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...Louisiana salt marshes cover nearly 20,000 sq. mi., worthless except as a wildlife sanctuary and for many rich "domes" of oil and sulphur which lie beneath. To locate these deposits is hard work. In most places the swamp is so treacherous it will engulf a man standing upright. In most places no normal vehicle can proceed. Prospectors have tried boats, rafts, carts with big wheels but still got next to nowhere. At last Engineer Abbot Atwood Lane of Gulf Oil Corp. thought up a contraption combining the best features of automobiles, tractors and boats. Last week, along the Bayou...
...then in the Alps. Officers whom he had taught at St. Anton got him the job of teaching skiing to officers in all the Alpine regiments. During the War, Hannes Schneider perfected his own technique in new directions. Favorite turn of Norwegian skiers was the dignified Telemark, executed standing upright, with the paunch extended, shoulders back. Hannes Schneider elaborated the racy Christiania-executed in a crouch with the shoulders forward, paunch tucked...
...grappling bridge upended on its rear towers. This experiment in posture has been fairly successful, although strains and maladjustments resulting from the perpendicular positions are still visible in the human makeup. Among the apes, gibbons run on two legs; gorillas and chimpanzees can take a few upright steps without using their arms as crutches. These apes, "living fossils" which have changed little in 12,000,000 years, have failed to adjust their centres of gravity to the upright posture...
Last week respectable scientists of the Yale faculty announced completion of an electric machine which does very much what Abrams claimed for his condemned Oscilloclast. Professor Harold Saxton Burr, upright Yale neuroanatomist, learned son of a professor in the Y. M. C. A. at Springfield, Mass, calls the Yale machine "a vacuum tube microvolt-meter for the measurement of bioelectric phenomena." In the current Yale Journal of Biology & Medicine he and his colleagues give precise instructions for building the diagnostic machine and the principles on which it operates, something which Albert Abrams never provided for his device...
That evening the huge Los Angeles Coliseum, 1932 Olympic stadium, was half-filled when Republican State Chairman Earl Warren arose to introduce Nominee Landon, who had not yet appeared. Spotlights picked out a distant gate, a band struck up Oh! Susanna, and into the stadium burst Alf Landon, upright in the back seat of an open car, waving his hat, grimacing under showers of confetti which pelted him as he circled the running track...