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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...table is attached to the Council's report showing room rents as they will be in 1933-34, together with a "Schedule X" intended to illustrate the way in which the band of prices could be narrowed...
Married. Prince Knud, 33, youngest son of King Christian X of Denmark; and Princess Caroline Mathilde, 21, his first cousin, second daughter of King Christian's brother, Prince Harald; in Fredensborg, Denmark...
...dock and reclamation engineer, urged that London's house refuse and sludge from sewage disposal plants be deposited upon marsh and mud lands. London sludge, which now is hauled out to sea, amounts to three million tons yearly. House refuse reaches 1,500,000 tons yearly. Tooth Crystals. X-ray analysis showed J. Thewlis a close analogy between the structure of tooth enamel and the fertilizing mineral apatite. He hopes that further study will show how to prevent tooth decay. Enamel and apatite consist of fibres made up of hexagonal crystals in which precisely the same elements (calcium, oxygen...
First Race. Powered with one Napier-Schneider Cup 1,375-h. p. engine, against the four 1 ,650-h. p. Packard motors in Gar Wood's 38½-ft. Miss America X, the 24½-ft. duralumin-hulled challenger was well known to be much slower, even if her maximum speed was 100 m.p.h., as re- ported. Her chance was to beat Miss America X on the turns, which Hubert Scott-Paine expected to make at full speed while Miss America X was laboriously slowing down and regaining speed. The water was smooth when the boats roared out across...
...through to the second race, which turned out to be the most exciting of all Harmsworth Cup events. This time, his motors warmed up beforehand, Scott-Paine managed to get across the line first. At the first turn in the 7-mi. oval course Miss America X swerved past him. Thereafter Gar Wood patently tantalized Scott-Paine. Miss Britain III, leaping from the water every half mile, would inch up on Miss America X. Miss America X would spurt ahead, then relax. Neither boat broke records Miss America X averaged 86.937 statute m.p.h., Miss Britain III 85.789. But Scott-Paine...