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    By Henry Norris Russell

    The Business Man Takes Wings

    Speed, Safety, and Comfort Are the Key-Words that Open the Way to Modern Air Transportation for the Man to Whom 'Time is Money'

    By Charles R. Marshall

    New Light on Sasanian Culture

    Concrete Bridge Makes New Record

    By V. R. Covell

    Is Space Curved?

    By John P. Nikonow

    Looking at Stresses

    Complex Stresses in Engineering Structures Made Directly Visible by a New Method

    By Max Mark Frocht

    Big Springs

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    Why a Watch Keeps Time

    By A. A. Hopkins

    Gun Recoil Control

    Endurance Cut From the Hillside

    By Austin C. Lescarboura

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      Across the Editor's Desk, November 1932

    • Back of Frontispiece, November 1932

    • 'Fireworks' Between the Wires on a Power Line

    • Our Point of View, November 1932

    • Rat "Digests" Part of a Steel Ball Bearing

    • Mushroom Piling Patent Valid, Unfair Competition Suppressed and more

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