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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When, in 1922, he first made up his mind to travel faster on land than anyone else, Sir Malcolm Campbell immediately found himself faced by a corollary problem: where to do it? He spent five years inspecting beaches & deserts, finally picked out Daytona Beach, Fla. as the place best suited to his purposes. Wind and rain last spring delayed his sprint for weeks, finally prevented Sir Malcolm from making more than a picayune world's record of 276 m.p.h. He began the search again. Whether or not Sir Malcolm Campbell decides he wants to go faster in the future...
...Steel is the world's biggest industrial enterprise but by no means the most efficient. Organization and management have always been a problem. When Chairman Myron Charles Taylor took charge of Steel he promptly set out to formulate a series of long-range policies, of which the Carnegie-Illinois union, representing a step away from centralized management, is the latest result. The first policy was to retire most of Steel's funded debt. That was accomplished in 1929, saving some $30,000,000 annually in fixed charges and enabling the corporation to ride out Depression without seriously depleting its treasury...
...death who kills himself is cheating the law. Sole exception is the dignified little Baltic State of Estonia. Until a thwarted Nazi putsch so alarmed President Konstantin Pats last year that he declared a state of martial law, Estonia had ignored the death penalty entirely. Confronted with the new problem of how to execute Estonians, President Pats devised a system of taking them into a forest near Tallinn and shooting them, always in a different glade. This stirred so much criticism that finally the President thought up a better system: the prisoner might have the choice of hanging or downing...
Smokeless Coal. The annual U. S. loss due to smoke is put at $500,000,000, of which $140,000,000 is for ruined merchandise and cleaning buildings, much of the rest for damage to lungs and respiratory tracts. Salt Lake City's smoke problem is especially acute because the city lies in a natural bowl whose rim tends to keep the pall from dispersing. Metallurgical coke and petroleum carbon, supposedly "smokeless," have been tried there without success. The problem can be solved by treating bituminous coal with superheated steam at 1,000 to 1,400° F., driving...
...college should open the mind to vistas hitherto unexplored, and broaden the intellectual horizon to an extent unachievable elsewhere. But in the realms served by heredity, environment, and upbringing, where education has little influence, the individual must go his own way, and attempt to solve the age-old problem of his relations to society. The great danger in higher education is permitting scepticism to turn upon problems whose solution requires more than voluminous knowledge, and far more, than intellectual brilliance...