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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Officially admitted in the registration was ownership of the Milwaukee Sentinel, ostensibly a Paul Block property. Publisher Block leases the Sentinel from Publisher Hearst. Last week Mr. Hearst leased his Washington Herald to Mrs. Eleanor ("Cissy") Patterson, sister of Publisher Joseph Medill Patterson of the tabloid New York Daily News. In seven years as its editor & publisher, she has seen its circulation rise from...
...annual Reo meeting this week for the purpose of "revitalizing" the board. Wrote young Mr. Vanderlip: "[We have made] an exhaustive and careful investigation of a new plan for automobile and truck production and sales. ... We propose to have the company go ahead with this plan." Automotive Daily News said that the plan provided for production of 40,000 vehicles per year,* which obviously meant a return to the passenger car field, but Mr. Vanderlip said later he was not so sure of this. Also denied was any tie-up with Auburn Automobile Co., in which his father has substantial...
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Last week electric eels made news when from Belem, Brazil it was reported that a party of U. S. scientists had caught one 3 ft. long with a potential of 380 volts, more than triple the common U. S. house current. Electric eels have produced up to 500 volts. Local Indians long ago recognized the nature of the eel's shocking power, naming the creature puraque, derived from their word for lightning bolt. But civilized man, in the Age of Electricity, though he understands the source of the firefly's light does not know how Electrophorus becomes electric...
...rate of 1,000 meters per second, approximately ten times the speed at which impulses travel along the nerves of man. Last January, Physicist Cox & party set sail for Brazil to delve further into the eel's mysteries. Last week's capture was the first news from them, but next fortnight they will start home with their findings. Christopher Coates snorts at the idea of an Eel Light & Power Co., but does believe that study of the eel's current may teach man to improve electric generating apparatus...