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...brief but exciting term as Deputy Commissioner of Narcotics in the Treasury Department. He found a boisterous, roughhousing staff that would have driven a more timid man to despair, licked it into a fanatically loyal news machine by daily and hourly repetition of his favorite slogan: "Lots of sock...
...stations) carried 4,837 miles to Hermosa Beach, Calif. During earlier tests from Wichita, Kans., it was heard in Honolulu, 4,226 miles away. Altering the length of the harmonically operated antenna gave his radio beam virtually any direction he chose. When the antenna trailed its rubber wind sock at full length, the signal was concentrated straight on the spot to which the plane's nose pointed, straight back in the opposite direction. This gave maximum performance down the two most desirable paths, forward to the next destination, back to the last point of departure. With the beam...
...between the gross weights of 43,500 lb. and 68,500 lb., other than DC-4. These lines advanced Douglas comparatively little for the experiment. Nine-tenths of the expenses, which DC-4 will have to pay back by selling itself,* have come out of the well-filled Douglas sock. None of these lines is bound by contract to buy a single DC-4, and presumably will not, unless the plane comes up to all its specifications. And 18 months in the aviation business is a long ime. Early in 1937 T. W. A. and Pan American ordered nine Boeing...
This means that any French War widow who has kept her money stowed away in banknotes in the family sock since she lost her husband in Joffre's heroic defense of the Marne has now been thoroughly, almost completely, swindled-and yet France has never resorted to "uncontrolled inflation" of the kind Germany went through after...
Structurally or functionally speaking, TIME left itself wide open for a sock on its figurative cranium when describing the physical and mental examination of teachers (March 7) as extending "from toe to cerebellum...