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...heavyset, quietly dressed man of 55 who smokes Players cigarets from a silver case and has false teeth, Mr. Price works in his South Kensington laboratory every week day until 5 o'clock unless he is"out on a case," commutes to his home in Sussex 50 mi. out of London. Last week Mr. Price...
...then regarded as the last word in polar exploration vessels. This was the Pourquoi Pas ("Why Not"), a 140-ft. three-master of 449 tons, equipped with both sail and steam and reinforced for icebreaking. In 1908 he took the Pourqnoi Pas to the Antarctic, explored 2,250 mi. of coastline, discovered an island which was called Charcot Land, gathered a mass of meteorological, geological and biological material, made hundreds of deep-sea soundings...
...Since then it has swung past the constellations of Cepheus and Cassiopeia in its elliptical path around the Sun. At its closest approach on Aug. 4, it will be in the constellation Aquarius, halfway from horizon to zenith in the southeastern sky. It will then be 15,800,000 mi. from Earth. Observers equipped with good field glasses or small telescopes (8-power or better) will have a fine view of the tail driven off from the comet by radiation pressure from...
...pilot at the meet who flies highest. Two years ago Pilot du Pont missed the $3,000 prize by five miles. Last week, in his new German sail plane, he set a world's record for distance and return to point of de parture, with a 37-mi. round trip to Watkins Glen...
Coal bootlegging is a Depression answer to mass unemployment. The entire U. S. anthracite industry is concentrated in 500 sq. mi. in Pennsylvania. In this one-industry area the closing of a big colliery may end the only payroll in a coal town. One by one the collieries have been closed because the U. S. now burns less than two-thirds the anthracite it used ten years ago. For this there are many reasons, including strikes, high prices and poor merchandising, which have conspired to advance the competitive position of fuels like oils, gas, coke. In 1924 total anthracite sales...