Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Follette-had contracted a social itch, had to do something about Depression I. He and Upton Sinclair sat down, talked for seven days. No stenographer took down their scintillating exchanges, but Downey says now that he disagreed with Sinclair's absolute faith in production-for-use, clung then to the profit system, blamed excess savings† rather than excess profits for drying up the economic well. He says he just sympathized with Author Sinclair's objectives. But he agreed to run for Lieutenant Governor on the EPIC ticket...
...accuracy, with which the Army was not primarily concerned last week. Pursuit plane defense is not so soundly organized. Bomber speeds of 250 m.p.h. so nearly equal (and in some types exceed) pursuit speeds that defending planes can no longer count on overtaking offensive squadrons. Hence, to be of use, pursuit must be in the air and ready to fight when bombers arrive at a given point. To be there, pursuit must have warning of the approach and course of enemy bombers. How to provide that warning was the object of last week's game...
...area worth bombing there are bound to be plenty of civilians. The Army proposed to use civilian eyes & ears. An Army reservation surrounded by civilians, and big enough for a variety of targets and ground defenses, was the Field Artillery's Fort Bragg, 100 miles inland from the North Carolina coast. Two months ago, Brig. General Fulton Quintus Caius Gardner went to work to sharpen civilian eyes, prick civilian ears in 39 counties and 20,758 square miles around Fort Bragg. In each of 307 eight-mile squares, the cooperating American Legion found farmers, storekeepers, housewives, amateur radiomen, foresters...
...past without a policy. However, the price of clothing, the progress of medical thermo and radio technique, and the existing inclination of mankind toward nakedness and idleness may require the establishment of a policy. Sunbathing, by its very nature, seems to eliminate clothing, at least temporarily....The use of trunks has been established as suitable for public swimming from ships of the Navy, for race-boat crews, and other athletic exercises aboard ship. There appears no reason why they may not be used for sunbathing, if desired...
...candlepower searchlights are the world's most powerful. Last week 26 of them, needling the sky above Fort Bragg, seldom found a bomber. Sometimes moonlight diffused the searchlight rays, or clouds blocked them. At dawn, most difficult time of all for ground gunners, searchlights were of no use whatever...