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...Hinman each sued United Air Lines for $90,000, claiming that its planes flew sometimes as low as five feet above the 72 Hinman acres next to Union Air Terminal, Burbank, Calif. The Hinmans declared that they had sole rights to the "stratum of air superadjacent to and overlying" their land and "extending to such an altitude as the plaintiff may reasonably expect to occupy." Denied by lower courts, the suit was appealed to California's Supreme Court which last week held that there had been no effective precedent and that aircraft should be treated leniently...
...Between the years 1912 and 1914 Mr. Charles Dawson found in a stratum of gravel at Piltdown Sussex, fragments of a fossilized skull and jaw which were reconstructed by Sir Arthur Smith Woodward as Eoanthropus, the famed man of Piltdown. Some scholars refused to believe at first that a skull so human could be associated with a jaw so apelike, but present-day consensus is that the fragments actually belonged to one individual. Most anthropologists-notably excepting Sir Arthur Keith-hold that the Piltdown man, like the Pekin man and the Java apeman, were offshoot types which died...
...reason for these outcries was largely geological. Florida gets its rain in summer, but it grows its money crops, oranges, grapefruit, tangerines, avocados, celery, spinach, other truck, by irrigation in winter. Most of the water in central and southern Florida comes out of the "Ocala limestone." This dome-shaped stratum of rock comes to the surface only near Ocala, but it spreads out under all of Florida, is 100 ft. below sea level in the neighborhood of Orlando, 300 ft. below at St. Augustine. Winter rains around Ocala seep into the limestone which serves as a sort of natural reservoir...
...dirty cur who ought to be horsewhipped and slung out of public life! The Prime Minister is a mountebank! He is worse. He is a swine! I have nothing to say about the Minister of Labor for he is a son of Lord Derby and was born in another stratum. But the Prime Minister grew into power on the pennies of the poor people. He used to fight for the unemployed but now that he has got wealth and power he has not the courage to be in this House when this human issue is being debated...
Suction slots through which a fan inside the wing sucks air, control the thin stratum of air ("boundary layer") next the upper surface of the wings, increase lift 150% using only 2% of a light airplane's power...