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...voice, choice of language and characteristic social relations all go to make your personality. But they are useful only to the extent to which they affect the people you come in touch with. Thus decided Yale's Mark Arthur May, trying to develop a scale to measure personality. Zero would be a person who does not count for anything to anyone. High grade would be he whose presence or absence has the greatest influence on others...
Along the west coast competition is zero for Pan-American, stupendous for anyone else. Manhattan's Joseph Peter Grace and William Russell Grace, brothers, are the commercial tsars. They control ships (Grace Line), trading companies (chiefly for heavy machinery), banks. Peruvians respect and follow their courteously covered commands. Other west coast nationals do likewise, from Ecuador to Chile...
Those few flyers who have been able to get seven miles above the earth have been at the top of the earth's atmosphere layer. They have been able to stay there only a few moments, for the temperature is 75 degrees below Fahrenheit zero and the air-pressure is one-eighth of what man is built to endure. Nor could the thin air sustain the planes or sufficiently burn the fuel...
...through the mountains and plateau deserts of Tibet, studying peoples, religions, archaeology, terrain. Explorer Roerich had painted mystically-panoramas, portraits, and haze-curtained lines of his own imagining. At Darjeeling, India, where his party recuperated from mountain rigors (for five months once they were beleaguered at 40° below zero), dark, deep-eyed men went to gaze raptly at his paintings. In Manhattan, while waiting for his return, esthetes pored over hundreds of his other paintings...
...slowly through the freezing room, like amusement park visitors riding on a scenic railway. Interesting, too, is the scenery, as the walls and ceiling are covered with glittering stalactite formations. But the aluminum boat travels not over water but over calcium chloride at a temperature of 25° below Zero. Having finished their 40-minute ride through the freezing room, the fish, well and quickly frozen, are shipped in a special type of refrigerator car in which a below-freezing temperature is always maintained. The importance of 40-minute freezing lies in the fact that when fish are frozen...