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...into fervent being. Claiming to represent 40 civic organizations, it had deluged the city with petitions, dodgers, tickets for the mass meeting. Other clubs and societies had pelted the board with protests. Cried the Tax Service Association of Illinois: "What we are doing in Chicago is to take a backward step of which even half-savage Russia would be ashamed...
...seater Curtiss-Wright Junior one day last week over Hartford, Conn. when suddenly the motor quit, the plane's nose pulled up steeply. Sam Levin had enough experience in gliders to know that a stall, a spin, probably a crash were imminent. He glanced hastily backward at Pilot Frederick T. Hawes seated in the rear cockpit just forward of the pusher-type motor. Pilot Hawes's eyes were half closed, his tongue protruded. He was being strangled by his scarf which was being wound around the hub of the propeller. Alert Gliderman Levin connected the dual controls...
Stretching back beyond the Century of Progress will be a replica of Fort Dearborn (1803), a Lama temple from Jehol imported by Vincent Bendix, a Mayan ruin reproduced after the approximately 700-year-old original in Yucatan by Tulane's Frans Blom. Climax of the backward time flight is "A Million Years Ago." On a small rounded mountain a caveman and his woman crouch low while the horrid monsters of King Kong and The Lost World stomp & roar, waggle their heads, lash their tails. New York's Messmore & Damon, U. S. monopolists on the construction of mechanized monsters...
...Research Director George Paul Luckey told the Horological Institute about the "time microscope," a device has contrived for making quick tests of a watch's accuracy. At split-second intervals a revolving reflector flashes a light on the watch's balance wheel at the centre of its backward & forward movement. If the balance wheel's speed is the same as the reflector's, the arm looks stationary (stroboscopic effect). Otherwise a double image appears and indicates that the watch must be readjusted. In a one-minute test the time microscope shows a watch...
...United States Government has . . . taken a step backward into the darkness of the Middle Ages," snapped crusty old Editor Jacob Seibert last week in his Commercial & Financial Chronicle, referring to the decision to pay Government gold bond interest in paper dollars. But U. S. Business took a big step forward. Chart-watchers throughout the land happily eyed certain thick black indexes creeping slowly above the line of May 1932. For the first time in four long years of Depression, they said, U. S. Business was definitely better than it had been twelve months before. Automobile production for the third successive...