eel's mysteries. Last week's capture was the first news from them, but next fortnight they will start home with their findings. Christopher...
...took me in hand and for three years or so I loathed him. He had to break me in, and I knew nothing." He lived with his family, but often had the house to himself when they were away in the Hills; he had his own servant, his own rig, all that went with it. "Till I was in my 24th year, I no more dreamed of dressing myself than I did of shutting an inner door. . . . And-luxury of which I dream still-I was shaved before I was awake!" Even when he dined alone, he always dressed...