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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...walls of his Washington office, RFChairman Jesse Holman Jones has two maps of his native Houston. One shows the city with all its Jones buildings. The other shows all the Jones buildings rubbed out. Houston without a Jones building is a sorry sight. Even sorrier would be a U. S. railroad map with all lines supported by Mr. Jones's RFC rubbed out. Total RFC advances to railroads have been $487,000,000, of which some $74,000,000 has been repaid. Last week after a 25-minute conference with Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt, New York Central...
...grew like a mushroom in the night as 300 soldiers labored beneath floodlights to pump in 300,000 cu. ft. of helium. By dawn all was ready. The balloonists climbed aboard, shouted: "Up, balloon!" Released, it floated gently away, cleared the rim of the woodsy valley, drifted out of sight as the 20,000 chilled spectators trekked back to Rapid City. Six hours later, Capt. Stevens radioed that Explorer II had touched 74,000 ft., well above both the accepted record of 61,237 ft., made in 1933 by Lieut. Commander Settle and Major Fordney and the unofficial Russian mark...
...book. From the moment he ordered the flogging of the dead sailor to the instant when he left the court martial, we felt just as strongly as Fletcher Christian. Even during his moments of greatness when he was navigating an open boat 3500 miles out of sight of land, he never lost his sadistic and narrow outlook. Charles Laughton became Captain Bligh...
Frank Foster, Dunster House janitor, will leave the Baker Memorial Hospital tomorrow, out of danger, but minus the sight of one eye. At the same time nine summonses will be served on students in the College to appear at the East Cambridge Court on Thursday to testify in the trial which will determine Foster's assailant...
...Emilio de Bono was trying to see what the Dictator's war machine was doing 40 miles away. In the foreground Old de Bono could see distinctly part of a grimy Italian labor battalion slaving to make roads, a spate of lumbering trucks and tanks, many a picturesque sight full of local Ethiopian color...