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Newsweek - The Magazine of News Significance, February 4, 1946: National Labor Unrest

1946104 pages. Features: Nice 2/3-page ad for the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York; Nice one-page two-color ad for International Harvester features their trucks, crawlers and farm tractors; Nice one-page ad for the new Kaiser and Frazer, America's First 1947 Motor Cars; Nice Mercury color car ad; Color-photo Caterpillar ad shows their heavy equipment building levee; Nice New York Central ad features illustration of lady passenger sleeping in large sleeper compartment; Reproduction of notice by David Silberman of the Cap-Tin Development Corp. "A Pleas from a Bewildered Small Business Man"; Photo of German POWs awaiting transit back to Germany; Atomic Bomb - Greatest Show on Earth; Classy color one-page ad for the Farnsworth Television & radio Corporation; Anglo-Soviet Interests collide at UNO; Photo of GI bride Mathilde Dermarinius being paid to watch scary movie; Four photos of Japanese being cleaned and deloused at Sasebo; MacArthur bans sale of Japanese girls into prostitution; Sanji Nozaka - leader of the Japanese Communist Party; Operation Crossroads - Navy sends 100 vessels to take blows of new weapon - atomic bomb; Nice red REO Truck ad; First batch of GI kids and brides sail from Britain to New York; Good Year color centerfold ad (loose but present) shows black laborers harvesting cotton; Hotel New Yorker ad features photo of Manuel Sanchez; GI's ask Ike for permission to marry German girls; Carl A. Spaatz; Canadian Earl Roberts Graham of Vegreville, Alberta, teaches people to kiss - article and photos; Strike fever spreads to Japan - weakly; Photo of Colonel Councill - coast-to-coast by P-80 in 253 minutes; Radar bounces off Moon to throw light on lunar riddle; Shift to letter language may teach Japs to Think; Baseball player Melvin Ott; Canadian M.P. Wilfred Kennedy McDonald is bone-crushing hockey player Bucko McDonald - article with photo; Article and photo on Bob Feller; Super one-page color-photo Boeing ad features the double-decked Strotocruiser; Difficult conditions for newborns in Italy; 25th Anniversary of Planned Parenthood; Photo and article on Johnny Desmond; The State is a Faithless Trustee; Color-photo Canadian Club ad inside back cover features Portugal; Charming color Chesterfield cigarette ad on back cover features Claudette Colbert; and more. Opening to top of coverfold. Average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book

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Newsweek - The Magazine of News Significance, April 8, 1946: Spring is Circus Time

194696 pages. Features: Nice one-page ad for the Lockheed Constellation features illustration of cabin scene in-flight; Attractive color Ford ad features Green car being loaded with luggage; photo of Robert Moses of Chicago wins bubble-blowing contest; Ku Klux Klan article with photo of burning cross and shrouded members; Russian Spy - Nicolai Gregorovich Redin; New Gropings with the Atom; Cordell Hull prepares memoirs; Nice color-photo Camel cigarette ad says "More Doctors Smoke Camels"; Very nice color one-page Coke ad features spring cleaning scene; Gromyko walks out of UNO; Ad for the Town House Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles; Very cute color Schlitz beer ad features bear in nighshirt raiding fridge at night; Guns over Trieste; The Austrian Larder; Arthur Axmann - article with photo; Famine news from Europe; Possible trouble in India - with photo of Gandhi; Trouble for Jewish sports team in Vienna; Shanghai - inflation and theft; Kendo photo from Japan - it has been outlawed by the Allies; Very nice color centerfold ad for the Pennsylvania Railroad; Nice one-page color-portrait of Mr. Mervyn Le Roy in Calvert Whiskey ad; Ontario liberalizes liquor laws; Five more persons accused of Russian spying in Canada; The Capitolio Diamond Mystery; Argentina fears Yankee 'Nazi' threat; Brief obituaries for Noah Beery Sr., Charles F. Hurley, Martin L. Davey, George Washington, Field Marshal Viscount Gort; Shirley Jane Vetter regains sight after her baby is born; Oil - the big three tangle in the middle east; Color Union Pacific ad features Utah's Zion and Bryce Canyon National Parks; Yellow Bole Pipe ad; Mr. Baruch on the Extension of OPA; Billiard article and photo on Willie Mosconi; Attractive one-page color ad for the Martin 2-0-2 aircraft; Gerald Kersh lifts veil on sordid side of London; Color-photo Studebaker ad shows Don Wyman and his father grinding metal while J.F. Rogers and son Peter perform heat-treating; and more. Above-average wear and soiling. A worthy vintage copy. Book

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[Sail to Steam] Samuel Read (1796-1863) of Chatham Dockyard and School of Naval Architecture [Admiral Henry John Chetwynd-TalboBiblio.com

Samuel Read of Chatham Dockyard and the School of Naval Architecture. Autograph Letter Signed 'S: Read' to Viscount Ingestrie attacking in detail Sir Charles Adam's conduct regarding the construction of the wooden steam paddle frigate HMS Gorgon

réf. 14455Chatham. 12 March 1839. A substantial letter 3pp. foolscap 8vo. 100 lines of text. Bifolium. In very good condition on aged paper with one closed along crease line neatly repaired with archival tape. Addressed on reverse of second leaf with Chatham postmark frank and black wax seal to 'Viscount Ingestrie M:P. 2 Wilton Crescent Belgrave Square London'. An interesting document in which a distinguished Victorian naval architect makes detailed criticisms of an innovation in his field. HMS Gorgon was designed by Sir William Symonds and launched in 1837. Her direct-acting engines in which the engine's cylinders are placed under the crankshaft built by Seaward and Company were the first to be fitted in any vessel. She was scrapped in 1864. Read begins his letter: 'My Lord Nothing could exceed my astonishment at the reply or rather <> which Sir C. Adam gave in citing the Gorgon as a specimen of the success of the personal conductor of our Naval Construction. In a lithographic account privately circulated but which the Hampshire Telegraph published; it was stated for what purposes this bad & wretched failure was designed. - She was to be able to carry 10 long 32 Pr. between decks - 4 32 Prs. and 2 10 inch Bomb Cannon on the weather deck - She was to take or be able to take a regiment on board with all its equipage for a colonial voyage across the Atlantic.' He proceeds to describe the 'falling off' from these specifications commenting that 'her constructor had so little knowledge of what he was about that he was deficient in displacement at least 400 tons corresponding to a too great immersion of 3 feet about . When she left Plymouth for her first trip to St. Sebastian she drew 17 ft 3 in aft instead of her intended draft 15.6 and the Ports abaft the Paddle Boxes were only from 3 ft 3 in to 3 ft 6 in above the water!! Of course the Ports were still caulked in.' At the end of this criticism he describes the Gorgon as 'a failure'. He proceeds to 'shew how experiments are got up' concluding 'is this the way that an experiment involving a cost of 40000£ should be conducted - The engines alone of the Gorgon cost 20000£.' He continues 'Would Sir C. Adam produce the lithographic circulars of which the Gorgon was intended for and would he venture to place in contrast with it the actual performance of the ship' He gives more specifications before stating: 'The Constructor of the Gorgon ought to be called upon to explain if he can the early discrepancy between his intentions & performances. He ends by apologising for 'this rough document'. Chatham. 12 March 1839. unknown

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