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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ceremony draws to a close, Abbey carrilloneurs ring 5,040 changes of "Stedman triplets.'' Conductor H. N. Pitstow boasts proudly: "This will be the first time a full peal of 5,000 changes has ever been rung at a Coronation." The music is scarcely appreciated by queues and clusters of tired peers who, upon emerging from the Abbey, find at last one spot in the planning that has broken down: the car-parking and call system. Crouching on the steps in their finery, leaning against pillars, some of them must wait as much as four hours...
Before boarding the Zeppelin Hindenburg for Europe, passengers used to wait in a bare, high-ceilinged room at the Lakehurst, N. J. Naval Air Station. Fortnight ago when fire destroyed the Hindenburg at Lakehurst (TIME, May 17), this chamber became a temporary morgue and 26 corpses lay there for two days awaiting identification and burial. Last week a Federal board of three investigators* and a crowd of newshawks sat down in the same room hopefully awaiting some clue to the disaster's cause. At week's end they had not found it but they had listened...
...Capt. Max Pruss of the Hindenburg was declared out of danger, but other crew members remained in a serious condition, and one more passenger died at the Paul Kimball Hospital at Lakewood, N. ]., bringing the death total...
...magnifying glasses, developed since Venetians invented spectacles in the 13th Century. Roehm & Haas Co. makes Plexigum, Plexiglas, Acryloid and Acrysol in Philadelphia; Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. sells Diakon and Perspex from its Manhattan office; Du Pont Viscaloid Co. makes Pontalite (TIME, Sept. 21, Dec. 28) and Lucite at Kearny, N...
...small boys who sail model boats on duck ponds, the best models are those patterned after America's Cup yachts. Currently the best America's Cup yachts are patterned after models which are sailed in a loo-ft. tank. At Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N. J., a 43-in. model of the new Ranger was tried out last autumn against a similar model of Endeavour I. Ranger proved much faster. In the Bath Iron Works, which had previously built only one Cup contender and in which last winter's most important job was five...