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...writ ten two volumes on engineering aspects of the industry, has also written many an article for aeronautical publications. No stranger in the offices of the magazine he is to edit, Professor-Secretary-Editor Warner helped to prepare some of Aviation's first early issues in 1916, has since con tributed to it not a few learned treatises on various phases of aircraft manufacture and development...
...River flood control plans last week prompted President Hoover to hold up construction contracts pending further legal surveys by his Secretary of War and Attorney General. Con-troversy was renewed over flowage rights across river lands...
Still undiscouraged, however, he con tinued to plan, to calculate, and last week his project at least reached as far as the newspaper headlines, and his bridge ap peared in diagram if not in steel. For with Major General Edgar Jadwin, U. S. Army Chief of Engineers, was filed an application for permission to construct a suspension bridge from West 57th Street, Manhattan, to New Jersey. First announce ments of the application linked the Baltimore & Ohio R. R. with the North River Bridge Co., told how the B. & O. was determined to get into New York, discussed plans and specifications...
...music in the world. In 1927, Mrs. Bok increased the endowment to a total of $12,500,000, announced the appointment of Mr. Hofmann as director. Students at the Curtis Institute are fortunate. They pay no fees, are given pianos and instruments, free rent, free attendance at Philadelphia Orchestra con certs, Metropolitan Opera, and other im portant musical events, summer sojourns here or in Europe on the advice of the faculty, financial assistance in setting out on professional careers. Last week Mrs. Bok revealed a further extension of activity. She announced that the Institute had affiliated with the Phila delphia...
...goal of the Disarmament Con ference must be not limitation of arma ments at existing strength but their re duction...