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Some 500 years before Columbus discovered the West Indies, a Viking warrior* or Norse tradesman, equipped with his sword, shield and ax, took ship with his companions, set sail westward across the North Atlantic. They probably made land, avoiding icebergs, at southwestern Greenland, which had been discovered by Gunnbjorn and settled in 985-86 A.D, by Eric...
...recording station should be high, dry, nearly dustless, nearly hazeless. The Smithsonian Institution has two solar outposts at Table Mountain in California and Mt. Montezuma in Chile. Last week the Smithsonian announced that it would start a new solar observatory atop Burro Mountain, an 8,000-ft. peak in southwestern New Mexico, with Observer Alfred F. Moore in charge. The annual rainfall of ten inches is almost all concentrated in July, August and September, leaving nine months of superb observation weather...
More puzzling to physicians than the remarkable intensity of equine encephalomyelitis this year were a few scattered cases of encephalitis ("sleeping sickness") among children on farms in southwestern Massachusetts. Encephalitis, or inflammation of the brain, is ordinarily not widespread in the U. S. Its last large epidemic occurred in St. Louis in 1933. Cause of the disease is a virus of which little is known. Its most prominent symptoms are high fever, headache, delirium, restlessness or lethargy, double-vision, paralysis or involuntary jerking of fingers, arms, legs. Unpredictable are its after-effects which may include "parkinsonian mask," (complete absence...
Twelve years ago, bewhiskered old Leonor F. Loree wanted to merge his Kansas City Southern Ry. with the Missouri-Kansas-Texas and the St. Louis Southwestern railroads. ICC said No. A few years later the Van Sweringens wanted to merge it with their sprawling Missouri Pacific. Hard times quashed that idea. In 1931 Chicago Great Western got control of K.C.S. But litigation, instituted by Railroader Loree, kept the pair apart. Last week, Kansas City Southern once more was on the verge of matrimony-this time proposed by its Board Chairman Harvey Crowley Couch...
...past fiscal year of only $100,427, K. P. L. & G. is still a puny bubble in the ballooning natural gas business. But it asks FPC for permission to construct a $21,470,000 line (financed by a $20,000,000 RFC loan) from the Hugoton fields in southwestern Kansas through unexploited territory across Nebraska and the Dakotas into northwestern Minnesota. If permission is granted,* the company expects to sell 13,623,080,000 cu. ft. for $3,024,447 in the first year of operation, 20,165,390,000 for $5,469,847 in the fifth. The line would...