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Newspaper
Winchester Evening Star
Location
Winchester, Virginia, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1940
Page
10
Cincinnati reports a new American gasoline named Triptan claimed to yield 50 percent more power than the best military fuels in beach tests. The piece notes a laboratory eye to analyze hydrocarbons, enabling calculations of new gasoline formulations and power potential.
The motion picture is an adaptation of the book Not Too Narrow Not Too Deep by Richard Sale.
Two seismologists from the California Institute of Technology chart the circum Pacific belt as the world’s most active earthquake zone. They mapped earthquakes since 1904, noting quakes cluster where tectonic blocks meet from Mexico to the South American coast and along submerged ranges through the Indian Ocean and mid Atlantic.
Princess Marie Antoinette Windisch Gaertz arrives in New York smiling at liberty, accompanied by her brother Prince Francesco and his wife, after leaving Vienna.
Seismologists predict very deep earthquakes in a paper to be delivered before a Geological Society of America meeting. They name shallow shocks as most active in Japan, the Aleutians, Western Mexico, Malnesia, and the Philippines, with interior Pacific earthquakes tied to volcanic action and North American damage greatest in southern Mexico.
A reflective monologue urges embracing suffering as a path to growth and empathy. It frames pain as God's language and compares tears to bread, urging release from self pity and recognizing a universal bond among human hurts beyond personal humiliation.
Howard W. Blakeslee reports that Kansas City researchers developed a powdered grass rich in vitamins. They claim twelve pounds of grass equal 340 pounds of produce annually and that dried powder stored nitrogen preserves vitamins for two years.
H. V. Morton author of travel books has written Ghosts of London a study of ancient customs and city characters. He talks with lamp lighters curfew men and uncovers hidden treasures of London in an amusing narrative and the Handley Library lists his earlier works still available for borrowing.
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