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...London hearing dome" with grilled receiver. At the Philadelphia Society for Better Hearing is an 1894 "hearing fan" to collect sound and vibrate against the teeth. This makes the user look silly but is efficient because sound waves brought in contact with any part of the head skeleton are conducted to the ear. That is one reason why people with dental fillings sometimes receive radio programs through their teeth and why some deaf people like to bite on their Sonotone earpieces now & then just to marvel at the racket...
Wrote U.P. Correspondent Richard Johnston for the combined press: "From beach to beach, Engebi was a scene of almost incredible destruction . . . surpassing what was dealt to Kwajalein. Not a single building was left standing by our bombardment. Even the skeleton structures had been hammered down into chaotic wreckage." Marine losses were "light...
...Louis Behncke, mild-looking, 210-lb. president of the Air Line Pilots' Association, last week was waging a stubborn war with the Civil Aeronautics Board in his favorite cause: pilots' safety. Since the airlines cannot expect to get any new planes this year, and are operating their skeleton fleet of 175 ships an average of 11.5 hours a day, the most obvious way to meet the enormous demand for air transportation is to boost the load each plane is licensed to carry. CAB has proposed to increase the Douglas DC-3 take-off weight limit...
...anatomist pronounced the skeleton that of a man over 30. But professor Krogman won the case for the father by proving conclusively that the skeleton was indeed that of an 18-year-old Seminole-Negro whose measurements fitted the missing youngster...
...Accused Brother. In Ohio a man was accused of murdering his brother, whose skeleton was dug up several years after his disappearance. Professor Krogman readily identified the skeleton as that of the missing man. Then the police asked him a harder question: Could he verify or refute the survivor's assertion that he had killed his brother in self-defense? The Professor carefully examined the bones and the paths of lead shot embedded in them, then reconstructed a picture of the killing which corresponded exactly with the survivor's story that he had crouched and shot his brother...