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...seeing nerves grow in a live tadpole's tail. He clamped an embryonic frog under his microscope and indirectly illuminated the tail by a method called "dark field lighting." Thus over periods of weeks he was able to see that nerves branch out from the spinal cord and spread, like the roots and branches of a plant, into all parts of the body. His lighting method also enabled him to see that a cut nerve cannot be spliced and made to function again. New nerve material must grow out from the root, repair the damage...
...Postmaster General that a "responsible"' company had offered to undertake the daylight flying of all U. S. airmail for 30? per mile. (Present average compensation, about 60? per mile.) He did not name the bidder, but most of the operators guessed it was Motorman Errett Lobban Cord whose Century and Century Pacific Lines fly frequent schedules out of Chicago, and between San Francisco and Los Angeles. In view of the limitation of the offer to daylight flying, the transport men did not take it as a serious threat. At the same time they well knew that the Postmaster General...
Robert Henry ("Roy") Faulkner, 45, resigned the presidency of Auburn Automobile Co- He was succeeded by Errett Lobban Cord, 37, chairman of the company and president of it prior to February 1931 when Mr. Faulkner was elected. Company press releases made clear that Mr. Faulkner will no longer be connected with the Cord organization in any capacity, declared that Mr. Cord's return to active management of Auburn was his own idea. When Mr. Faulkner accepted the position, Auburn stock sold at $200. A strong pool, which had already been operating for some time, later lifted...
...Paris last week for the international motor show. But Andre Citroen, leading French motormaker, was in Manhattan. He attended a luncheon given for him by the directors of National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. Toastmaster was G. M.'s Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr.; guests included young Errett Lobban Cord of spectacular Auburn Automobile Co.; William Crapo Durant of Durant Motors, Inc.; Charles Michael...
...operation was, in fact, a master piece of economy. Specially designed Stinson tri-motors requiring only one pilot were bought from Errett Lobban Cord. Automobile gas was used for cruising, until aviation gas prices were forced down to 7½? per gal. Pilots were instructed to taxi on one motor instead of three. . . . Result : Cost per mi. was 37?, while other operators of tri-motors were having difficulty in getting under $1 per mi. At the end of the first year, September 1, Ludington had made 8,300 trips, about 28 per day; carried 66,000 passengers (average load...