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THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, MAY 21, 1936

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He

THE 500-M.P.H. PLANE

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IN SIX HOURS

Honour Moderations, in which AERONAUTIC MARVELS PROMISED

extinguished.

never been

IN NEAR FUTURE

All communications intended for money-lender, who sat daily on a publication should be addressed to stool outside the stage-door of Lord Oxford took one of the five the Editor, and be accompanied by the London Coliseum. is believed Balliol "firsts," is usually regard- the Writer's Name and Address to have left a large fortune. He ed as a guide to the results at the not necessarily for insertion, but

was buried last month.

subsequent Final Schools in as a guarantes of good faith.

For years he had been a well-Classical Greata.

(By Capt. Norman Macmillan) known figure to passers-by.

Balliol's classical tradition con-THIRTY-TWO years ago last First, by increasing engine was ready to Jend, without tinues. The light, though some-| TB ber the world's first power. Second, by designing Isecurity, "anything from a "bob" times faltering. has

man, more efficient airscrews. Third, aeroplane, carrying one to a "pony.”

flew at 40 miles an hour. Six-by reducing the resistance of Many of those who saw him Last year five Balliol men wok teen years later passenger aero-the aeroplane. regularly at his humble pitch be-"firsts" in Greats, and six the rear planes flying at 120 miles an The cheapest way to increase lieved he was in poor circum- before. The proportion is high, hour ushered in the era of civil speed is to reduce resistance. stances. He was always shab-with 20 men's colleges competingaviation.

The simplest way to do this is bily dressed and collarless. Often for 20 or 30 “ärsts.”

Last year Britain First (the to fly high, for the pressure of Mr. & Mrs. Fung Kong Un beg those who had had no dealings

Corpus Christi College, whichristol monoplane ordered by the atmosphere falls to クロモー to announce that the marriage of with him thought he was a street is mach smaller than Balliolis Lord Rothermere and presented half at about 19,000 feet, and their daughter, Stella to Mr.bookmaker.

however, a serious rival. There by him to the Air Ministry on to one-tenth at about 60,000 are four Corpus "firsts" in the behalf of The Daily Mail) feet. Thus, resistance is auto- He had sufficient money, how-latest Honour Moderations.

reached the pinnacle of present matically reduced by height. to are being ever, to be able to pass on Corpus Grests last year took commercial aeroplane perform-Here we meet other problems. issued but all friends will be poorer friends the gifts made to three "firsts," in 1934 'suffered ance with a speed of 270 miles The internal combustion en- welcome at the Reception to be him at Christmas and on his total eclipse. but in 1933 beat an hour.

gine requires a certain propor- held at the Hong Kong Hotel at birthday by theatrical friends. Balliol by four to three.

High Flying Means Greater Speed tion of air mixed with the fuel

What of the future? Have to provide an explosive gas.

reached finality? Solo Super-charged Engine racing 'planes have already sped When it has to operate in the The Arsenal Football Club ex-through the air at 441 miles an thinner upper atmosphere. pects to have in its new Stadium hour. Can future commercialisupercharge of air has to be Those Damned Dots Martin's-lane, near the Coliseum. the world's second largest bar. aeroplanes reach the magical forced into the cylinders to

A dozen carriage and as many It will certainly be extremely figure of 500 miles an hour?

maintain power. Supercharg Sir Isadore Salmon made an cars followed the hearse from his long the figure mentioned Picture an aeroplane passing ing is now highly developed to

at the house in Camberwell.

More than 96ft But there are at least two through the air. interesting suggestion

To permit its meet the conditions at 16,000 Supercharged engines meeting last month of the De-200 wreaths were sent, including bars in the world which are even passage the air has to make way feet.

for it To de so the air has have been built to maintain full cimal Association. It was that six from his old firm and one longer.

The Shanghai Club has a bar to travel relatively faster than power up to 30,000 feet, but a new British coin should be in-from the staff of the Coliseum.

of 108ft in length. However, even the aeroplane. It accelerates this is exceptional. this liberal accommoderation for over the nose of the wings. -Supercharging may change coronation next year a

the thirsty has to yield primacy to There it offers no resistance. from the built-in fans, which coin to replace the three-penny

another bar. piece. It could, he indicated, bel

About one-third of the way are an integral part of the This is not, as might be expect-across the wings tiny bubbles engine units of to-day, to separ a larger piece than the three- of nickel

ed, in that home of the big-form and swirl about in littlejate motors acting as auxiliary penny piece, made

gest in the world," the United vortices. These cause resis-Jair pumps supplying COM- and worth 214d.. a tenth of a

States. But it is just over the tance.

Scientists are now in-pressed and warmed air to the florin. It would be a handy)

border, in Mexico.

vestigating this break in the carburetters. coin. which would save pockets

The bar at Tia Juana, air flow which eats up power to The safe limit of height for from becoming overburdened

pilot, crew, and passengers is with copper. The suggestion |

which dates from prohibition days see if it can be eliminated.

Above In level flight an aeroplane is normally 19,000 feet. really, of course. touches two TAMIL. BARON von Riedel (1832-in California, is nearly 300 ft

theoretically in a state of per-that height the air is too rare distinct monetary questions -

fect equilibrium. Its weight is fied for unassisted breathing-

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coins which make up "small Munich night after night from peal. change" in England, and on the 1851 to 1906, partaking of the other the soundness of the pre-same liquid refreshment, without During sent method of sub-dividing the missing a single night. pound. For some years the De- that time, he covered all the ranks cimal Association, among many of the State Civil Service until he cther official and non-official became Finance Minister of the bodies. has worked actively for country, in which position the adoption of the decimal sys-served for 27 years.

-A tem in British coinage. great deal has been written and said about the fact that every: foreigner who visits the British Isles is surprised by the clumsiness of what, begging CALVINO d'Armato of Florence, the question, we call "small who died in 1317, is credited change." The foreign buyer of with the invention of spectacles. British goods is bewildered by On his tomb in Florence he is bride?" quotations in shillings and given credit for his invention, and pence, particularly if he be-idivine. forgiveness for his sins is longs to the shopkeeper class, Jinvoked in the same breath. and may prefer to make his

orders in a currency more readi-|

lly convertible into his own; and

The Inventor Of Eyeglasses

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son.

and

it is a fact. we believe, that all But how long would it take the other European currencies trade and the country to ad- are worked on the decimal sys-just themselves to this change? tem. It is also in use practi-Surely the thing is not of such ically throughout the globe staggering difficulty that it!

Many British dominions, Co-could not be introduced lonies, mandatory territories worked satisfactorily after and protectorates use the deci-period of adjustment. Another mal system; in Ceylon, for argument against the change, example, the Rupee is divided often trotted out by those op- into 100 cents, as against the posed to it is that the mis-i division of 16 annas in neigh-placement of what Lord Ran-: bouring India, without its hav-dolph Churchill called "those ing caused any particular up-damned dots" might give rise heaval among the users of to bad mistakes in a decimal "small money.” There would systern of coinage.

But here appear to be no justification for again, one would imagine that the continuance of the present the country consisted solely of] cumbersome system, therefore, congenital idiots, incapable of but a deference to tradition and looking after themselves in that innate conservatism which what is really a matter of ele is so often the excuse, in Eng-mentary mathematics and or- land, for inaction. Four far-dinary" care. If the decimal things to a penny, 12 pennies to system is worked satisfactorily a shilling. 20 shillings to alover-nine-tenths of the world's pound what possible excuse surface, is there any reason to

s there for this laborious suppose that in England method of computation? In owing possibly to some congeni- India it is even worse: three tal failing among the popula- pies to a pice. four pice to an tion - it could not be made to anna, 16 annas to a rupee.work satisfactorily? On the Even if it is a fact that the desirability of a decimal coin- smaller pies and pice are neces-lage in England individual opîn- sary to the very poorest classes, ions will differ, but there is it would surely not be very dif-surely a balance of advantage ficult to introduce new coinage, in its favour which outweighs

sentimental approximating more or less to the

objections

the present relative values but usually raised. The subject is based on a decimal system. one which might profitably be Sir Isadore Salmon's new investigated by a Royal Com- 12%d. piece would, in point of mission. Nor need such a body

fact, not be worth 211⁄2d at all confine its work to the

cur...

but a tenth of a penny less, and rency; the varied British sys- it is probably true to say that item of complex weights and at first the cost of all the wide measures could also be brought| range of commodities sold for a within its terms of reference, penny would be affected if only with. lasting advantage‹ if 110 pennies went to a shilling. change over were made.

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"This room reminds me of a pri-

"Well, it's largely a matter of what one is accustomed to."

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SURRENDER

what

The resistance of the air to the by pilots is too clumsy and passage of the aeroplane exact cumbrous for passengers. ly counterbalances the push of Secrets Of Upper Air

the airscrew.

To Increase Speed To increase speed we increase the push of the screw in relation to the tance of the aeroplane- can be achieved in three

ceremony.

But developments in air con- ditioning are proceeding rapid- must|ly. They can be applied to air-aeroplanes equipped with air- resis-tight compartments (like the This watertight compartments of ways. ships) to overcome the human difficulty of flying at great heights. The

process

"Well, sah," replied the ebony-fac-:

refining

of

ed groom, "de fast time Ah seed eliminating resistance from the Dinah Ah tak a fancy to her she was aeroplane, which remains a con- so good looking Den," when AD

larned dat she was doin' steady wash stant proportion irrespective of attracted you to Your in for sebben families, right den height, will continue. asked the minister after theldar, sah, Ah surrendered.” .

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"BELIEVE IT OR NOT" by Robert L. Ripley

ON THE TOMB Or SALVING D'ARMATO

THIS FIGURE CAT BE DRAWN SO DIFFERENT WAYS -Without Retramg'aime

·or Lifting the Pencil

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BARON VON RIEDEL BAVARIAN FINANCE MINISTER,

SAT AT THE SAME TABLE IN

THE SAME RESTAURANT.

EVERY NIGHT FOR 55 YEARS WITHOUT MISSING A SINGLE EVENING.

Franciscan Gellar,

MONICH

ARE WRITTEN TRESE WORDS

-HERE WES

THE INVENTOR OF SPECTACLES May God Forge Ham His Sms