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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Ford Motor Co. announced easier finance terms for prospective Ford buyers. Feature of the plan was a maximum monthly payment of $25. Last week Chevrolet Motor Co. an nounced that during January it would pay its dealers $20 for every old car scrapped or junked, had appropriated $1,000,000 to get ancient wrecks off the highways...
Under the new plan in the Graduate School, Dear Chase, explained, there were awarded one fellowship of $1,000, four of $900, two of $880, four of $800, and eight of $750, whereas in the previous year the maximum award to a resident student...
Regarding the number of athletic "cuts" allowed Yearlings, 15 unexcused absences is the maximum. Any Freshman having more than that number will be forced to make them up his Sophomore year...
...rules compiled Dec. 31, 1934, records are awarded to Airplanes. Seaplanes, Amphibions. Balloons. Airships, Gliders, Auto-giros, Helicopters, Airplanes piloted by women, Seaplanes piloted by women. Most of these broad groups are subdivided into classes by size and by pay load. Each class may then achieve such records as maximum speed, speed for certain distances, airline distance, broken line distance, altitude, duration, circuit of the world. At present there are 254 possible records, of which only 123 are established. 40 by the U. S., 38 by France, 28 by Italy, eight by Germany, eight by Poland, one by England...
That was a special experiment. For routine high-pressure work Dr. Bridgman uses about half the maximum, working up to 720,000 lb. and then down again in one hour. Even that squeeze has not been duplicated elsewhere. In principle the Bridgman pressure apparatus is simple, like Archimedes' theoretical lever with which the old Greek said he could move the world. It is a hydraulic press, in which is utilized the fact that a piston bearing on a small area of a confined liquid delivers its pressure against every other area of equal size in the tank. Thus...