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Dates: during 1920-1929
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That at Astoria, L. I., two Chinamen-Wei Yoh Wu and Pin Ling Shen-were discovered by the press. They had been studying in the U. S. for several years and were about ready to go back to China to set on foot there a radio industry which might quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Italo-Hibernian | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

Some months ago (TIME, Aug. 30) the U. S. Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce published a survey that showed the U. S. leading the world in commercial aviation with some 5,500,000 miles flown, some 200,000 passengers in the past year. The figures were misleading because: 1) The geographical...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Germany Leads | 12/6/1926 | See Source »

Prince Henry of Prussia, brother of the onetime War Kaiser: "Vera Cruz, Mexico, welcomed me last week when I arrived there on what I called entirely a personal pleasure trip. Commentators recalled that in 1902 I toured the U. S., amid enormous crowds, from whose frenzy of cordiality I was...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 29, 1926 | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

According to a new discovery the temperature of ocean water, at the depth of five-eighths of a mile (1,000 metres), is always 39.2°. No matter what the surface temperature may be, the depths are at just a little above freezing (32°). Georges Claude would drop a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Ocean Power | 11/29/1926 | See Source »

The real Philippine problem is not political but economic. It ever the Filipinos are to be able to stand by themselves, they must develop their enormous potential wealth. Only about 12 per cent, of the area of the islands is under cultivation. Agricultural methods are very primitive. Little has been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CRY FOR PHILIPPINE INDEPENDENCE IS RAISED BY SCHEMING POLITICIANS, DEMONSTRATES ROOSEVELT | 11/22/1926 | See Source »

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