Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...obtain a broad enough base for computing risks because although airlines roll up countless millions of ''passenger miles" only about 350,000 individuals actually fly each year and of these barely 5% take extra air insurance at present rates. Nevertheless, U. S. Bureau of Air Commerce charts show that while eight years ago airplanes flew 125,000 miles, today they fly 1,050,000 between accidents and 7,330,000 miles between fatal accidents. That insurance companies can now bet $5,000 to two bits against a passenger being killed or crippled on a flight of some...
...hills of coal and slag into the Blue Ridge Mountains and east to Charleston Harbor. From what he remembered most vividly Blume made a composition of contrasts : trains crawling in industrial valleys and a German cruiser's crew doing exuberant calisthenics in the sea breeze off Charleston. To show how exuberant they were he made one or two of them appear to be taking hurdles as high as the crow's nest. His prize-winning picture was therefore thoroughly panned by every unimaginative critic in the U. S., and Blume became known as a surrealist about as soon...
Died. Dexter William Fellows, 66, famed circus pressagent; of complications after an attack of typhoid fever; in Hattiesburg, Miss. Named for a race horse and a favorite uncle, Fellows grew up in Massachusetts, later publicized Pawnee Bill's Wild West Show. Colonel William F. ("Buffalo Bill") Cody, Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey...
...York City 1,000 girls under the age of 10 are annually forbidden to attend school lest they infect other little girls with vaginitis. Fortnight ago Director William Freeman Snow of the American Social Hygiene Association collated data to show that in the nation there are 200,000 children known to be similarly infected. Actually the cause of vaginitis is gonorrhea which children contract usually by contact with their older sisters or mothers. Dr. Snow hoped that by publishing his statistics he might arouse the U. S. to a new sector of the venereal front now under attack by public...
...With a show of fun and frankness unusual in his stereotyped profession, a San Francisco pressagent lately wrote: "When you come right down to it, a great World's Fair is the architect's form of that good old American custom, the Binge. . . . He can work in the realm of pure fantasy without worrying much about his client's idea of how a building ought to look, because he is using (perhaps happily) impermanent materials and because his real client is the general public, and what the general public wants is not utility, but romance and beauty...