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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Aug. 8. "Situation Wanted." Evidently I was one of the 16 who wrote Smyth. This valley needs man power. There are farming opportunities here for energetic, ablebodied, willing workers. . . . Climate similar to that of Denver, elevation 5,280, to that of Salt Lake City, elevation 4,300 ft. (elevation my home 4,777) Bees, turkeys, hogs, sheep, cattle, hay, grain do very well. I can supply two families with land and irrigation water...
Only one living artist has deliberately matched his art against the superhuman mayhem of air bombing. Picasso did it for the Spanish Government building at last year's Paris Exposition with a 22-ft. by 10-ft. mural, Guernica, which nobody enjoyed and nobody forgot. Last month this painting and 67 auxiliary sketches were exhibited at London's New Burlington Galleries, quickly became the sensation of the opening season...
...ground station every 15 seconds, recording the altitude (in terms of air pressure) and the intensity of the cosmic bombardment. Last week Drs. L. F. Curtiss and A. V. Astin reported that one cluster of six balloons had reached the remarkable height of 23 miles (about 120,000 ft.). This was believed to be a world record for sounding balloons...
...Curtiss and Astin found that cosmic rays were thickest twelve miles up, where the intensity is 200 times that at sea level. This agrees closely with the findings of Caltech's famed Robert Andrews Millikan. who sent balloons to 92,000 ft., recorded a cosmic-ray peak at 66,000 ft...
...strangers to trouble are the menfolk of the Stuart family. They are built for it. Jesse is over six feet, weighs 202 lb. His brother James, also a writer and schoolteacher, is 6 ft. 4 in., an expert marksman reputed to be able to fire a shot, toss up the empty cartridge and split it in midair. His grandpa Mitch Stuart was involved in a lifelong feud with the Houndshells, in which both Houndshells and Stuarts were killed...