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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Geologist Ernest N. Patty at Fairbanks declared this week that if the Black Rapids Glacier is moving as reported, it is traveling 220 ft. per day, a world record. Attempting to find the facts, Dean James H. Hance of the Territorial School of Mines flew to the glacier, due to winds could make no landing, no close aerial inspection of the glacier; found only that "it apparently has advanced a long distance...
This scheme was tried out in Hackensack, N. J. by Newark's station WOR. Rather than manufacture and install a large number of Hopkins radiovoting attachments, a crude equivalent was resorted to. Listeners were asked to switch on an extra 40-watt bulb in the house when WOR's announcer gave the signal for a vote. The resultant bulge on the powerhouse chart showed that about 6,100 listeners had thus balloted...
...Oneonta, N. Y., police arrested Clyde Proctor, 27, who confessed to having shaken a 15-month-old boy to death "because...
...Brooklyn, N. Y., caught dumping mail into an incinerator, Postman Henry M. Briggs, 48, protested: "My feet hurt me and I had a kidney ailment...
...unless they can hope for tremendous volume. Cans sell for about 2? each. At best it is a hard business to break into because the established can makers and their customers are usually tied together with long-term contracts, often with physical connections. Cans for Campbell soup in Camden, N. J. roll out of an adjoining Continental plant. And a neophyte can maker like Crown can hardly expect to sell its goods on the basis of "service" alone...