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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...early Boeing flying boats and of the 299's splendid wing design, P. A. A. last autumn gave Boeing a contract for six gigantic Clippers, each to have two decks, carry 60 passengers, weigh 41 tons, speed at 200 m.p.h. These vast flying boats are now well along at Boeing's plant on the Duwamish Waterway, Seattle, the biggest seaplanes under construction in the U. S. Last week Boeing won an even juicier contract - to build the biggest land transports...
...train time between Chicago and Denver from 30 to 16 hours by introducing streamliners which are on the line so short a time that they only meet or pass about 20 other trains to the standard passenger train's 30. Result: a speed-up of all traffic along the line...
...bifurcated. One fork is moving into the other, grinding and crunching at a point five miles back. The intersection is the scene of a giant upheaval. . . . Three days ago we could walk to the face of the glacier. Now so much water is flowing we could not walk along the front." Fear that the glacier might dam the two-mile-wide Delta River, block the Richardson Highway and thus shut off Fairbanks from the outer world was not lively, although "the glacier is estimated to have moved three and one half miles since October...
...Absolute hokum!* That would be 150 feet of travel per day. The fastest moving glaciers in the world, in New Zealand and Greenland, only move 30 feet per day." Dismissing the report from Scientist Geist that heavy rains have possibly released soft material along the contact points and lubricated the glacier's groove, causing it to move. Glacialist Washburn explained that glaciers move because of pressure in their catchment basins at their sources. Alaska's glaciers are survivals of the ice age on the North American continent. Washburn believes that Alaska's glaciers are dwindling, will eventually...
...roots sprout down into the water. This bed of litter on the netting serves to support the stalks after the plants are grown. Each tank has an area of .01 acre. In one of these Dr. Gericke grew 1,224 lb. of tomatoes, in another 26 bushels of potatoes along with a small stand of corn and beans. Corn and other grains will grow in nutrient solution but not in significantly heavier stands than in soil. Tomatoes are Dr. Gericke's joy. When the tanks are sheltered in greenhouses and the water electrically warmed, his tomato plants bear...