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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week an amateur radio operator in Bremerton, Wash., (about 11,000 miles from St. Paul), picked up a garbled message from L'lle Bourbon: "Ran Short Of Coal Due Bad Weather . . . Hope Madagascar Will Send Rescue. . . ." Expecting the worst, the French Government ordered a rescue ship to sail at once from Madagascar...
...morning in September 1937, the leader of the Paris colony of White Russians, General Eugene Karlovitch de Miller, who at the time was secretly negotiating to send 20,000 men to fight with Spanish Rightists, stepped out of his office. He was never seen again...
Editor O'Brien Boldt of the Daily Dartmouth planned to send a Christmas present to Adolf Hitler: four test tubes containing samples of Jewish, Negro, Mongolian and "Aryan" blood contributed by undergraduates, together with a letter challenging him to tell the difference. The plan fell through because the would-be donors could find no "pure Aryan" blood...
...struggling along on $3,700,000 a year, was generally considered out of date. Today the Bureau is getting ahead. Air-mass analysis (study of weather phenomena in the upper air) has been taken up with a will. At six stations, small automatic radios attached to sounding balloons send upper-air recordings to ground receivers. At twelve stations, airplanes make daily recording nights. At 79 stations, pilot balloons furnish upper-air wind velocities. The Bureau has greatly expanded its special aids to airlines, has put 33 of its men in airport weather offices. It has also extended and improved...
Approximately 100 colleges and universities in East, South, and Middle West have been invited to send delegates to the meeting which will be held Dec. 27 at International House. An intercollegiate committee to aid refugee students will be organized...