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Holy Cross is the second team among the Harvard opponents that has a new coach this year and John McEwan, the new Crusader mentor, will make his debut to the Holy Cross fans today when he trots out his team against St. Bona-venture. Yale's students just registered on Thursday but they will see a football game today already for the Eli authorities departed from their usual custom and made up a nine game schedule for the Blue, getting Maine as the first opponent...
...Naval Institute's Proceedings published last fortnight, Lieut. Thomas G. W. Settle wrote what many an airman already knew: "There is only one bona fide airship engine in the world today- [Germany's] Maybach." Last week in his syndicated newspaper colyum, Calvin Coolidge blunderingly deplored: "A naval office reports that the best engine is made abroad," missing the lighter-than-air distinction. Navy officials protested. Had not the Navy been largely responsible for the development of the air-cooled motor for planes...
...conservation was the first task to which Secretary Wilbur, at President Hoover's direction, set his hand on taking office. First, he revoked government drilling permits where the holders could not prove bona fide development (TIME, March 25). Next, he gave his sanction to the American Petroleum Institute's voluntary nationwide agreement to hold down oil production, only to have the Department of Justice rule that such a scheme was possibly an anti-trust violation (TIME, April 22). His third proposal was a series of state treaties under the Constitution to limit the outflow of oil. Nine...
...wonder. But certainly the Arabian roc, which carried off elephants for its nestlings as an eagle rapes a mouse, would shy from the monstrous thing U. S. engineers propose to build for $5,000,000. Who the financiers are, who the builders, was kept secret. That it was a bona fide project Harry Westcott of Westcott & Mapes, Inc., New Haven and Manhattan engineering firm, testified immediately after Governor John H. Trumbull of Connecticut had predicted such a ship at a dinner of New Haven's august Union League Club. Westcott & Mapes are now estimating their bids on the structural...
...distinction is worth making. Perhaps it is in Colon. By edict of Mayor G. Ramon de Paredes no young woman classified as an "entertainer" will be allowed to work in a Colon cabaret without a health certificate from Dr. Carlos Beiberach, Dr. Peralta Ortega, or Dr. Daniel R. Oduber. Bona fide "artists" will sing, dance or perform comic numbers uncertified...