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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Rest of the way is over the trackless sands. Lightness was therefore a prime consideration. E. G. Budd Co. followed the formula that has made it the most successful U. S. builder of lightweight streamline trains. Some 57 ft. long, its desert car consists of a shiny, Diesel-powered tractor to which is coupled a 36-ft. trailer shaped much like the observation car on Budd streamline trains. Operated by Nairn Transport Co., the new busses, of which there are two, make the journey in 15 hours instead of the 24 it took the heavy, conventional busses Nairn has been...
...Ozark Hills near Rogers, Ark. is the base of an uncompleted pyramid which was intended to be a hermetically sealed, steel & concrete structure 130 ft. high, and to house documents and relics of the present U. S. civilization for the benefit of future archeologists. Builder was tottering, half-blind William Hope ("Coin") Harvey, who left his pyramid unfinished when he died last spring at the age of 85. Believing that the worms of decay were making fast work within the body of society, "Coin" Harvey planned to place at his pyramid's summit the steel-lettered legend: Go below...
...livestock because it makes them too fat. But farmers can feed them the meal left over after the oil has been extracted. Silage made from soy plants mixed with cornstalks produces more milk, more meat than straight corn silage. For overworked soil, nitrogenous soy plants are a good builder-up. A green crop of them plowed under will often increase the yield of wheat 6 bu. per acre...
Died. Edwin Ross Thomas, 85, pioneer automobile builder whose "Thomas Flyer'' won the 1908 New York-Paris race (via Siberia) in 170 days; in Buffalo...
Died. Frederick Fillmore French, 52, Manhattan builder (Tudor City, Knickerbocker Village); of angina pectoris; in Pawling, N. Y. An admirer of the late Thomas Edison, he worked late, slept little, never drank or attended the theatre, assigned his staff daily readings in Elbert Hubbard...