Word: frankfort
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Professor Franz Weidenreich, noted physical anthropologist at Heidelberg and Frankfort Universities, will lecture on "Does Peking Man prove human evolution?," at the Institute of Geographical Exploration today at 5:30 o'clock...
...apparent that it looked to TVA attorneys as if the leases had been signed less for their mineral than for their litigation value. They announced their intention to show that Agent Ford had sold his one-quarter interest in the $3,000,000,000 leases to a Frankfort, Ky. racing stable owner named George Collins...
Another way in which human physiology and psychology may be affected by sunspots is by means of ions. These are 'electrified particles in the air, created mostly by ultraviolet radiation. A German scientist at Frankfort carried out experiments which convinced him that an excess of positively charged ions in the air causes fatigue, dizziness and headache; that an excess of negatively charged ions induces exhilaration. Confirming results were obtained by Professor Constantin Yaglou of the Harvard School of Public Health...
...world's safest means of transport, since no dirigible passenger had ever been killed, the Hindenburg was insured with a score of German and English companies at a 5% premium for $3,750,000 plus $12,000 for each passenger. Last week when it floated up from Frankfort for the first of 18 round-trips there were 39 passengers aboard, none of headline importance. In command was 45-year-old Captain Max Pruss, who went to work for old Count von Zeppelin in 1911, had made 170 flights across the Atlantic. Last year he commanded the Hindenburg...
...accident, six by causes unknown, 21 were dismantled, 46 were wrecked by the War, eleven were surrendered to the Allies, seven were sabotaged to prevent surrender, two are left-the decommissioned Los Angeles at Lakehurst and the sturdy old Graf, which arrived the day after the tragedy in Frankfort from Rio de Janeiro, carrying 23 passengers. She was promptly grounded by the Reich. Having read full reports from Lakehurst, Dr. Eckener announced: "There must be no more flying with hydrogen. We must make an about face. We must use helium...