Word: usefully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slouch as a human being, either physically or mentally, is Fellow James LuValle, a graduate assistant in chemistry at California Institute of Technology, who is working for a Ph.D., will use his fellowship for research in physical chemistry. A crack quarter-miler and former captain of the University of California at Los Angeles track team, Scholar-Athlete LuValle represented the U. S. in the 1936 Olympics...
...German dirigibles. The U. S. has practically all the helium there is, Germany has practically all the dirigibles. The National Munitions Control Board approved the export last November, but since helium is a natural resource, the Interior Department has final say. Secretary Ickes, not convinced that Germany would use the non-inflammable gas for commercial purposes only, has held up the shipment...
When reminded that the day of his arrival was the first anniversary of the Hindenburg disaster, Dr. Eckener bowed his head, closed his eyes for several seconds. Then he opened them again and said: "I cannot believe that anyone here believes we can use airships for military purposes in Germany. . . . Now is the time to sell it [helium]. In fifty years there will be no market for helium because there will be no airships. Airplanes will then supplant them...
...clergyman who found charm in other things besides divine philosophy, thought back to the time when he had trained Harvard's crew for its first race with Yale. Pondering on the smoothness with which the racing shell had slipped through the water, and knowing that railroad engines often use more power to overcome atmospheric resistance than to pull cars, Rev. Mr. Calthrop sat down with pencil & paper, sketched an "Air-Resisting Train" which anticipated by almost 70 years the modern streamliner...
...would streamline their crack trains. The Central's Twentieth Century Limited and Pennsylvania's Broadway Limited will be the first streamliners to run out of Manhattan, will both average a mile a minute, will both reach Chicago in record schedule time of 16 hours. Neither line will use radically new engines, will simply put new harness on Iron Horses. The cars, however, will be a departure. Both trains will have "roomette" Pullman cars (TIME, Dec. 13), and will be the first all-room trains...