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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year when Col. Lindbergh & wife flew their Lockheed Sirius monoplane Tingmissartoq (NR 211 No. 2) around the North and South Atlantic, the Lindbergh luck still held. Few weeks ago Col. Lindbergh acquired a third plane with the historic license number NR 211. It was a fast little Monocoupe especially built for him in St. Louis...
...Union was built in 1901 with funds donated by Major Henry Lee Higginson of Boston, who also gave Soldiers Field to the University and founded the Boston Symphony. It was Major Higginson's purpose to present to the University a building where "the freest and offullest intercourse between the students" would be promoted. The Freshman Union Committee of the Class of 1936 had this idea in mind when it took as its objective "the development of the social educational and cultural potentialities of the Union." While this ambitious program fell short of complete realization, the Union and its friendly atmosphere...
...Caribbean tramp was T. E. L. Morro Castle. The last word in mechanical modernity, her propulsion was of the most expensive sort: oil-burning boilers drove steam turbines to power the motors which turned her screws. She was built at Newport News, Va. in 1930 for $5,500.000. Against fire she was protected by one of the most elaborate systems ever installed afloat. In a special fire-control room was a switchboard, supposed to be manned day & night, with tubes which permitted the operator to pipe fire-extinguishing gas to any threatened part of the ship. An automatic alarm system...
...World-Picture of Modern Physics"?a picture he has displayed to some 300,000 readers in thin, lucid books. Sir James again led his hearers over the trail from the comfortable Victorian universe of jelly-like ethers, billiard-ball particles, gears and levers to the disconcerting, fantastic universe built by Rutherford, Planck. Bohr, Einstein. Heisenberg. Schrodinger, Dirac and others where the electron dances beyond space and time in a field of mathematical formulae...
Defender. Rainbow, unlike 4-year-old Yankee, was built last winter on purpose to defend the America's Cup this year against Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith's Endeavour. Owned by a syndicate which includes four Vanderbilts and 13 other sportsmen, she was called an "economy boat." Fitted with some sails from the 1930 defender. Enterprise, she cost $500,000. She is 126 ft. overall. Her 165-ft. mast is taller than the Brooklyn Bridge...