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...squabble broke out when President Hoover intimated that he might put an outsider into that job. In the Senate his authority to name the R. F. C. president was challenged on the ground that by law the board must choose its own. C, President Hoover flexed from 5? per Ib. to 2½? per Ib. the duty on: alsimin, ferrosilicon. aluminum and ferro aluminum silicon containing between 20% and 52% of aluminum...
...building another at Schenectady. The mercury boilers are dangerous because they might leak mercury, poison the workmen. A delicate mercury detector was in order. It is a yellow plaque of selenium sulfide. A few drops of mercury in a furnace through which pass more than 200,000 Ib. of flue gas an hour, said A. J. Nerad, blackens the yellow plaque. The degree of blackening indicates the amount of mercury present. A photo-electric cell measures the blackening, warns workmen of danger...
Over Phoenix. Ariz, at midnight the Akron circled for a time, adjusting her trim for the push over the mountains. She disgorged her two airplanes to fly on by themselves, lightening the airship's load by 6,000 Ib. and adding 2,000 ft. to her ceiling. Crossing Texas, Commander Rosendahl spurned Fort Worth and Dallas to fly over his mother's home at Cleburne. On the last leg from Parris Island the Akron averaged 75 knots, a record...
Gene Sarazen did this spring what few professional golfers think is worth the trouble: he went into training. By eating vegetables and drinking water he removed 15 Ib. from his stumpy little figure. He was training to win the British Open, so he practiced on windy days at seaside courses because he expected bad weather abroad. When Sarazen went out to qualify at Sandwich last week, there was scarcely a breeze. He got in comfortably with a 149, a few strokes back of Tommy Armour, the defending champion...
Born. To Dolores Costello & John Barrymore, actors; a first son (second child); in Los Angeles. Name: John II. weight: 6 Ib...