Word: weeklies
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Annually the Macy's stages this grotesque parade to inveigle children and parents into its Christmas Toy Department. If a balloon is found the finder who sends it back gets a $50 prize. Last week's balloons, including a 168-ft. Krazy Kat-faced dragon, a 30-ft whale, went toward the Atlantic Ocean...
...Breeding Farm of Lexington, Ky., for $96,350. Steel. To save the skilled clubmakers of Scotland from competing with the cheap, excellent products of U. S. factories, the Royal & Ancient Club of St. Andrews has long refused to let anyone use steel-shafted clubs in British golf tournaments. Last week the Royal & Ancient Club met, announced that steel shafts would be all right. Their reason: scarcity of good hickory...
...Names make news." Last week the following names made the following news...
...since 1889. when a tidal wave swashed shipping against the wooded mountains, has Apia Harbor. Samoan Islands, been so aghast as last week. Although it was a damp, warm day of Capricorn summer, a breeze rumpled the thick greenery around Apia. At anchor rode the brigantine-rigged wooden yacht Carnegie. Built in 1909 to study all the things that the Carnegie Institute thinks man should know about the sea, the Carnegie was made a unique ship: not an ounce of magnetic material in her hull or aboard her. Even her 150-h. p. auxiliary motor was built of nonmagnetic stuff...
Harvard's peripatetic Harlow Shapley (TIME, Dec. 2) addressed the American Geographical Society in Manhattan last week. Usually he has his keen intelligence among the stars. For last week's occasion he directed it into the earth. He proposed, as has many another with less public attention, to establish scientific laboratories deep beneath the land surface. The deepest man-made hole in the world is in Orange County, Cal., 8,201 ft. deep. The deepest mine in the world is St. John del Rey in the stage of Minas Geraes, Brazil, about 7,200 ft. down, where toiling...