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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Parachute Jump is an offshoot of a practical idea, employed since 1932 by the Soviet Union to help train military and civilian fliers. Today, at Hightstown, N. J.'s military training towers, the Jump corresponds to the first step in teaching aviators to bail out. At Hightstown it is called "captive drop with seat"; next comes "captive drop with harness"; there after, free drops without safety cables...
...next year Maurice Grosser, a "natural," had been given an exhibition at Harvard and had even sold some watercolors. He graduated with honors in mathematics, which he has never used since except for reading himself to sleep. First as a workman in the stained glass factory of famed Charles J. Connick; then on a Harvard fellowship in Italy, where he lived with a peasant family in Anticoli and the goat's milk stuck to his teeth; then employed by Muralists Victor White and Barry Faulkner to put vague decorations on expensive Manhattan walls, Maurice Grosser adjusted himself...
...years Miss Louise Omwake, a psychology teacher at Centenary Junior College in Hackettstown, N. J., has tried to find out how honest ordinary people are. She devised a test, gave it to 198 girl students at her college. To encourage candor, she let them answer anonymously. Last week, in School and Society, Miss Omwake reported that "honesty appears to correlate with convenience." Guided by circumstances, not by a consistent moral principle, the same students seemed to be sometimes honest, sometimes not. Some findings...
Last week, equipped with a khaki flying suit, a pistol, seven rounds of ammunition, two chocolate bars, sandwiches and 55?, he marched blithely into one Edward Walz's drive-yourself aerodrome at Camden, N. J., rented a two-seated, high-wing Luscombe monoplane ($9 for one hour). In its gas tanks were eight gallons, barely enough for a 175-mile...
...small; the mail-order houses and chains have increased profits not because the consumer cake is much bigger but because they have got bigger slices of it. Five months' U. S. department-store sales were up only 3% from last year against combined sales increases for Ward, Sears, J. C. Penney...