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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suburb last week Clement Joseph ("Clem") Sohn stepped from an airplane, spread his arms and legs, soared and glided down on the batlike wings which last month made him front-page news (TIME, March 11). At 1,000 ft. he folded his wings, opened his parachute, floated safely to earth...
Although the great hornless rhinoceros which paleontologists call Baluchitherium was undoubtedly the largest mammal that ever walked the Earth, not a trace of him was found until 1911. No complete skeleton of this 25,000,000-year-old monster exists anywhere, and the only skull, found in the Gobi by Dr. Walter Granger, is in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. Dissatisfied with tentative representations of Baluchitherium as he looked in life, Dr. Granger decided that close study of the Museum's 200 miscellaneous bones would permit a more accurate drawing. Last week the Museum announced completion...
...traveling but liked it best when he was roving the Crane empire. On inspection trips through the U. S. and Canada alone his private railroad car often rolled up 80,000 miles per year. Shy, reserved, profoundly democratic, he expanded the Crane organization into almost every section of the earth where bathtubs are used, pushed Crane's assets above $100,000,000. During his life he gave outright to his older employes more than $12,500,000 of his personal stock, and when he died in 1931 left them another...
...those on the blue earth last week could see of Pilot Collins was a whizzing speck, shooting headlong down out of the sky. The speck got bigger. Suddenly a wing fluttered loose from his plane and drifted away. Then the whole ship seemed to break up in midair. The motor tore out, plunged into the middle of a street. The wing landed in a field half a mile away. Spinning wildly, the fuselage fell among the tombstones of Pinelawn Cemetery...
...temperature which can be sustained and measured, the positive pole of a carbon arc is the hottest place on Earth. Three Cleveland electrochemists who spend their time studying carbon have established this record temperature at close...