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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skiing slopes, commissioned architects to plan a big lodge (capacity: 250). With Charles N. Proctor, Harvard's ski coach, U. P. engineers set to work on a lift which will carry the customers 1,500 ft. above the valley's floor. A modification of the ski-tow, which requires the effort of hanging on, the ski lift will reduce the physical exertion of skiing to almost nil. At regular intervals on a continuous cable moving 400 ft. per minute (a fast walk) are suspended chairs into which the skier may flop without removing his skis...
Getting out of hand in the second period when tow goals were scored, the Dartmouth soccer team went on to beat the varsity 3-1 here yesterday...
Franklin Roosevelt hopped out of his car with Governor Lehman in tow, planted himself and the Governor in the centre of the chorus, perched Legion caps on both their heads, added his rich baritone to a rendition of There's A Long, Long Trail while photographers' flash bulbs winked...
...last week to let British seamen board the whalers in Sandefjord; and finally since it seemed unwise to use British warships, Unilever Ltd. finally chartered seven British seagoing tugs. These were sent churning across the North Sea with orders to hitch onto empty British whaling ships if possible and tow them off to England or Iceland, where perhaps competent crews could be signed for whaling...
...Said Jay Buxton, glider builder of Haw thorne, Calif.: "We'll start and go as far as we can." That was a month ago when Manufacturer Buxton & Daughter Lucretia were starting out with three associates to tow their two-seated glider Transporter to Elmira behind a 1925 Rolls-Royce. They arrived in five days. On the second day of the meet, Daughter Lucretia and Associate Fred Barnes climbed into Transporter, took off from Harris Hill at 10:27 a. m., soared until 5:22 p. m. In the air they shivered, ate peanuts, chatted with each other and with...