Word: tennesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What U. S. ships, would look like if war came is still a deep defense secret. But outspoken army camoufleurs turn thumbs down on dazzle. Their problem, they feel, is harder than outsmarting a periscope running ten to twelve feet above heaving wave-levels. They have to conceal parked tanks, trucks, grounded planes, big guns from modern aerial camera-eyes which can even pick out the curl of withered camouflage leaves from 3,000 feet...
Last week a prime example of Perth Control got by the British censors. A correspondent reported that he had spent ten shillings in taxi fares tracking down the famed pamphlets scattered by the Royal Air Force back of the German lines. He found them finally in the Division of Enemy Propaganda. When he asked for a copy, a pompous official said: "Impossible." Reason: "such intelligence might reach enemy hands...
...American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is a sort of communistic holding corporation which collects royalties for the classicists & tinkers of Tin Pan Alley and divides the proceeds among them according to their deserts and needs. Ten years ago the National Association of Broadcasters had a chance to buy ASCAP, lock, stock & Alley, for $20,000,000. NAB thought the price too stiff. But since then radio has paid ASCAP some $30,000,000 in license fees (a flat 5% of net receipts on all programs) and sustaining fees, arbitrarily set and ranging from...
This week, as his school began its fifth year and study of the Ten Commandments (approached through study of U. S. laws), Dr. Johnson had some 150 pupils and was busy answering questions from interested Catholic educators. Hoping that his school would be a model for U. S. Catholic schools. Dr. Johnson reminded them that St. Paul had exhorted the Ephesians to learn "by doing." that Pope Pius XI had urged the Catholic priesthood to be "healthily modern...
...monster economic unit. In a peak year it may gross $200,000,000, about as much as the automobile industry (cars and trucks) grosses in an average month. But it is a key unit -when other industries stagnate it stagnates, when others expand it is busy. For ten years the machine tool industry has lived mainly on orders from 1) the automobile industry; 2) foreign buyers (British, Japanese, German) who wanted to make goods at home instead of buying from the U. S.; 3) more recently the U. S. aircraft industry (see p. 63) and the Government. Last week...