Word: marche
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year one half of the West Point Cadets, 900 in number, are due to arrive at the Back Bay Station at 8:35 tomorrow morning. Porters and taxis they will pass up, for they must form and march to the Park Street Subway Station. Here they will deposit $90 and ride to Cambridge to be dismissed...
...many of Air Facts' subscribers its reports and "assumptions" have been lifesavers. When the March issue, noting that "the laws of Gravity haven't been repealed," cited a few warning examples of the treachery of March winds and told what to do about them, there was a flurry of grateful new subscribers. There was another marked customer response to the June number, which explained the dampening effect of hot, thin summer air on engine power, propeller thrust and wing lift; the consequent higher stalling speed; the atmospheric didos to be expected; the effect of heat on pilot reactions...
...military training, children begin long marches at the age of 10. and 15-year-olds are expected to march 13∧ miles a day with an eleven-pound load. Result: an abnormal increase in the prevalence of fiat feet, a trait Nazis attribute to non-Aryans. Of youths conscripted in 1936. some 38% were found unfit for military service for this reason...
Died. General Alfred Krauss, 76, outstanding Austrian strategist during the World War; of a paralytic stroke: in Giesern, Germany. Because General Krauss repeatedly urged union between Austria and Germany, he was elected a member of the Reichstag last March, when anschhiss was finally effected...
Ever since President Lewis H. Brown of Johns-Manville Corp. led the way last spring (TIME, March 21). big U.S. companies have been vying to see which could bring out the most readable financial statement, thereby prove that Big Business is not so hoggish of profits as it has been painted. Last week Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. took its turn. The nation's No. 2 maker of electrical equipment* issued a simple folder breaking down operations for the nine years 1929-1937 into one-syllable categories. Total income was $1.261.313,000. Deducting sums "paid out for materials, supplies, fuels...