Rockefeller Center Opera Site to Become a Garage
Plans to replace the abandoned Broadway opera site at Forty eighth and Forty ninth streets with a 13 story garage plus street level shops and offices. Cost about 3 million dollars and architecture will match the Center.
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Rockefeller Center
Metropolitan Grand Opera Company
Broadway
Thirty-ninth
Fortieth Streets
Golden Horseshoe
Grand Opera
Forty Eighth
Forty-ninth Streets
Center Theater
mid-Manhattan
Vacuum Concrete Fort Demonstrated For Quick War Use
Washington officials witnessed a 50 ton pill box fort built in four hours using vacuum concrete. Inventor Karl P. Billner showed how removing excess water after pouring into forms yields stronger, cheaper bombproof shelters ready by dawn.
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Washington
Bureau of Standards
Karl P. Billner
New York City
Bilmner
Billner
Entomologists Capture Insects With Beer Mix
In Waskesia Sask two entomologists C C Shaw and Don Milne lure beetles bugs and butterflies by painting tree trunks with a beer and brown sugar mix. At night they collect a rich harvest of drunken insects by flashlight.
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Waskesia, Sask
C. C. Shaw
Don Milne
Saskatchewan
Best Scholars Called Men Without Wealth
Halifax speech by Prof. A. B. MacDonald of St. Francis Xavier School associations argues poor men are better scholars. He cites income thresholds and links under 2500 dollars to mental alertness and vigor, while above 2500 dollars scholars show less receptiveness and more sluggish acceptance.
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Halifax
N. S
A. B. MacDonald
St. Francis Xavier
Buckeye tree foretells rain in Chardon village yard
In Chardon Ohio A W Timm reports a 55 year old buckeye tree in his yard reliably foretelling rain two to six hours before. Wet bark spots appear two feet from the ground when rain is coming and the tree dries after the storm. Neighbors and observer William Facey corroborate the phenomenon and seek scientific explanation.
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Chardon
Ohio
Western Reserve University
Cleveland Weather Bureau
A. W. Timm
William Facey
Timm
Charles Repp
College
Weather Bureau
Tim
Study of Malaria Progresses with Canary Research
Emory University officials announce a $9,000 Abbott Laboratories grant to continue malaria research using canaries. Dr. Elizabeth Gambrell will oversee the project with over 50 canaries, building on a prior $1,000 award. The canary is cited as the only animal affected by malaria similarly to humans.
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Red Hook
Brooklyn
Williamsburg
Harlem
Life Insurance Company
Bronx
Emory
Abbott Laboratories
North Chicago
Ill
Canaries
Elizabeth Gambrell
Gambrell
Quail Increase Linked to Shelter Belt Planting
Sam Byars, a federal nurseryman, credits the government shelter belt tree planting program for a 50 percent rise in quail in the area. Quail are gathering in the tree strips as a result of the belt project.
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Quail Mangum
Okla
Sam Byars
Byars
The Sunny Side of Life Nonsense Verse and Courtroom Quips
A humorous clippings collage features a downtown lamp post incident with a drunkenness claim and crocodile tale, a parental query about a brother’s position on a team, a joke about an early riser, and Snowball the flyer who prefers solid ground over flight after a plane ride.
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L. L. Stevenson
Peg Leg Lornegan
Times . Square
Bell Syndicate
WNU
Army
Atlanta
Eemory University Medical
Snowball
Big Top
Jeff Bangs
ED Wheelan
Myra
Alta
Silk” Fowler
Seff
Ringmaster
Speed” Jackson
Mistah
Ephelant
ED Waeejan
Lala Palooza
Rube Goldberg
Mrs. Fitzroy
Whittington
Countess
By C. M. Payne
Swaller Water
V. auntLey
PA Piffle
Ball Park
Muley Bates
Bast
Pop
J. Millar Watt
Gluyas Williams
Famun
Brighy
Gus
Cate
Fairer
Talon Eeees
Remarnay
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