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Presentation before the National Geographical Congress at Amsterdam of a new physiographic method of showing landscape on maps and the exhibition before the Anthropological, Ethnographical and Archeological Congress at Copenhagen of the largest map of Liberia ever surveyed are a few of the matters which have occupied Erwin Raisz, Instructor in Geographical Exploration, during the past summer...
...handling of paint. But his sense of placement on the canvas is rudimentary, his composition derivative, his imagination happiest in such lusty caricatures as Casey at the Bat. Adding to the bruit of Clemens' "discov ery" was the inclusion in the Carnegie International last fortnight of his largest group painting, Water Music, which is an inept substitute for a snapshot...
...field-last week was reported about to unload its Ohio properties, its biggest public-utility investment in which it has an equity of some $27,000,000; 2) Commonwealth & Southern is rebuilding its system in the North precisely according to SEC demands; 3) two of the country's largest holding companies have decided there is no longer any use fighting the New Deal's utility reform...
...Albany-to-New York marathon, the most cherished dream of every U. S. outboard motorboat driver is to have U. S. 1 or U. S. 2 painted on his boat. The number U. S. 1 is awarded annually to the amateur outboarder who, during the season, has amassed the largest total of points in regattas sanctioned by the American Power Boat Association. U. S. 2 goes to the highest-scoring professional...
...Pont de Nemours & Co. fortnight ago announced it would erect a new textile plant and begin commercial production of Fibre 66, regarded by chemists as the first satisfactory substitute for silk in hosiery. Last week Celanese Corp. of America, third largest U. S. rayon manufacturer,* approved construction of a $10,000,000 factory near Pearisburg, Va. where it too will produce a new synthetic silk fibre. This unnamed yarn, said company officials, can be used for various textile products, does not correspond with Fibre 66. But the trade saw in the announcement a second sign that the Japanese silkworm soon...