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Commercial airlines are also boning up on G.C.A. (Ground Controlled Approach) at six installations in the U.S. (New York, Chicago, Washington, Indianapolis, Wilmington, Del. and Arcata, Calif.). They hope to have it in widespread use eventually...
Teaming up with the Weather Bureau, the Air Force has given scientific rainmaking a full-dress tryout. It set aside an 8-by-20-mile area near Wilmington, Ohio, and dotted it with ground observation stations. Powerful radar sets kept watch on the air above. When promising clouds appeared, an RB-17 Flying Fortress, loaded with dry-ice pellets, took off from Clinton County Air Force Base; an RF-61 Black Widow photographed the operation...
Outside of Wilmington, the council found, Delaware has no fully equipped high school for Negroes. The average school is 24 years old. Fifty have no playground equipment, 48 have only one teacher, 22 have no electricity. There are no towels in 22 schools; in eight others the pupils furnish their own. Thirty schools lack soap; only 85 have provisions for serving hot lunches. Some schools have no hot water, others have no water...
...Finisterre. They had traded their clothes for grapes and coconuts in Madeira and broken their steering gear in a hurricane off Bermuda. Under leaky hatches in fetid, 90° heat, their women had nursed children sick with chicken pox. After 60 days at sea, they had put in at Wilmington, N.C., and been shipped by train to New York...
...lived and taught at Michigan's Cranbrook Academy of Art since 1931. Some of his best-known U.S. works: the Fountain of Diana, Chicago; the "Meeting of the Waters" fountain in St. Louis; the 37-ft. Peace Memorial, St. Paul; a granite monument to early Swedish settlers of Wilmington...