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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Soviet Government to make further study of the Siberian fall of 1908, heaviest fall of meteorites in history, which scorched trees for miles around, annihilated 1,500 reindeer, dammed the Ognia River. The French Government was also urged to push thorough examination of the Chinguetti, an iron meteorite 325 ft. long and weighing possibly a million tons, which a French expedition stumbled on in 1921 in the wilds of Western Africa...
...starving. They rigged up a tent, pitched it each night in Palisades Interstate Park, struck it at dawn to avoid arrest for vagrancy. George picked up odd jobs. When the tent began to fall apart and bad weather set in last week, the Umbachs moved to a 4-ft. cement culvert that drains rainwater from the Palisades slopes into the Hudson...
...which her entry was accepted only after Mrs. Hoerger had hired a lawyer to persuade the committee that she was not too young to compete. Experts expect that Mary Hoerger's most serious rival for her new title may be her small sister. Helen Hoerger could swim 40 ft. at 11 months, dive from a 30-ft. tower at 4 years. Now almost 6 and weighing 46 lb., she dives better than her sister did at the same...
...year Brother Attilio worked on the design, first in clay, then in plaster, for the world's biggest sculptural glass panel, to go over the door of the Italian Building in Manhattan's Rockefeller Center. The panel, 10 ft. by 16 ft., took seven tons of clay, showed one huge figure shoveling. The Piccirillis are not glass workers. The model went to the Corning Glass Works for casting. Corning divided the panel into 45 sections to be joined by transparent cement, used a so-called "poetic" Pyrex glass filled with air bubbles. Last week Corning had finished...
Died. Annie Smith Peck, 84, teacher, author, lecturer, alpinist; after brief illness; in Manhattan. Onetime professor of Latin at Smith College, Miss Peck gave up teaching for mountain-climbing at 45, was known at 60 as the world's No. 1 woman alpinist, climbed Mt. Madison (5,380 ft...