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...Conway and Fryeburg. The New York, New Haven & Hartford has scheduled excursions from New York and way stations to Fabyan, N. H., and from Boston to Provincetown. The New England Steamship Co. advertised a personally escorted total eclipse Cape Cod tour from Manhattan for $25. Hotels outside the 100-mi, belt of totality organized motorbus services to take guests into the zone...
...Caribbean and South America. Few weeks ago Transamerican Airlines bowed itself out of the North Atlantic field, leaving P. A. A. to work out its projected air passage to Europe via Greenland and Iceland. Last week P. A. A. acquired another strategic outpost-Alaskan Airways, comprising 2,500 mi. of lines. The future was too obscure to be read in detail but any observer could make plausible guesses merely on the strength of Capt. Wolfgang von Gronau's recent predictions of airplane service between Europe and the Orient via the Northern Passage, Canada, northern U. S., the Pacific Coast...
...Last week unmanned balloons sent up 17½ mi. (a record) by Germany's Professor Erich Regener brought down evidence limiting Piccard's observation that the intensity of cosmic rays increases steadily with altitude. Above 39,000 ft. the intensity tends to become constant...
...start was a 20-year-old, 114-lb. Argentinian newsboy, Juan Carlos Zabala. He wore blue trunks, a white polo hat to protect him from the sun, carried a handkerchief to mop his face. The field of 28 plodded through the hot streets of Los Angeles. They had 26 mi., 385 yd. to go in the race that closed the track & field events of the Xth Olympiad...
Iron Gift Horse. Two years ago the I. C. C. denied Colorado & Southern Ry.'s petition to junk its 185-mi. narrow gauge division between Denver and Leadville, valued at $3,600,000. For 32 years it had been steadily losing money; annual deficits had mounted to $400,000. Then Colorado & Southern (a subsidiary of the Burlington) tried to give it away. No one wanted it. Finally Lawyer Victor A. Miller of Denver said he would take the line as a gift, and last week he applied to the I. C. C. for permission to accept it. Lawyer Miller...