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...Station at Cogango, Queensland. There I was informed that the potoroo was considered a pest, since it was reputed to have a fondness for potato tubers. Rat-kangaroos were nightly visitors to the Station grounds. By ground thumping they betrayed their presence. I saw one at its thumping leap upward four or five feet...
...course, I shall do as the respectful Japanese hope and trust-place TIME (June 6) with the front cover upward. But what shall I do next week? May I not put my most recent TIME on top of the previous issue, even if its front cover reproduces a color picture of the "Son of Heaven"? Wouldn't it be similar to putting the Bible on the U. S. flag...
...individual sportsman flyer were to insure himself for $5,000, his ship for $3,000 (against fire, theft, etc.). and take average coverage for public liability, passenger liability and property damage, his yearly premiums would total upward of $460. Were he to add crash insurance the figure would soar to $910-considerably more than a whole year's depreciation of his plane. Also, he would be hampered by numerous flight restrictions. Not long ago rates were even higher. Prime reason was lack of data on amateurs' accidents, forcing the conclusion that all private flyers were bad risks. Last...
When small arms-revolvers, pistols, shotguns, rifles, machine guns-are fired, the recoil of the explosion throws the weapon's muzzle upward. To overcome this upthrust. Lieut. Richard M. Cutts Jr., U. S. M. C.. devised a simple compensator. It consists of a 2-in. tube screwed to the muzzle. Top of the tube carries three holes through which the gas of explosion escapes without jolting the aim off the target, without affecting the bullet's speed or trajectory...
Adman Younggreen viewed his step as "hot news." Previous hotspots in his upward rush from obscurity in Kansas: U. S. Air Corps in the War (emerging a captain); sales manager for J. I. Case Plow Works in Racine; presiding over the International Advertising Meeting in Berlin (1929); telling the U. S. Press, upon returning from Europe, that while his wife was dancing in a London night club she touched the Prince of Wales (TIME...