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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Opposing candidates for the nomination had anticipated the "ungraceful act" by promising to support whatever ticket was chosen. Josephus Daniels, Governor Dan Moody of Texas, Governor L. G. Hardman of Georgia and many another solved the problem by saying, simply: "I am a Democrat." Thomas Pryor Gore, the blind, facetious, onetime-Senator from Oklahoma who seconded Reed at Houston, frankly switched to Smith. Even bitter little Senator Simmons of North Carolina turned the other cheek, last week. It was a silent gesture. He did not promise to work actively for Smith. But he pointed to his Democratic record, held...
Nevertheless, all last week the land reverberated with alarums and Prohibition ceased to be a problem peculiar to the Democratic Party...
Every nation wants for itself the glory of making and breaking records. Italy is no exception. Vexed because major aeronautical records were scarce in Italy, because the Schneider Cup race had been lost to England, Dictator Mussolini last winter ordered civil aviators to concentrate on the problem of record-gathering. Obligingly, three faithful Fascists chalked up three new records in a little more than three months...
Many aeronautical experts hold the dirigible the answer to the problem of how to make trans-Atlantic air services both profitable and safe. Two nations, Germany and England, have been rushing airship construction with this purpose in mind, but while a giant German Zeppelin will be ready for flight next month, English efforts to build the R-100 at Howden, Yorkshire, have met with serious delays. Government subsidies, already totaling $1,750,000, are at an end until test flights may prove successful. No funds are available for the wages of 300 skilled workmen, now sheathing the airship in silver...
Seeds. Recently Prof. William Frederick Gericke, associate plant physiologist at the University of California, announced that he could fertilize seeds with phosphate salts making fertilization of the soil unnecessary. For three years he has worked on the problem; finally he developed a method of seed treatment on a large scale at low cost. Barley so treated yielded a 15-fold increase in phosphorus-poor ground. Untreated barley seed in the same soil yielded no crop...