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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Dredging and maintaining a 24-ft. channel in the Great Lakes, a 27-ft. channel in the St. Lawrence River from Ogdensburg, N. Y., to Lake Ontario?first step in the proposed Lakes-to-Atlantic big-ship waterway...
Trachoma. One more research step and Medicine will be certain that four years ago the late great Dr. Hideyo Noguchi discovered the actual germ of trachoma, contagious blinding eye disease. Drs. William Chris Fimioff and Phillips Thygeson of Denver reported to the Convention that the organism caused trachoma in monkeys. Remains to test it on a human. The test human may be Woo Dak-San, Silver City, N. Mex., Chinese sentenced to be executed for murder. To him last week was suggested a choice and to New Mexico's Governor R. C. Dillon was presented a plea-that...
...fact that Byrd's two photographers, Joseph Rucker and Willard Van der Veer, did some epic work. They show you clearly what an exploration party is like: men dealing minutely with a great isolation, making laborious preparations against hypothetical crises, living every day so as to come a step nearer an illusory goal. Pushing past the Ross Barrier (wall of ice guarding Antarctica) to and over the Queen Maude Mountains, Byrd and his men moved to the Pole step by step, laying out emergency bases, foreseeing, taking precautions. Byrd might have taken a chance and made a dash...
...There must be in India a power which can step in and save the situation," says the Commission, adding that "situations" to be saved may include epidemics and plagues. Control of the army is thus to be "reserved," but by a refinement of language such reservation is not perpetuation of Dyarchy, because Dyarchy has always applied solely to provincial matters, whereas the army is national...
Refrigerators. Production of new Majestic Household Utilities Co., first Grigsby-Grunow step toward diversification (TIME, April 28) begins in July. Maiden product: a mechanical refrigerator...