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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Pedestrians in Vienna who are deaf will hereafter wear a yellow arm band 10 cm. wide with three large round black spots. The suggestion was made, by the police because several recent accidents were the result of subnormal hearing on the part of certain pedestrians. The "Vox" society (70,000 members-all of whom have subnormal hearing) supplied all of its members with arm bands. The society finds that 12% of the traffic accidents have been due to subnormal hearing...
...grouse season came round once more. Trains bound for the country were packed with shooters leaving London. Those for Scotland were running in three parts to supply the demand. The King and Queen visited Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles, her husband, at Goldsborough Hall in Yorkshire en route for Balmoral, the King's private residence in Scotland. Before leaving the metropolis, which was several days after the shooting began, Their Majesties received a gift of several brace "to comfort them for not being among the grouse-shooting sportsmen." The Maharaja of Patiala, who is stopping in London in royal...
...were enumerated: his age, 52; his Illinoisian background-born in Utah, Ill., schooled in Galesburg and at Knox itself; his wide experience and acquaintance in business and literary circles; his "unusual sense of humor"; his information on and enthusiasm for College athletics; his conception of these last as all-round developers in preference to the development chiefly of crack teams and individuals; his religious nature...
...radius of the seaplanes out of Etah was cut down from 1,000 to 700 miles by the absence of a smooth stretch of beach in Etah harbor, the planes not being able to rise from the water with as heavy loads as they could lift from land. The round trip to Cape Hubbard and back is some 600 miles, leaving a margin of safety which Commander R. E. Byrd judged insufficient...
...stocks, the public know and let alone the best and the worst. But there are not apparently enough uncertain stocks with big possible future earning power to go round. In consequence, sensational advances continue in American Can, Mack Truck and similar issues. The rage for utility shares has apparently begun to subside, owing partly to Mr. Insull's warning (see below). But now railroads are beginning to be boomed...