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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...board track and treacherous runways superimposed on a hockey rink, Crimson track men placed in six events, while Captain Bill Schmidt, gaining weight for the coming IC4A hurdle race, remained on the sidelines. The two first places went to Ed Young with his 35-pound weight throw of 48 ft. 71 3-4 in., and Howard Cook in the pole vault...
...buildings of Fansteel Metallurgical Corp. (contact points) 63 sit-downers who had previously repulsed an assault by 125 deputy sheriffs (TIME, March 1) were suddenly awakened at 5:15 a. m. by a bombardment of gas shells and grenades. Looking out they beheld a strange object, a 20-ft. wooden tower erected on the rear end of a truck. From slits in the tower four marksmen with repeating guns were pouring tear and nauseating gas shells into the second and third story windows of the seized plant. The sit-downers put on masks or covered their noses with wet rags...
Bonneville dam is really not one dam but two, situated catercorner to each other on opposite sides of Bradford Island which lies in midstream. It has a single-lift lock which will raise vessels 66 ft., higher than any other single lock in the world. Since it is the only dam in the U. S. (except abandoned 'Quoddy on the opposite side of the U. S.) situated on tidewater, it will enable ocean-going vessels, once channels have been deepened, to go 50 miles farther up the Columbia to The Dalles, and when eight or nine more dams...
Navigation, however, is not the chief problem involved in the administration of the new dam, nor are the fish problems. Two salmon ladders were built-cascades with steps one foot high and 16 ft. wide. Six salmon "elevators" or fish locks were also provided. These are chambers 20 by 30 ft. into which the salmon may swim; then a gate is closed and a grating, similar to an elevator, rises until the fish can swim out into the reservoir above the dam. These devices have not yet been tested, for salmon are still able to swim between the piers...
...Geologist Ernest N. Patty at Fairbanks declared this week that if the Black Rapids Glacier is moving as reported, it is traveling 220 ft. per day, a world record. Attempting to find the facts, Dean James H. Hance of the Territorial School of Mines flew to the glacier, due to winds could make no landing, no close aerial inspection of the glacier; found only that "it apparently has advanced a long distance...