Uncle Sam Launches Pioneer Work on Howland Island
Director Ernest Gruening of the US division of territories visited Howland Island, America's latest Pacific possession. He brought palm plants to begin cultivation in the island's arid soil and laid the Amelia Earhart lighthouse cornerstone to guide ships every four seconds by radio request. Gruening stands beside the stone as four Hawaiians, the island's sole population, pose nearby.
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Esse
Ernest Gruening
United States Division of Territories and Island Possessions
Howland Island
America
Pacific
Gruening
Amelia Earhart
South Pacific
Dutchmen Solve Housing Plan Through Long Range 177 Years
The article outlines Holland's government managed housing system begun in 1833 and extended to 2000. Municipalities own 99 percent of residential land and lease to builders with strict supervision. Government loans aid building and all listings track supply and demand. Working men's apartments are government owned, with better-off families earning estates. It notes decreases in drunkenness tuberculosis and crime, and mentions early equal suffrage.
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Holland
United States
Betty Wells
WNU Service
Stalin
Russia
Leon Trotsky
Trotsky
Mexico
Protecting Gobs by Gun Checking
A crew of naval gun makers is shown inspecting gun barrels. The two men on the left check the bore for defects while the others examine inside measurements. Both tasks are crucial as a flaw could cost crew lives on first firing.
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Washington
Hawks and the hunt in the Green Meadows
In a Thornton Burgess bedtime tale Redtail the Hawk glides above the Green Forest and spots Peter Rabbit as Granny Fox, Reddy Fox, and Old Man Coyote close in. He swoops for dinner, but Peter escapes under a brush pile.
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Thornton Burgess
Ol’ Mistah Buzzard
Green Meadows
Green Forest
Chatterer
Red Squirrel
Danny Meadow Mouse
Danny
Mr. Greensnake
Granfather Frog
Mr. Greensna
Blacky
Peter Rabbit
Reddy Fox
Old Man Coyote
Granny Fox
Peter
Redtail
Reddy
Redtail the Hawk
T. W. Burgess
Mouth vaccine cuts colds by seventy five percent study says
A Cincinnati study of 191 patients shows those who took an oral cold vaccine had 94 colds versus 375 in controls, a roughly 75 percent drop with fewer sick days. The trial involved 100 vaccinated and 100 unvaccinated individuals across diverse groups including students and workers.
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George E. Rockwell
Herman C. van Kirk
M. Sc
Cincinnati
Journal of Laboratory and Clinical Medicine
Liberalism and Russia Echo in Roosevelt Courtship
A Washington analysis compares Stalin’s liquidation with U S politics, arguing New Deal advisers press liberal ideals, eroding cautious, practical governance. It notes Roosevelt’s court picks Reed Jackson Arnold and hints at Farley Garner power shifts within the Democratic party and Senate coalitions.
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Washington
Russia
United States
Roosevelt
Stanley Reed
Supreme Court of the United States
Reed
Robert H. Jackson
Jackson
Thurman Arnold
Yale University
Arnold
Department of Justice
Cummings
Stalin
Mr. Cummings
Roper
Department of Commerce
Jim” Farley
Farley-Garner
Pat Harrison
Mississippi
Harrison
Dear Alben” Barkley
Kentucky
Senate
Barkley
Union
First Message Sent Through Submarine Cable 1851
The first message via a submarine cable was transmitted from England to France under the English Channel in November 1851.
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England
France
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Roose
Far*ley
Democratic Party
Garner
House
Wold
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