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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Washington Crash. For a pre-Christmas surprise to friends and family, three men planned a flight from Washington, D. C., to Massachusetts-Representative William Kirk Kaynor, who had never flown before, to visit his family; Stanley B. Lowe, his secretary, to get first sight of his newborn child; Arthur A. McGill, a friend, to remarry. Assistant Secretary of War Frederick Trubee Davison loaned them the trimotored Fokker which he always used himself. Pilot was Capt. Harry A. Dinger, "who had more experience in piloting trimotored transports than any other pilot in the Army Air Corps." Mechanic was Buck Private Vladimir...
...announced last week. One of his graduate students, Dr. P. H. Carr of Gaffney, S. C., had noted how pitted the metal targets of X-ray tubes became after long electronic bambardment,* and inferred that flicking light also left its invisible mark. To bring such marks, if existent into sight meant long trials of various reagents on such battered metals. In the end he found that mercury vapor "developed" electronic engravings on gold, iodine on silver, hydrochloric acid on zinc, iodine on copper...
Eielson is vice president and general manager of Alaskan Airways. Inc., subsidiary of the powerful and influential Aviation Corp. He was on the second flight of rescue to an ice-beleaguered fur trading ship when he dropped from sight somewhere near Cape North, Siberia. He and Borland had food for a month. Last week that time elapsed. At Teller, Alaska, has been established a secondary base for the impatient rescuers...
...Witnessed an appalling sight as extreme Left-wing Laborites revolted from their party and voted with the Conservative Opposition for the first time in history, thus nearly toppling down the Labor Cabinet on the eve of the Hoover-MacDonald Naval Parley...
...When you sight the fox say, "Yonder he goes." Say it quietly and "make sure first that it is a fox and not a cat or a cur dog. Don't say 'There it goes.' Do not get excited. Remember that foxes have been viewed and hallooed away for centuries. It is nothing...