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...hundred miles down the delta from New Orleans, Artist Brown discovered Boothville, La., on a peninsula 30 mi. long inhabited exclusively by leggers, river pilots and orange growers who live in houses raised on stilts to protect them from sudden floods and hurricanes. There he spends six months each year. His girl there was a beautiful redhead who was supposed to have descended from pirate stock. She eloped with a butcher...
...Michelson perform his light experiments. Since he was a young physics instructor at Annapolis, Dr. Michelson has repeated his measurements from time to time, refining his technique with each performance. In 1926, he shot a beam of light from Mt. Wilson to San Antonio Peak, 22 mi. away, determined that light travels 186,284 mi. per sec. Later he was convinced that he might have made an error of 18.62 mi. per sec. because of earth movements. This time he has prepared a mile-long vacuum tube which will more nearly approach the conditions through which light travels...
...civil aircraft flew 68,669,928 mi. in the six months, a gain of 12,468,590 mi. over the same period in 1929. There were 930 accidents, one for every 73,839 mi. of flight. In 1929 (spring) there was an accident every 72,612 mi. Schedule transport planes suffered six fatal accidents in 16,902,728 mi. flown?one per 2,817,121 mi., compared with one fatality every 1,022,871 mi. for the same period...
Notable was the fact that "miscellaneous" flights were about 11,000,000 mi. less than in July-December 1929. Part of the difference is due to weather, which is better for flying in the last six months than in the first six months of any calendar year. Part is also due to more careful procedure within the Department of Commerce, more rigorous checking of pilots' extravagant claims of "hours." But much of the slackness was undoubtedly a falling off of costly private flying, even of joy-hopping, because of the Depression...
Sick Seaboard. Early this year was consummated a re-organization of Seaboard Air Line Railway Co., whose 4,500 mi. of track stretch north and south between Richmond and Miami, west between Wilmington and Birmingham. A feature of the re-organization was that it provided the road with $20,000,000 new working capital. But business depression has cut Seaboard's net in the first nine months of 1930 to $4,527,000 against $8,479,000 in that period last year. Seaboard common has dropped from $12½ to $1, preferred from $28 to $2¼. Last week the j railroad...