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...month before President Garfield died of an assassin's shot in September 1881, a party of U. S. soldiers under a young lieutenant, up from Civil War ranks, arrived at Lady Franklin Bay on barren Ellesmere Island, some 600 mi. from the North Pole. This Army detachment's job was to set up one of an international chain of circumpolar stations for scientific observation. For two years the party collected data and specimens, sent out exploring expeditions of which one set a new "farthest North" by getting within 450 mi. of the Pole. A relief ship which...
...Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, California and elsewhere, sportsmen who hunt with bow & arrow have long had their own game preserves, where no guns are allowed. Last week the Oregon State legislature set aside the biggest bow & arrow sanctuary in the U.S.-the Canyon Creek Preserve, 200 sq. mi. near the centre of the State, where cougar, grizzlies, deer and small game abound...
...transpacific flying; 2) whether ships' transmitters could be used in lieu of broadcasting stations; 3) whether it would be practicable to anchor miniature seadromes at intervals over the Pacific, use them as 24-hr. broadcasting stations. Estimated useful range of the Kruesi Compass over water was 700 mi., out-&-out maximum 1,500 mi. The windowless Douglas, manned by Army blind flying experts, took a "feeler" trip out over the Pacific, located several ships by radio, flew back through blinding fog with perfect accuracy...
...total outstanding) which Founder Hershey turned over to it in 1909 when he lost interest in making money. The school teaches useful trades to 800 orphan boys who live in houses scattered so widely over the school grounds that to visit them all would mean a 40-mi. automobile drive. The school and other Hershey companies own nearly everything in the town, including the golf course, the trolley line, the water and electric companies, the department store, the laundry, the roller coaster. With an annual income from its trust fund of $1,675,000, Hershey Industrial School is continually under...
Columbia Suit. One of Columbia Gas & Electric Corp.'s biggest Depression deals was to connect its 29,000-mi. Midwest natural gas system with the Texas Panhandle through Panhandle Eastern Pipe Line Co. in which it has a 50% interest. Last week the Federal Government filed suit against Columbia Gas & Electric for conspiracy in restraint of trade, charging that it had prevented Panhandle Eastern from selling natural gas to cities and corporations in five Midwest States...