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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When plans for the New York World's Fair 1939 got under way, sharp little Billy Rose's nose smelt business. He was an old nose at Fairs: in 1936, when Dallas, Texas opened its resplendent Texas Centennial, Billy smartly staged a rival Centennial at Fort Worth, stole the limelight and the crowds. Smart again a year later, he mopped up in Cleveland. Smart once more, for New York's monster shindig Billy Rose took over the Fair's huge marine amphitheatre, announced an elaborate amphibian revue. Last week Rose unveiled his water lilies...
...camps for underprivileged, visited cripples, became radio's No. 1 Benefit Girl. To "expand her prestige as an outstanding American woman" Collins last year arranged a three-a-week noonday broadcast of homely comment, book & play criticism. Sensitive to the rising tide of Broadway patrioteering, Kate last year got Irving Berlin to write God Bless America exclusively for her, sang it week after week until last month, when it was released to other patrioteers...
Highest score was made by Chicago's Donald Wallace Connor, who got 211 of the 290 questions. Said a less successful examinee: "Anyone who could pass that test doesn't need to go to college...
Since it really got down to work 21 years ago, the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (founded by Act of Congress in 1915) has turned out many a valuable contribution to aircraft and engine design. Its studious scientists, working in a grotesque collection of wind tunnels and other research machinery at Langley Field, Va., can point to NACA discoveries (cowlings, wing designs, etc.) on every airplane flying today...
Struve suggested that if the University of Texas provided the observatory and the University of Chicago a staff to run it, they might accomplish more in such a cooperative enterprise than either could separately. Forthright Bob Hutchins forthwith picked up his telephone, called U. of T.'s president, got a favorable answer, and soon the project was under...