Word: uniforms
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago the Society of Automotive Engineers and the American Petroleum Institute joined forces and appointed this committee to find a uniform scale by which the knock-reducing quality of fuels could be expressed. At that time they explained that knocking is not directly caused by valves or carbon but by irregular and too rapid explosion of gasoline injected into cylinders overheated by any cause?insulating carbon deposits, lime coatings in the cooling system, faulty oiling...
...resignations. Trained men in commercial aviation make for a potent national military reserve. Also, the Army & Navy know that there will never be a rush from military to civilian life if the U. S. air industry pursues its present policy. After enjoying the social prestige of the service uniform, most flyers will hesitate before changing to a status which commercial operators hope to make comparable-in respectability, responsibility and pay-to that of the bus chauffeur and locomotive engineer...
...Blah, Blah, Blah!" Already Berliners with radio sets can hear with perfect distinctness Communist propaganda broadcast in German from Moscow three times a week. The opening words of the Red announcer are: "Police and soldiers of Germany, remember you are proletarians in uniform! Remember that in Germany, too, the right way is the revolutionary way! Long live the German Soviet Republic...
European air transport lines cross national frontiers almost as frequently as U. S. planes traverse State boundaries. But there is no uniformity of rules or ground facilities, except between countries which have entered into special treaties. Although highly adaptable to international transit, aviation is proceeding along markedly nationalistic lines. For this reason the League of Nations transit organization at Geneva has asked eminent airmen for helpful suggestions. The message of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh, published last week: "A uniform [world] system of markings and signals should be decided upon, and a comprehensive meteorological and radio reporting system established. Aviation must...
...France, wine-tasters sip wines, let their tongues tell them whether the fluid is bound for a plebian carafe or a gentleman's cellar. Were it not for whiskey-tasters England's famed blenders would be unable to produce a uniformly good product year in, year out. On equally skilled men depends the fact that all vermilion dyes are uniform, that azure satins are azure. But foibles of the color-matcher's eyes, which tire quickly, make them expensive to their employers...