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Last week at Newark Airport the Department of Commerce gave to air transport a device on which it had been at work for five years, to overcome the blind landing hazard. It consists of 1) a runway localizing beacon and 2) a radio beam along which the plane may glide to a three-point landing...
...Hall, one of the University's dormitories for dropped Freshmen at 31 Holyoke Street, before the State Building Inspector will approve it any longer as a place of residence, it was learned last night from reliable sources. Within the next month steps will be taken to lessen the fire hazard, which was the chief objection raised by the Inspector in his examination of the building on Thursday afternoon...
Such a man is proud old Frederick Henry Prince of Prides Crossing, Mass., Newport (where he bought the Marble House of the late Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont), and Pau and Paris, France. Returning to the U. S. last week from Europe, Frederick Henry Prince delivered himself of a dictum to which many a lesser U. S. businessman doubtless subscribed with admiration and respect...
...sensational engagement announcement of the decade, that of her daughter Consuelo to the Duke of Marlborough. (When Consuelo wanted an annulment in 1927, her mother frankly admitted coercion.) Next Alva Vanderbilt erected another towering social milestone by divorcing her husband. A year later she became the wife of Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont. In 1908 he died, and Mrs. Belmont abruptly redirected her talents. "No profession," said she, when someone asked her why she had retired from the social battleground, "no art or trade is as taxing in mental resource...
...nearly three years the Post Office Department has been experimenting with asbestos mail pouches, but not yet has it found one which will protect mail from being charred in the burning wreckage of an airplane.* Asbestos pouches are used only for registered mail and jewelry. Despite the fire hazard, the Post Office had a proud record to announce last week. In the fiscal year ended last June it lost only .01% of 8,846,000 Ib. of airmail carried. All of the loss was by fire. In the previous year the loss was .03%; the year before that...