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...Sept. 8 issue. "Fin-land, whence come house servants who are either very fine and faithful or extremely stupid." What do you know about Finns? Send a correspondent to New York Mills, located within the second largest Finn settlement in America; a section 30 by 60 mi., where 23,000 Finns reside. In New York Mills is published the oldest and at one time the largest Finnish-American newspaper, a communist triweekly, the Uusi Kotimaa. Though not a Finn, I have spent the past seven years supervising their school of 300 pupils, 92% of which are of Finnish extraction...
...generation is a long time to remember but I well recall going up in the air when the papers told of the shooting of Andree's carrier pigeon. The little messenger had flown 150 mi. toward home and came to rest on the mast of a ship whose captain shot him. At -the time I wrote a vitriolic article for a local paper condemning the brutality of men in general and of that captain in particular. As that ship proceeded on its way it met another vessel and learned that Andree had taken carrier pigeons with...
Gauntly in the sagebrush on a windswept Nevada plain about 22 mi. from the Boulder Canyon damsite stood Secretary of the Interior Ray Lyman Wilbur last week. He held a sledge hammer in his hand. Up over his shoulder he swung it, awkwardly but resoundingly brought it down on a silver spike, pinning together a 90-lb. (per yard) rail and its first tie. Thus he began construction (by Merritt-Chapman & Scott Corp.) of a Union Pacific spur railroad which is to link Las Vegas, Nev. and the Boulder Canyon of the Colorado River, first step in building...
High Speed Protons. An apparatus for accelerating the motion of protons until they race along at 37,000 mi. per sec. has been successfully tested, explained Dr. Ernest Orlando Lawrence, physicist at the University of California. The new method does not involve the difficult high voltages which have been thought necessary in producing high speed sub-atomic projectiles. Protons (hydrogen atoms stripped of their electrons) are sent back and forth between two semicircular hollow plates by means of alternating currents of 10,000 volts and a magnetic field. As they continue in a spiral motion they gather speed, finally shoot...
Greatest of natural gas pipe lines will be the $40,000,000, 1,250-mi. line started by Missouri-Kansas Pipe Line Co. last June (TIME, June 9). It starts at Amarillo, Tex., runs eastward to Indiana, branches southward to Kentucky. Last week a new and potent partner joined hands with M-K in this development. A half interest in all of the pipe line's operating properties (with exception of its Kentucky and Indiana units) was sold to Columbia Oil & Gasoline Corp., Columbia Gas & Electric Corp...