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...thrown together. Replete with comforts for 52 passengers, the LZ-129 will next year go into regular service on the South American run. Unlike the Graf Zeppelin she will be inflated with non-inflammable helium. But because helium is much more expensive than hydrogen, Dr. Eckener plans to install fireproof hydrogen ballonets inside the helium cells for use in regulating altitude. Like the Akron and the Macon, the LZ-129 (which Dr. Eckener wants to name Hindenburg) is designed and equipped throughout so that hydrogen can be used in a pinch, should helium, a U. S. monopoly, become unobtainable...
This week President Lowell accepted the dedication keys of an astrophotographic building, and turned the establishment over to Professor Harlow Shapley, director of the Astronomical Observatory. The building has fireproof stacks to hold 800,000 photographic plates of the heavens. Harvard already has 400,000 such plates. They are in famed and patient Dr. Annie Jump Cannon's care. Harvard astronomers began taking occasional pictures in 1850. Every clear night for the past 40 years they have been adding to the collection until now it is a permanent record of things understood or obscure beyond the night...
...protect its famous photographic collection," he said, "the plates will be taken out of their wooden stacks in a crowded non-fireproof building and stored in vaults safe from fire and moisture. The total number of usable photographs in the Observatory is approximately 350,000. The collection is now growing at the rate of 5000 plates a year. The Harvard collection is five or ten times the size of the next largest; but size is not its only distinction. The maintenance since 1890 of a station in the southern hemisphere has made the Harvard collection unique in that it comprehensively...
...Brown, longtime editor of Valentine's Manual, with the enthusiastic support of Banker James Speyer, Supreme Court Justice Phoenix Ingraham. For several years it occupied the old wooden Gracie Mansion on the East River, between 88th & 89th Streets, onetime country place of Clipper Ship Owner Archibald Gracie. A modern fireproof building was imperative. The city donated land, a building fund was raised, an architectural competition was held. The competition was won by dapper little Joseph Henry Freedlander, an architect high in Tammany favor, who designed the bronze Fifth Avenue traffic towers removed two and a half years ago as traffic...
...first floor there will be space provided for a storage and preparation room for the material of the large lecture room. A new fireproof stairway will also be provided at this end of the building...