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...three took off from Santiago for Buenos Aires, headed inland over the towering Andes. An hour after leaving port the ship's radio before going dead reported thick clouds and snow flurries. The plane never reached Buenos Aires. Heavy snowfalls blanketed the slopes, choked the canyons. No trace of the plane was found by dozens of search parties...
...favorite fido has vanished, and it only requires a little Imagination to foresee the time when Chauncey Tinker may disappear from his suite in Harkness or Professor John Livingston Lowes is seen being whisked down Mount Auburn Street in a high-powered car which the police are unable to trace. These academic reprisals have practically unlimited potentialities...
...great Stavisky case last week. Fortnight ago Inspector Bony discovered the missing stubs for the checks with which Swindler Stavisky is supposed to have bribed his way to power. Last week in the municipal pawnshop of Orleans he discovered the missing jewels. After Stavisky's death no trace of them could be found. Inspector Bony discovered a bright-eyed pretty little mannikin who led him straight to the Orleans pawnshop and a cardboard box containing gems valued at $78,000 which Stavisky was in the habit of putting up from time to time for rush loans. During the week...
...dead chief was either mummified by fire or buried with his wives and retainers, who prepared for the ordeal by getting as drunk as possible. But of the tons of treasure that went back to Spain, all was melted up or disappeared, and for four centuries no concrete trace of the Coclés came to light. About 30 years ago the Rio Grande de Coclé shifted its course, cut through an ancient Coclé burial ground. Five years ago some natives, poling up the river when the water was unusually low, spied something shining on the bank. They...
...believed that there are several types of cosmic ray particles, in addition to the high speed electrons, which enter our atmosphere from space. Millikan holds that photons, which also enter our atmosphere from without but unlike the electrons leave no trace of their passage, collide with the nuclei of inolecules in the air and cause a certain amount of disintegration of those nuclei. A shower would then be produced similar to those of the high speed electrons...