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...crew, was born in Tviet Hopedale, Norway, received his flying training at the Norwegian Naval Academy. It was he who suggested to Commander Byrd that he use skis instead of wheels on his polar plane. Lieut. Balchen came to the U. S. in 1926 to serve as test pilot and engineer in Anthony Fokker's company...
Henry H. Timken, president of Timken Roller Bearing Co., Canton, Ohio, began to spend virtually a million dollars last week so that Dr. Orval James Cunningham of Kansas City, Mo., might study and test his treatment of certain cases of diabetes, pernicious anemia and cancer by putting the patients in tanks filled with air under pressure. Mr. Timken has spent $165,000 for a ten-acre plot of land on the Lake Erie shore at Cleveland's eastern limits and, last week, had agents apply for a building permit to construct the first steel tank, to be 64 feet...
None the less, Manufacturer Henry H. Timken has been willing to spend a million dollars to give a full test to the doctor's theories. This is no whim of Mr. Timken who is well known in Canton for his secret philanthropies, especially for supplying medical aid to indigents...
...bitterest test comes to her when Gerry returns, years after her second marriage. Then she says: "You will ask-all men do-and whatever you ask I'll do for you." Yet he guesses that away from the ships, Mary Hansyke's eager and concentrated mind could not for long be satisfied. They plan to go away together, but quietly, alone, he goes first. "Forever young, forever brave, forever proud, Mary Hansyke walked across the old shipyard, while the John Garton moved down the harbor, her keel parting a shoreless sea, her prow lifted...
...this for what it is worth though it seems hardly worth any very substantial wagers in itself. A second and certainly more considerable reason is Coach Brown, who after a successful preliminary season in his first year as moulder of the varsity rowing destinies, reaches the objective and critical test of the season tomorrow. The third reason, and rather more important than psychology and coach, is the crew of eight oarsmen and a coxswain who will carry the Crimson colors at historic New London. The Harvard eight this year is pre-eminently worthy of confidence. The unusual size, strength...