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...Lloyd ("Pappy") Shaw is superintendent of the famed, progressive Cheyenne Mountain public school (elementary and high-school grades) in suburban Colorado Springs, at the foot of Pike's Peak. He is better known as the leader ("caller") of a troupe of high-school square dancers who in the last few years have pranced from coast to coast. In their wake they left a host of square-dancing clubs and a boom in square-dance costume manufacturing...
...annual harvesttime outbreak of poliomyelitis (infantile paralysis) neared its peak last week, rumors of an epidemic swept southern and eastern U.S. They were exaggerated. Nowhere did the disease reach epidemic proportions. Hundreds of cases were reported (as against only two cases of plague-see col. 1). But hundreds of cases are not abnormal at this time of year. Facts...
...rapid expansion to meet both emergency and normal civilian demand were 39.2%. Notably on the anti-expansionist side were railway and utility men. But not all railway executives believe that their own present capacity is enough; 19.6% did not believe that they could handle this fall's traffic peak without delays...
When Moss turned up at Dayton's McCook Field with his turbo in 1918, he met the traditional experience of all inventors: the "glassy eye," as he recalls, of skeptical industrialists and Army brass hats. He took them to the top of Pike's Peak, where a 350-h.p. Liberty motor gave only 230 h.p. in the thin air at 14,000 feet. When Moss cut in his supercharger, the motor roared away...
...fastnesses where they breed. Total extermination of the crickets is not planned, nor is it possible. "We are not interested in what they do back in the mountains," said a bombing officer last week. "So far as we are concerned, the crickets can eat the top off of Pikes Peak if they want...