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Last week at Newark Airport the Department of Commerce gave to air transport a device on which it had been at work for five years, to overcome the blind landing hazard. It consists of 1) a runway localizing beacon and 2) a radio beam along which the plane may glide to a three-point landing...
Federal Reserve. Although to many last week the U. S. banking structure seemed ready to fall on their heads, there was one big beam that was still as sound as the day it was hewn-the Federal Reserve System. It stood last week as it has throughout the Depression, in an impregnable position. It pumped out $215,000,000 in credit, it saw the money in circulation rise to the highest point in a decade as fear of runs made bankers fill their tills with cash and fear of failure sent depositors scurrying to the tills. It saw its gold...
...Michigan's Ralph L. Belknap is in charge, with four able men helping. Feb. 3, according to a message relayed last week by wireless, the five proceeded out of their snug shack, faced due south, and for the first time in two months watched a squint of sun beam briefly over the mountains...
Most magnificent was the square (225 x 225 ft.) "Hall of 100 Columns." Artaxerxes completed this, Dr. Herzfeld discovered six months ago. Atop each fluted column was a pair of carved bulls athwart which lay a huge cedar ceiling beam. Windows and niches broke up the long walls; painted carvings enlivened them. Here came satraps, courtiers and tributaries for homage to the curled & perfumed King of Kings. Here probably lived Esther, Queen of Xerxes whom the Old Testament calls Ahasuerus. Here came all-conquering Alexander the Great who, at the urging of one of his women, it is told...
...favor of mundane advantages which she considers more important. What gave Author Barry's idea its novelty when it was successfully produced as a play last year was the fact that the roles usually assigned to wife and mistress in such a triangle were reversed. Under the sharp beam of a projection machine, it becomes apparent that this novelty was the principal virtue of The Animal Kingdom. As Tom Collier's designing wife, Myrna Loy is attractive enough to make you believe that Collier would desert a mistress for her; attractive enough to make you believe that...