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...boot that is Italy continued to be studded with bombs last week, as it has been for more than a fortnight (TIME, July 27). One, unexploded, was found dangling outside a frontier guard's window in the village of Mattegna, near Trieste. Another went off with a blast at 1:40 a. m. in a Genoa street, breaking windows and giving officials the scare of their lives. For the King was arriving...
...production last week was running at 33% of capacity against 64% in the same week last year. Iron Age indicated that July will probably mark the turning point in this important index. Pig-iron production during June dropped to the lowest level of any month since February 1922. Fourteen blast furnaces were blown out, leaving 91 in operation, the lowest number since December 1921. Steel ingot production for the first six months averaged 98,442 tons a day against 152.120 in the first half of 1930. United States Steel Corp. entered July with unfilled orders of 3.479,323 tons...
Within one week after they flew the Atlantic to Germany and Denmark in the Bellanca Liberty, the names of Pilot Holger Hoiriis and Passenger Otto Hillig could scarcely be found in U. S. newspapers. Their momentary flame of fame had been blown out by the propeller blast of the glorious Winnie Mae (see col. i). Here & there little two-paragraph despatches told of their jaunt from Copenhagen back into Germany, where Mr. Hillig became king for a day to the 300 inhabitants of his native Steinbrucken, whence he emigrated to the U. S. 40 years ago. There he shook hands...
...rail Zeppelin" is 85 ft. long. Streamlined into its tail is a 600-h. p. in-line motor which drives a four-bladed "pusher" propeller. Testing for damage from the propeller blast, or from suction caused by the whizzing body, observers last week placed papers near the rails. As the locomotive roared by. none of the papers stirred, so effective was the streamlining...
...last fortnight for the slackening of steel demand. Production last week was averaging a shade under 40% of capacity against 41% the week before, 70% in the same week last year. Scrap steel prices reached the lowest levels last week since December 1914. At the end of May 105 blast furnaces were in operation, a loss of eight for the month, and only 33.4% of the total. The course of the automobile industry is expected to affect vitally future steel operations...