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...Walter Lowrie Fisher, 73, Chicago lawyer and traction expert, Secretary of the Interior under President Taft; of coronary thrombosis; in Hubbard Woods, Ill. Died. Henry Fairfield Osborn, 78, paleontologist, longtime (1908-33) president of Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History; suddenly, of a heart attack; at "Castle Rock," his Hudson River home near Garrison, N. Y. At home over the whole range of vertebrate evolution, he especially liked big animals, was a world authority on the development of titanotheres, elephants and horses. He met Darwin in London, studied under Thomas Henry Huxley after that astute scientist and mighty...
Worthington Pump & Machinery, Phelps Dodge, Pittsburgh Plate Glass, Procter & Gamble, Allis-Chalmers, Diamond Match, American Locomotive, Crane, Hammermill Paper, White Rock Mineral Springs, three dozen others. There was a man from the U. S. Navy Department and one from Standard Statistics...
Italian planes last week neither bombed the railroad, nor any important Ethiopian town, apparently under orders to save money. Many of the light bombs dropped previously failed to explode. In one village several nosey Ethiopians were blown to bits by banging a dud against a rock...
...York, Michigan, Vermont, Maryland, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Ohio, Kansas and Pennsylvania lately some 100 miles of experimental clay and gravel roads treated with rock salt (ice-cream freezer kind) have been laid. After several months' use by fairly heavy traffic the salted roads are standing up admirably, Arthur D. Little, Inc.'s Industrial Bulletin reported last week, and one stretch near Ithaca, N. Y. came through a pounding by nine inches of rain without visible effect. Developed by Cloyd Delson Looker, research director of International Salt Co., and Heinrich Ries, Cornell University geologist, the treatment makes clay hard...
...year (TIME, Sept. 16). Last week Adventure's Publisher Henry Steegar and Editor Howard Bloomfield had an adventure of their own. Off Massachusetts their 49-ft. schooner-yacht Mariana was picked up by a gale, hurled through a granite breakwater, beached by raging seas close to Plymouth Rock...