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...time was marked, because the Hudson is not broad enough for 133 little boats to start at the same time. Having fired his pistol, Commodore Eldridge motored to an airplane, flew to New York, waited for the winner. From Albany to Manhattan the Hudson River measures 132¼ mi. Railroad trains cover the distance in three hours. By air it takes 90 min. The winner of last week's outboard motorboat race took 3 hrs. 36 min. 40 sec. When the yellow boat with its Johnson D motor reached 152nd St., Commodore Eldridge fired another pistol and black-mustached...
...large two-story affair with a roomy control tower rising above one end. It contains waiting room, telegraph desks, book shop, rest rooms, quarters for police, immigration, customs, airline and air administration officials. From the passenger's viewpoint Croydon, like so many U. S. airports, is far (12 mi.) from the centre of the community (London). But the English air lines provide comfortable automobiles between airport and metropolis...
...week that the Harvard Medical School will experiment on the same lines. Harvard is installing a steel pressure cylinder 35 ft. long, 8 ft. in diameter, in which investigators can change air pressure from 60 Ibs. per sq. in. to the legerity at the top of Mt. Everest (5 mi. high). Primary studies will be on heart disease, pneumonia, bends...
...slush was packing up just below the cities. Water was rising with threat of flood. In lowlands the Missouri, streaming from the Rocky Mountain watersheds across Montana and draining North Dakota's Little Missouri, Knife and Heart rivers, had spread from its 500-ft. channel over a 6-mi. runway. The cities were in danger. Officials telegraphed President Hoover, pleading that Army bombers be sent to break the ice jam by dropping explosives...
...explored the Great Barrier Reef, 1,200-mi. coral band fringing northeast Australia, for the Carnegie Institution of Washington. Leader of the expedition was Dr. C. M. Yonge, Englishman, whose essays on marine science, Vueer Fish, Brentano's has just published ($2.50). Mrs. Harvey, as Dr. Ethel Nicholson Browne, taught biology at Wellesley and Cornell until their marriage in 1916. They live at Princeton, have two sons...