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...less than four presidents from outside. Most famed was Tom Mercer Girdler, now head of Republic Steel. It was during Mr. Girdler's term that Aliquippa became known to steelmen as the "perfect company town" and to labor agitators as the "Siberia of America." And it was under Mr. Girdler that J. & L.'s profits reached $20,800,000 in 1929. During Depression the company accumulated nearly $18,000,000 worth of deficits. Even under President Samuel E. Hackett, a master salesman, J. & L. lost a little money last year on total sales of $62,000,000. With...
Knowledge of the ether is expected to be greatly increased by the radio division of the Ak-Bulak eclipse expedition jointly sponsored by Harvard and M. I. T. that will sail on April 8 for Siberia to observe the phenomena which will be total on Friday, June...
Friday, June 19 will be like any other day in Cambridge, but not so in Ak-Bulak, Siberia, for to this little hamlet, 200 miles noth of the Caspian sea, scientific expeditions will come from all over the world to observe an eclipse of the sun. Harvard and M.I.T. are combining to send a joint expedition under the direction of Donald H. Menzel, associate professor of Astronomy...
...were crushingly overtaxed. In Harbin, the Russian metropolis of Manchukuo. which teems with both White Russians and Red, furious quarreling raged between Japanese-Manchu officials and Soviet Consul General Mikhail Slavutsky. He refused their demand that 108 Manchu troops who recently mutinied against Japanese officers and took refuge in Siberia across the Soviet border be disgorged by the Soviet Far East Army of Red Marshal Blucher. Finally the Russians became so incensed that on orders from Moscow all Soviet citizens in Manchukuo were urged to catch the next trains to Russia by Soviet consular officials who handed out railway tickets...
Science's most modern instruments for detecting rare chemical gases and elements will be used by Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists to follow every phase of the eclipse of the sun in Siberia, June 19. Donald H. Menzel, assistant professor of Astronomy, will head the Harvard-Technology solar expedition which leaves for Russia this spring...