Word: scaled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...device for calculating foolproof GM is called a Ralston Stability & Trim Indicator (Kenyon Instrument Co.). It is essentially an aluminum tray, engraved with a longitudinal cross section of the ship drawn to scale, which balances on a pair of knife edges. Weights, gauged to actual weight of cargo to be carried, are then placed over each hold on the diagram. The tray is then balanced by means of a sliding block, and the balance point is translated by graph directly into GM. Another pair of knife edges at right angles to the first can then be used to gauge...
...seven days. Just then a wire came in from Richmond telling him that the Peary was well along its way to completion. Promptly he retailed the news to a gaping audience (carefully pointing out, however, that "this is not a publicity stunt") Few minutes later he put together a scale model of a Liberty ship in seven and a half minutes...
...shelled ships with ghastly scars; came those with heavy-weather damage-for the winds and storms still do their work, too; came others for conversion from sleek passenger liners to troop carriers; hundreds were fitted with degaussing apparatus, armed with guns. Some repair jobs were on such a large scale that the ships were practically rebuilt, many were completely re-engined. In one month 783 ships were under repair in 40 yards...
...finished, the U.S. will still remain far behind the Axis, which has 100 short-wave transmitters, even a poor second to Great Britain, which has some 50. But the setup will permit the U.S. to air its point of view to the rest of the world on a new scale...
...last Treasury issue. Then the system found it advisable to purchase over $400 millions (not shown on the chart, since the purchases were made only last month). Such buying by the Federal Reserve is close to outright greenback printing and, if it ever reaches a large or continued scale, would have much the same effect...