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...late Dr. Edwin Fitch Northrup, who was exploring for any method of electrical heating which scientists might have overlooked. Early induction furnaces used low power with frequencies of 20,000 to 80,000 cycles. This limited them to laboratory and small-scale work until development in the '20s of generators capable of producing strong currents of 1,000 to 12,000 cycles-good enough for most industrial purposes...
Died. Mary Lewis, 42, popular operatic soprano of the '20s; of gall bladder and kidney trouble; in Manhattan. She spent three years with the Ziegfeld Follies, made her debut with the Metropolitan in 1926 as Mimi in La Bohême. The next year she married Basso Michael Bohnen and quit. She divorced Bohnen, in 1931 married the late oil and shipping tycoon Robert L. Hague...
...A.E.F. observer, General Dargue studied French and British methods of training air corps personnel, began whooping it up for a bigger air force in the '20s. He was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for successfully leading five amphibians on an 18,000-mile flight through South America, the first of the Pan-American aerial good-will tours. Over Buenos Aires another plane crashed into Dargue's. While he was still too bewildered to think straight, he was thrown from his wrecked plane. His ripcord caught in a bit of debris which opened his parachute and he floated...
Even the steel frames of factories and shipways now abuilding are quietly welded together. Silenced for good is the awful din of the structural riveter who clattered up against the U.S. sky in the '20s, a splendid symbol and at the same time an infernal nuisance...
...churchmen's view, the collegiate religious revival, no war-born affair, is rooted in profound undergraduate disillusionment in the ideals of the '20s. Said...