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...Chesapeake Bay, were refitted and tuned up. Last week they raced for the big silver cup the Johnson brothers, Graham and Lowndes, of Easton, Md., won last year in New Orleans with Eel. The boats were Stars?the most popular class of racing sloops in the world, 22 ft. 7?? in. long, Marconi rigged. Sometimes they went windward and leeward off Gibson Island Clubhouse, to a buoy and back, and sometimes around a little triangular course in which they turned eight buoys although the course totaled only 10? mi. Stars are fast in light airs, but on the Chesapeake they...
...7???Annual international exhibition of modern paintings, by artists of 15 countries; at Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh. Prize award: $2,000 and guarantee of purchase by Pittsburgh's Albert Carl Lehman...
...serve New York City to volunteer lower rates. Last week acrimonious hearings were held before the Public Service Commission on the proposal of the New York Edison, Brooklyn Edison, United Electric Light & Power. Bronx Gas & Electric and New York & Queens Electric Light & Power to reduce the domestic rate from 7?? to 5¢ per kilowatt hour but to add a 60¢ charge to every monthly bill for "meter service." Such a rate cut would lop $5,390,000 off the power company's annual income. The meter charge, however, would increase the price of electricity to 57% of the consumers...
...eight months) measure of this session: the Labor Government's Coal Bill, previously passed by the House of Commons (TIME, March 10), setting up machinery for a general reorganization of Britain's most depressed industry. The bill guarantees to mine owners "the 90-hour fortnight." or an average 7??-hour day instead of the present 8-hour...
...June 7???At Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken...