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...years New York City's custom has been to load most of its garbage aboard scows, tow them about 40 mi. to sea, dump them. Wind and tide drift much of the refuse back to shore, spreading it along New Jersey's otherwise fine resort beaches, polluting the water, depreciating property values. New Jersey asked the Supreme Court to enjoin New York's garbage dumping as a public nuisance. Last week the Supreme Court ordered the city to stop its evil practice, but allowed it a "reasonable time" (yet to be fixed) in which to construct garbage...
...customers are the Wilkins and Williams expeditions into the Arctic, the Dickey expedition through the Orinoco country. A goodly number of U. S. amateurs, notably Artist Rockwell Kent, are heading for convenient subArctic regions. For the effete, the Soviet Government has organized a tour this summer aboard the icebreaker Maligin from Archangel to Franz Josef Land and Nova Zembla. When the Maligin reaches its "top," above 83° N. Latitude, ambitious tourists may make a short airplane flight towards the North Pole. The minute last week that hatless Explorer Wilkins had finished his rapid queries concerning stores for his Arctic...
Charmed Life. Lieut. Commander George Pearson Glen Kidston, rich, young and debonair, was sometimes called "the man who cannot be killed." A naval cadet at 15, he was aboard the training ship Hogue when it was torpedoed, was rescued hours later and transferred to the Aboukir which likewise was torpedoed. A grown man and sportsman, he flew with the late Belgian Banker Alfred Loewenstein and crashed. He was piloting a speed boat at 60 m.p.h. when it broke in two. In 1929 he was one of two survivors of the crash of a Lufthansa plane in England which killed...
...whole 47-day engagement, beginning Sept. 26, was to cause the Germans to draw their divisions from farther west along the front to hold the A. E. F. here and thereby make the simultaneous British and French offensives that much easier. During the fighting General Pershing's headquarters were aboard his train at Souilly. More than 1,000,000 U. S. soldiers took part in this engagement, captured 26,000 prisoners, suffered 117,000 casualties. To the infantry, to the air service, to the medical corps went Pershing praise. Singled out for special mention were the "Lost Battalion," Lieut. Samuel...
Goehr's Malpopita is thoroughly morbid, as are nearly all current European art-efforts. Adam Schickedanz, after ten years in a factory, seeks adventure, falls in with sailors who persuade him to ship aboard a rumrunner. Fleeing from U. S. Government boats, the ship is wrecked on the island of Malpopita where the crew eventually discovers oil and Adam becomes once more a heckled, hard-working under...