Word: setting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Most arresting proposal in the book (by Hunter College's Frances Morehouse) was that U. S. youngsters should get a new set of heroes. To conventional U. S. heroes, such as Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Miss Morehouse proposed to add: Buffalo Bill, Harriet Beecher Stowe, the Wright Brothers, Elias Howe, Booker T. Washington, G. W. Carver, Cyrus W. Field, Jane Addams, Dan Beard, Richard Byrd, Charles Lindbergh...
...reason for this hunt for new capacity is partly Act of God. Last summer's drought lowered the level of the rivers which feed the 27% of U. S. power capacity which is hydro instead of steam. Last year when water was plentiful, hydro output set a new record: 41,500,000,000 kilowatt hours, 38% of the total...
...name was James Friedrich. For two years at the University of Minnesota young Friedrich was a 16 mm. movie bug, ran the Bell & Howell camera supply agency. Still resolved to be a minister, he transferred to the Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary at Alexandria, Va. There pious, cinemad James Friedrich set a precedent by writing his doctor's thesis (on the life of St. Paul) in the form of a movie script. He got his degree...
...give a deftly selective account of his own career as an impecunious amateur: the virginal application for lessons; first flight cross-country, by dead reckoning; a siege of "aero-neurosis," parachuting, a flight along the desolate eastward shelf of the continent. By the time he is done he has set straight a number of groundling misapprehensions, has clearly suggested a seeing and reading of a world no groundling can know, has need neither to explain his own love of flying nor to persuade others...
...publishers of A Sea Island Lady were sufficiently confident of its future to run off four printings (11,300 copies) in advance of publication date, to set aside $3,500 for publicity, to blurb its heroine as "unforgettable." To early readers of the novel it was evident that this confidence was going to be abundantly justified, for two large reasons: 1) that the U. S. book-buying public is by large majority composed of women, and: 2) that it would be hard to imagine a book better qualified to delight that majority...