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Saratoga Springs, N. Y. has a fine racetrack, several modern hotels, nightclubs, innumerable gambling places and speakeasies. Almost completely ignored by the thousands who descend upon Saratoga every summer for a brief fortnight of track betting are the 25 curative, State-owned mineral springs which brought the town its first fame, made Saratoga more fashionable than Newport in the '705, put hump-backed Saratoga trunks in every fashionable attic, Saratoga (thirst-making) chips on every smart table. Throughout the town and the i,ioo-acre state park around it, the springs of Saratoga bubble today as they did 50 years...
...President, electricians last week put finishing touches to a hook-up of microphones. In an auditorium at Cologne, Germany, was similar activity. Three thousand German-American members of Saengerbunds (singing societies) in 34 U. S. cities, summoned by President William Esser of the Greater Pacific Saengerbund, were about to descend upon Civic Auditorium to celebrate in six concerts and competitions the silver jubilee of the Pacific organization. Meantime 5,000 members of the Rhenish Singers' Union were converging on Cologne. The plan was to attempt something new in radio singing-an interchange of broad- casts, "round'' harmony...
...believe in the eventual concoction of some preferable substitute." Asked to be more specific Viscount D'Abernon said, with the air of a man who dreams dreams and sees visions: "A vast fortune would reward the discoverer of this preferable beverage, this true stimulant, and upon him would descend the gratitude of humanity...
Long before aviation was an accomplished fact, experimenters knew that the ideal airplane would rise vertically, hover at will, descend vertically, gently. For safety in commercial transport, for observation and bombardment by military aircraft, the value of such a ship is obvious. Millions have been spent in the U. S. and abroad, scores of models of helicopters* constructed without producing one craft which could reliably perform the essential maneuvers...
...tests but they believe it possible to fly the helicopter off a hangar floor at two feet of altitude, out through the door, then upward at 1,000 ft. per min., in any direction at 70 m. p. h.; also, to hover over one spot while the fuel lasts, descend with or without power no faster than the largest type parachute...