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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This week the 3,663-ton North German Lloyd freighter Dessau docks at Houston, Tex. Under her decks are 486 empty steel cylinders to carry back to Germany the first installment of U. S. gas. At 2,500 Ib. per sq. in. pressure, 5,600 cu. ft. of helium can be compressed into each cylinder. In the U. S. helium for medical treatments (asthma, croup), deep-water diving, laboratory experiments, is shipped 200,000 cu. ft. at a time in cylinders 40 ft. long, 4 ft. in diameter which travel four to a flatcar...
...fastest commercial planes in the world. Weather was not too good and shortly after noon Pilot Mamer dropped down at Butte, Mont, for a scheduled landing, lingered until the skies cleared. Then he drummed away over the mountains toward Billings, Mont. His last report: "Cruising at 9,000 ft. with everything okay...
Just north of Bozeman, Mont, rears the 9,106-ft. bulk of Bridger Peak, near which years ago was started the Flaming Arrow Dude Ranch. Woodcutters and ranchers working in Bridger Peak's thick fur of timber presently heard the din of Nick Mamer's two motors. Looking up, they spotted the glistening airliner hovering in apparent difficulty over a small clearing. In a twinkling it plunged straight down, bashed its nose into the frozen ground so hard that the plane telescoped like a tin drinking cup. BOOM went the gasoline tank and instantly the wreck...
Tarzan's Revenge (Twentieth Century-Fox). Mrs. Eleanor Holm Jarrett, champion backstroke swimmer,* is the current cinemate of a new and mightily thoracic Tarzan, blending with his eerie ee-ya-ee call the chewing-gum flavor of her pronounced Brooklyn accent. This new Tarzan is lean, 6-ft. 2-in., Olympic Champion Glenn Morris, summoned to the role to replace Johnny Weissmuller. Actor Morris, who heroically combines the facial qualities of Broadway's Burgess Meredith and Hollywood's Harpo Marx, has the miming ability of neither. What he has is the 1936 Olympic decathlon title. His costume...
...Farson an even stranger specimen. In the Canal Zone he was dejected by the surfeit of night life, in other Latin-American cities by the lack of it. The natives were too rich or too poor. He alternately froze, sweat unmercifully, gasped for breath in the 12,000-ft. altitudes of the Andes. The farther he went, the sadder he got. So he named South America the "Sad Continent...