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NOTES AND NEWS
211 Powers Of The Press The population of continental United States is 120,000,000, Every morning of the year except Sunday, publishers lay before this population more than 13,000,000 newspapers ; on Sunday morning, circulation is more than 25,000,00; every afternoon save Sunday 26,000,000 papers are put in the hands of the people.
Morning and afternoon circulations together total approximately 40,000,000 or one for every three persons, men, women and children.
President Hoover, speaking of the power of the press, said :
“It is almost final in its potency to arouse the interest and consciousness of our people. It can destroy their finer sensibilities or it can invigorate them."
A Wonderful invention. A young man has invented an aerial eye which can reveal territory over a range of 400 miles. The television set is installed in an aeroplane with a hole in the cabin floor through which images picked up are transmitted to a receiving station below. This development of radio vision will enable army commanders to obtain a continuous moving picture of enemy fortifications, troop movements, gun embacements and supply depots.
After an Earthquake. A survey by the Public Works Department of New Zealand of the district affected by the recent earthquake reveals great changes in the level of the land. An area eighteen miles long and about fifty broad has been raised. The maximum elevation is 16ft. compared with a maximum of 9ft. in the earthquake of 1885. The site of Murchison village has been lifted 4ft.
The earthquake which occurred on June 17, was the worst n New Zealand since 1855. Its effects were most damaging in Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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