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Most psychologists firmly believe that companionship with intelligent parents and playmates is the most important factor in a child's mental development. The Emperor of Japan shares this view (see p. 31). But last week at the Chicago meeting of the American Association for Mental Deficiency, Psychologist Harold Manville Skeels of the State University of Iowa, questioned this old belief...
...stock. Battling his way home with the stuff, he found his wife and baby scared but safe. But the hurricane had blown his garage away, and with it the aerial for his 600-watt transmitter, WiBDC. In a mile-a-minute gale, he slung a new aerial, by 7 p. m. had his transmitter working on five watts of dry-cell power. He sat down by kerosene lamplight, began calling the amateur's land signal of distress, QRR. Soon W2CQD at Roselle, N. J., 165 miles away, picked him up, turned him over to nearer WiSZ at West Hartford...
Dedicated during the day by NACA's scholarly Dr. Edward P. Warner were two new wind tunnels which are now in operation. In both, NACA engineers work under a pressure of several atmospheres, like sand hogs or divers have to be decompressed before going home at night. In one, studies can be made on fixed models of 19-ft. wingspread in winds of more than 250 m.p.h. In the other a model can be flown as in free air, operated by remote control from a tunnel cockpit. Control is achieved through fine wires to electromagnets in the ship...
Adither over the approaching visit of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth (see p. 24), Elzire Dionne, after many a false start, finally selected a gown for her presentation. Color: "japonica" (a rust shade). Jittered Papa Oliva Dionne: "Me, I'm just a farmer and don't know what to wear...
Though very much of a power in Indiana, George A. Ball, glass-jar tycoon of Muncie, was practically unknown when Oris Paxton Van Sweringen and Mantis James Van Sweringen called upon him in 1935. "0. P." and "M. J." were $50,000,000 in the hole and J. P. Morgan & Co. was about to auction their $3,000,000,000 railroad empire. At the auction George A. Ball bid in the empire for a mere $3,121,000. He was not a railroad man; he bought it for the Vans to run. But within a year the amazing brothers both...