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Chimed the Johannesburg Star: "If Prime Minister Chamberlain's peace efforts fail the British people all over the globe will recognize and respond to the call to duty...
Today, Transradio news goes by teletype and radiotelegraph to 288 radio stations. It boasts an impressive list of beats, such as the Italian invasion of Ethiopia. In 1936, it began serving newspapers, today sells to 46, including the London Daily Telegraph, the Portland Oregonian, the Honolulu Advertiser and the Johannesburg (South Africa) Daily Express. Its 20-hour-a-day teletype circuit distributes 40,000 words of spot news. An editorial staff of 40 works in its main office in a Manhattan penthouse. Its 34 U. S. and foreign bureaus are operated by 132 editorial workers...
...superb assurance-acquired before innumerable real audiences in London and provincial theatres-with which Miss Fields does her specialties. High point of the picture: the Fields rendering of a Boer folk song, Vat Jon Goed en Trek, Ferreira (Pack Up and Go, Ferreira), as a request number in a Johannesburg dive...
...distance from the sun is 4.3 light years -about 25 trillion miles. In 1915 Dr. Robert T. A. Innes of Johannesburg discovered, by parallax observations,* that a faint star near Alpha Centauri was only 4.16 light-years away. For 23 years, up to last week, that star, appropriately called Proxima Centauri, held rank as the No. 1 solar neighbor. Last week, from the University of Chicago's Yerkes Observatory in Wisconsin, it was announced that another faint star, Wolf 424† appears to be only 3.7 light-years distant. This is so close that a train traveling a thousand...
...site of impact but cause a tremendous earthquake and fires which would destroy life and property hundreds of miles away. If it fell into the sea, ships would be smashed and coast lines inundated by mighty tidal waves. When a newshawk asked Dr. Harry Edwin Wood of Johannesburg last week what would have happened if "Object Reinmuth" had landed on Earth, he answered with wry circumspection: "It might conceivably have altered the international situation somewhat...