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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heavy wooden platform, slung below the rail-girders on steel beams. They were yanking away the boards from beneath the hardened concrete floor of the 4,200-ft. span. Two men were below them picking fallen boards out of the stout hempen safety net that stretched the whole length of the span...
...this movement exhausts the catchment basins. And even the heaviest Alaskan snowfalls we can hope to expect, are inadequate to compensate. This wave motion has a suction effect, drags a lot of ice with it, thins the glacier over its length. When the impulse has expended itself, there follows a period of very rapid shrinkage at the foot of the glacier. Black Rapids Glacier may continue to move for six months to two years. Then it will recede. Five years hence it will have dwindled five miles back up its valley...
Herbert George Wells has been seeing things for years, and telling about them at such length and with such irrepressible enthusiasm that now, at 70, he is well known as Civilization's Journalist No. 1. Back in the protozoic slime of the Victorian Era he first saw his vision of Civilization Triumphant, and in his fashion has been faithful to it ever since. Numerous, in^nious have been his variations on this theme. Last week his 78th book added one more minor version. Used to fat books from Author Wells, readers were surprised at the slimness of The Croquet...
This is the third in a series of five presentations of "American Primitives," films made during the late 1890's and early 20th century. "Intolerance" is important especially as being one of the first full length pictures to deal with a social problem and to feature close-ups, not only of faces but of important objects...
This latter, a magnificent red and sliver creation of doubtful parentage, is completely equipped with a non-detachable, streamlined ladder of some 100 feet in length...