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...this week's [July 25] swell TIME write-up of the Hughes flight was a discussion of the rubber life raft with bottled carbon dioxide for quick inflation. Carbon dioxide happens to be a bad actor as soon as it smells rubber. . . . Its rate of diffusion through rubber is about 15 times that of air. A rubber life raft inflated with carbon dioxide in mid-ocean might, for this reason, be a little embarrassing, perhaps even rather trying after a certain lapse of time...
...installed a six-foot parabolic reflector to project any unconscious whispering toward the "receiver." The receiver had a similar reflector to focus any such sounds on his ears. When the sender was instructed to imagine that he was shouting the symbol, there were enough sound cues to swell the receiver's average of correct guesses far above the chance expectation. But when the sender was not instructed to indulge in "mental shouting," the percentage of correct guesses dropped to the chance level. Dr. Kennedy felt that these results proved his point with crushing finality...
...possible in your short stay. . . . Have you read the editorials in the Baltimore Sun, criticizing our President Roosevelt? . . . Have you observed that even the small grocery stores, in all sections of Baltimore, have plenty of butter and eggs to sell? . . . Don't you think it's swell to be free all summer, to have a good time and not be forced to goosestep around with a gun instead of a baseball bat? . . . Did you observe, if you saw the Orioles play, that a fellow named Joe Greenberg was right in there with the- rest of the boys...
...city, no specific job in mind, he turned right on 42nd Street, presently reached Sixth Avenue. There he saw a handsome store with a large display of Melachrino cigarets in the window. He asked the clerk inside about Melachrino. "Sure," said the clerk, "that's a swell company. It's run by Mac McKitterick and Rube Ellis.'' A. E. Lyon went to see McKitterick, asked for a job as a Melachrino salesman...
REGARDING P-96'S PERPETUAL SUBSCRIPTION {TIME, MAY 9, 16}, UNLESS PROPOSITION IS A JOKE, WILL GLADLY TRADE SATURDAY EVENING POST, FORTUNE AND READER'S DIGEST WITH A SWELL HUNTING DOG OR A GOOD-LOOKING WIFE TO BOOT, OTHERWISE WILL PAY ORIGINAL PRICE...