Egg shell survives under large testing machine test
An egg shell placed beneath the giant testing machine at the Ring of Standards withstood fifty one pounds before it was crushed. A foot square piece of timber required two hundred tons to demolish.
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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1927
Page
3
An egg shell placed beneath the giant testing machine at the Ring of Standards withstood fifty one pounds before it was crushed. A foot square piece of timber required two hundred tons to demolish.
Miss Mildred Riddle 11 of Valley Exe represents Indiana at the National Spelling Bee in Washington. She and chaperon Miss Flora Drake tour landmarks, meet Hulda Fornell the Detroit champion, and note historic sites while preparing for Thursday evening's competition.
The world census shows 27,650,267 passenger cars trucks and buses in operation at the start of 1927 up from 24,473,629 in 1926. The United States registered 22,137,334 vehicles about 80 percent of all world registrations.
The page lists 12 clarified Q A items covering aviation history golf history and anatomy with names places and numbers. It confirms Bellanca designed the plane used by Chamberlin and Levine to fly to Germany and notes details about the Ryder Cup Delaney Stout pterodactyl Batik and other facts.
Two boys Tony and Joseph Dellanoce aged 9 and 13 told troopers they saw two men stab a third boy in woods north of Pomona New Jersey. A blood stained scene with cloth fragments prompted a nightlong manhunt by fifty troopers.
New Jersey landowners have planted more than 1,000,000 pine spruce and fir seedlings on 1,100 unproductive acres in recent months. State Forester C. P. Wilber disclosed today.
London reports a heated debate over a hip bone find from 1925 in Broken Hill Cave South Africa. Dr Ales Hrdlicka and colleagues contend the fragmentary remains define a new human species. Sir Arthur Keith and Sir Arthur Smith Woodward dispute this, suggesting reconstruction errors and no unknown form.
Bagdad June 22 Van Lear Black publisher of the Baltimore Sun, on a trip from Amsterdam to Batavia, was held up here while his Fokker aircraft was overhauled after a forced landing caused by ail trouble. He joked about bringing plenty of beer and a possible jealousy at home.
In a melodramatic cliffhanger Diana Brooks is kidnapped and released as her father Roger Brooks suspects corruption at Catawba City. Don is injured and Lola tends him at a cabin as Teddy Lola and Don interrogate love and loyalty. A burglary plot promises more danger.
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