Word: shorters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Africa," said Juan Trippe magniloquently, "will no longer be the Dark Continent." To help illuminate it, Trippe's Pan American Airways last week started direct service between New York City and Johannesburg, via the Azores and Dakar. The new route, 1,000 miles shorter than the old one via Lisbon, will reduce flying time to about 44 hours. Round-trip fare...
...larger western section is far neater and better adapted for SAC. Two parallel corridors run the length of the floor and are joined at each end in the center by shorter crossways, thus forming a squarish figure...
South of the fence line, in the infected area extending all the way to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec (where another, shorter fence will be built), veterinarians are experimenting with aftosa vaccines shipped from The Netherlands and Argentina. If they work against the Mexican virus, and if the government can persuade skeptical campesinos of the necessity of sticking a needle into their animals every six months, Mexico hopes at least to control aftosa. U.S. experts are bearish, point out that the quarantine-vaccination method has failed in Europe. Like most U.S. cattlemen, they believe that the only cure for aftosa...
...Permit U.S. engineers to make a preliminary investigation of a shorter canal route...
...much material as might be desired, but Vinton Chapin '23, a member of the team last year, is outstanding, W. L. Chapin '25 is showing up exceedingly well in long distance running and may be used in either the 1000-yard or mile events as well as the shorter runs. The two mile relay race, which will be one of the more important events in the later meets this winter, will probably be composed of Captain J W. Burke '23, E. G. Lund '23, J. E. Merrill '24, and J. H. Sherburne...