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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mass analysis was developed in Norway and was taken to the U. S. by Dr. Irving Parkhurst Krick of California Institute of Technology, who started using it for the benefit of air lines in 1932. The late Harris M. Hanshue, then president of Western Air Express, found the Krick forecasts 96.1% accurate, estimated that they saved him $35,000 in one year. Currently Dr. Krick's best customers are cinema producers, who some time ago discovered that good weather for outdoor "shooting" is one thing that even Hollywood cannot buy. Dr. Krick's uncanny ability to predict...
...which now roar in and out of the two cities. For readers of 1987, Manager Lindner had another prophetic sketch prepared. This showed the great Golden Gate Bridge fallen in neglected ruins, San Francisco's skyscrapers abandoned, the city housed in vast, uniform, flat-topped buildings; an "Orient Express" plane arriving at an airport on top of a slender, mile-high column while a "lunar local" rocket-ship takes off below; a teacher & class flying around under their own power on "magnetic refractor shoes." In the accompanying text a German professor is credited with having removed, by a magical...
...than five pounds to the foot and 15 pounds lighter than the old Varsity shell. It is rigged in the manner of Washington shells, according to the specifications of Head Coach Tom Bolles., who is obviously pleased with the result. En route from Seattle the boat occupied a whole express car, being slung from the ceiling to prevent jarring...
...Park Corner and throw in with one of these seats a minimum rate inside cabin on the Kimgsholm for $395 roundtrip. This definitely cheap inclusive rate covers dinner, breakfast and bus transport between the ship in the Thames and a point within five rninutes walk of the stand. American Express offer similar rates with emphasis on further travel on the cheaper Continent after the Coronation...
...Monthly, Mr. Hay says modestly, is content for the present to express its purpose negatively. It will not be the instrument of a group, a tendency, or a concocted tradition. Its qualities will be determined by the Intelligence and talents of the undergraduates. The present issue reflects this policy. The writers give the impression of moving only so far as the ground seems firm under foot. And though there are few "flashes of light and anger," of passion and oracularity, there is also a healthy freedom from captiousness snobbery and the gloomy shade of Eugene Jolas...