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Contented subjects of His Serene Highness Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein, beamed last week at news that he had purchased for $1,000,000 a private estate in Austria approximately half the size of Liechtenstein (area: 65 sq. mi...
...more events unless the total prize money for closed-course races was upped from $28,000 to what they said the committee had advertised, $100,000. Barked Pilot Benny Howard, whose small, home-made racers Mike and Ike had taken first & second places in a 50-mi. event that day: ''Why, there'll be $50,000 worth of planes cracked up before the end of the week...
...eclipse is complete along a 100-mi, path, partial over the entire U. S. The path of totality moves at nearly 34 mi. per min. from northwest to southeast? from the Arctic Ocean, past the North Magnetic Pole (near where Professor Arthur Holly Compton hopes to be), across Hudson Bay, James Bay, Province of Quebec, New Hampshire, northern Vermont and southern Maine, the northeastern tip of Massachusetts, Cape Cod. The eclipse ends in the middle of the Atlantic...
...last year, and again last week. Last fortnight Professor Erich Regener of the Institute of Technology at Stuttgart despatched a free balloon from Stuttgart. Attached were a self-recording altimeter and electroscope. The balloon returned to earth, close to home. It had risen to 92.000 ft., nearly 17½ mi., about 7 mi. higher than Professor Piccard's. Professor Regener's automatic electroscope readings disagreed with those which Professor Piccard reported last year. (Last week Professor Piccard had no time to interpret his new readings.) Professor Piccard then said that the intensity of cosmic rays increased steadily...
...mi. he drove the car with the white rat somewhere inside. Sometimes it would come out in the tonneau, frisking over the seats. Once it appeared on the hood, dashed across the windshield. Finally, one day, Mr. Baldwin drove over a bumpy road. Out fell the rat. Mr. Baldwin sped away, last saw the rat running after...