Word: michelis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...house where the Brothers Wright lived and worked no longer stands in Dayton. Henry Ford carted it away for his collection of Americana at Dearborn, Mich. But on Dayton's northern outskirts lies a long, lusciously green field named Wright, shaped like an arrowhead, flanked by a long row of hangars and shops and a broad cluster of brick laboratory buildings. This is the heart and brain of the Air Corps, the home base of its Matériel Division, where every item of equipment used, from a gauge needle to a 15-ton bomber, is examined and tested...
Birthdays. Benito Mussolini, 56; George Bernard Shaw, 83, quietly, in London, England; Henry Ford, 76, quietly, in Dearborn, Mich.; Booth Tarkington, 70, quietly, in Kennebunkport, Me. (Informed that it was Mussolini's birthday, Author Tarkington observed: "I have led a nice quiet life, which is more than...
Today an average hen produces only 100 eggs a year, but a good hen lays 200, and 300 is no longer a marvel. Champion Te Kawau Princess (Australorp), of New Zealand, who died in 1933 in Holland, Mich., set a world's record in 1930 by laying 361 eggs in 364 days...
...adopted code for broadcasters will have on Father Coughlin cannot be foretold. . . . I dislike censorship in any form, but even censorship might not be too high a price to pay if it will help insulate us against the anti-Semitic oratory of the radio priest out in Royal Oak, Mich...
Died. James Weber Linn, 63, "most popular professor" at the University of Chicago where he taught English for 40 years, Illinois State Legislator, nephew and biographer of Jane Addams; at Lakeside, Mich...