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...successful. Critics of the new farm relief legislation predict that the Federal Farm Board will loan large sums to such corporations which in turn will buy in surplus commodities on a falling price market, be forced to sell them at a still lower price and, in the end, completely exhaust the board's capital...
Last week he announced another experiment-to try to time the speed of light still more accurately. He will build a pipeline one mile long and three feet in diameter. From it he will exhaust the air, leaving a vacuum. In a vacuum it will not be necessary to make corrections for temperature, pressure and moisture, as it was in the open air. Once more he will set up his mirrors, allow a beam of light to make five round trips through the pipe and time it for the ten-mile trip...
Watchers on the ground had lost sight of the little plane in the sky. But when the supercharger was turned on, smoke began to pour from the exhaust. Apollo's place in the sky was once more visible...
...Around the corner of 13th and Irving streets, N. W. swing heavy blue double-decked buses. There they stop, to start up again with a splattering roar of the exhaust. At that corner stands the Friends Meeting House where President and Mrs. Hoover worship. So loud were the bus noises that the Public Utilities Commission of the District of Columbia ordered the vehicles to take another route on Sunday mornings. Last Sunday the President worshipped in peace...
...Boulogne and the peach trees in Georgia, to the sunrises on Mt. Washington and the sunsets in the Golden Gate, and perhaps as well for if space can be conquered, why should time be a barrier? to the midnight sun at the North Cape. These by no means exhaust his opportunities; he has a quantity of other excursions to make before getting back to the familiar Massachusetts dews and damps. They should be all finished in good order by Monday, however, and the Vagabond can then promise that it won't happen again, for another year anyway. And while...