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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Honorary Secretary C. I. Blackburne of Surrey's Haslemere Educational Museum, who managed the British end of the experiment, had no idea last week how soon, if at all, the storks would get back to Poland. "If they find a nice farm," he said, "with a frog pond they might decide to stay quite a while...
...time intervals the prospecting engineers can tell how far down the different layers are beneath various points on the surface. If by this means they can plot something that looks like an oil dome, they indicate the probability of oil. It is then up to the driller to find out if oil is definitely there...
...Newark Museum was chartered not for awesome Art alone but also for the exhibition of works of science, history and technology. Newark was an industrial city and a satellite of Manhattan; its upper class even then was beginning to find homes in the country and entertainment in the metropolis. Dana made his museum of interest to working people and the middle class. In 1912 he got up the first industrial arts exhibition ever held in the U. S.; 1,300 items of Austrian and German craftsmanship. He arranged an exhibition of jewelry (something Manhattan's Museum of Modern...
Unable to find enough sound private borrowers, unable to get more than a tiny return on Government securities, U. S. banks have in the last decade faced dwindling incomes. Service charges have been inaugurated or increased, bank interest rates have been cut or abolished. Few weeks ago New Jersey's banking department ordered banks to cut interest to a maximum of 1% on savings and time deposits, and local bankers were somewhat apprehensive of mass withdrawals. Quite different was the situation in Booneville, Iowa...
...long ago Pius XI's thoughtful successor appealed to George William Cardinal Mundelein, asked him to find good Catholic, bad Fascist Nobile a U. S. job. Few weeks later Cardinal Mundelein found one barely twelve miles southwest of his own Chicago Archdiocese. The job: head of the aeronautical engineering department of Lewis Holy Name School of Aeronautics near Lockport, Ill. Last week, lonely, greying, but still vigorous at 54, Umberto Nobile boarded the Conte di Savoia...