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Tobe talked himself into the radio business on a shoestring after the last war, made $68,000 in 1927 on condensers. But that year an engineer showed him how a filter would eliminate static—and since then Tobe hasn't been interested in anything else. "Everybody was making condensers, but nobody was suppressing noises. That was a real service—and I figure you have no right to be in business and make a profit unless you offer a service...
...workers and cops blossomed out with gas masks. Papers printed rules on what to do in a gas attack. Barrage balloons bumbled in the skies from Vancouver to Mexico ("just like in England"), carefully spotted above war plants that had otherwise been carefully camouflaged. Radios often hummed with the static that meant stations were off the air. Steel helmets appeared. Planes went over at night, even through San Francisco fogs. Reporters learned that they were subject to the Articles of War (whatever they were), "in the event of military action." Rumors were fed by cancellation of Army weekend leaves...
...Chairman Davis did recognize an area wherein adjustments might be made. "I think that the word 'stabilize' has a dynamic rather than a static meaning,"† said he, "I don't think that the President meant by that that wages must be frozen. You could stabilize, or equalize, and still keep wages at the 'existing scale...
...dramatic scenes but in its didactic ones. At such moments, even in Refugee Bruckner's halting translation, Nathan the Wise has timeliness and force. The rest of the time it is cluttered with an old-fashioned plot that, in spite of being remarkably complicated, is even more remarkably static...
...expects to witness the birth of highly luminous and massive super-giant stars." Cosmic radio signals, which physicists have traced to the Milky Way, can also be explained by these dust currents, Whippie thinks. As the electrified particles whirl about, they are capable of generating the mighty eleven-meter "static" waves which sometimes interfere with earthly communication...