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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This year's deadlock for the Big Ten title thus became as complete as possible. Both Indiana and Purdue had played much the same schedules. Indiana had split two games with Ohio State but Purdue had split two with Northwestern. Purdue had beaten Ohio State twice but Indiana had done the same thing to Northwestern...
Harvard's President James Bryant Conant has twice refused to accept scholarships from Alumnus Ernst Franz Sedgwick ("Putzy") Hanfstaengl, Dictator Hitler's pressagent and musical solace. But last week President Conant wrote to Rector Groh: "The President and Fellows, in accepting the invitation of the University of Heidelberg, recognize the ancient ties by which the universities of the world are united and which are independent of the political conditions existing in any country at any particular time...
Like a monstrous, whitish grub dragged from its great cocoon, the new German dirigible LZ-129 last week nosed out of its hangar at Friedrichshafen for its first test flight. With Dr. Hugo Eckener in charge of a skeleton crew, the silvery 812-ft. airship, nearly twice the Graf Zeppelin's size, drifted silently out over Lake Constance for three hours, behaved so perfectly that officials boasted further trials were superfluous...
...Douglas order brings one step nearer the scheme of five major U. S. airlines to standardize equipment. For months United, American, Eastern Air, TWA and Pan American have discussed burying the competitive hatchet, pooling their resources to pay for a fleet of huge land airliners which would be twice the size of the DST, carry 40 passengers, mount four motors, cost $200,000 apiece. According to the "Big Five," such super-transports would enable the airlines to make money, cease being dependent upon airmail subsidies. At present, air traffic is increasing so rapidly that 14-passenger planes now in service...
...Francisco bachelor, he submitted his scheme for electronic television, no blueprints. When radio engineers assured Mr. Everson that the Farnsworth idea seemed feasible, he put up money for experiments, got addi tional backing from officials of San Fran cisco's Crocker First National Bank. Hard-working young Farnsworth twice threw equipment worth $25,000 out the window, started over again. Finally successful demonstrations were made at Phila delphia's Franklin Institute. Philco Radio &; Television Corp. bought U. S. rights (not exclusive) to manufacture Farns worth equipment, has lately started an experimental laboratory...