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Divorced. Vincent Youmans, 47, star-crossed songwriter (Tea for Two, Time on My Hands, Without A Song) who was stricken at meridian (in 1934) with t.b. and has never fully recovered: by Mildred Boots Youmans, 40 ("I do not mind admitting it"), onetime Ziegfeld girl; after more than ten years of marriage, no children; in Reno...
This week even his own people could see that the entire Pacific, as far west as the meridian of Tokyo (140° E. Long.), was now an American lake. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, commander in chief of three Pacific fleets, had said: "I don't know anything more we could do to provoke those people into a fleet action...
...present. Harvard has the material to do this, both amongst its civilian and service personnel. It is for Harvard to show whether it is willing to do this. Will all those interested please contact Max Petschek '47, of Adams House, or Miss Orr at Trinity House, East Meridian Street...
...provide practical experience in every phase of railroad operation . . . the Southern Railway System negotiated a contract with the U.S. Government making available to the battalion that part of the Southern Railway System known as the New Orleans & Northeastern Railroad, which extends from Meridian, Miss, to New Orleans, 202 miles. No charge was made by the N.O. & N.E. for its facilities, the services of its officers or employes, or the use of its property...
Dream Fulfilled. The day of world air transport is no longer a pipe dream. It is here. There is not a meridian on the earth's fat face that freighters and passenger aircraft do not cross. There are few latitudes where they do not operate, none where they cannot. Yet the day of air transport is only dawning. New aircraft with vastly increased loads and ranges (up to 10,000 miles) are all but ready to fly. Behind them, far past the planning stage, are larger craft still. And following them are new technologies that will increase ranges...