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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...machine. The lessons they learn in wrecking the first plane they can apply to flying the second. Each will have at least a dozen 1,000-h. p. motors, will be able to carry 500 passengers, 104 crew. Aerodynamic calculations suggest that they should be able to fly so high, so powerfully that reduced wind resistance will enable them to flit between Manhattan and London in six hours...
...Last week President Lee Wilder Maxwell announced that Farm & Fireside would have its face lifted and be given a new suit of clothes. Beginning with the February 1930 issue it will appear as The Country Home, with the same page size but with new type, new paper of high-grade magazine stock, new contents. Farm & Fireside (circulation: 1,354,000) is a farm magazine. Reincarnated it will be "a magazine of home, garden and farm...
...early frontier anecdotes, railroad sagas, Mississippi River steamboat races. They flooded the country with pictures of George Washington at home, baby looking at mama in the mirror and saying "It's Mama," baby looking sadly at mama and saying. "Where's papa?" With the advent of such high-pressure imitators as the Police Gazette and cigaret-coupons, the firm died...
...operation for a ruptured spleen. Dr. Richards reported Harding's condition as satisfactory though he said it would be several days before the boy was "out of the woods." At a late hour last night he was reported as resting comfortably with pulse normal and temperature only slightly high...
...most mysterious and most fundamental part of the universe, and only recently has come under direct experimental study. In brief, it is the substratum of materials throughout the universe, between planets, stars, and galaxies, that has no obvious systematic organization. Hence it includes such diverse constituents as the high speed shooting stars, interstellar calcium gas, and radiation itself...