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...Paul Schmidt of the German Foreign Office was most cordial to the Stockholm newspapermen. He had enjoyed his usual hearty lunch and washed it down with perhaps a little too much good Swedish beer. He beckoned the newsmen close. Because of the "advanced stage" of Swedish-German relations and the "various rumors" that Germany was going to invade Sweden, Herr Schmidt was going to release a secret...
...coded jobs to be done, and soothing instructions on how to use it ("Don't take one look at this directory and then decide it is too complicated. . . . Anyone who can read a telephone book can read this"). Jim Stanley and Westinghouse Production Engineer S. W. ("Bill") Schmidt went to Indianapolis, where a pool of 15 local factories and shops had agreed to try the plan in a small way. Bill Schmidt was a cagey tester, did not show his detailed drawing until he was sure that the local factories had doped out the directory properly on their...
Williams entries are Bob Hendria, Jalian Hemphill, Bill Schmidt, Dave Peet, Allan Maulsby, Ban Rugg, George Nehrbas, Michael Griggs, and Ted Hunt...
...best forward line in major-league hockey is the Boston Bruins trio: Porky Dumart, Milt Schmidt, Bobby Bauer. Dubbed the Sauerkraut Line because they played together in Kitchener, Ont. (formerly Berlin), these sharpshooters have led the Bruins to three national championships in the past three years...
...gaze at the stars, most telescopes are now in effect cameras. Essential part is a concave spherical mirror which gathers starlight, focuses it on a photographic plate. But mirrors hitherto could focus light from but a small section of sky on the plate without fuzzing and distortion. In the Schmidt camera, however, the light rays pass through a concave-convex lens which aims them at the mirror at such angles that they are reflected upon the plate in sharp focus (see diagram). Photographs of distant, dim nebulae formerly required exposures of 50 hours-five hours a night for ten nights...