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Show merit weighing less than 50 lbjL, was powered by the same MinT Max" B batteries used in camera tvpe personal radio sets and which proved so successful during dur-ing the war in operating the navy's na-vy's sonobuoys for spotting submarines. sub-marines. The city of New York operates 522 public tennis courts, 155 base-; ball diamonds and 294 sottball fields. INTERESTING NOTES The 5,184-ton S. S George Washington, originally on the New York-Norfolk coastal run. is .said to have been the only American Am-erican passenger vessel not converted con-verted during the war years into a troop transport. Before a British business man can raise money for a new enterprise enter-prise m these days of scarcities the venture must be passed on as to its merits by a government I committee Five American coal mine disasters dis-asters have claimed more than 200 lives each, the worst causing 361 deaths at Monongah, W. Va.. on Dec. 6, 1907. Napalm, the incendiary ingre-, ingre-, dient which roared out of war-time war-time flame throwers as a jet of ; searing fire, is being converted ; by the army into a harmless all j purpose liquid soap. The Royal Canadian Mounted : Police motor schooner, St. Rock, ' is the only vessel ever to have travelled the Northwest Passage in both directions between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Ohio's biggest industry in 1833 j was canal building which in that year involved an outlay of $4,-778,099.65. $4,-778,099.65. On the basis of present figures it is estimated that one out ot every 14 persons in the United States will be injured in accidents acci-dents in 1947, with a monetary loss of $5,000,000,000, or about the amount required to service the national debt- It has been authoritatively estimated es-timated that about 68.200.U00 res-, taurant meals are served daily in the United States. Hansard is the name of the British equivalent of the U. S Congressional Record. In their "fne piston" natives j of the Malay Peninsula invented the compression ignition princ-iple princ-iple of the Diesel engine at least 1,000 years before it was re-in Vented in Germany. Tinder plac-i plac-i ed at the bottom of a wooden cylinder is ignited when a close-j close-j ly fitting plunger is struck with the hands, creating heat by air compression. King Hammurabi of Babylon established the first wage controls con-trols of recorded history in 2285 B.C., covering virtually all industrial, in-dustrial, agricultural and commercial com-mercial pursuits. i Probably no American ever exceeded the physical strength of the "Virginia Giant", Peter Francisco, a Revolutionary War hero whose broadsword slew 11 : of Gen. Tarleton's dragoons in the Battle of Guilford, N. C. Experiment on a new safety factor in automobile racing was introduced in the last 500-mile grind at Indianapolis, the car of Etnil Andreas, which finished fourth, being equipped with two-way two-way radio for communication with the servicing pit. The equip- 1934 was the year of the Big Wind. On April 12 the weather observatory atop Mt. Washington, Washing-ton, N.H., recorded a gust with j a velocity of 231 miles an hour- Radio's first network commercial commer-cial program was the "Everready Hour" broadcast Feb. 12, 1924, i under the sponsorship of Nation- al Carbon Company, Inc. The f program was entitled: "He Knew Lincoln." Cherrystone clams are said to derive their name from Cheriton, Va., on Chespeake Bay The flow of energy falling perpendicularly per-pendicularly every second on the earth's surface from the sun is equivalent to 4.69U.0U0 horsepower horse-power per square mile'. " |