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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Osoaviakhim is the name of a vast Russian organization the job of which is to build up the Soviet's military reserves by training civilians and youths of pre-military age in such things as parachuting, aviation and chemical defense. "Enemies of the People" have wormed their way even, into this holy of holies. Declared Na Strazhe, Osoaviakhim's official organ, "Every enemy must be revealed...
When Carver got to Tuskegee he had to poke around in scrap heaps for spare parts with which to build apparatus. With his junkpile equipment he experimented with peanuts, and as the list of surprising products he extracted from them grew longer, his fame traveled farther. Thomas Alva Edison offered him a job, but Carver stayed at Tuskegee. From peanuts he made nearly 300 substances; from sweet potatoes 118, including starch, vinegar, shoe-blacking, library paste, candy. He showed proficiency in cooking and artistic needlework. He made dyes from clay, dandelions, onions, beans, tomato vines, trees. One of his dyes...
...into the mushy surface of the ice floe. The fourth plane, which came down 40 miles away fortnight ago, waited till the weather lifted, then joined the main party, bringing to 35 the number of Russians encamped serenely at the top of the world to investigate scientific phenomena and build a base for a transarctic airline (TIME, May 31). Weather reports were reaching Moscow four times daily and at week's end hirsute Dr. Otto Tulyevitch Schmidt's staff had noted three facts of scientific interest: their radios worked most peculiarly, playing magnetic leapfrog over numerous electrical blind...
...good evening, he must pay a large premium above the regular price of the ticket. Box-office employes are notoriously discourteous, seats are old-fashioned and uncomfortable, scarcely a dozen of Manhattan's 76 theatres are air conditioned. Few managers are farsighted enough to try to build audience good will which would ultimately benefit everyone in the business. An exception is Lawrence Langner, one of the directors of the Theatre Guild. At the Astor he proposed that money be raised to start a promotion bureau to bring the Theatre and its customers closer together and, incidentally, to fight legislation...
When Joe Strauss offered his plans to bridge the Golden Gate's mile of surging tidal currents, everybody laughed. After the California Legislature authorized a Bridge District with power to build the bridge, it took six years of legal battle before the U. S. Supreme Court permitted it to proceed. The War Department debated a year before giving its permission, fearing that destruction of the bridge during a war would cork the harbor. Shipping interests fought it bitterly and the Government finally imposed a high-tide clearance 100 ft. higher than Brooklyn Bridge's. The PWA refused...