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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best skit in Washington's famed Gridiron Club show this winter was laid on cloud-bedecked Mt. Olympus (a setting borrowed from Lunt & Fontanne's successful play, Amphitryon 38). In it Mercury reported to Jupiter on the affairs of the Earth below, and Jupiter told Mercury how he ran Olympus. Excerpt...
Some hundreds or thousands of years before Christopher Columbus, a huge cluster of metallic meteorites-or a small comet-400 or 500 ft. in diameter and weighing millions of tons, entered the Earth's atmosphere over northeastern Canada, plunged southward in a flaming, thundering arc over the Dakotas and Colorado, no doubt scaring thousands of savages almost out of their wits. Coming to Earth in northern Arizona, the monstrous cluster plunged into the desert, converted underground water into steam, hurled huge gobs of earth and stone skyward to fall back into the crater. The main body of the meteorite...
...this bill is that from the standpoint of intelligible legislation it is the most completely conglomerate mess of involved language which was ever perpetrated upon a free people," rumbled Michigan's Arthur Vandenberg in the Senate last week. "Is it conceivable . . . that there could be any emergency on earth that would justify it?" rasped North Carolina's Josiah Bailey. "Perhaps it will not work," admitted Nebraska's old George Norris, "but what will work...
...camera of a type previously used by Dr. B. F. J. Schonland, ingenious lightning observer of the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. Some years ago Dr. Schonland found that in a typical lightning flash a "leader stroke" starts from a negatively charged cloud toward the positively charged earth. The leader comes down by steps, dying out after each step, diving about 200 ft. farther with the next. Often 30 or 40 steps may be necessary before the ground is reached, but the whole descent occurs in 1/100 sec. or less. When the stepped leader reaches the ground...
...selling statistics. Last week the National Retail Dry Goods Association had a convention in the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan. About 5,000 merchants listened without excitement while speakers told them that Federal taxation was oppressive, that labor unions were monopolistic, that dry goods retailers were the salt of the earth. Then Mr. Merriam gave a speech about installment selling...