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...more have been sold. Last week he reported that the average domestic consumption of power jumped from 793 kwh. in 1933 to 858 kwh. last year. His latest innovation is to offer free current to customers who increase their consumption by certain amounts. Thus, if a householder boosts his meter reading 10 kwh. per month, he may have the next 50 kwh. without charge...
...year. In this week's workouts, he ran the 600 within one and four fifths seconds of the time which Fuqua, the speedy western runner, made in the K. of C. meet. The favorite in the half-mile will be Elien Brown, Kansan who won the junior national 800-meter title last year in 1:52.02. Though Bliss is not expected to heat Brown, the Harvard runner may take second place...
...fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Blue Hall Meteorological Observatory on Friday, an informal luncheon and a program of three minute talks on phases of the observatory's history and present work has been arranged. These talks are to be broadcast from the observatory's experimental five meter radio transmitter, W1XW, probably between 2.38 and 3 o'clock, and will be primarily for the benefit of the staff of the Mt. Washington Observatory, a subsidiary of Blue Hill...
...desperadoes as the Midwest had ever known. The Government met ruthlessness with ruthlessness. First Dillinger man to go down was Jack Klutas, shot near Chicago on Jan. 6. Herbert Youngblood followed him to death in March. Federal men got Dillinger himself in July. One month later Homer Van Meter was shot down in St. Paul. As 1934 drew to a close the only Dillinger gangster of any importance left at large was John Hamilton, 35-year-old bandit who killed a sheriff while helping his chief escape from jail at Lima, Ohio...
...Harvard Amateur Radio Club last night voted to build a five-meter transmitter with which to establish communications with the Oak Ridge Observatory station. Officers were elected and an executive committee chosen. The committee consists of Robert S. Foster '37, William J. Hammond '37, Robert V. Langmuir '35, Elmer F. Morgan '37, and MacDonald Nyhen '36, while the officers are: Gurdon R. Abel '37 treasurer; Elmer F. Morgan '37, station manager; and MacDonald Nyhen '36, secretary...