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Main item of interest at last week's convention was the railroad built by the Detroit club on a scale of 17/64 inch to the foot. It is powered by 18-volt direct current, has 1,500 ft. of rolled steel tracks laid 1¼ in. apart, a 9-ft. spot-welded steel replica of New York City's Hell Gate Bridge. Visitors chuckled at the signs erected along this road at points where construction was under way: WPA PROJECT-SLOW-MEN AT WORK...
...parachute. Few hours after last week's accident, which occurred while Udet was competing in the Alpine circuit for solo pursuit planes, the German stunter nonchalantly described it to New York Times Correspondent Clarence K. Streit, who reported it thus: ". . . His racing monoplane cut through a 30,000-volt railway trolley in a blinding flash. His three-blade metal propeller became entangled in the cable supporting the trolley, and the monoplane whirled around. The tail flew off, but General Udet's luck remained. The cable was mounted on pulleys and counterweights, which allowed it to run out with...
Part of their annual conference on University policies, the tour of the Overseers today will include inspection of the new million-volt X-Ray unit, recently installed in the Huntington Hospital, and the Dental and Medical Schools. Continuing their study of research programs and methods of instruction, the group will visit the Fogg Art Museum tomorrow...
Greater efficiency in the treatment of cancer has been made possible by the new million-volt X-Ray machine recently installed at the Collis P. Huntington Hospital of the University...
Noting that today the radiation treatment of malignant disease is largely carried out by the 200,000 volt apparatus, the Huntington hospital staff declared that it has become apparent to many radiologists that even shorter wave lengths, produced by higher voltages, are highly desirable in the treatment of cancer...