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...clothing were being rushed into the city. To the east hundreds of workmen were driving spikes and laying rails for two new sections of track to bring Madrid into direct rail connection with Valencia again, for winter was coming on, and in the high altitude of the Spanish plateau there were not more than six or seven weeks of possible fighting weather left before operations must cease for the long winter's siege. Since the Rightists cut the direct rail route from Valencia just a few miles outside Madrid, communication with the coast has been by road...
...scientific expedition in North America in years has attracted more attention than that given during the past fortnight to a party, sponsored by Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, which was exploring a lofty plateau called Shiva Temple in Arizona's Grand Canyon. Nevertheless it seemed to some skeptical observers that the expedition which started out with the trappings of a scientific romance, had by last week assumed the cap & bells of a scientific joke...
Shiva is the Hindu god of destruction. Shiva Temple was so named by Major John Wesley Powell, leader of the first white man's march through the Grand Canyon in 1869. Some 300 acres in extent, the plateau towers 4,000 ft. above the canyon floor, 1,200 above a saddle which runs across to the canyon wall, twelve miles from the Grand Canyon railroad station. The butte is said by geologists to have been carved out by erosion between 12,000 and 35,000 years ago. First reports made it appear that the plateau on top was something...
...national drive against syphilis which Surgeon General Thomas Parran Jr. began last autumn, by last week had reached a high plateau of accomplishment. Dr. Parran and Editor Morris Fishbein of the American Medical Association each issued a new book on the subject last week and a half dozen similar books were already in bookstores.* The A. M. A. was ready to lend doctors a talkie from which they could learn how to diagnose and treat syphilis. This technical film, prepared by A. M. A. and U. S. Public Health Service experts, matched a "popular" film, prepared...
Bennett F. Bute, assistant in Geology, is already doing geology work in Persia, having left for Asia May 8. His position with the American OH Company takes him into the interior plateau of Persia, a region practically unknown geographically...