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...description of the movement of iron ore from mine to vessel. Obviously, no steam shovel or mine skip could load ore into a box car, as is suggested by your statement: ". . . box cars crawl out of the ore pits and stock piles toward the lake ports. . . ." Actually, 75-ton hopper cars are used for this purpose. You also state: "There each car is clamped by a cradle, lifted and dumped into hoppers. . . ." Unless startling innovations have been installed since I left the Great Lakes region two years ago, this is also inaccurate. The hopper cars...
...painting closed. Out of more than 2,000 pictures submitted, the jury picked 461 pictures by 405 artists, from 28 States, distributed $5,000 in medals and prizes. Most of the best-known younger artists in the U. S. were represented. First prize ($2,000) went to Edward Hopper for one of his familiar old houses, painted in the sharp yellow light of a Cape Cod afternoon. Second prize ($1,500) and a silver medal went to Painter-Critic Guy Pène du Bois for a solidly painted young girl, stiffly upright in a chair. Pennsylvania Academy Instructor Francis...
...insects-but for some mysterious reason fossil evidence of Chalk Age bugs is rare almost to the point of nonexistence. Smithsonian Institution scientists were therefore delighted to receive last week two rare wing-prints lately found in 100,000,000-year-old Colorado sandstone, one of a giant leaf hopper, the other of something like a modern squash...
...elder, who looked not unlike Professor Hopper except that he was shorter, claimed that he had been examined by mental specialists in several states and each time had been judged to be of a sound mind. Being subjected to the tests he considered part of the tribulations that a messenger of God could be expected to be subjected...