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Though TIME was cautioned, it nevertheless published information contained in a random and unofficial news report from South America to the effect that NYRBA had petitioned for cancelation of Argentine Government contract for service of Buenos Aires to New York, Santiago and to Montevideo, giving as the reason for the petition: losses of 4,000,000 pesos. This reason was never given the Argentine Government and was officially refuted by NYRBA officials. Petition for cancelation of contract was made in order to simplify readjustment of routes and mail dispatch between the two American companies which will...
...were to fly 10,000 miles annually in regularly scheduled U. S. transport planes, he might suffer a crackup in the 20th year; might be killed in the 106th. Were the same man to cover the same distance in random flights (sightseeing, joyhopping with friends, et al.) he must anticipate an accident every 7.4 years, prepare for death in the 37th. This according to the civil air accident report for July-December 1929, published last week by the aeronautics branch, Department of Commerce...
...Laird of Colgate has made a sleep-habit survey of 509 distinguished U. S. men, learned some of their ways of putting themselves to sleep: sticking feet out from under covers, straining eyes, random thinking, repeating Christian names, plans for an ideal home, extracting square roots, eating onions, praying. Of those questioned, only 2% used alcohol to induce sleep; half of them were distinguished college professors...
...between an English lady and the gamekeeper on her husband's estate: all details were given, all Anglo-Saxon unprintable words were printed. Author Lawrence defended his book, attacked the literary pirates who had stolen it, in a preface (published separately last year in the U. S. by Random House), My Skirmish with Jolly Roger. Now he pursues the subject further, in a booklet called Pornography and Obscenity...
...Charles Edouard Jeanneret, famed in Paris for his revolutionary ideas and dicta on city-planning, tells didactically and illustrates exhaustively his version of the future. Hugh Ferriss, romantic U. S. draftsman of modernistic architectural elevations in black and white, illustrates his predictions with drawings which he calls "not entirely random shots in the dark...