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...Webster '93, assistant professor of English, is also in Oxford now, it was learned. He is spending the first half-year abroad on leave of absence, and is now the guest of the Gilbert Murrays. Mr. Murray, the distinguished English translator and critic, was the first incumbent of the Norton Chair at Harvard five years...
...additional lecture on Old Master drawings to be given on December 16 at 5 o'clock. For the second half-year a group of lectures on seventeenth century art will be delivered on Thursdays commencing February 5--with the topic "Adam Eisheimer and Northern Artists in Rome." On February 12 Mr. Hind will talk on "Rubens and VanDyck in their relations to Italy;" on February 19, "Poussin and Claude;" February 26, "Claude's Drawings;" March 5, "El Greco and Modern Art;" and on March 12 as a finale, "Italy the School of the World...
...July 1). As 1,500 new aircraft were licensed during that period, it means that about 1,740, or 18% of the total went out of active service. Production of aircraft engines dropped to 2,052 units for the half-year-54% of the number manufactured in the first six months...
Best evidence of the immediate status of business is the low ebb of production.* According to the Department of Commerce estimate made public last week, 1,325 planes for civil use and 359 for military use were manufactured in the first half-year. In the same period of 1929 the output was 2,854 civil craft, 527 military. For all of last year, 5,537 civil, 677 military...
...half-year there were 9,773 licensed and identified aircraft in the U. S., 13,041 licensed pilots, 8,843 mechanics. California has the largest number of each: 1,275 planes, 2,515 pilots, 1,658 mechanics. New York is second with 1,148 planes, 682 pilots, 874 mechanics. Nevada foots the list of states with ten planes and 17 pilots, but has 27 airports...