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Minnesota. William H. Jensen of Browns Valley was having his driveway repaired. In a load of gravel dumped out on his road he spied a hand-shaped stone implement and fragments of human bones. He notified Dr. Albert Ernest Jenks of the University of Minnesota who hustled to the scene with six students, probed the gravel pit. Seven weapons were found in all, some of them true Folsom points, mixed with 17 pieces of a badly mashed human skeleton. Dr. Jenks called its one-time owner "Browns Valley Man," put his age at 12,000 years...
...with firing squads, goad them to achievements of despair in making antique rolling stock roll on. Goader-in-Chief is the Dictator's dear friend Lazar Kaganovich. About this time last year Comrade Kaganovich thundered, "The railways of the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics must and shall load 68,000 cars every...
...Washington-Detroit mail & passenger run Central Airlines put as co-pilot Helen Richey of Pittsburgh, co-holder (with the late Mrs. Frances Harrell Marsalis) of the world's refueling endurance flight record for women (9 days 21 hr. 42 min.). Spinster Richey, 25, carried seven passengers, a big load of mail & express, on her first transport flight...
...view of weight distribution by moving the motor forward. Free-wheeling is on the decline, and dual-ratio axles or over-drives permitting slower motor speeds at high road speeds are on the rise. More powerful brakes require less foot pressure. Crankcases are ventilated, generators larger to carry the load of radios and heaters. Prices are generally unchanged but several manufacturers have added lower-priced lines of the same name...
...storm that brought many a vessel distress, twice sent the barometer from 30 in. to 28 in.-lowest Captain Binks had ever seen. So rough was New York's almost landlocked harbor that mail boats could take off only 700 of the Olympic's mail load of 13,108 bags. Captain Binks called it "the worst bloomin' sea I ever saw in 35 years at Quarantine." Unconnected with Captain Binks's retirement was the accident seven months ago in which the Olympic cut the Nantucket Lightship in half, killed seven of her crew (TIME...