Word: smokestack
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...impressionable is the instrument that it records even the heatwaves of another ship, a smokestack, an airplane, many miles away; the heat of a man's face a mile away. It not only registers heat waves, but differences of temperature in itself. At night, or in a fog. the electric eye sweeps the horizon. When it encounters an iceberg it loses heat. This loss of heat is recorded, the position of the iceberg determined. Now Macneil is trying to make it record even the infra-red rays from the stars, to chart a ship's position at night...
...their back fences, he came out of the building following some men with a small oak box. He and Col. Henry Breckinridge, his companion and legal adviser through the past ten agonizing weeks, accompanied the box to Linden, N. J. In a square, grey building with a straight black smokestack cremation took place. The ashes were removed to Englewood where Mrs. Linbergh's widowed mother, Mrs. Dwight Whitney Morrow, lives...
...Nipponese newsgatherers, the most important man in Tokyo last week was not Prime Minister Yuko ("Shishi") Hamaguchi, making a remarkable recovery from an assassin's bullet fired fortnight ago (TIME, Nov. 24), but kinetic little Kiyoshi Tanabe, resolutely sitting on a factory smokestack...