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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1933.
Aviation, Engineering and Building.
WORLD'S
LARGEST
POST OFFICE
Chicago's £5,000,000 Building.
AIR PORT ON ROOF,
Chicago.
ning under it, a landing ground
for aeroplanes on the roof-and it is costing £5,000,000 to build.
There are 15 miles of wide belts
THE CHINA MAIL.
Builders Urged To Turn
Big Projects
From
Small Houses Are Best Field
Economic Reasons
New York.
A TRIUMPH OF ENGINEERING.
British Firm's Work
In India.
Planes "Shot Down' By Light
METTUR DAM PROGRESS.New
KING'S THEATRE COMMENCING TOMORROW.
FOLLOW IN THIS
OF New Invention For Speeding oF MAGIC
Traffic
AMERICA'S AIR - PORT SYSTEM
capable of distributing 19,000,000 advice of Albert 0. Larson, of sound, economie manner solving will be about 100 miles, the catch-shooting is done, is a small but ex-ings at night.
letters a day through the building. Just before the Christmas rush of 1933 decorators will apply the finishing touches to the huge building, but postal employees will
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start working there in few weeks.
a little more
target the seroplane-just as the officer of the airport would put the marksman hits the bull's-eye, nowhite beam on the taxiing after flyer may land or take off.
flashing to the other to come in for Almost every airport in the a landing. In this way traffic can
.
it
com.
Since November 7, rapid pro- gress has been made in the build- Ing of the great dam'at Mettur, on the Cauvery River, 180 miles south- west of Madras. British engineer- ing firms, by manufacturing and supplying the whole of the machin- a gigantic The building industry is urged wealthier neighbour; but beyond ery required to make What is claimed as the world's to forget the skyscraper. big con- that he has profited little.
Slum scheme
a practical possibility,
New York, largest post office is being built struction and turn to small pro-clearance has been theorized over have played an important part in
Every day and every night at is hit on the nose by a green bean here. It has railway trains
particularly run-Jects,
a reservoir Newark airport New York's inexpensive for forty years, but it remains for the construction of
ter-he catches the wind direction from dwellings, and capitalize the hours the future to sea it operative. But which will have a capacity exceed- minal for the winged transport the lighted wind-tee and lands in while waiting for the return of the architects and manufacturers haveed only by two others in the world. lines that spin a web across the the middle of the field. The same projects that kept builders and ar- demonstrated that such housing is
The dam is 5,300ft. in length and nation aeroplanes
are "shot signals are flashed to the pilots for chitects busy prior to the coming possibið in A variety of forms. 176ft. high, and
the volume in down", and as a matter of record take-offs. The white beam is need volved is 1,852,000 cubic yards. they are "shot up" too. of the 1929 debacle. This is the European cities are now in a
The circumference of the reservofr
by the traffic director to "spot" ob- "The "gun" with which this jects.on the ground for pilota land- Minneapolis, secretary of the the housing problem. Minneapolis chapter of the Ameri
"There are tens of thousands of ment area is 15,700 square miles, tremely powerful electrical contri- Expeditions Handling can Institute of Architects, in sum- other types of obsolete and depre- and the total area of deltaic irriga-vance, and the projectile is a beani marizing the architectural outlook ciated structures which should be tion will be
For example, if a plane was taxi- than of light, either white, red or green.ing on the ground, and rehabilitated and modernized. 1,000,000 acres. It is expected
another for 1933.
"The hopes of private bullding Year by year we see both commer.that the dam will be completed/ Until this tiny beam of light hits its coming in for a landing, the traffic operations in the form of large cial and residential property shrink early this year.
The preparation of concrete projects must be put aside for in value because of depreciation
by the economic reasons, for an indefinite and obsolescence.
Improved With our face aggregates Efficiency experis have estimated time," he asserts. "In our mad ex-toward the sun we saw the great methods of to-day made the con- nation, soon will be equipped with be handled much faster than that the government will save in building programme there has been the clouds as the only construction the dam a matter of relative sim. the new device because of the De- would if the director would have j
pansion and in the tremendous new skyscrapers towering toward struction of the immense walls of
partment of Commerce regulations to walt unt!! the field was Hadfield, Limited, of little attempt to solve the housing work worth while.
Even to-day plicity. of the building industry advertise-Sheffield, who have had long exports not equipped with two-way
which stipulate that regular air-pletely cleared. problem for the great manses will result from the our population. Invention, science thents show mute evidence of the perience in this class of work, sup radio control have some such "traf-operator merely aims at them by
plied the crushing machinery. proximity of the railroad track, and all other progress has done glory that was ours in 1929."
Methods of popular advertise- This took the form of three com- c gun" to bring plane down. The means of a sighting tube mounted thus saving transport to and from nothing for the home comfort of
term "shooting them down," there on top of the projector like the plete plants, which were erected statione.
millions of families, except to give ment in magazines and newspapers
fore, will, soon take on an entirely sights of a rifle. This sighting built half our population the wornout, | By manufacturers of building at different points of the
tube is equipped with a peep sight day castoff living quarters of the other materials and public itineraries for selected for the dam to give new significance.
The Busiest Port
at the rear and cross hairs at the salesmen are discussed by Mr. Tocalisation to the task of convert-
Newark airport, which has two- front. The field of view is such Larson as a remedy for the apathy ing blocks of stone weighing as
He much as three tong each into away radio control, has been using that the operator can readily aim of the building profession. envisions colourful, compelling ad-product small enough to pass one of the new guns to handle the the "gun" and at the same time vertising designed to catch the eye through a ring only 2in. in traffic, which is heavier than the see that no other aircraft, other diameter. The blocks of rock are combined air transport terminals of than the one to which he is gignal- of the public, instead of the ar-
approximately 32 cubic feet in size, Croyden at London, Templeholf atļing, is in the limits of his beam." chitect.
The and before the machines were sent Berlin and Le Bourget in Paris. Better Designs Required.
peacetime practice During rush perioda planės were "shooting planes down" will become "If the effect of this stimulation to India tests were made in Eng- of the building industry is to be land with specially hard and tough despatched from Newark air ter- commonplace on the air terminals of permanent value," Mr. Larson North Wales granite of similar minal on an average of the every in a short time, and by that time added, "this programme
must be bulk, which was crushed into frag-five minutes throughout the day the wartime expression will have and every quarter hour throughout lost practically all its fighting accompanied by good design, sub-mente in 55sec,
Record Size Breakers.
the night.
significance.-Reuter. stantial construction and good
The giant preliminary breakers These new air traffic "guna" are: Feb. 24, June materiale. The economic condi-
are the the latest product of the illumina-: 1939 1918 tions of the day require better used for this process Cts. Cis, design and planning on moderniza-largest that have been made of the ting engineer's inventive genius,
tion work than ever before,
jaw type in Great Britain and | Although they weigh only seven "Modern invention has so com-weigh approximately 100 tons. The pounds they shoot a beam with a plicated man's mode of living and broken stone is afterwards convey- maximum candle power of 350,000. of doing business that obsolescence ed to secondary jaw breakers,
The new "gun" is equipped with moves on faster than ever in every which there are six in every unit two pistol grip handles and is as type of building. Man has always to each sledging machine, and carefully balanced
10 years as much money as the building has cost. Much of the economy
The structure has been with the belief that Home small aeroplanes will carry mall half. from the municipal airport 10 miles away to a landing field 800
feet long and 300 feet wide-the size of the building-on the roof.
--Reuter.
Thousands of Types Obsolete. "Our social progress has finally demanded that we give the poor man's child school accommodations comparable with those of the
HONG KONG MARKET PRODUCE
APPROXIMATE RETAIL PRICES.
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1933 1018
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BUTCHER MEAT.
POULTRY.
Beef Sirloin
lb. 34
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72
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Turkeys, Cock Turkeys, Hen
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FRUITS.
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Bananas (bride's)
Carambola
Coconuts
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site
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trial run on the first unit in 1980. The excavators used on the pro-
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In "shooting" aeroplanes, the
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CHANDU
THE MAGICIAN
with
EDMUND LOWE Bela LUGOSI Irene Ware Henry B. Walthall From the radio dramma by Harry A. Faroshaw, Vern M. Oldman/ and R. R. Morgun.
Directed by
Marcel Varnel and William ✪ Menzion
FOX Picture
QUALITY PRINTING With Quick Service
THE NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISK LTD.
· JA VIRKAN ST.
ROBOT TELEPHONE
GIRLS
Spoken Word Instead Of "Tones.”.
London.
which tells you that a line is ea- gaged by spoken words.
A length of sound film - will be used to tell us the old familiar phrases-"Number" engaged,” or "Number unobtainable.”
The Post Office Engineering Re- This will be the perfect Robot search 'alation is shewing an ap-telephone girl, for she will still say, paratus for replacing the telephone!"I
sorry you have been
and
No signalling tones" the buzzing|tr-r-r-oubled" even to the most irate
on the automatic telephone subscriber!--Reuter, noise
been a builder and all our indus- these turn out cubes of about 6in. rifle, in order that the operator may 22 try's forces must be co-ordinated in size. The final stage is carried aim at his target accurately and. 18 to demonstrate again to the publie out in Hecla disc crushers. Had- steadily. The reason the projec- 25that a better home, a better store fields, Limited, supplied the com-tor must be aimed like a gun is im-plete equipment for this work, in- that it "shoota" a beam of light or a better office is just as portant as a new
cluding the feeders, conveyors, just 12 inches wide. automobile
and
Visible 15 Miles 24 boat; and that building construc- grizzleye, revolving screens, 80tion, property designed, well built elevatora with their driving plant!
18 beam, however, and of good materials, is a good of electric motors, and it is stated
that the preparation or sizing of powerful that it normally is visible investment."
the stone has proceeded without a for ten miles by day, and 16 miles hitch of any kind since the firm's at night. The signals are readily pair 2.00 2.50 NEW DEVELOPMENT erection engineer carried out the discernible to the pilot of any
IN AUTOGIROS.
aircraft that is visible to the air- port's traffic director.
The three colours, white, red and! Experimental Machine ject were supplied by Ruston-
Bucyrus, Limited, of Lincoln; two green, are changed by pulling the For Five Passengers. portable towers for mixing, holst- trigger of the searchlight at the ing, distributing concrete were front handle. As the pilot of a stage in the supplied and erected by Stothert plane begins circling the Newark An important new development of the curious "auto- and Pitt, Limited, Bath; and the terminal, the traffic manager shoots giro," or windmill 'plane, is marked control equipment of the dam was him with a beam. by the announcement that an order supplied by Glenfield and Kennedy, is likely to be placed this year for Limited, of Kilmarnock. an experimental flying machine of the type to carry five passengers in an enclosed cabin on the power of a single Armstrong Siddeley 535 h.p. "Panther" air-cooled radial motor,
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Pears (Canton)
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Sucking Pigs,
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Sausages
Persimmona, Large
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Grapes
VEGETABLES, ETC.
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Bolos
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If it is red, he stays up, and con- tinues to circle the airport. If he
British 'Planes For Persia
£200,000 Contract To Be Delivered.
FIGHTING MACHINES.
aeroplanes at the aircraft construc-
tor's works before the machines are grated for despatch to Teheran.”
Deriving lift from curved rotating vanes instead of the normal fixed: wings, the autogiro has attained a
Though these aircraft will be certain measure of success In
somewhat alower than the British smaller sizes - of aircraft, though,
Service types with the water-cooled broadly speaking it has remained
Before the end of this month the engines--the Service "Fury" attains somewhat inferior In important detalls of performance to normal first batch of a big consignment of 220 m.h.p. and the "Audax”. 190 British single-seater and two-seater mp.h-they will yet be extremely equivalent Nevertheless, its supporters claim fighting aeroplanes acquired for the fast and will rank easily among the Persian air force will be uncrated in finest military aeroplanes in the that for given engine power a given Teheran. Other batches will be world. Probably the "Fury" with load may be airborne at higher
sent at intervals over a period of its air-cooled motor will be found 25 speed in an autogiro than in some months till the whole of the able to outpace any similarly
aircraft
of
power,
10 fixed-wing craft; the truth of that contract, aggregating in value ap- powered aircraft built in the world
assertion should be placed beyond
Thus, yet another large govern- argument in flying trials of the proximately £200,000 and covering outside, Great Britain.
full dying equipment for three large machine now contemplated.
ment order has gone to a Britisk squadrons, has been fulfilled.
Ordered from the Hawker com-firm in the face of intense compati pany by an expert Persian mission tion from foreign lands. Some- which is still in this country, the thing like thirty of the national air saroplanes comprise one squadron of forces in the world are largely "Fury" single-seater biplanes and equipped with British dying two squadrons of "Audax"" army materiel, and for years the British co-operation and fighting aircraft industry has maintained x lead in similar in structure to the famous export trade, Perala is a difficult much craft of the same types employed in country for flying, with a the Royal Air Force but powered mountainous territory and extremi
In of host That Brit alrer with, air-cooled radial, eniri
AN INTRODUCTORY HISTORY
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