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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nuisance by reason of flight of aircraft over any property." The U. S. Bureau of Air Commerce has made transport flight illegal below 1,000 ft. above congested areas, 500 ft. elsewhere, except when landing. As yet, however, no final Federal decision has clarified the mass of contradictory lower court opinions on property rights v. air rights...
...five feet above the 72 Hinman acres next to Union Air Terminal, Burbank, Calif. The Hinmans declared that they had sole rights to the "stratum of air superadjacent to and overlying" their land and "extending to such an altitude as the plaintiff may reasonably expect to occupy." Denied by lower courts, the suit was appealed to California's Supreme Court which last week held that there had been no effective precedent and that aircraft should be treated leniently as "a new and romantic industry." Concluded the Court: "The air, like the sea, is by its nature incapable of private...
...blue chip in the woman's magazine business is Hearst's monthly Good Housekeeping. With 2,165,766 circulation at 25? a copy, "Good House" last year booked more pages of advertising, for more money, than any of the lower priced monthlies...
...bottom, are 16,000,000 ions, 5,300,000 ions and 2,800,000 ions per cubic inch. During the present sunspot cycle ionization has increased about 50% in the E and F1 layers, about 200% in the high F2 layer. Almost all the ionization in the lower layers seems due to radiation, but Dr. Berkner believes that much ionization in the F2 layer is caused by streams of particles hurled from the sun. It is possible that some ions are contributed by the swift, flaming fall of meteors...
...moribund Kansas City real-estate firm called McCoy Land Co. sued as a taxpayer to prevent sale of bonds for a new Jackson County courthouse site on Oak Street. President of McCoy Land Co. was Lawyer William C. Scarritt of the prominent firm of Scarritt, Jones & North. Although a lower court ruled the McCoy suit had no merit, Lawyer Scarritt threatened an appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court. Fearing further delay would cause the selection of another courthouse site, property owners of the proposed site on Oak Street hired Lawyer Henry Spotswood Conrad, agreed...