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...mammals such as rabbits and squirrels, whereas the bald eagle's favorite food is fish. The Walkers took a baby golden eagle from an eyrie in California, christened him "Caesar," trained him to fly and return like a falcon. When Caesar was fully grown, they tested his capacity load...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Eagle Power | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...chief headaches of the natural gas industry is the problem of balancing summer & winter load. Enough natural gas to heat a city's homes is far too much to brew its summer tea. Thus most pipe lines from the gas fields have either too much capacity for most efficient operations, or too little...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: UTILITIES: Liquid Gas | 6/24/1940 | See Source »

...hear (on their auto radios) what they failed to see. After 200 miles of monotonous droning-with only two minor crack-ups to break the monotony-the race began to get exciting. Shaw, who had been leading the field, stopped at his pit for new tires and a tank-load of fuel (alcohol). When he returned to the track two-and-a-half minutes later, he found Rex Mays, Mauri Rose, Ted Horn and Joel Thorne ahead of him. For 60 miles he chased them. As they momentarily dropped out, one by one, for refueling, Shaw whizzed ahead, gained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Shaw Wins | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...from express. Holland's K. L. M. carried almost ten times as much on a ton-mile basis as big Eastern Air Lines. T. A. C. A., lugging everything from pencils to mining machinery through Central America in antiquated Ford "tin geese," carried more than twice the freight load of all U. S. domestic lines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CARRIERS: Freight by Air? | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

...reforms him. In four days, with the help of coconut milk and Koko (her trained chimpanzee), Miss Lamour has Mr. Preston totally abstaining in a brightly flowered breechclout. In addition, Typhoon provides a submarine full of mutineers which dives with open hatches, a yacht load of visiting Polynesian pirates, a raging jungle fire that is quenched by a super-colossal tidal wave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 6/10/1940 | See Source »

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