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...main part of the island (area about 255 sq. mi.) is made up of a mountainous east end covered with perennially green forest and a drier west end covered with cattle ranches, thousands of acres of pineapples, and the Hoolehua-Palaau and Kalanianaole homesteads and house lots of the Hawaiian Homes Commission-totaling some 7,500 acres-on which that Commission is successfully rehabilitating some 1,250 Hawaiian farmers and their families. There are now about 410 "patients" at the settlement and a population of near 10,000 on the main island...
Senate Investigator Charles Harry Payne: On a 9,000-mi. inspection trip, he found "lack of training, laxity, indifference and an almost complete lack of understanding of the requirements of a pilot." Near Charlottesville, Va., calling for weather data, he found the observer away, his wife at the post. Said she: "I reckon from where I'm sitting it's cloudy." Trembling with emotion, Witness Payne ended by shouting: "Take the Department of Commerce out of politics. You are gambling with human lives...
...idea of calling his Derby Association ''Transcontinental" was a shrewd device on the part of Promoter Seltzer to prevent his event from seeming too sordid, add a touch of the outdoors. A Roller Derby course is 4,000 mi. long. In the Coliseum last week, a map at one end of the arena showed that contestants, skating 85 to 110 mi. per day, from 1:30 p. m. until 12:30 a. m., had last week covered a distance equivalent to a journey from San Diego to Chicago. As they set off around the Coliseum for New York...
...possible and prevent some Italians from disposing secretly of a much smaller quantity of smuggled arms. Straightforward editorials in his best British vein had failed to get results. Therefore Editor Woodhead touched off his fake advertisement with volcanic results, as droves of Chinese police rushed about looking for "Lo Mi Su" and "Li Mu Su," the ideographs into which their superiors had translated Romulus & Remus...
...water. As evidence that modern high explosives are not to be tampered with, Dr. Robert Williams Wood of Johns Hopkins exhibited a lantern slide depicting the impression of an apple leaf driven into solid steel by guncotton, declared the detonation in a tube of nitroglycerin proceeds at four mi. per sec., described a new explosive, iodide of nitrogen, which is so skittish that the landing of a housefly sets...