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Commander Ronne flew 39,000 miles of mapping flights through air so pure that a pilot could see 200 miles ahead. His special trimetrogon cameras (three cameras working simultaneously) could snap horizon-to-horizon photographs every 20 seconds for the mapmakers. The photos would make it possible to chart the last unknown coastline in the world. With the explorer's prerogative, he named places for friends and colleagues: Edith Ronne Land for his wife, Isaiah Bowman Coast (for the geographer-president of Johns Hopkins), Lowell Thomas Mountains, Larry Gould Bay (for the explorer-president of Carleton College...
...Your chart points out: "Light from earth would . . . return to earth in an estimated 300,000,000,000 light years...
...dent had the commodity price break made in the cost of living? Last week Ewan Clague, boss of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, called reporters into his chart-filled conference room to tell them. He had just finished collecting last-minute data, by telegraph, from twelve cities, kept his staff up most of the night assembling it. Said Clague: retail food prices have declined 3 to 4% from their alltime high...
...Leet, professor of Geology, announced yesterday the development of a technique by which earthquake-recorders can discover and chart storms over 1000 miles away. The College's new seismograph, which made its debut last month, may make the weather-man's job 25 percent more accurate, he said...
Effect. The commodity break posed a big question. Was it the start of a healthy general shake-out of inflated prices, or the ominous warning of a recession? When grains broke in 1920 (see chart), other commodity prices sank with them and threw the whole economy into a temporary tailspin. Before last week's break, wholesale commodity prices (as measured by the Bureau of Labor Statistics) were within 3.5 points of their 1920 peak. The grain prices had gone far above their post World War I high. Though the break had come too fast for official tabulation to keep...