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...Italian bombers, correspondents can use the telegraph line which follows the country's only railroad into French Somaliland. Should both wireless and telegraph be destroyed, dispatches can be sent by runners to Gallabat, in the Sudan, or by chartered plane to the British cable station at Khartoum, 500 mi. from Addis Ababa...
...Address No. 2, the President was out to defend Federal spending for Public Works and the principle of Government-in-the-power-business, two more issues he has presented to his 1936 Republican opponents. After paying homage to the dam's 726-ft. height, its 115-mi. lake, its potential 1,835,000 h. p. of electrical energy, he declared...
...Fiorello Henry LaGuardia of New York personally put his city's bid in for 1937. Even more foresighted, the town of Closter, N. J. (pop. 2,502) announced its candidacy for the 1976 meeting place, by which time its supporters claimed it would have absorbed New York, 20 mi. away. Cleveland's bed & blimp...
...instruments usually covered by canvas to foil snoopers. Bald, secretive Professor Goddard showed them a new rocket he has sent on short nights at 700 m.p.h., a new gyroscope designed to keep it from wobbling. By 1936, he predicted, he will be ready to send rockets perhaps 150 mi. into the Kennelly-Heaviside layer of ionized air with instruments which will record meteorological and other data, float back to earth on parachutes. Pleased, Messrs. Guggenheim & Lindbergh promised another year of support by the Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation, climbed into their plane, flew away...
...bids took only two. The other two groups, largely non-Van Sweringen stocks, went to Hallgarten & Co. for $1,582,000. For control of coal mines, street railways, office buildings, suburban developments, trucking companies, a hotel, a department store and Alleghany Corp., through which they run 23,000 mi. of railroads, "O. P." and "M. J." paid...