Correcting snapshot backgrounds for better pictures
John Van Guilder explains two background types and offers angles to manage them. Use low or high vantage points to include sky or lawn as backgrounds, highlighting the subject and telling the occasion. A well-chosen background enhances drama and story in a snapshot.
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Conveyor Belt Transit System Considered for City Use
Goodyear engineers in Akron prove a conveyor belt can transport pedestrians in a Times Square to Grand Central route. City officials weighed funding, with budget debates delaying capital outlays and mass transit plans amid projected costs and hearings.
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Akron
Ohio
New York City
Grand Central Terminal
Times Square
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company
Board of Transtion
Abraham D. Beame
Lazarus Joseph
Japanese Girl Escapes Bombing To Study At UNC Woman's College
Yoko Ishikawa, thirteen when Tsuru Girls High School was hit by seven bombs, arrives in the United States as a special student at the Woman's College of the University of North Carolina in Greensboro. She studies English and child psychology, plans to teach in Japan, and shares insights with Shaw Hall peers about Japanese customs and wartime experiences.
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Greensboro
Ohtsuki Village
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Ssar
Elizabeth Gray VI
Crown Prince of
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Yoke
Japanese Ministry of Education
Ishikawa
Yoko
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America
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New York
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Remeleien
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Shuttle system aims to speed up urban transit
Engineers described a shuttle concept that accelerates to 15 mph then uses decelerating wheel banks to slow to 1.5 mph at the end. Passengers would transfer to a parallel unloading belt and two shuttle tracks become a walkway and air raid shelter. The current trip time of about 2.75 minutes would be cut by continuous operation reducing waiting and rush hour congestion.
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Goodyear
Stens - Adamson Manufactpany
Aurora
Scientists Probe Maple Syrup Taste
EAST LANSING Mich UP Scientists seek the flavor of maple syrup. Dr William L Porter analytical chemist at the Eastern Final Research Laboratory in Philadelphia says sap has no maple flavor and the flavor is formed during syrup production. He and a colleague split sap and syrup into components and subcomponents but have not reached the taste yet.
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East Lansing
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William L. Porter
Eastern F Nal
Philadelphia
American Chemical Sciety
Nine Year Old Gene Smith Turns Pocket Money Into Big Cash
In Yanceyville Caswell County nine year old Gene Smith turned a neighbor's dollar into a growing chain of buys and sells. He bought six chickens for 94 cents, raised 22 birds, and earned 11 more dollars. He later bought a sow with proceeds, produced a litter of five pigs, and sold them for 95 dollars. The piece also notes a separate claim about sugar cane yielding gasoline and oil.
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N. C
Caswell County
Gene Smith
Gene
Japanese Goods Exhibit to Open in Major U.S. Cities
Tokyo announces plans to open sample houses in New York Chicago and San Francisco and Toronto to display Japanese goods. Similar houses are planned for other foreign cities later with an estimated 750000 dollars allocated for maintenance. The New York house will be operated by 14 Japanese businessmen resident in the United States for over three years.
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Toronto
Trade Ministry
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