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From his flat-topped walnut desk in the far corner Col. Young can step to a wall map and survey the domain which he helped to build and over which he rules. There a network of dark lines traces 21,764 mi. of airway. Scattered white pins mark the nation's 2,034 airports. Lighted emergency landing fields stand out as 382 green pins while 53 blue pins designate radio beacons, 1,567 red pins, rotating beacon lights, 386 nickel pins, acetylene blinkers...
...Vickers, Ltd., world's most famed makers of war paraphernalia, were ordered by the Air Ministry last week to stop work on the largest fighting and bombing sea plane ever begun in Great Britain, a monster weapon of destruction with a cruising range of 1,300 mi. "This economy," said a spokesman sadly, "is a distinct blow to the Empire's progress. Had she proved successful, we planned to build another ship almost twice as large and correspondingly more powerful." Vickers, Ltd. will some day build a plane with which New York can be bombed from London or vice versa...
...hard to replace. He is not only a good bridge player; he is also a good shot, a fine musher, and Canada's famed, revered ''Arctic Bishop." He was going to Montreal to be consecrated as Vicar Apostolic of Hudson Bay which, comprising some 1,600,000 sq. mi. of snow and ice. is probably Rome's largest vicariate...
...which measures a current of one electron per second, smallest current measured so far; 2) the device (including thyratron tubes) of Dr. Wynn Williams of Cambridge University, England, which counts alpha particles (nuclei of helium atoms) as they explode from radium at a speed of 12,000 mi. per sec., and ten microseconds apart. (A microsecond is one-millionth of a second.) Dr. Kenneth T. Bainbridge of Bartol Laboratories, Philadelphia, again described his two-ton mass-spectrograph which is sensitive to one-trillionth of a trillionth of an ounce (TIME, Feb. 22), which delicately indicated that the average atomic weight...
...century ago James Brooke left home, stocked a vessel with arms, took up piracy. Off the coast of Sarawak, rich province in northern Borneo, 800 mi. due east of Singapore, he stopped to rescue a beleaguered Sultan. The first thing the Sultan knew James Brooke was Raja of Sarawak. When Queen Victoria heard about his feat she knighted him. Present Raja, Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, is his grand-nephew...