Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...would not say what he paid for the egg but a fair guess is $10,000. It is about a foot long, about ten inches across, ivory-colored, pockmarked by sand and insects. Much bigger than the dinosaur eggs found in the Gobi by Explorer Roy Chapman Andrews, its shell is ⅛ in. thick, weighs 6 lb., must have weighed 24 lb. when the mother bird laid it. Aepyornis titan did not become extinct until after the Glacial Ages, which is almost yesterday as geological time goes. Little is known of its habits, except that it ate vegetable matter, probably...
...witness the unique spectacle of an otherwise bare hillside bisected by a glittering, steep ribbon of snow, with a run-off field, snow-blanketed at its base. The process will be the same employed at the Boston and New York indoor winter sport shows, only on a much bigger scale. The artificial ice-manufacture and its sprinkling over the big 60-meter jump, if it becomes necessary, will be setting a new mark in sporting annuals and the sight in itself will draw a host of spectators...
...five-inch lamp, no bigger than a clinical thermometer, gives a maximum of 80,000 candlepower. A lamp of this length requires 8,000 volts (1,600 volts for each inch) but the current is only 1.5 amperes. Physicist Bol believes his little tubes will be useful for lighting airports, cinema projection, treatment of skin diseases. He has leased manufacturing rights to General Electric Co. and Philips Glow Lamp Co. of Holland, declared last week that two motion picture companies had approached him with offers. Cost figures were concealed last week but a Bol intimate said they were "ridiculously...
...Aeronca, at $1,355 a Porterfield Zephyr. At $2,468 was the Rearwin Sportster, which flew in from Kansas City on $10.68 in fuel. Speediest looking of the little planes was the Ryan STA, only all-metal job as cheap as $4,885. In a higher bracket were the bigger ships like Bellanca ($23,000), Beechcraft C17R ($14,500), Stinson Reliant ($7,985), Waco ($5,395), Luscombe ($5,500), Monocoupe ($3,825), Argonaut ($5.450), Fairchild 24 ($5,590), stainless steel Fleetwing ($18,500), each with room for several passengers in luxurious automobile-like cabins. Great majority were cabin monoplanes. Gone...
...multiplication of such corporations as the Van Sweringen holding companies, for which Guaranty Co. underwrote and the Stock Exchange approved an ill-fated $30,000,000 bond issue that year (TIME, Jan. 25). Last week Senator Wheeler (delightedly confronted Richard Whitney, Depression president of the Stock Exchange, with a bigger and better memorandum by Mr. Hoxsey, written in 1926, and with Mr. Hoxsey himself...