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...Woven Fabrics wholly or in chief part by weight of silk in the gum, not degummed nor bleached, not less than 20 inches in width, weighing not more than seven pounds for each 100 yards thereof, imported for the purpose of being degummed, dyed and finished in Canada: ["B. P."] /71%, ["Intermediate"] 30%, ("General...
...Long Island airport, suddenly ground looped, plowed into a crowd of holiday spectators. The whirling propellers killed a man and a wife. The plane bore the insignia of T. A. T.-Maddux Air Lines. Col. Lindbergh is technical adviser of T. A. T.-Maddux. Daily News screamed in full width headlines: LINDBERGH LINER KILLS...
...distinguishing Austin feature. A tall owner (6 ft. 3 in. or more) lying under the car to tinker with its vitals would extend from wheel to wheel; a large horse (over 1,130 Ib.) would have a weight advantage in a collision. The full car length is 10 ft., width 4 ft. 4 in. Slipping easily through traffic, turning on a 16-ft. radius, parked wherever ten feet of parking space are available, the Austin offers obvious advantages with respect to handling in heavy traffic. Its sponsors also maintain that it will go 40 mi. on a gallon of gasoline...
...windward will be blind. That of veteran policeman Mulrooney can hardly be expected to measure from afar the width of London's latest white trousers. So it is with a true feeling of sadness that each cadet sings official police words...
Similarly with the ether highways of the radio world: the wave-bands assigned to different stations must be spaced across the radio spectrum to avoid overlapping, garbling of messages. Reducing the "width" of the wave-bands would make "more room...