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...unfortunate as was the exemplary New York Times last week. One morning the Times's sober obituary page carried accounts of two famed men who had died the day before, Fairfax Harrison, onetime president of the Southern Railway, and Engineer Dexter Parshall Cooper, father of Passamaquoddy's tidal-harnessing project. Each was illustrated with a picture. Unfortunately, the purported likeness of Mr. Harrison bore the easily recognizable features of John Jeremiah Pelley, president of the Association of American Railroads, the picture of Mr. Cooper the features of famed Army engineer Lieut. Colonel Philip Bracken Fleming, now stationed...
...Object Reinmuth" struck this globe it would not only annihilate everything at the site of impact but cause a tremendous earthquake and fires which would destroy life and property hundreds of miles away. If it fell into the sea, ships would be smashed and coast lines inundated by mighty tidal waves. When a newshawk asked Dr. Harry Edwin Wood of Johannesburg last week what would have happened if "Object Reinmuth" had landed on Earth, he answered with wry circumspection: "It might conceivably have altered the international situation somewhat...
Coach Hal Ulen lined up a squad of 50 possible Varsity swimmers yesterday afternoon to supplement last year's Eastern Intercollegiate champions. At the same time, Freshman mentor Larry Peterson put up 60 '41 potential tidal waves through their paces...
...less than two years when dredging is completed, 310 acres of tidal flats raised, and hangars, runways, offices, hospital and post office are built, Airport No. 2 will be quadrupled in size and second to none in the U. S. in equipment. Four runways from 3,650 to 4,770 ft. each 150 ft. wide, will accommodate the largest transports; fog-free Flushing Bay, lined with eight monster hangars and swank administration and service buildings will be ready to receive seaplanes from Bermuda and Europe...
...less, paid for by worm dealers at the rate of 75? per hundred. In night digging the men wear dazzling electric spot lights on their foreheads, and have a slightly greater advantage over the quarry, whose custom is to bask on the surface in the dark. While the tidal mudflats, owned by the Government, show no signs of worm depletion, vigilant Maine has an anti-poaching law with a $50 fine for out-of-Maine worm poachers. Unlike oyster beds which require occasional reseeding, Maine's worm muds seem inexhaustible. But Maine is taking no chances...