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...Products has been selling flexible, shatterproof, one-side recordings of popular tunes, on news and cigar stands. Peak sales have reached 500,000 weekly, at 15? per disc; but the average is about 200,000. Formerly these tenin. discs played for only three min.; now, through a new "micro-channel" process (more grooves), introduced three or four months ago, they play for five min. The Durium Junior will play for one and one-half min. Durium Products claims there will be no waste circulation: people who buy the Hit-of-the-Week will play the Durium Junior as well, listen...
...became interested in aviation in 1910 while reporting the First International Aviation Meet at Belmont Park, L. I. for the New York Times. Two months later he sailed for Europe to be taught to fly by Louis Blériot, first man to fly the English Channel.* In another three months he took his "brevet," or pilot's license from the F. A. L, brought the first racing Blériot to the U. S. and began to take one prize after another for first flights in various sections of the East. One prize...
...death was tremendous for a private citizen. He wrote fluently, often beautifully, never let the weight of his thought conquer his fondness of imagery. ''The ox of today." he said, "aspires to no more than did the ox when man first yoked him. The sea gull of the English Channel, who poises him self above the swift steamer, wants no bet ter food or lodging than the gulls who circled round as the keels of Caesar's galleys first grated on an English beach...
...generally recognized as a world authority on harbors and waterways. He went to Hudson Bay, poked about among the jack-pine and reindeer moss of the two trading posts and finally decided on Fort Churchill. Heavy tides and spring freshets make the 15-mile channel from the Nelson River to Hudson Bay too difficult to keep open...
...Austrian named Karl Naumestnik, 38, last week walked across the English Channel from Cape Gris Nez to Dover. The direct distance is 20 mi. but currents carried the walker out of his course. He made the crossing in eight hours. On his feet he wore a pair of water skis. Two other Austrians tried to follow him but grew weary...