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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stars and Stripes Forever, catch him by the nose with slogans like "Join the Air Corps and earn while you learn." One record starts with a guitar-plunked Hawaiian melody that compellingly conjures up dreams of grass skirts and whispering palms, ends with sign-on-the-dotted-line insistence: "See the glamorous tropics, the Orient. . . . This is a wonderful opportunity for you to travel to these faraway interesting places with Uncle...
Adolf Hitler, in his speech at Danzig last week (see p. 20), uttered a dark hint that Germany possesses a secret and unique weapon. This threat stirred Professor Archibald M. Low, A.C.G.I., M.I.A.E., F.C.S., F.I.P.I., F.R.A., F.R.G.S., F.G.S., D.Sc., Ph.D., F. Inst. Arb. to retaliate. Professor Low is a British television pioneer and jack-of-all-science who worked for the British Government in the last war, invented a wireless control gear for torpedoes. After some scientific snickers at death rays and bacteriological bombs, Professor Low growled: "Whether Hitler has any horrors or not to produce at the moment...
Died. Floyd Gibbons, 52, staccarticulating, patch-eyed cinema and radio commentator, veteran correspondent of every war since Pancho Villa raided Columbus, N. M. (see p. 54); of a heart attack; on his farm at Saylorsburg...
...Cleveland's Warner & Swasey Co. recently polled 251 corporate users of machine tools to see what percent of tools on hand were obsolete. Findings: of 120,864 machine tools in place, only 9.6% were bought between 1936-38, the years of most revolutionary machine tool engineering advance; 67.3% were bought before 1928, are covered with technological cobwebs. Although machine tools make mass production possible, machine tool building is itself a long-drawn-out, artisan-like process, taking up to two years in specialized cases. To make this bottleneck worse, machine-tool builders are mostly small family concerns, with their...
...from the U. S. it bought $288,558.-ooo. But by the end of 1938 sales to the U. S. dropped to $126.820,000, purchases in the U. S. dropped to $239,620,000 and Japanese merchants could see in black & white what a boycott, a recession and short exchange had done to their business...