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...dragon will crawl across future maps of Missouri. Its head will be at Bagnell, in the central part of the State. Its tail and claws will twist 129 mi. westward. It will be labelled Lake of the Ozarks, largest artificial lake in the world, created by a dam across the Osage River built by Stone & Webster for Union Electric Light & Power Co. (North American subsidiary). St. Louisans and Kansas Citizens will have summer shacks and duck shooting lodges along its 1,300 mi. of shore line. St. Louisans, who will consume a large part of the dam's annual...
...From the Persian Gulf up the valleys of the Tigris and Euphrates, then along the coast of the Mediterranean to Jerusalem lies a great "fertile crescent," skirting the Arabian Desert. By continuing the western tip of this crescent into Egypt to the equally fertile Nile basin, a 3,500-mi. semicircle can be drawn from the Persian Gulf to the upper reaches of the Nile. It is this semicircle that Dr. Breasted has chosen for his field. All along it his expeditions are camped. They include: Luxor, up the Nile, headquarters for all Egyptian explorations; Abydos, lower down; Sakkara...
Also in the U. S. are a large number of students of space-flight who have formed the American Interplanetary Society. At their meetings they discuss current experiments, also proposed flights to the moon, to Mars, to Saturn, and regular passenger service across the Atlantic at 30 mi. altitudes in three hours, two hours, even a half hour. Most working rocketeers (unlike the superenthusiastic Esnault-Pelterie who foresees a trip to the moon in 20 years) are wary about making predictions...
...Dessau, Germany, the Junkers factory is completing its first "stratosphere" plane, a low-wing monoplane of 40 ft. wingspread with a sealed cabin and a special air compressor to permit the engine to operate at altitudes greater than 7 mi. Claimed speed: 1,000 m.p.h
...border record of 7 hr. 48 min. set last June by Broker-Crusader James Goodwin Hall. Wedell even intended to turn about at Vancouver and chase after Hawks back to Mexico. He paused for fuel at Reno, zipped over Vancouver Airport in less than 6 hr., flew 100 mi. farther before he realized he had passed his goal. Turning back, he landed with a new record of 6 hr. 42 min. Awaiting Pilot Wedell was a note from Hawks: "Best of luck. Jimmy. See you in Mexico tonight." But Wedell had enough for one day. Meanwhile Pilot Hawks had flown...