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...electricity other than by fuel or waterfall. Rising and falling tides contain huge power; hence a project is under way for dams and spillways where Maine and New Brunswick meet at Passamaquoddy Bay. The sun pours billions of heat units upon the earth; hence an experimental sun engine at Mount Wilson Observatory. Volcanic regions are hot just below the ground surface; hence on the west U. S. Coast and in Italy pipes are driven down, water poured into them, useful steam taken out. The surface of tropical waters is, much warmer than the depths; hence the work of Georges Claude...
Therefore, on May 3, 1926, President Gerardo Machado y Morales of Cuba announced a new and corrective policy. Cuba, largest (22% of total) world producer, would limit its planting. Thus, argued Cubans, would supply be brought down to demand. Thus would prices mount, profits increase...
...into Virginia President Hoover sent his secretary, Lawrence Richey, in search of trout streams for presidential fishing this summer. The President does not favor Mount Weather in the Blue Ridge, selected by Calvin Coolidge, as a week-end retreat (TIME, Feb. 25). He said it is hot and offers nothing much but scenery...
Crimson debaters will mount the rostrum in Paine Hall tonight at 8.15 o'clock in an effort to vanquish the Carleton College representatives. The subject for discussion will be "Resolved. That the jury system should be abolished," with the University supporting the negative...
...announcement of Harvard's free loan of the Stadium for the game with Stanford year after next. In making this loan Harvard has gone considerably beyond the usual limits of intercollegiate generosity. On the financial side it means the sacrifice of her share of gate receipts that will mount well up into the hundred thousands. And as Dartmouth usually counts on the Harvard game as by far her largest source of athletic revenue, the additional income from the Stanford game will mean a great deal in the further development of athletics at Dartmouth...