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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Prophet. If Elijah prophesied today, would it be News? The 14th Edition contains the words of a modern prophet. Senator Reed Smoot of Utah. Writing on the Mormons, of which he is one, he says: "Here [in Jackson County, Mo.] a holy city is yet to be built by the Church, a new Jerusalem, into which will be gathered those of all nations...
...architecture, Vienna's Josef Hofmann declares: "Skyscrapers are un- luckily marred by unharmonious architecture; on the other hand, a granary of the Washburn-Crosby Co., built in Minneapolis in 1920, is an absolute model" [of the "modern intention" of "letting a construction speak for itself...
...rescue Calvin Petty. Bleriot Cup. Louis Bleriot, early flyer, now head of Bleriot-Aeronautique at Suresnes, France, believes that land planes can attain 750 m.p.h. To excite experiment he offered a Bleriot Cup for fastest land planes, to correspond with the Schneider Maritime Cup. Difficulty of landing planes built for high speeds has retarded land plane design. M. Bleriot suggests that very fast planes keep speeding until they lose their momentum in air, then float to earth by huge parachutes. Treed. Over the Long Island outskirts of New York City, one Warren Engel, student flyer of the German-American Aero...
Rohrbach-Romar Wreck. Furious was Dr. Adolf K. Rohrbach, head of the Rohrbach Metall-Flugzeugbau, who was in Manhattan last week. One of the three huge trimotored Rohrbach-Romar seaplanes his company has built for Luft Hansa's trans-Atlantic service crashed at Travemuende, Germany, floated for 90 minutes, then sank. Thirteen passengers and crew were saved. The crash was due to test flying at low speed. The sinking was because hull portholes and bulkhead doors had not been closed as Dr. Rohrbach had ordered...
Vickers, Ltd. Disclosed last week was the fact that Vickers, Ltd., England's great shipbuilding and ordnance concern, owns outright The Airship Guarantee Co., Ltd,, which has built and last week was ready to test-fly the British dirigible R-100, ordered by the British government. (The British Air Ministry itself is building the Commonwealth's other dirigible, R-101.) When the Government accepts the R-100 it will immediately resell her to Airship Guarantee Co. at half the contract price on condition that she will be used on experimental long-distance passenger flights within the Empire...