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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Always at bottom the soldier, Shah Riza spent the closing hours of his visit to Istanbul last week with Turkish generals bent over staff maps showing the new strategic motor roads and railways of Turkey and Persia. Ten years ago there was no railway striking east from Ankara toward Persia and nothing but a caravan trail running west from Teheran toward Turkey. There is no through railway yet but the motor road over which His Majesty zipped from Teheran through Tabriz and Erzerum to the Turkish coast at Trebizond is now in prime shape to become an artery of heavy...
...left Berlin two weeks ago, supposedly to doze out the summer at his big manor house in East Prussia, but suddenly last week German statesmen were startled to feel again the enormous weight in high politics of HINDENBURG...
Same day Chancellor Hitler rushed nervously off to East Prussia to make what peace he could with President von Hindenburg. That the President was not entirely disinterested his personal enemies claimed. There is a certain Dr. Günther Gereke who raised a huge campaign fund for Paul von Hindenburg's last reelection (TIME. April 18, 1932) and afterwards kept a large remainder of the fund under circumstances which suggested that it was being held in reserve as a personal political war chest for the President. To arrest and convict Dr. Gereke of malfeasance was one of the Nazis...
...blueprint, he built "by ear," learned by experience. Last year in one of his own ships he set the world's land-plane speed record (304.98 m.p.h.). His wife set the woman's land-plane record in the same ship. Col. Roscoe Turner's West-East transcontinental record 10 hr. 4 min. 55 sec.) and East-West record (12 hr. 33 min.) were both made in a Wedell ship...
Many a Pacific Coast professor who cannot afford to travel East for the big shows of Science last week got a view of such proceedings when the American Association for the Advancement of Science met at Berkeley, Calif, for a light summer session. Important attractions for Easterners were Dean Gilbert Newton Lewis' supply of heavy water at the University of California, and Professor Ernest O. Lawrence's magnetic generator of 5,000,000 volts. Notable among the general palaver of A. A. A. S. members were the following points made by the following...