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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Instead of selling the garden produce from his 40 acres through the marketing co-operative which is as proud a feature of Matanuska as its shining community creamery, schools, hospital and recreation centre, individualistic Walter Pippel journeyed to Anchorage and other railroad towns to hawk it himself. When at length the colony's managers, Alaska Rural Rehabilitation Corp., reminded Colonist Pippel that he had contracted to use the co-operative and pay a 5% charge for its services, Mr. Pippel blew up. He said that in two years he had made $11,000 by his own hard work...
Under a confining pressure equivalent to a depth of 32 miles underground, a limestone cylinder was compressed 35 percent in length without shattering. Similar tests show that the flow of rocks under pressure is mathematically alike to the flow of metals...
Pygmalion (Gabriel Pascal) is Bernard Shaw's famed comedy about the transformation of a Cockney flower girl into a lady by a phonetics expert; the simultaneous transformation of the phonetics expert into a human being by the flower girl. As the first authorized, full-length screen version of a play by the world's No. 1 living dramatist, Pygmalion could scarcely have avoided being important. It could easily have avoided being good. As produced by Gabriel Pascal and acted by Wendy Hiller and Leslie Howard, it is not merely good but practically perfect...
...Mountain Tramway in Boston, says that extra trips will be made for Snow Train passengers. Reports from the area state that there are 19 inches of good, skiable snow on Cannon Mountain and about 12 inches in the Notch. The Cannon Mountain trail has been sidestepped over its entire length as has the Practice trail, and the upper half of the Taft trail. The Tramway is able to take 160 to 170 skiers to the heads of these trials each hour...
...CRIMSON, Mr. Frost said that although he was still uncertain about all the poems he would read, he had already made several choices. These included the following: "A Speek," "Departmental," "The Silken Therad," "Two Tramps in Mud-Time," "Happiness Makes Up in Height For What It Lacks In Length," "Birches," and "The Time Gang...