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...blame. . . . It was the system that was wrong, not Mr. Vidal. He was director on paper. Actually, he had no authority. Secretary of Commerce Roper had a setup in which three men had collateral authority. One was Mr. Vidal. The other two were Rex Martin and Carroll Cone, assistant directors...
Taking this to heart, Secretary Roper began a complete reorganization of the Bureau. Assistant Directors Cone and Martin lost their titles, were "sent to Siberia"-Martin to "study airline operation" in South America, Cone in Europe. Made assistant director was famed Major Rudolph William ("Shorty") Schroeder, one of the few Bureau men whom everybody admires. Made director with sole authority was Dr. Fred Dow Fagg Jr., 40, head of the Air Law Institute of Northwestern University. A Wartime flyer, Fred Fagg has been the Bureau's legal expert for four years, has been on the payroll since last summer...
Grinding the camera mounted in his airplane, bespectacled Explorer Andre Roosevelt, distant cousin of the U. S. President, zoomed the cone of Ecuador's extinct, hitherto unphotographed 20,700-ft. volcano Chimborazo...
...total shadow that extends out into space from the night side of Earth is a slightly tapering cone. The partial shadow, or penumbra, is a slightly spreading cone. Earth did not swing directly between moon and sun last week, and the moon slid through the penumbra. Appulses of this kind are astronomical curiosities because an average of 85 occurs in a century, whereas total and partial eclipses (in which the moon passes wholly or partly through the cone of total shadow) happen almost twice as frequently. About twelve appulses in a century are, like last week's, conspicuous...
...Soto Motor's President Byron C. Foy, Goodyear Tire & Rubber's President Paul W. Litchfeld, President Thomas N. McCarter of Public Service of New Jersey, Eastern Air Lines' General Manager Edward V. Rickenbacker, Director of Air Commerce Eugene L. Vidal, his assistant Col. J. Carroll Cone, Commander Charles E. Rosendahl, U. S. N., Pan American Airways' Juan Trippe, Admiral William H. Standley, No. 1 U. S. sailor, and those two inveterate tourists, young Nelson Rockefeller and his uncle, Board Chairman Winthrop Aldrich of Chase National Bank...