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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elevators now run at between 900 and 1,200 ft. per min. The 67 (all told) cars in the Empire State Building can run, and the 74 in the Rockefeller Center building now being constructed will run, at 1.200 ft. per min. (14 mi. per hr.). Speed is scarcely felt, because the cars start and stop smoothly. But many passengers become uncomfortable as they ride. The air pressure atop the great tower buildings is about one-half pound per square inch less than at the street level. Elevator passengers feel the difference as an annoying pressure on the ear drums...
...Mary-Louise Ulmer, amateur aviatrix of Pottsville, Pa. Next year, after the marriage and before Sir George Hubert Wilkins worms his way under Arctic ice to reach the North Pole. Mr. Ellsworth will go with Sir Hubert and Pilot Bernt Balchen to the Antarctic to attempt a 20-hr, flight from Ross Sea to Weddell Sea over the Queen Maud mountains...
...Ward Tunte Van Orman, Goodyear Tire & Rubber aeronautical engineers, also a fourtime winner. But last to come to earth was the U. S. Navy's entry, piloted by Lieuts. Thomas G. W. Settle and Wilfred Bushnell, winners of last year's U. S. meet. After 40 hr. in the air they were forced down with a defective valve near the Polish-Latvian frontier-about 921 mi. from Basle. Pilot Van Orman's Good-year VIII was second with 830 mi., France's Petit Mousse third with 739 mi. Near Warsaw the champion Navy bag drifted...
...Since then we have increased our rate of energy conversion until a turbine capable of generating 300,000 horsepower, equal to the energy of 9,000,000 men on a 24 hr. basis, is under the operating control of about half a dozen of them...
...eight days. Before the War Britain and Germany had whacked the record down to five days. There it remained until North German Lloyd launched the Bremen and Europa in 1928 and 1929. The Bremen (51,656 tons) now holds the all-time record of 4 days, 14 hr., 30 min. from Ambrose Lightship to Plymouth. The Europa is 49,746 tons, both average about 26 knots. Italy's new Conte di Savoia has not yet had her speed trials, but like the Rex she is expected to cruise at about 27 knots, in a pinch turn up 29 knots...