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...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...
...Cheyenne the President knew he was getting into the Real West when a delegation of citizens climbed aboard to present him with a saddle of antelope. At Salt Lake City he spoke of forthcoming Philippine Independence as "a mighty good thing for all the world," neatly took advantage of this opportunity to say a good word for a hometown boy now in the official family by reminding Salt Lake Citizens that Secretary of War George H. Dern is representing the President next month at Philippine President Manuel Quezon's inaugural...
...picayune world's record of 276 m.p.h. He began the search again. Whether or not Sir Malcolm Campbell decides he wants to go faster in the future, it was at least clear last week that his search for a scene of activity had really ended. Of Bonneville Salt Flats, which is likely to be the centre of most important auto speed tests in the future, Driver Campbell said: "It is the world's greatest speed course...
...novelty, the Bonneville Salt Flats have been in their present position and equally well suited to high-speed automobile driving for centuries. One hundred miles west of Salt Lake City, they are part of the dried-up bed of prehistoric Lake Bonneville which once covered most of northwestern Utah. For 200 square miles the residual salt is as flat as a concrete highway, so hard that iron tent-stakes often bend when driven in. In the winter two inches of rain cover the flats, leave a fresh, white, marble-smooth surface in the spring. There is no dust. Moisture...
Both brokers and businessmen, however, took the promise of a "breathing spell" with a deal of salt. Some even remarked that, what with the New Deal legislation already enacted, there was precious little room for business to breathe anyway. ''Business and financial judgment may of course be wrong," said the sober Wall Street Journal, "but unmistakably the impression in such quarters was that Mr. Roosevelt favored a breathing spell for industry, not because industry needed it, but because it had become indispensable to Mr. Roosevelt and his Party...