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...Orleans, first of the fourth class of five Treaty cruisers, differs little in length, beam or speed (32 1/2 knots) from her immediate predecessors. But she was built with 10% more electrical welding on her hull than the Indianapolis. Her butt straps (where plates overlap) were welded, thus saving precious weight in rivets. Weight saved was put into armor plate. The Indianapolis is armored only in vital spots. The New Orleans, paragon of her group, can stop an 8-in. shell anywhere. Her after deck will be placed further aft than those of previous Treaty cruisers. permitting the installation...
...elephantiatic feet do not appear to best advantage in 1923 dancing costumes. Irene Dunne's acting is, however, limited chiefly by the pedicular plot. Phillips Holmes's rank insipidity is outdone only by the performance of the young soldier. Who is not even listed in the program. The only beam of light is supplied by Lionel Atwill, who partially alleviates the mediocrity of "The Secret of Madame Blanche...
Authorities of Harvard College Observatory are cooperating with certain observatories in the Middle West to receive a beam of light from the star Arcturus, which, having been turned into electrical energy and highly magnified, will turn on the thousands of lights at the Century of Progress Exposition in Chicago on the night of Thursday, June 1. If the night is clear, the telescope at the Yerkes Observatory of the University of Chicago will act as transmitter, but if it is cloudy through the Middle West, Harvard will have the honor...
...different frequency. Presently his earphones and instrument dial picked up beacon signals again. These came from the runway beacon, which is simply a miniature of the big airway beacon. They told him he was headed straight for the length of the run-way.* Here the ingenious ''landing beam" began to work. Crossing the vertical needle on the beacon dial is a horizontal needle which swings up & down. If the plane is too high for its proper glide the needle swings up; if the plane is too low, down goes the needle. Pilot Kinney...
...beacon is to be left at Newark for airlines to test the needed new equipment (a 15-lb. receiver for the landing beam) and for airline pilots to get practice. It constitutes the magnum opus of Col. Clarence Marshall Young, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, whose routine resignation was on file last week, and his first aide, Col. Harry Harmon Blee. He was ready to demonstrate it last month when his test pilot, Marshall S. ("Maury") Boggs, who had made innumerable blind landings, crashed to death in broad daylight on a joyhop in California...