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...will be insulated where it touches floor or wall. Where irritating noises cannot be controlled by insulation, they will be neutralized by other noises (TIME, Dec. 15). Workmen will hear only enough sound to prevent them from being distracted by complete silence. They will be illuminated by constant artificial daylight containing a small percent of healthy ultraviolet, will breathe air which has been washed, heated, humidified. The ten million cubic feet of air will be changed every ten minutes. Contaminating gases and machine dirt are to be drawn out through hoods into an underground exhaust system...
Jailed, the young would-be assassin successfully defied police efforts to worm a reason out of him. As a matter of course Chief of Police Tsurikichi Maruyama of Tokyo resigned in shame. Had not the bullet been fired in broad daylight in the principal railway station of Tokyo as the Lion was about to board a train...
...plan goes through, Pan American will fly the 821 mi. between the U. S. and Bermuda, landing there by courtesy of Imperial Airways, which holds exclusive air rights on the islands. Imperial will fly the 3,699-mi. route between Bermuda, Azores and England in two daylight jumps, requiring an average cruising speed in excess of 130 m.p.h. At last report, Aeropostale had won from Portugal the exclusive rights at Horta, Azores (TIME, March 3). Observers last week predicted Aeropostale would gladly yield entry in return for a part in the transatlantic system...
Died. The Honorable John Anderson, 75, senior member of the Legislative Council of Newfoundland, co-formulator (with the late William Willett of London) of the first daylight saving plan (1907), father of Producer John Murray Anderson; in St. John's, Newfoundland...
Last year Belle Livingstone, no longer young but still a shrewd businesswoman, conducted a "salon of culture, wit and bonhommie" on Manhattan's Park Avenue - a lurid house of night where people sat on cushions on the floor and drank until daylight. Federal officers raided it, arrested the proprietress and three bartenders. Visitors to her Mecca of Merriment last week saw Miss Livingstone in a black dress dotted with symbolic sunflowers, saw also a large house, three of whose floors are occupied respectively by dancehall and stage, salon and bar, ping-pong and Tom Thumb golf rooms. Specially designed...